Message from Gary,
February 2002:
I’d like to thank all those people who
either came to The Blues Band show at the Landmark in Teddington back in
Oct 2001 or sent messages of support, donations to the benefit fund etc
for my son Jack who had such an awful accident last September
... see further below for details. (Some of you may have in fact met
Jack when he stood in for Danny Townsend on the merchandising stand last
summer).
I have, of course, thanked those people
who I met on the night or have seen since at gigs but I know there are
many, many others who have been thinking of Jack and my family from that
time onwards who I will perhaps never meet or have an opportunity to
thank personally. So….THANK YOU! All your thoughts, wishes,
prayers and help are very much appreciated by us all in the Fletcher
clan - we are very lucky to have such wonderful support.
On the night of the gig several people
asked me about the song in the set that I'd sung solo. This was written in
the weeks following 8th September, when Jack’s accident
happened, and when of course the events later that same week occurred in
New York, and it perhaps requires no further explanation than the title
…. World Gone Crazy. When the band toured in Nov/Dec 2001 with The
Manfreds we didn’t have time to do the acoustic set so I hadn’t done
the song again until the recent BB-only gigs. I was delighted with the
reaction of the audience to the number and also the interest shown in
the song, reflected in people’s comments during the post-gig album
signing session. After the benefit gig I did say, perhaps rather
optimistically, that I’d record a version and have it put it up on the
BB website. Well some five months on I’ve finally managed to get my
finger out and commit the song to tape and, as threatened, it can be
heard in a variety of forms, including MP3, by clicking on the song titles
below. I have no plans to release the song commercially. A copy of the
lyrics is included below also.
Download of this song for the website
visitor’s own enjoyment is free. Commercial copying, distribution and
all other forms of commercial exploitation are expressly prohibited.
(Radio stations please contact AroneWeb for a radio media copy for
airplay if required).
The recording, music and lyrics are
copyright control Gary Fletcher, February 2002.
In ‘Real Audio’ player format there
is a 60 sec sample clip available which is a modest 248KB size file: World
Gone Crazy clip
Also available in ‘Real Audio’
player format is a full length version of the song, 1196KB size file: World
Gone Crazy
The above clips are both low resolution
files (32Kbps) in order to make internet transfer as quick as possible
so the audio quality is OK but not hi-fi quality.
If you would like a higher resolution
version an MP3 format copy is available for download by clicking on: World
Gone Crazy 128kHz
As usual with MP3s this is a large file
(4628KB) and will take some time to download via a standard modem
internet connection. ADSL users can, of course, download the file in a
few minutes. This is, however, a CD quality copy.
