I Have No Idea What’s Up With This Song, Either
It’s included on my new collection of unreleased music called Honeybee.
“Visual Desperate Prose” was recorded by Bill Stace in his basement recording studio, sometime in the mid-90s. I wrote it as a bastardization of poetry by another buddy, Milwaukee music legend Rob McCuen, from his collection Square Dancing in a Roundhouse. It’s an assemblage of his verbiage, in an orientation that suited my aesthetic sensibilities.
Rob played drums in a band called Plasticland and fronted many of his own bands as a lead singer—one of which was Love Bully. A great band—one of my all-time favorites. Ron Turner played guitar for them. Rob was a good sport about “Visual Desperate Prose.” He played drums on a few songs. I covered two songs he wrote: “Jennifer” and “Empty Handed.” Both were included on a five-song 7-inch vinyl on the Splunge label.
Ron Turner plays bass. Don Turner plays sax. I play a nylon guitar, in a brashly unskilled manner. Several years later, I took a crack at adding some more parts, but they aren’t mixed too well, in my opinion. That is where Version Two comes from. I’d turn the keys down in the early parts. They do feature Michele (Mickey) Strader on back-ups and Paul Setser’s keyboard parts. The very final bit is very nice—it comes together well at the end.
I have no idea what genre it might fit. I have it down as Abstract and Other. I have another Abstract song called “Right?” Bill Stace played the drums for it. Ron and Don Turner on bass and sax. I’m responsible for the rest. Peace out!