80's Man (Sung to tune of 'Lucky Man')
Parody Re-write of ELP's "Lucky Man" skewering the decade of Hair Metal!!
Instrumental Guitar Rock/Pop with a TWIST!! Plus some warped experimental Avant Garde side excursions for the musically adventurous!
Instrumental Guitar Rock/Pop with a "Twist"!
Story behind the song
Conceived c2002 This is Take 3 Mix 6 Recorded February-April 2015 Sonar X1
Sending an Emerson, Lake, & Palmer classic straight to the banks of the river Styx in a flaming mousse drenched hairball, as I take dead aim at the Decade of Excess & Hair Metal with a parody re-write of "Lucky Man" !
Filled with gratuitous pop-culture references,& "Spinal Tap"-ish moments (HELLO CLEVELAND!! :D) and a graphic depiction in the final verse of THE ultimate "Rock & Roll Death" !!
Also-a couple of in-jokey references to 2 other ELP songs, one very well known; the other not so much!!
Once again featuring my god-awful "singing", AND as a extra added bonus, possibly the WORST attempted guitar emulation of Keith Emerson's Moog solo ever recorded!!
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.....!!! :)
Lyrics
He had pure white Cocaine
And groupies hundred score
All silicone,hair mousse,tight Spandex
And lined up at his backstage door
(CHORUS)
(Ooooo,what an Eighties man
He Was.......)
He went on
endless Tours
Three hundred nights a year
he would be
In a new town & a new orgy
Then leave with a new case of V.D.!
(CHORUS)
(Interlude/Guitar Solo)
But then he started
shooting Heroin
He could no longer
sing in key
But nobody was paying attention
They were just as f***ed up as he
(CHORUS)
One day he overdosed it
And nobody was there
To turn him over,so he
choked to death
On his Vomit,then his own Hair!!
(CHORUS)
(Interlude 2)
OUTRO (Spoken)
(With sincerest apologies to Keith Emerson, Greg Lake &
Carl Palmer
I'm So Sorry Guys.......
NNNOOOOOT!! Totally Not! You progressive rock dinosaur farts!!
interpolated lines :
Burning bass drum pedals up Carl Palmer's a**
And a hot tin cowbell in his mouth!
THAT would kind of HURT!!)
