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CAST STONESKIN
Here’s one from the “archives”… meaning from a time I refer to as the “mp3.com days”. Once a long time ago I was a electronic/spoken word performer and had a little success on mp3.com. One of the “songs” on one of the cds I released back then (can’t remember which one) was “Cast Stoneskin”. Remember when the internet meme was going around in the mid 90s that Kurt Vonnegut had given this cool commencement address, which turned out to not be Kurt Vonnegut but rather a Chicago newspaper columnist, and that it was never actually given as a speech at all but as a column? And then remember how Baz Lurhman had a minor radio hit by taking that speech/column and having a guy read it over a cool semi-techno beat? Remember?
Ok, so there was this other version that started making the rounds on the internet shortly thereafter, a D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) version. A friend of mine (the Briguy) found it and suggested I make a song similar to the Baz Lurhman one using the D&D version of the speech that wasn’t a speech and that was also not written or delivered by Kurt Vonnegut.
Everybody with me so far?
Ok, so I recently found it again… and I’m posting it here. For my friend Briguy, and my friends in Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO)… my Kill To Live guildmates.
Yeah, I’m 42 and I play Dungeons & Dragons Online. Go ahead and riot, I can take it.
Posted on April 14, 2009 ()
Todd Mauldin is a blues philosopher living in Reno, Nevada, who performs solo, as well as with his partner Jack Doyle as The Hellbusters.
The Hellbusters debut CD "Guilty" is available and fairly popular worldwide among those who like their blues hard, immediate, intimate and lightly cooked.
Todd Mauldin's solo show, featuring spoken word and hard country blues, is being performed to positive reviews.
For more information about the Hellbusters or Todd's solo show, contact tavo@hellbusters.net.
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