🌱« Take these broken wings and learn to fly »🌿

[littlewillow]

We all dream about it.

Enjoy

[NJR]

@littlewillow Very nice!

[littlewillow]

@njr said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@littlewillow Very nice!

@NJR Thank you.

[Fast City Line]

@littlewillow Cool! What medium is that? I'm guessing chalk?

[Fast City Line]

The first time I heard "Free As A Bird", I noticed the song evokes the visual of a bird soaring and/or floating high up in the sky. Then I got an inspired image in my head that could be a music video, a way to capture the unspoken, indefinable note of sadness in the song. In my imaginary video for this song, there would be images of birds soaring, and also a recurring image of let’s say a young boy’s face and shoulders close up, with a background of a blue sky, and maybe the background would shift around, with clouds and trees indicating that the boy is hang-gliding up in the air, and he’s enjoying the thrill of it. Then only at the end, the camera pans back from the boy’s face and shoulders to reveal that he is in a wheelchair with a crippling condition, and his family has taken him out to a high bluff overlooking the sea and seabirds flying around, so that he can enjoy the vicarious experience of the freedom of a bird. As the song draws to a close, family members (sister, brother, mother, father) dance around him in his wheelchair.

[Melody Shea]

@littlewillow I love it, it is really good, thanks for the pictures

[Melody Shea]

@fast-city-line it looks like pastels to me, that's a pencil with different colors

[Fast City Line]

@melody-shea yes, more likely

[A Former User]

@njr said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@littlewillow Very nice!

Its a "very nice", from me too

[NJR]

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

The first time I heard "Free As A Bird", I noticed the song evokes the visual of a bird soaring and/or floating high up in the sky. Then I got an inspired image in my head that could be a music video, a way to capture the unspoken, indefinable note of sadness in the song. In my imaginary video for this song, there would be images of birds soaring, and also a recurring image of let’s say a young boy’s face and shoulders close up, with a background of a blue sky, and maybe the background would shift around, with clouds and trees indicating that the boy is hang-gliding up in the air, and he’s enjoying the thrill of it. Then only at the end, the camera pans back from the boy’s face and shoulders to reveal that he is in a wheelchair with a crippling condition, and his family has taken him out to a high bluff overlooking the sea and seabirds flying around, so that he can enjoy the vicarious experience of the freedom of a bird. As the song draws to a close, family members (sister, brother, mother, father) dance around him in his wheelchair.

That would have been cool. You have seen the actual video for the song though, haven’t you?

[Fast City Line]

@njr said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

The first time I heard "Free As A Bird", I noticed the song evokes the visual of a bird soaring and/or floating high up in the sky. Then I got an inspired image in my head that could be a music video, a way to capture the unspoken, indefinable note of sadness in the song. In my imaginary video for this song, there would be images of birds soaring, and also a recurring image of let’s say a young boy’s face and shoulders close up, with a background of a blue sky, and maybe the background would shift around, with clouds and trees indicating that the boy is hang-gliding up in the air, and he’s enjoying the thrill of it. Then only at the end, the camera pans back from the boy’s face and shoulders to reveal that he is in a wheelchair with a crippling condition, and his family has taken him out to a high bluff overlooking the sea and seabirds flying around, so that he can enjoy the vicarious experience of the freedom of a bird. As the song draws to a close, family members (sister, brother, mother, father) dance around him in his wheelchair.

That would have been cool. You have seen the actual video for the song though, haven’t you?

Nice! Thanks.

On re-listening, there's a cool employment of extremely deep piano bass notes -- I suspect that was John's touch in the original 1977 recording.

[Fast City Line]

@fast-city-line I can kind of tell, not having heard John's original, that John would have made the song very different, but possibly superior. Less complicated, sparer with the vocals and instrumentation.

[NJR]

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@fast-city-line I can kind of tell, not having heard John's original, that John would have made the song very different, but possibly superior. Less complicated, sparer with the vocals and instrumentation.

Here it is:

[Fast City Line]

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@fast-city-line I can kind of tell, not having heard John's original, that John would have made the song very different, but possibly superior. Less complicated, sparer with the vocals and instrumentation.

I just listened to John's original, and my suspicion was correct. I DO think it's superior to the Anthology version. But it could have been done better, and I think John if he had more time and thought to re-record it would have done it right. But doing it right doesn't mean changing what he does there in the original radically, it just means refining it here and there but making sure to keep the original spirit intact, of stark simplicity, almost plaintive and just his voice and piano.

Speaking of piano I don't hear those deep piano bass notes, so I would guess those were Paul's inspired addition. If John had ever recorded it right, I would have hoped he would have added those deep piano notes. For example in John's own solo career his song Mother as it's devolving at the end into increasing screaming, he undergirds his piano chords with extremely deep bass notes on the piano probably close to the very end of the piano board -- way way over on the left.

[Fast City Line]

@njr said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

@fast-city-line I can kind of tell, not having heard John's original, that John would have made the song very different, but possibly superior. Less complicated, sparer with the vocals and instrumentation.

Thanks, I looked it up before you linked it and gave a listen. My reaction above.

[NJR]

@fast-city-line Your reaction is actually below - I saw it.

[littlewillow]

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

Cool! What medium is that? I'm guessing chalk?

@Fast-City-Line I used oil pastel sticks for the background. By putting them on a piece of paper I rubbed the surface of my paper to create this effect. The rest is done with colored pencil.

[littlewillow]

@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

The first time I heard "Free As A Bird", I noticed the song evokes the visual of a bird soaring and/or floating high up in the sky. Then I got an inspired image in my head that could be a music video, a way to capture the unspoken, indefinable note of sadness in the song. In my imaginary video for this song, there would be images of birds soaring, and also a recurring image of let’s say a young boy’s face and shoulders close up, with a background of a blue sky, and maybe the background would shift around, with clouds and trees indicating that the boy is hang-gliding up in the air, and he’s enjoying the thrill of it. Then only at the end, the camera pans back from the boy’s face and shoulders to reveal that he is in a wheelchair with a crippling condition, and his family has taken him out to a high bluff overlooking the sea and seabirds flying around, so that he can enjoy the vicarious experience of the freedom of a bird. As the song draws to a close, family members (sister, brother, mother, father) dance around him in his wheelchair.

@Fast-City-Line Wow it's super beautiful what you describe. I heard this song once. But I don't remember it anymore.

[littlewillow]

@melody-shea said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:

I love it, it is really good, thanks for the pictures

@Melody-Shea You're welcome. It's my pleasure.

[Fast City Line]

@littlewillow Interesting and very neat.