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A SPECIAL SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTATION: BILL MESNIK'S TIME MACHINE - SONGS ON THE SUBJECT OF TIME.

March 29, 2024 Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik
A SPECIAL SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTATION: BILL MESNIK'S TIME MACHINE - SONGS ON THE SUBJECT OF TIME.
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS
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DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS
A SPECIAL SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTATION: BILL MESNIK'S TIME MACHINE - SONGS ON THE SUBJECT OF TIME.
Mar 29, 2024
Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik

https://www.rpmchallenge.com/


“We work not only to produce but to give value to time.” (Delacroix)


Ten years ago I participated in the RPM Song Challenge: 10 songs in 30 days. I chose the theme of “Time” - (a fertile and elastic subject), for my inventions.  Included here are 4 songs from that creative surge.

It is said that time moves more quickly the older one gets. My brain can’t compute that it’s been ten years since these songs popped into being; It seemed like a speck.

I hadn’t heard these recordings since that time - they had been committed to little mini cards, and salted away in an obscure container. I’ve since moved, and I thought the files had been lost to the sands of…… well, you know.

But, Eureka!  I remembered that I had logged entries into my diary, notating the precise location of each tune: (which card, the sequence of titles, and timings for each). And, they appeared! Talk about foresight, and good time-management… temporarily.

So, in praise of our brief, yet glorious existence on this globe, allow me to share:


  1. Time Bends - An instrumental trinket, with one simple lyric stanza. It was created on a Mountain Dulcimer that had been gifted to me, and I recall becoming awestruck by its warm tone and craftsmanship. I felt that I needed to establish a relationship with it, and It didn’t disappoint - lovingly responding to my explorations with this haunting melody. 
  2. 50 Years Ago Today - As the challenge was taking place, there was a lot of press coverage on the approaching 50th anniversary of The Beatles appearance at Shea Stadium, which immediately reconnected me with my 12 year old self, and we pondered how the relentless bulldozer of time had flattened us. 
  3. Our Bodies Are One - Though originally written in 2014 in response to another news story about a devoted husband and wife’s long separation during his incarceration, and eventual death. As I listen to it anew, each line resonates with the tragic events that have transpired recently in a Siberian prison. I dedicate this song to Alexei and Yulia Navalny.
  4. Dada Dancehall - The music critic and historian, Greil Marcus a wrote a fascinating book connecting the dots between the Punk movement of the 1970s with the Dadaists of the World War I era.  In this song, Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols time travels to the Cabaret Voltaire of 1916, to sing a duet with Hugo Ball, the creator of the Dada Manifesto.
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https://www.rpmchallenge.com/


“We work not only to produce but to give value to time.” (Delacroix)


Ten years ago I participated in the RPM Song Challenge: 10 songs in 30 days. I chose the theme of “Time” - (a fertile and elastic subject), for my inventions.  Included here are 4 songs from that creative surge.

It is said that time moves more quickly the older one gets. My brain can’t compute that it’s been ten years since these songs popped into being; It seemed like a speck.

I hadn’t heard these recordings since that time - they had been committed to little mini cards, and salted away in an obscure container. I’ve since moved, and I thought the files had been lost to the sands of…… well, you know.

But, Eureka!  I remembered that I had logged entries into my diary, notating the precise location of each tune: (which card, the sequence of titles, and timings for each). And, they appeared! Talk about foresight, and good time-management… temporarily.

So, in praise of our brief, yet glorious existence on this globe, allow me to share:


  1. Time Bends - An instrumental trinket, with one simple lyric stanza. It was created on a Mountain Dulcimer that had been gifted to me, and I recall becoming awestruck by its warm tone and craftsmanship. I felt that I needed to establish a relationship with it, and It didn’t disappoint - lovingly responding to my explorations with this haunting melody. 
  2. 50 Years Ago Today - As the challenge was taking place, there was a lot of press coverage on the approaching 50th anniversary of The Beatles appearance at Shea Stadium, which immediately reconnected me with my 12 year old self, and we pondered how the relentless bulldozer of time had flattened us. 
  3. Our Bodies Are One - Though originally written in 2014 in response to another news story about a devoted husband and wife’s long separation during his incarceration, and eventual death. As I listen to it anew, each line resonates with the tragic events that have transpired recently in a Siberian prison. I dedicate this song to Alexei and Yulia Navalny.
  4. Dada Dancehall - The music critic and historian, Greil Marcus a wrote a fascinating book connecting the dots between the Punk movement of the 1970s with the Dadaists of the World War I era.  In this song, Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols time travels to the Cabaret Voltaire of 1916, to sing a duet with Hugo Ball, the creator of the Dada Manifesto.