The Songs about Trains show was great fun for me. Broadcasting live on StageIt usually goes off without a hitch. However, on a long enough timeline, technical difficulties are inevitable. My apologies to anyone whose feed dropped out mid-show. For some, it did not. So my assumption is that the error was attributable to something outside of my control.
Doing a themed show invited light research about the topic. Did you know that the term “train” comes from the French verb, traine, which means “to drag”? And, back in the 1800’s, people actually thought that their bodies would melt if they traveled at over 50 miles per hour. And–one more factoid–ghost trains run in the United Kingdom because the cost of abandoning old lines is more expensive than running an empty train every now and then.
The set list was a mix of cover songs and original songs:
- Crime Scene Part One (originally performed by The Afghan Whigs)
- Gone, Gone, Gone
- Driver 8 (originally performed by R.E.M.)
- Seminole Train
- Manic Monday (originally performed by the Bangles and written by Prince)
- Slow Moon Rising
- Interstate Love Song (originally performed by Stone Temple Pilots)
- The Original Pullman Palace Car Dream
- Ghost Train (originally performed by Counting Crows”
- Where’s the A Train?
- Jumping Someone Else’s Train (originally performed by The Cure)
- Don’t Stop Believin’ (originally performed by Journey)
I’ll return to StageIt the first Saturday in June. Stay tuned for an announcement with details. This show and the preceding StageIt show will be available, in audio form, in the Community later this month.