VaedaVision Concert 2023.07.01a Tonight – GrandDesign – IfOnly – Dances – All These Days – In Oregon

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This is a nice VaedaVision concert

It contains 3 parts: guitar + voice, drums + voice, organ + voice

The energy was good and the songs were really explored – with some really nice vocal build ups

36:14 in length

The 6 songs played were Tonight, Grand Design, If Only, All These Days, Dances of the Upper World, In Oregon

* Tonight 0:00

Nice rendition of this song.  I have moved this song to the start of the VaedaVision catalog – #1 – one of the earliest songs I wrote about 1980

This concert I was doing the method of instrumental -> scat -> lyrics – so it really drew out the songs. And I seemed to have good energy.

* Grand Design 4:07

This is one of my favorite VaedaVision songs. I wrote it soon after I got to Portland in 1992. I wrote this about 1993.  I have a great 1993 recording of this song. It was more complex than it is now – roll has polished into a simple 2 part song – but the words are a little tricky

Nice organ part. Nice harmonies.

* If Only 9:00

This is also one of my favorites.  Written about 2016. Nice harmonies. Drums are pretty good on this one.  Organ is nice.

Nice vocal rounds. Lyrics start at 12:55 almost 4 minutes into it!

One of my favorite verses

It isn’t right to be wrong

It isn’t good to be bad

It isn’t smart to be dumb

It’s so sad when we don’t get along

It isn’t fair what they did

It isn’t true what they said

Who put those things in their heads

To make them do what they did

if only it weren’t so

* All These Days 16:07

Nice rendition of this song.

There’s a nice keyboard sound – pizzicato

bass

19:27 really nice 3 part vocal part

* Dances of the Upper World 20:48

* In Oregon 25:00 est

 

Pic of Mt Hood from Mt Tabor taken a few days before this concert

Tonight

In Your Hair

If Only

These Days

Dances of the Upper World

In Oregon

Tonight by VaedaVision

[VERSE 1]

Em  B7 D  A  E  x2 


[CHORUS]

G A C Em

G  A  C  E

In Your Hair by VaedaVision

In Your Hair by Vaedavision - 1983 / 2018


Cm Gm

When I see you standing there

Cm Gm F#

All the boys are in your hair

F7 G7 Cm Gm

And I wonder if you know what's going on


Cm Gm

I see you you don't see me

Cm Gm F#

It's as plain as it can be

F7 G7 Cm

All those pretty boys have got you


C D Eb Fm Gm Cm

I'm the only one who really gets you


C D Eb Fm Gm Cm

I'm the only one who really sees


C D Eb Fm Gm Cm Bbm

I'm the only one who's really been there from

Abm Gm

the start and I"m the

Dm7 Dm7 G7

only one who'll guide you to your heart


Cm Gm

When I pass you in the hall

Cm Gm F#

You look past me at the wall

F7 G7 Cm Gm

And I can tell that you've been crying


Cm Gm

He doesn't love you like I do

Cm Gm F#

Doesn't have a heart as true

F7 G7 Cm

And I can tell he's not even trying


C D Eb F Gm Cm

I'm the only one who really loves you


C D Eb F Gm Cm

I'm the only one who really sees


C D Eb F Gm Cm Bbm

I'm the only one who's really been there from

Abm Gm

the start and I"m the

Dm7 Dm7 G7

only one who'll guide you to your heart


Solo

Cm Gm

Cm Gm F#

F7 G7 Cm Gm

Cm Gm

Cm Gm F#

F7 G7 Cm

C D Eb Fm Gm Cm

C D Eb Fm Gm Cm

C D Eb Fm m Cm Bbm Abm

Dm7 Dm7 G7

Cm7

If Only by VaedaVision

It isn't right to be wrong

It isn't good to be bad

It isn't smart to be dumb

It's so sad

When we don't get along


It isn't fair what they did

It isn't true what they said

Who put those things in their heads -

to make them do what they did?

If only it weren't so.


If only a star could shine so bright and fill the night

And make us whole - make us whole

If only a tree could grow so tall and spread its leaves

And make us whole - make us whole


It isn't funny what they pulled

They could have gotten us all killed

So many bought what they sold

Killing for gold

It's really getting old


If only a bird could fly upwind and build her nest

And make us whole - make us whole

If only a fish could swim upstream and spawn her eggs

And make us whole - make us whole

If only we could climb that mountain and raise our arms

And make us whole - make us whole


If only you could see me

If only I could see you

How very free we would be

To be you and me

If only it were so

These Days by VaedaVision

INTRO / OUTRO (same chords as verse with counterpart melody)

Am C F C

Hey Ho Hidey Ho

Dm Am B E

Ho Hi My My

Am C F C

Hey Ho Hidey Ho

Dm E Am

Ho Hi My My


VERSE

Am C F C

These days go by and I watch their eyes

Dm Am B E

They try to disguise the nature of life

Am C F C

This life dear life will be the death of me

Dm E Am

At night I dream of these days

CHORUS

C E Am

All these days

F F

Like fireflies flying by

C E F F

All these days

C E Am

All these nights

F F

So lightning fast try to grasp

C E F F

All these nights

VERSE

These days these days I tell you what

You punch me in the gut I'm stuck in a rut

These nights these nights are my release

It's make or break for these days

CHORUS

INTRO / OUTRO (same chords as verse with counterpart melody)

Am C F C

Hey Ho Hidey Ho

Dm Am B E

Ho Hi My My

Am C F C

Hey Ho Hidey Ho

Dm E Am

Ho Hi My My

Dances of the Upper World by VaedaVision

[INTRO]

Am   D   Am   D


[VERSE 1]

Am                         D

He died for his sins in the Oregonian when he

Am             D

Finally got it through his head. He got

Am                D

Sick of preaching to the converted and

Am                   D

decided to preach to God

Am D

Instead


[VERSE 2]

Am D

So put his picture on the clubhouse wall with

Am D

Janice, Jimi, Jim and John cause he's

Am D

Falling asleep with the music on

Am D


[CHORUS 1]

And they're crankin' the

G C

tunes and strippin' down

Em

to the naked truth a mondo

A

soma stompin

G C

Dancing dances of the Upper

Em A

World

G C

And down on Earth someone just gave birth to another

Em A

Jimi Hendrix wanna be while

G C

He's up there jamming in the Upper

E major

World

In Oregon by VaedaVision

We've seen the rain we've seen the guns


We've seen the bodies in the mud


We've seen the sleet we've seen the snow


We've seen some mighty people go - oh no


 


We've seen the broken windows fly


We've seen the racist alibies - oh no


 


We've seen the stranger with the gun


We've seen first nations on the run - oh no


 


Well now a fresher breeze is here


We're here to make our conscience clear oh yeah


 


Our hearts are true our spirits free


That's the Oregon that we will be oh yeah


 


Living in Oregon


We see the light again


Out with the old in with the new


Out with the false in with the true


Out with the hate in with love again ohh ohh ohh ohh


 


We're living in Oregon


There's no one gonna try to tell us who we're supposed to be


From the mountain tops - to the Pacific Sea


There's no one gonna try to stop us let our spirits free


So won't you come on down with me


To the Pacific Sea


Where we will gaze upon the heavens - and wade in the sea


So come and dream with me


In Oregon


There's one gonna try to tell us - who we're supposed to be


 


We've got the rain we've got the sun we've got the forests to the sea


We've got the mountains, rivers and falls Oregon has got it all - oh yeah


But there's one thing we sorely need and that's a breaking of the past with violent means and racist deeds the strangers came and spread their seed oh yeah


 


 
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