Agust Gudmundsson songs
?Fred Rosignol was a Hilton Head Developer that was building on Snowshoe Mountain. Every time he came to town he would, to win us over, pay our bar tab. One night he did not show up. A snowstorm had blanketed the entire East Coast. We waited and drank, waited and drank.. Finally after hours of waiting he arrived and he told us a story that chilled us to our bones.
David Brown went home later that night, and still in a haze from the lovely lemonade we were enjoying, wrote down everything that Fred said. A few days latter I found on my desk these lyrics, which were nothing more than a poetic version of what Fred told us.
David added a note that the music should me dynamic, energetic with a feeling of panic.
I sat on this for a while. One day, while looking over company inventory I saw that we had a drum machine from a disassembled Hammond organ. I got it out and started playing with it. There was a button that said DISCO. I ran it. It was not disco. But it was dynamic, energetic with a feeling of panic.
I pulled out David’s lyrics of Fred’s flight, remembering that if he had continued, without instruments, on his course Fred would have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. But he ended up at the Roanoke Airport with no fuel left.
Back to the composition. The melody and the entire arrangement just came to me. I ran the drum machine and played the piano. I put that on a track. I was using a two track Studer Revox. I bounced that over to the other track as I added a guitar and vocal. Then I bounced it again to add the other vocal. You will hear me say that a sax solo is coming.. Well, he never showed up so I mouthed a trombone. My lead guitarist was snowed in so I mouthed that as well.
Anyway. This is not just raw, it is an example of how much fun you can have when stuff is thrown at you. Fred almost died getting lost in an airplane. David captured his story and wrote some lyrics. I futzed around with broken equipment and accidentally came up with a song. This is about as un-polished as you can get. This is sort of what session musicians and vocalists got when I introduced a new tune. I never did take this to the studio, but, man, this sure was it fun doing, and I would like to someday see it produced.
Flying Blind
Lyrics: David M. Brown. Music: Agust Gudmundsson
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere North of Georgia
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere South of Maine
Well there are clouds
Up above me
And there are clouds
Down below
The controls
Have gone crazy
And the fuel is getting low
I wonder if I’ll ever see her
Smiling face again
Another time
Another day
I want to walk with her
Hand in hand
Both feet on the ground
Like we did
Yesterday
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere North of Georgia
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere South of Maine
I don’t know how I ever got this lost
Between the mountains and the sea
This little aero plane and a sky full of snow
Is now the whole wide world to me
Every muscle in my body
Is fighting to save this plane
My eyes are burning
Can’t keep them open
My back is aching from the strain
Well there’s ice
On the windshield
As I go speeding
Through the air
And this wind
Is like an old bumpy road
And it’s leading me
To nowhere
Flying Blind..
David Brown went home later that night, and still in a haze from the lovely lemonade we were enjoying, wrote down everything that Fred said. A few days latter I found on my desk these lyrics, which were nothing more than a poetic version of what Fred told us.
David added a note that the music should me dynamic, energetic with a feeling of panic.
I sat on this for a while. One day, while looking over company inventory I saw that we had a drum machine from a disassembled Hammond organ. I got it out and started playing with it. There was a button that said DISCO. I ran it. It was not disco. But it was dynamic, energetic with a feeling of panic.
I pulled out David’s lyrics of Fred’s flight, remembering that if he had continued, without instruments, on his course Fred would have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. But he ended up at the Roanoke Airport with no fuel left.
Back to the composition. The melody and the entire arrangement just came to me. I ran the drum machine and played the piano. I put that on a track. I was using a two track Studer Revox. I bounced that over to the other track as I added a guitar and vocal. Then I bounced it again to add the other vocal. You will hear me say that a sax solo is coming.. Well, he never showed up so I mouthed a trombone. My lead guitarist was snowed in so I mouthed that as well.
Anyway. This is not just raw, it is an example of how much fun you can have when stuff is thrown at you. Fred almost died getting lost in an airplane. David captured his story and wrote some lyrics. I futzed around with broken equipment and accidentally came up with a song. This is about as un-polished as you can get. This is sort of what session musicians and vocalists got when I introduced a new tune. I never did take this to the studio, but, man, this sure was it fun doing, and I would like to someday see it produced.
Flying Blind
Lyrics: David M. Brown. Music: Agust Gudmundsson
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere North of Georgia
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere South of Maine
Well there are clouds
Up above me
And there are clouds
Down below
The controls
Have gone crazy
And the fuel is getting low
I wonder if I’ll ever see her
Smiling face again
Another time
Another day
I want to walk with her
Hand in hand
Both feet on the ground
Like we did
Yesterday
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere North of Georgia
Flying Blind
Through a snowstorm
Somewhere South of Maine
I don’t know how I ever got this lost
Between the mountains and the sea
This little aero plane and a sky full of snow
Is now the whole wide world to me
Every muscle in my body
Is fighting to save this plane
My eyes are burning
Can’t keep them open
My back is aching from the strain
Well there’s ice
On the windshield
As I go speeding
Through the air
And this wind
Is like an old bumpy road
And it’s leading me
To nowhere
Flying Blind..
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