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"You look just like . . . " A flash back to my rock concert-days . . . hair long like Roger Daltry . . . "Tommy can you see me" Belladonna at 57 Vocal exercises like working out before going on stage like a Vegas showgirl Older our golden locks shine silver gray. Unbraid with love like a soft silver chain: Angels Poet's Note: I wanted to write a little something today in tribute to Nicks' 57th B'day. Didn't know what til I experienced GB's tanka, and now this concert of cinquains. The first is prompted by GB's, and got this show on the road After composing it, the Muse told me it needed a partner. Which I found in the Nicks' lyric: http://nicksfix.com/sleeping.htm This went from being the 2nd to being the 3rd, when I realized that this needed to be a triad, and I found the 2nd in this very recent article: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/May-13-Fri-2005/weekly/26454364.html Here towards the last, Nicks talks about her writing process. She even uses the term "poem" interchangeably, so I believe, for lyric. I found this very interesting & insightful --MV Nicks says she remembers the writing of every song she's created. She writes a song structure in about 10 minutes, then spends days playing it and editing it. She always starts with lyrics, then usually moves to piano with a module, or sometimes to guitar, to work out instrument parts. "Every once in a while I'll go to a piano without a poem, but usually I have a full-on, formal stanza poem, and I go and sit down at the piano, and I put on a recorder and record it. "And usually, the very first thing out of my mouth is the best thing. I don't ever go back and change anything. And if somebody suggests I change something, I don't have a very good reaction to that." Songs penned on piano are generally more intricate than songs written on guitar, "unless you're Eric Clapton," she says. Nicks used to suffer vocal problems from singing, because she wasn't trained properly. But she's been taking better care of her vocal chords for eight years. "I do 40 minutes" of exercises "three hours before I walk onstage every single show, and I've been doing that since 1997," she says. "It's like going to the gym every day. You go to a vocal coach, and you study, and you go through every vowel sound, and you work with your vocal chords so they're all stretched out, like a ballerina would do, or a Vegas showgirl would do." |
