15 Left Me For Dead
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Day 15. And today is Left Me for Dead.
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Very pleased to report there is a piano, voice, bass, and fx rendition of the song at the end of this recording.
As always, these are done in one take (bass and simple drum was added later in one take too) and are not mixed by an engineer. So can be quite rough.
The idea is that it's just a spontaneous personal version.
With this recording, I could have taken longer and made it into a finished recording. I was tempted to as it's a very stripped-down and different recording to the original.
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"We live in a culture of disposable people"
Truer words have never been said Sir.
One of your best songs, like every one of your songs...
42ndnumber Thank you!
Россияне с удовольствием слушают твои нетленные композиции. Это просто нереальная музыка. Сколько лет выпускаешь композиции - столько-же лет и удивляешь. Продолжай дарить нам неформатную музыку. Успехов, удачи. Ждём новых композиций.
На 100% поддерживаю, это что то не реальное. Жаль он забил на музыку...
Everyone I've played "Left me for dead" for says it automatically becomes a part of who they are and their history. We've all been destroyed by someone or losing in such a way that it burns into you.
Thanks Taddghostal. www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ballad-reading-gaol
@@RobDouganOfficial what an amazing poem. Painted words from so long ago. Makes me realize how little things change in our hearts from generation to generation in how we deal with fear and the loss of hope, seems only the venues change and man stays the same. thank you so much for sharing this! It absolutely absorbs me.
Abandonment. That's what I took from this powerful tune.
I was going through a horrible break-up when I first heard this album. Left Me For Dead became an anthem, of sorts for me. Interestingly enough, it helped me move on.
I wish you would produce more music Rob! I’ve listen to your music on and off since 2000 and it’s beautifully thought provoking and therapeutic
Your story of your experience at school rings true across the globe. Yet thanks to the gift of sharing your music with us, you’ve reversed that trend a bit: we will come and go, but your legacy will be what carries on.
Thank you, Scot. Oddly enough - was good experience to have that. Not being focused on gives you time, freedom, space...
your voice's tone on the last verse of the original song really gets under the skin, truly breaking up like despair, the verge of crying, it contrasts a lot compared to what you usually get in music and the previous verses of the song. I really appreciate that you took the time to sing the song again, and hope to hear more of you in your next projects !
Thank you, Sierra. It was great to look at the song again.
I like how Rob combined light and shadows in his music and songs...thank you for guiding us through this gallery of sculpted feelings.
Thanks again, Pablo A.
Just the fact that you are taking the time to react to every comments makes my day. You truely are a legend sir. My brother who was a metal head passed a year ago, I got his gigantic CD case filled with metal and black death metal CDs, and what did I find in the middle of all those ? Your 2CDs ! Couldn't believe he had that in his collection. For me it means a lot, he appreciated good music, and you sir, make just that.
I love this song, it's so emotional. I haven't heard any song which sounded as authentic as this one. It feels so real, the music is so fitting, the vocals and lyrics make it feel so good togheter.
amazing voice, its soo strong! gj rob
Thank you, Omar!
As much as I adore the more orchestral variation, I must admit that the rough version you've shared here is just as brilliant. There is a rawness to it, like a phone call or radio transmission. Absolutely evocative.
This is by far one of my fav songs
God bless you, Rob.
Such a treat!! Thank you so much once again! And for singing it again!
The meaning side makes me think of the crucial Humanity/Renaissance -versus- Machine/Fascism logic with its whole spectrum of societal “subtleties” that conceal them. In the Carlos Castaneda books there is one story about the youth of his teacher seer Don Juan. The lyrics of this song are as if the exact story of him practically dying (and then death refusing him and him waking up in a pile of dirt shallow grave, left behind...). The story is actually quite deep and has symbolic and magical implications...
Thank you - hallobaaaby! Very kind of you. I really have no idea of what you mean here. Looked up Carlos Castaneda who seems like a new-aged hippy favoured by pseudo counter-culture drop-outs in the 60s. Is that the one?
Rob Dougan Official In around 1987 someone passed to me a peculiar book, Journey To Ixtlan. In it were described strange premises of exaggerated sense “self importance” being the pitfalls of humanity, putting deliberate for around one’s formal personal history, learning to be deliberately accessible or inaccessible, the strategies of a desert hunter, et etc.. But what immediately impressed me with this book was the premise that if a man would will himself to see his own hands in a dream he would access his “dream body” and wake up in a dream, allowing him to practically feel like his usual daily self but being able to travel through walls, to places, practically, in a empirically verifiable way, not as simple aberration of the mind! I was extremely attracted by this and started to will myself seeing my hands in a dream. It wasn’t that easy. Apparently, man’s will of the daily world and this by his dream body is bridged mostly after some effort. And then, one afternoon (after some month and a 1/2) I woke up in a dream and actually DID remember to look at my hands! Suddenly a great vibration shook me and I woke up floating between the two bed floors, above my sleeping body in the army dorm (was finishing my compulsory service..). I explored a little, amazed, “flew” around, then my attention waned and I woke up shocked! So it was all true?!! No drugs, just will, attention and practice! Wow! This was my entrance in the magical, pragmatic world of these seers that call themselves navigators to avoid “spiritual” connotations. .. so this man that taught Castaneda all these things was a Yaqui from Sonora. Castaneda was finishing his PhD in anthropology in UCLA and went to Mexico to gather field material, this is how he met Don Juan and initially used him as a source for medicinal plants info. He was extremely arrogant man of the academia and genuinely thought that Don Juan was a semi demented old man. Don Juan, man of many masks (as they all are!), was actually a versed engineer attending international conferences as one of his masks (this info is not in the books!) but humbly played the eccentric old man. Then one day, as if part of an Indian ritual, he took Castaneda, the arrogant PhD man to the top of a hill(story not in books) and asked him: “Carlos, do you, in your heart of hearts think that You and me we are equal??” In Mexico Indians are treated lower than dogs, Castaneda, very moved, tears running down his cheeks, hugged the old man and passionately assured him: “Of course we are equal, Don Juan, of course we are equal!!”. Don Juan looked at him sternly and told him: “no, we are not equal!, I am a warrior, a humble alert being who is ready to sum up his life in a second and face anything, while you are an asshole! A heavy, selfimportant asshole”. So this very same Don Juan started his life as a short tempered, mulish young man, extremely poor. Then by the circumstances of a complex and very moving story, the abstraction the call Spirit interrupted his life and he practically died. The lyrics of your amazing song, by chance, match the exact story of his death!! Anyways, this got a little long, if you are in LA look up my bro Bruce Wagner (the writer, film director) he will tell you anything you may like to know about Castaneda, he was his student. BTW I just spent a few days with Bruce in Berlin a week ago. PS, see his magical film Wild Palms if you can! I somehow can picture you two doing some common project, your spirits have a similar vibes to them!! Just as wachowskies! Cheers my broe
@@RosssRoyce I found what you wrote incredibly interesting! I read some Carlos Castaneda myself. There is an author, Stephen LaBerge, who wrote, "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming." I found the book very interesting, you might like it also.
You are extremely talented, what a turn out over how those then saw you. You are one of my favorite artists of all time, absolutely love every aspect and detail of what you do.
Such a good track, I use furious angels as my running album, the beats are perfect and it makes me push harder
I'll have to try it Swatmat. Though it might drive me a bit mad. Thank you and run fast. All the best, Rob.
love. nothing but fucking LOVE for his music. Your music makes me angry that I will never know you, and ask the questions I want to know..... you've left us all for dead. I'm not sucking up, I just mean to express my gratitude for mutual experiences expressed in the alchemy of symphony.
I will survive too. Thanks man.
Love this song!
Thanks again, nycion x!
So suave and so much gravitas at the same time, love that song ! (thank you for sharing your story too, that was really touching )
Many thanks, ProductionSktT!
Every once and a while (maybe 1 time a decade if lucky) an album of lyrics comes along that is quintessential. The poetry mechanics, the words themselves, & if your REALLY LUCKY the instrumentals, all come together as an extremely accurate depiction of truth... which contrary to popular stupidity is why art is valuable, it describes reality/truth in a way that is greater or better than what the creator & receiver know and understand, thus challenging both to imrpove/grow/perfect. You could also say simply - we are imperfect thus we seek perfection. Art stimulates us. And contrary to popular stupidity again. Not particularly differently than "non-fiction' for lack of a better word. Ppl think of them as separate or different when in reality they are parts of a whole - the entirety of our experience (emotions, intellect, ability, virtue... all of it. Simply put somethings stimulate certain areas less or more. Thus art is like an amplifier. It's easy to picture with music and light really, as they are both waves. So the guitar or canvas may also a part of this amplification process, BUT in the end its simple physics.... you take a wave and we can do only two things with it - shape (make it bigger or change its direction/speed [e.g. velocity] and secondly accept or hear it [listen/see].
Anyway this album is quintessential in this way. However it's an even more rare type of thing. The sort that goes quasi-unnoticed. You will meet few ppl who know of it, even the ppl who LOVE THE MATRIX OR CLUBBED TO DEATH. Few know the album as a whole. Of course, I'm saying proportionate to it's great value and proportionate to how well known other albums that are empty calories that offer little or not nearly as much.
Hello Rob!
Thank you for your music, this channel and the upcoming release.
Thank you for sharing these great things that I always wanted to know.
Sorry for my english, I'm from Ukraine)
I've been watching this cool video here on youtube called "Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death Deconstruction (Live at Meltdown Festival)"
It might be really fun for you to see it.
It's really amazing how you are able to create something consistently beautiful and timeless with different methods and tools.
Your album really is timeless. It sounds as if it was released today. And it will sound like this for a very long time. Instruments and sound choices are so smart, detailed and polished. Nothing could be added or taken away.
One of these arrangement choices was always interesting to me.
On the Nothing At All song(one of my favorite songs of all time), it sounds like a nylon guitar is played. It makes it stand out a bit. And guitar itself sound a bit different. Something about the sound or the way it is played.
In any case, it is a very interesting choice. This song really adds to the whole album.
It would be great to hear you talk someday about this song. It is very soothing and rhythmic at the same time. And the arrangement is very interesting. How you decided to use these particular sounds. Have you tried few other things or that was the idea from the start. What is the story behind this song.
Hope you will post such videos from time to time in the future. I think it's every fan's dream. To hear not from journalists. But from the original source directly. This is a very new thing. Very surreal.
You are really have your own genre. And your arrangement style is out of this world. It would be absolutely amazing to understand how it all came together.
Thank you!
the only thing what remembers me my best part of the past in my life, and what i last forever
Beautiful to have another great insight, this time into one of my favourites of your songs/pieces. (I really must decide which option of this new release I'd like to order!).
Years ago I'd read about you attending NIDA and was curious about your time there, mainly as I'd studied acting at VCA and auditioned for the school many years ago, and feel I 'missed out' in some way for not having studied there. A close friend got in the previous year and I was rejected the year following and at the time took it quite hard.
In other ways, I feel fortunate not to have been accepted, as I grew and learnt so much from the experience.
Love this song and instrumental so much. Thanks again for sharing so generously Rob, all the best.
I will always love this song. Helped me through some really messed up times.
One of my all time favorite songs, easily in my top 10. So enjoyable, so personal, so STRONG.
I always have trouble deciphering the final verse, though, and was wondering what the lyrics are? Most sites seems to not know, either.
This specific song is what inspired two of the books I'm working on. I really appreciate what you said about the piece here, and how you struggled in school. I always thought this song was about an incredibly nasty breakup, though I've never had one like it. But, to know where this comes from, it opens up more ideas for my writing. Thank you, Rob, for opening up about your songs! Your music moves me deeply, and I'm grateful.
Thank you, Mrs Y. Glad to hear that. I wouldn't say that I struggled with school - school struggled with me.
That is a very interesting life story. Of course, the song is great too.
I really like this song. It's so epic. And I like the lyrics.
Espere el día 15, genio. Gracias 👍
Thank you, haydee rabuini. And sorry for the wait.
No hay problema, yo espero😎
Hello Rob, amazing music, big fan of your creations, your every track is a masterpiece, I hope that after this release you won't disappear on another 13 years :D
Fantastic song. Your best imo
Hello Rob.Hello again . This year you year. İ hope. We waiting your's song. Hello in Turkey.
ur such a genius
ssssssssssssss .. love u
just ty man
Hi, Rob 🎼🎙🎵
Just asked for your new release on vinyl for Christmas, and if that’s that’s the only thing I get I’ll still be happy
A bit more elaboration here, I'm appreciating the glimpse into yer mind, man. This song is scarred into my soul, maybe because I've been cast aside by just about everyone that ever mattered. Friends, lovers, important folk, old ideals. All gone.
On a cheerier note, are you slowly turning into Tom Waits?!? That impromptu rendition makes me think so, haha. Which, artistically speaking, would be no bad fate!
Jesus! What a passionate and community friendly person Rob Dougan is. Never thought he's like this. Does he give a "heart" to every single comment? Let's see. ;)
Many thanks, Vic. Hope to answer in general. But sometimes fall behind (when there's a bit too much going on!) All the best, Rob.
Wow, that was a treat and such a surprise. I truly thought there was a darker story of this song (given by the title and the way you sing it) rather than a metaphorical one. But this raised a question in my head - a question I wanna ask you: looking back now do you think that NIDA experience had a good or a harmful impact on the rest of your life?
Piano playin' Blues singer - no denying it!