[1] Neil Haverstick was born on September 22, 1951, in St. Louis, Missouri, and started playing guitar in 1965, being highly moved by the music of the Beatles, Yardbirds, Cream, and the general musical atmosphere of the 1960′s. Haverstick is a guitarist, composer, author, and instructor.
As a guitarist, the Denver Post called him “one of the most sought after session players in town.” Haverstick has performed zillions of gigs, such as playing and recording with the Colorado Symphony, including appearances with Judy Collins, Bernadette Peters, Diahann Carroll, Tommy Tune, Ferrante and Teicher, and Bill Conti. He has also played in orchestras backing such artists as Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Charley Pride, and others. With his own bands, he has opened shows for B.B.King, Steve Miller,and King Sunny Ade; he has also backed up blues greats Jim Schwall and Joe Houston. As a freelance guitarist he has played blues, jazz, classical, country, flamenco, and folk, as well as plays (Man of La Mancha, Grease, Always Patsy Cline, The Last Five Years, and A Dream Play, performed at the Cleveland Playhouse, with noted director Pavel Dobrusky) and many private functions. He has also appeared on numerous CD projects by Denver artists, including Clay Kirkland and Mary Stribling.
As a composer, Haverstick won Guitar Player magazine’s 1992 Ultimate Guitar Competition (Experimental Division) with a 19 tone piece, “Spider Chimes.” He also won the 1996 arts Innovation Award in Denver for another 19 tone song, “Jimmy and Joe,” and the 1999 Composition Fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts. He has 10 CD’s of original music available featuring music in the 19 and 34 tone systems, as well as fretless guitar. His Microstock festival is in it’s 7th year, and he has performed at concerts in New York, Los Angeles, El Paso, Albuquerque, and Den Haag, the Netherlands. His composition “Mysteries” was published in 2007 by Christine Paquelet Edition Arts (www.paquelet-editions.com). Guitar Player mag said of his compositions, “Bold and daring, Haverstick ventures into distant aural galaxies”.
As an author, Haverstick has written for Guitar Player, Downbeat and Cadence, and has written two music theory books. “The Form of No Forms” was praised by the late studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco, who called it “A great book. I am still learning with Neil.” Jazz giant Joe Pass said, “I feel this book offers a new insight into not only playing the guitar, but music and how to understand it. A real book.” Neil’s latest book, “19 Tones:A New Beginning,” is a look at the 19 tone system of tuning which Haverstick has been working in since 1989.
As an instructor, Haverstick has taught hundreds of students, both privately and in classes. He has been a guest speaker at Dr. Richard Krantz’s Sound and Physics class at Metro State College for many years, and in October, 2004, he taught a seminar on tunings at Berklee College of Music, on the invitation of fusion guitar maestro David Fiuczynski.
[2] The dance music world is built upon a perpetual cycle of imitation and innovation. Those favouring imitation, once a commercially viable formula has been attained, are the ones whose names form national radio playlists whereas the innovators, from Drexciya to dBridge and beyond, are the ones who work to earn the respect of one of the most competitive music scenes in the world.
Tom Neilan AKA Stickman is such an innovator. Raised somewhere in the vast expanse of wilderness outside Manchester, Stickman’s wholly unique sound is the sonic embodiment of a youth spent sitting in front of a battered production setup listening to Hip-Hop tapes on repeat.
Equally adept at crafting earth shaking and subtly moving D&B movements as he is at making dancefloors lose it, a Stickman production is characterised by an audible insouciance, a refreshing attitude to an often over pasteurised process, one where feeling is prioritised over form.
With releases lined up for a slew of big name labels in 2012 and DJ support from the likes of Synkro, Indigo, dBridge, Ruckspin and more, Stickman is destined for the outer reaches of the electronic world
Virus
Stickman Lyrics
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Everybody's manic
About this Chinese flu
It's not just the talk of the town
The whole world's shut down
It's all over the news
I went to the store for some TP
Everything is so crazy
Santa Claus, come with your elves
Corona Virus
Corona Virus
Heard it came from a bat
Well, how about that?
Hope we don't start growing fangs
Hope I can work again
And dine or go to the gym
Hope the cars still stay in their lanes
People are finding new ways to make a living
They're struggling to survive
Not many out there who seem giving
Hey, Donnie Boy, please throw us a line
Corona Virus
Corona Virus
Corona Virus
Corona Virus
Stickman's song Virus is a satirical take on the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the world into a state of panic and confusion. The lyrics center around the fears and uncertainty that most people feel during this time of crisis. The opening lines of the song describe how the virus has affected the world, and how people are reacting to it. The lines "There's a big panic, everybody's manic about this Chinese flu" and "The whole world's shut down, it's all over the news" perfectly capture the sense of global panic that the virus has caused.
The song takes a lighter tone in the second verse where the singer talks about his failed trip to the store to buy toilet paper, which has become a precious commodity during the pandemic. The lines "But all I saw were empty shelves, everything is so crazy, Santa Claus, come with your elves" demonstrate the absurdity of the panic buying that has taken over many people. The song continues to poke fun at the situation and the hope for the virus to go away.
Overall, Stickman's Virus is a humorous and lighthearted take on a serious situation that has affected the world, and it speaks to the universal feelings of fear and uncertainty felt by many people during this pandemic.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a big panic
People are feeling scared and worried about the situation
Everybody's manic
People are behaving in an anxious and panicked way
About this Chinese flu
The situation is related to a virus that originated in China
It's not just the talk of the town
It's not just a topic of conversation locally
The whole world's shut down
The situation has caused widespread closures and disruptions
It's all over the news
The situation is being widely reported in the media
I went to the store for some TP
The singer went to the store to buy toilet paper
But all I saw were empty shelves
The store was out of stock and shelves were empty
Everything is so crazy
The situation is chaotic and confusing
Santa Claus, come with your elves
The singer is using a metaphor to express the need for help and assistance
Heard it came from a bat
The virus is said to have originated from a bat
Well, how about that?
The singer is expressing surprise or irony
Hope we don't start growing fangs
The singer hopes that the virus won't have any serious or unexpected effects
Hope I can work again
The singer is expressing concern about their ability to work during the outbreak
And dine or go to the gym
The singer is expressing concern about their ability to enjoy normal activities during the outbreak
Hope the cars still stay in their lanes
The singer is expressing concern about the potential for disruptions to normal life
People are finding new ways to make a living
People are having to adapt and find alternative ways to support themselves
They're struggling to survive
People are finding it difficult to get by during the outbreak
Not many out there who seem giving
There don't seem to be many people who are willing to help or give support
Hey, Donnie Boy, please throw us a line
The singer is making a direct plea to the President for help or support
Corona Virus
The singer is repeating the name of the virus
Corona Virus
The singer is repeating the name of the virus
Corona Virus
The singer is repeating the name of the virus
Corona Virus
The singer is repeating the name of the virus
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
Written by: Joel Mitchell
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
I don't know yet
I love how much this series embodies the idea of creativity.
Back when Alan created the Chosen One, he did so consciously and with clear purpose: a good animated fight.
His origins can't be traced back to any intrinsic value found in the medium of animation, but to violence and combat. He was born in destruction, and thus became a god of destruction.
But, at the very least, you can make the argument that The Chosen One exists for more than just fighting, as he eventually loses interest in and actively starts advocating against internet-wide conquest. Despite that hesitance, however, we don't see any instances of things he created in the 9 year timespan between AvA III and V.
He doesn't create, nor does he take pleasure in destruction. He simply is.
So, what happens when you create something whose only purpose is to destroy a destroyer?
You get The Dark Lord.
The Dark Lord never lost his original will. He never grew bored of the slaughter.
If anything, he optimized it, polished it to a mirror sheen in the form of the ViraBots, and hoped to stomp the rest of the web into dust beneath his feet.
He did contribute something in that 9 year span, yes... but only something he could use to further spread misery and decay.
And then there's The Second Coming.
Created by complete accident by Alan when he was just trying to animate an orange stick figure.
The only one of the three who can directly draw his roots to a creative purpose.
Not only that, but he's also the first stick figure who we see creating living animations. (The Victim made copies of himself, and TCO, alongside TDL, never used the draw tools or anything in the animation software for anything but weapons.)
There is a very creative soul in TSC, with an imagination beyond anything any of the other stick figures are capable of, even if the full extent of that imagination is lost to him save when he is in dire need of it.
So in the end, it's not The Chosen One who defeats the Empowered Dark Lord, or Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, who started existence absentmindedly fighting each other before TSC showed them what was beyond the webpage.
It's The Second Coming.
Born in creativity, with a love for the art of animation.
The only thing that can defeat the purest of destroyers is the purest of creators.
(Or I could just be overthinking all of this and Alan just wanted to draw cool stick figures fighting in very creative ways. :P)
I don't know yet
I love how much this series embodies the idea of creativity.
Back when Alan created the Chosen One, he did so consciously and with clear purpose: a good animated fight.
His origins can't be traced back to any intrinsic value found in the medium of animation, but to violence and combat. He was born in destruction, and thus became a god of destruction.
But, at the very least, you can make the argument that The Chosen One exists for more than just fighting, as he eventually loses interest in and actively starts advocating against internet-wide conquest. Despite that hesitance, however, we don't see any instances of things he created in the 9 year timespan between AvA III and V.
He doesn't create, nor does he take pleasure in destruction. He simply is.
So, what happens when you create something whose only purpose is to destroy a destroyer?
You get The Dark Lord.
The Dark Lord never lost his original will. He never grew bored of the slaughter.
If anything, he optimized it, polished it to a mirror sheen in the form of the ViraBots, and hoped to stomp the rest of the web into dust beneath his feet.
He did contribute something in that 9 year span, yes... but only something he could use to further spread misery and decay.
And then there's The Second Coming.
Created by complete accident by Alan when he was just trying to animate an orange stick figure.
The only one of the three who can directly draw his roots to a creative purpose.
Not only that, but he's also the first stick figure who we see creating living animations. (The Victim made copies of himself, and TCO, alongside TDL, never used the draw tools or anything in the animation software for anything but weapons.)
There is a very creative soul in TSC, with an imagination beyond anything any of the other stick figures are capable of, even if the full extent of that imagination is lost to him save when he is in dire need of it.
So in the end, it's not The Chosen One who defeats the Empowered Dark Lord, or Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, who started existence absentmindedly fighting each other before TSC showed them what was beyond the webpage.
It's The Second Coming.
Born in creativity, with a love for the art of animation.
The only thing that can defeat the purest of destroyers is the purest of creators.
(Or I could just be overthinking all of this and Alan just wanted to draw cool stick figures fighting in very creative ways. :P)
Hellhound
Underrated comment
Vanlal Muanpuia
Cool story
Gell Elliott
Where did you get the time to write this?
Mohammad Karami
Dude u got my respect ✊🏻🦾🫂
Banow
@Mohammad Karami me too
Dufe Beu
It’s amazing how Alan can make an entire story with ZERO dialogue.
ARAV64
Bro it,s hard to even write dialogs😂
Robin Bagla
in the older ones if you turn on captions there is dialouge
United Bladerz
What about when orange talks?