{"id":3066,"date":"2024-06-14T04:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2024-06-21T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:32:54","slug":"lbdg-commentary-4-where-has-the-music-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-4-where-has-the-music-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"LBDG Commentary 4: Where Has The Music Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chapters in the original <em><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/b\/tp\">Timely Persuasion<\/a> <\/em>used songs with numbers in the titles. <em>Local Boy Done Gone<\/em> mostly (but not always) sticks to songs but skips the numerics. Here we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdwingsbeat.com\/songs\/where_has_the_music_gone.html\">semi-lost non album Mason Jennings track<\/a>, sticking with the stolen\/missing song theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing I tried to do while naming chapters was segue between sections in unexpected ways. We just found a set of stolen songs in the previous chapter, but now we\u2019re asking where they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Although Local Boy doesn\u2019t speak in song lyrics like his son (and wife), sometimes it just kinda happens. I couldn\u2019t resist pairing the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=05k90ts2biw\">everything everything everything<\/a>\u201d Violent Femmes reference with the ongoing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9aVMTfBT13Y\">if only if only if only<\/a>\u201d refrain stuck in the character\u2019s head. In the universe of the story, there\u2019s some residual past self telepathy going on feeding his occasional lyrical Tourettes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Originally all we knew about Local Boy\u2019s parents was they weren\u2019t around much in 1969 and their grandson had trouble finding their house. Here they get a little more characterization being shipped off to Europe and having a separate library &amp; study hinting at their personalities. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe only other other sound system\u201d isn\u2019t a repeated word typo. I like the singsong ring to it plus how &#8220;other other&#8221; is a subtle play on \u201cWon One.\u201d I almost changed it many times but always landed on keeping it, for better or for worse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barry McGuire\u2019s cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WcfE9jt8MqU\">PF Sloan\u2019s \u201cEve of Destruction\u201d<\/a> has been a favorite for as long as I can recall knowing music. I hadn\u2019t heard the whole album until it was reissued for Record Store Day Black Friday in 2021. Mostly covers but fantastic enough to earn a place here in Local Boy\u2019s esteemed hall of greats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harry Chapin on the other hand was central to TP1, so Local Boy having never heard of him is an in-joke and generally\/chronologically likely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1658391-1302044511.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" data-id=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1658391-1302044511.jpg?resize=600%2C596&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1658391-1302044511.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1658391-1302044511.jpg?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1658391-1302044511.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;with the smirky black and white photo and the horror movie font floating over his head.&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1265493-1327206939.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"3073\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1265493-1327206939.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1265493-1327206939.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1265493-1327206939.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/R-1265493-1327206939.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;a checkerboxed square framed a smiling cabbie holding his hair with a hand.&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The implied yet unseen do-over regarding how Local Boy learned \u201cWon One\u201d from the old man primarily exists to show changes to the timeline are possible. It was important to establish this now before shining a different perspective on time travel a few chapters later. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWithout music, the butterfly effect is enormous\u201d sums up the theme of <em>Local Boy Done Gone.<\/em> A few reviews of TP1 wished the Local Boy song-stealing subplot was explored further and\/or a bigger part of the plot line. Your wish is my command\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>\u201cHopefully not all the way to my own Plan E\u2026I don\u2019t like flying\u201d<\/em> is about as JL Civi as it gets on the complex bad joke front.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of flying, we&#8217;ve got Harry flying in his taxi, Local Boy&#8217;s dislike of planes, and the orange flyer for the open mic night (and some of the dialogue leading up to it) as a loving<em> Back to the Future<\/em> homage. Save the clock tower, save the music. <a href=\"https:\/\/heroes.fandom.com\/wiki\/Save_the_cheerleader,_save_the_world\">Save the cheerleader, save the world<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Doc_flyer.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Doc_flyer.webp?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Doc_flyer.webp?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Doc_flyer.webp?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>&#8220;Unfortunately, you never know when a spitfire like her is going to strike.&#8221;<\/em><br><em>&#8220;We do now.&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/b\/lbdg\">Check out <em>Local Boy Done Gone<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapters in the original Timely Persuasion used songs with numbers in the titles. Local Boy Done Gone mostly (but not always) sticks to songs but skips the numerics. Here we have a semi-lost non album Mason Jennings track, sticking with the stolen\/missing song theme. Another thing I tried to do while naming chapters was segue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-Ns","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":663,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/another-mans-dg\/","url_meta":{"origin":3066,"position":0},"title":"Another Man&#8217;s DG","author":"LBDG","date":"June 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"While walking the dog I had a random thought: Why did I use \"Local Boy Done Good\" instead of \"Local Boy Done Gone\" in TP? 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Today's look at yesterday's chapters is brought to you by Supergrass and Kiss.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":112,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/evolution-of-local-boy-covers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3066,"position":3},"title":"Evolution of Local Boy Covers","author":"LBDG","date":"August 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned in the commentary for Chapter 15 that the short set of covers Local Boy first plays for the narrator underwent a number of iterations.\u00c2\u00a0 Thought it would be fun to explore those old versions here. In the very first draft (circa 2003), the songs were: I'll Follow the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3047,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-2-if-only-no-one-won\/","url_meta":{"origin":3066,"position":4},"title":"LBDG Commentary 2: If Only No One Won","author":"LBDG","date":"May 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Easily my favorite chapter title. Could've also been the subtitle of the book (and is now the subtitle of this blog...). Chapter 1 closed with Local Boy running off to write \"If Only\" even though the first book told us this was supposed to be when he wrote \"Won One.\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Behind the Scenes","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/behind-the-scenes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/EADGBE.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/EADGBE.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/EADGBE.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/EADGBE.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/EADGBE.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/EADGBE.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3069,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-5-piano-man-the-new-plan\/","url_meta":{"origin":3066,"position":5},"title":"LBDG Commentary 5: Piano Man &amp; The New Plan","author":"LBDG","date":"June 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Not exactly a song title, but here we invoke Billy Joel\u2019s pseudonym plus a snippet of a Paul Simon lyric. 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