How The West Was One
If you don’t like to read, I’ll hip you to the goods right away and save you the agony of having to read ANYTHING so you can get back to watching senseless shit on your CPU screens (hockey theme songs perhaps?). Here is “How The West Was One” on Itunes in which we will be donating a portion of our proceeds to Canuck Place and I am working out those details now… http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/how-the-west-was-one-single/id430686754 If you want to personally donate to Canuck Place then here is a link to that… http://www.canuckplace.org/make_a_donation/index.htm
Still with me and want to hear about 15,000 legitimate spins in less than 24 hours? Good, let’s roll. I’ve been under a tireless amount of duress in the past couple of months in regards to my career and personal life (I’m getting married to an extraordinary woman but the politics/finances of planning a wedding are craze). I’m trying to finish music for an amazing musical (Ash Rizin’), finish writing/recording for my own album (The Midnight Sun) and bring a share of respectability into my solo career.
Come good days or bad years, sports is more than an amazing distraction for me whether playing or watching them (or simply smashing suckas in NHL11). I’m a Jets fan, a Knicks fan and a lifetime diehard supporter of my city’s club, the Vancouver Canucks.
I’ve been working closely with my brother KC who is also an avid Canucks fan in trying to finish all of my work. In a desperate attempt to bring some levity to our process, I suggested a Canucks tune with him before he left to Africa for a month. I phoned longtime producer/friend/hero Rob The Viking and our trio was formed. I came up with the line “how the west was one” and the idea of going Spaghetti Western because I knew it’s a genre that KC can murder for days. We tracked at a homeys crib in east van (the hideout) and I brought in my man Malcolm Aiken who plays in my band “The Chaperones” on trumpet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHns8h_5wak KC played guitars, bass, some organ, BG vocals, sang the lead line “this is how the west was one”, Rob sang the chorus slowed down which we pitched up, I wrote all of the lyrics, put on the Western twang vocal which we pitched down and Rob did the drums, engineering, mixing and mastering…
I played with T-Pain in Nanaimo on Wednesday night and I wrote this song hungover on the ferry Thursday. Since I’m always flipping people’s names from the NHL for jokes/wordplay/fun and have always watched the Nucks, the song truly wrote itself. We finished the song on Thursday and Rob had our mix Monday. My longtime friend Itchyron did the graphic and Jim Vanderhorst put my words underneath the song for YouTube… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxH3lLlUEM
I put up a soundcloud link on my Twitter and FB pages and posted up with my partner PJ Worsfold in the war room to see what this bitch could do online (BAM). As soon as Cabbie (the homey Cabral Richards) retweeted the song to Bob Mackenzie and the Canucks it was a tidal wave that I couldn’t stay in front of. The Canucks posted it on their website, http://fortnucks.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-west-was-one.html, The Peak (my fam fam) played it, Dunner at the Fox played it, Virgin said they’ll play it and with the help of the Canucks faithful we are sitting at 15,000 plays online! We’ll see if it is adopted as an anthem for my beloved Canucks and hopefully Team 1040 will eventually give it a spin.
Longtime legendary Vancouver DJ’s, Jay Swing and Marlon J. English, have told me that they will crush the song pre-game which is a huge honor as a longtime fan of the VanCity Hip Hop scene. Jay’s support has been tremendous.
It’s been overwhelming, for sure there are detractors and haters but I’ve created something original from a good and honest place to share with my home team, so I feel no shame in any criticism of me or my song personally. It was created to relieve stress, not create stress from it.
I’d like to make a video for it proper but I’m leaving for tour with Moka Only (THE GOER’S!!!) on Friday so it may have to wait. Check this site for tour dates to see us on the road and hear – how the west was one…
Thanks to the people that still like to read out there, I know that I do.
Your Captain,
Kyprios
AKA
Clintrios Easton (like the hockey stick)