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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

DJCPR 2 (Covers)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Cover versions of well-known songs that illuminate some quality in the original that was dormant, waiting to emerge, like a cicada.

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This Caucasian is

0:05.0

is persuading people to dance to the break seats playing. That's right it's a rainy Saturday in Creston, Colorado. So I've decided to put together

0:19.4

DJCPR2. Hope you enjoy this. This is versions. I love versions. I love covers of songs.

0:30.3

Sometimes the cover is better than the original.

0:34.0

That is amazing when someone can take a song

0:38.0

written and performed by someone else

0:41.0

and add a twist to it that makes it even better or uncover some twist or some

0:50.3

twist or some meaning or some quality of the original tune. some

0:55.0

some meaning or some quality of the original tune that the composer, him or herself, may have missed.

1:01.0

That's some kind of crazy magic right there. And sometimes it's not better than the original. It's just a different take on the original that illuminates some quality that exists in the original, but the original

1:18.4

artist chose not to accentuate because there can only be that one definitive version, right? I mean, Herman Melville wrote

1:28.9

Moby Dick. He could have changed characters, he could have added things things he could have taken things out one of the things I learned myself from writing books is

1:38.8

you know if you've never done it you think holy shit how am I going to come up with enough material to fill a book and then

1:45.8

when you do it you're like oh fuck how am I going to cut enough material out of this to make

1:51.0

it a readable book. The volume of stuff that has to be left out is so much more than what you can put in.

2:02.0

That you might even, you know, it's like Rodin said about

2:06.2

creating a sculpture.

2:07.4

He said, I just take a piece of marble

2:09.3

and I feel what is in it, and I chip away everything else.

2:15.7

It's kind of like that with writing a book

2:18.0

or any creative act, I think.

2:22.0

It's about taking away the part that doesn't belong.

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