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Old 03-12-2008, 12:32 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Spaldz View Post
During the Siamese Dream tour, I Am One was added to the setlist for a
period of time, then was altered. Billy: "We're sick of playing I Am One,
right? So I came up with this idea: in the original version there is a bass
break and then the band kicks back in, so instead of that, we just keep the
groove going, the guitars drop out, and I wanted to do this spoken word
thing. I had no idea what I was going to do. Over the course of a few weeks,
I came up with kind of a running/singing dialogue that was a little bit of
commentary, a little bit of whatever, keeping in line with what the song is
about. For a month or two, that rap meant something, but after two months,
the rap ceases to mean anything. It becomes as predictable as some solo that
you'd play. It's no longer an inspired rap about how you feel, and becomes
just another change in the song. Especially when people are seeing you for
the second time, it's like, wow, he's saying the same shit--the first time I
saw him, it seemed like it was coming from the heart, but now I know it's
rehearsed! [laughs]."
where did that quote come from?

 
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