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This song is also from the musical In Dog's Country. Mal, the bad dog (played by Ruth Keating of The Malarkies), tries to convince Jake, the good dog (Billy D) to attack the squirrel Ada, on whom Jake has a crush. Mal explains that dogs shouldn't love squirrels; instead, they should hunt them. Jake's confusion gets pretty emotional...

Hey Jake

Words and music by Billy Dechand
© 2007 Bucktooth Music

Mal:	Hey Jake, don't get it wrong
	Your attraction, that’s not love 
	You’re a hunter, and squirrels are meant to be caught
	Don’t give a thought to how she’ll suffer

Jake:	OK, maybe you're right; it's not true puppy love 
	Maybe this craving's for the hunt instead 
 
Mal:	Yes Jake, you are a dog
	Who lives and eats and breathes 
	You should be hunting like a real live dog
	Do you dare to fetch your meal rare? 

Jake:	Hey little squirrel look out here I come
	I think I got a deep down hunger for my teeth in yer bones 
        I’m coming to your home

        You’re so beautifully fluffy and seeing you’s making me jones  
        I can’t tell if it’s blood or it’s love that’s making me crazy 
        You're so fluffy...

In Dog's Country CDBaby - iTunes

Hey Jake (You're So Fluffy) (w/...

Now that my web site is fresh and different, I'm gonna post song lyrics from time to time. This is the first installment. Requests encouraged.
This one is from In Dog's Country, a musical about two dogs, a cat, a squirrel, and The Man. This one is sung by Frisky, the cat, who lives a privileged life style. Matt Sutton, front man for The Malarkies, sings lead.

I've Got It All

Words and music by Billy Dechand, © 2007 Bucktooth Music

I was born a kitten
Now I'm a kitty cat
I've got some kind of freedom
From The Man who keeps me fat

The Man makes the rules
But I keep my cool
He's still feeding me
Even when I'm cruel

He's a fascist, so I scratch him
Then I'm impassive, then I'm absent
When he's gone or away I never cry
He lets me go, he lets me stay
I love to be alone; I never cry

I've got it all right here
I'm far too smooth to ever try
I've got the touch
My food is never dry
I train my Man
Once a week I join him sleeping
That's all it takes to make him feel
He needs to make me meals
Then I turn my tail
I'm on my own again

The Man makes the rules
But I keep my cool
Sometimes I make a wish
Then he feeds me fish!

I've got it all right here
I'm far too smooth to ever try
I've got the touch
My food is never dry
I train my Man
Once a week I join him sleeping
That's all it takes to make him feel
He needs to make me meals
Then I turn my tail
I'm on my own again

In Dog's Country CDBaby - iTunes

I’ve Got It All (w/ Matt Sutto...

Get up and dance!

After a long and arduous experience with various domain hosts and web hosts, I've made this here LiveJournal site my home site.
So BillDechand.com (not BillyDechand.com, mind you) now directs to DrSpecial.LiveJournal.com.
Thanks to the profoundly unhelpful domainsnext.com, I no longer have control over BillyDechand.com. The moderately helpful FLSHosting.com helped me get BillDechand.com, though they weren't very helpful with my BillyDechand.com problems.
Such is life. Since I've been using BillyDechand.com for so long as my home site, I'm confusingly calling this site BillyDechand.com, even though it's really BillDechand.com, redirected to DrSpecial.LiveJournal.com.
I'm sure you're very impressed with my web skills. With this new clarity, no doubt I'll be getting tons of hits now.
Buy my CDs!
Also, I have a special Facebook musician page. Join/become a fan and get updates and hear some songs for free.

I'm on a bit of a George Harrison kick. He was the truly cool one. Profoundly unpretentious. You should see how he acts when interviewed.

So here are a couple of live videos (a rare thing unto itself -- he didn't play our often.

I Want To Tell You

Absolutely Sweet Marie

George plays slide up close on "Cloud 9". He's playing with Eric Clapton's band, which always seems a little wankerly to me. Too many notes, like far too many jam bands.

Check out a strung-out Eric Clapton playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with him in 1971. Poor geezer's got clean tone, not right for the song...

See super-'70s George flanked by Billy Preston's 'fro to his right, and President Ford on his left.

Two great tastes that taste great together!

I got a new little camera. It's a tiny thing that shoot pix and videos. Here is a little rehearsal video of a Queen choral rehearsal. This the just the high and low notes (mine, off camera). The middle harmonies are not in the room.

Shameless self-promotion. On my own blog, imagine..

I don't know why sequencing is such a pain in the button YouTube. I'd like to change the song order, but you have to delete, read, and ignore that your changes appear and disappear.
Hope you enjoy despite all that. My favorite may still be "Post Post Modern Man".

Today he's 68. Quite the survivor, considering he almost died as a little sickly child. And the fates of his more cosmic band mates, and self-destructive lifestyle...
Speaking of which, here's one of my favorites, "No No Song", played with his original All-Starr Band (1989).

Note the players: Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Dr. John, Billy Preston, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Jim Keltner (excellent session drummer), and Clarence Clemons.
And boy can he dance!
Check him out doing this song with the Smothers Brothers

For all you in the Northeast, wishing it were cooler, and in the Northwest, wishing it were warmer:

OK, below is a silly recording of my friend Joe, his husky, Echo, and myself jamming. Both a musician and a huge fan of dogs, I took great pleasure in this experience.
I do believe he's got the beat. even if he doesn't -- what a voice!

Echo Sings With Joe and Bill (MP3)

Joe Cocker Dream

Hey, let me tell you a dream I had a couple nights ago.
I returned to Chapel Hill, excited to see my friends who were at this house that looked strangely like my Great Aunt Eleanor's house in Maine. That's my Gramdma's sister, and hey it's a dream. No need for sense.
Eric W answered the door, and excitedly told me that Joe Cocker was here, and looking for me. Cool -- finally someone of import has heard my music and dug it. My big break at last.
Well, I entered, and there were about 15-20 people there, mostly musicians. I saw Joe sitting on the couch, talking to who might have been Tom L. I went up to him, and Joe recognized me instantly. He held out his hand and I shook it. Still sitting, he said, "I hear you have a room opening up. Is it still available?"
Eric, behind me, said "d'oh," and I woke up.

Last night, we went to see "U2 3D" at the local IMAX theater. It was very cool. Naturally, it helps to be a fan. But even if you don't just enjoy them for their hard-workin' always delivering, 100% rock 'n' roll professionalism, the 3D stuff is very cool. It's really crisp, and the layering will impress. My favorites are the wide shots, where you see the lights wiggling throughout the stadium. But when they have two images on top of each other, sometimes it's a very cool effect. Other times, it actually subtracts from the 3D-ism, because you are aware of its impossibility. I think the director should have stayed more on just one 3D shot, and let the eyes soak it up.
There are plenty of closeups, including the now famous swing of Adam's bass in your face. There is another closeup where Bono pretty much pleads to you with outstretched hands, up close and personal. That actually made me a little uncomfortable. I recall thinking to myself, "I hope he never sees this, he's gonna be embarrassed." Yet I think he may not be cut from the same cloth as myself. He'd probably think it was brilliant.
A lot of it is exactly what I'd expect, but still very cool to witness first-hand. One effect I hadn't anticipated was during the overlays of two shots. Imagine in the background a long shot of the stage. Superimposed on top is a grainy shot of a light. Since the layering is so crisp, the visual result is the graininess of the shot in the foreground creates a kind of surface texture that you want to touch, or push away, to see what's below. It's a logical result of the process that I still didn't anticipate.
They also do other computer-generated tricks that are verrry trippy. Just here and there. But wow.
If you can see it, I'd recommend it. U2 still rock(s), and the movie is eye and ear candy on a level I've never experienced before. (Though I'm sure I will again. This is probably the future of cinema.)

This news article tells the full history of the Beatles publishing catalogue. Somehow, Jacko still owns most of Northern Songs, but somehow getting his permission is just a courtesy.
Here's my favorite:
Sony/ATV chief executive Martin Bandier, who really calls the shots, said "We thought it was very tasteful," about this brilliant commercial, which would "take the composition to a new audience."