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Unresolved (Graham Greene's Script for Laurel & Hardy)

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“This is another fine mess you’ve gotten me into…” (Oliver Hardy)

“What if Graham Greene had written a movie script for Laurel & Hardy?”

MY SONG OF THE WEEK: “Unresolved (Graham Greene’s Script for Laurel & Hardy)”

One sunny afternoon I was doodling around on the song “Yesterday” by Paul McCartney, and the workout led to the guitar riffs that led to this song.

I’m a fan of classic comedy of Laurel & Hardy. There is something eternally durable and endearing about Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous Hardy. Underneath the laughter there is a subtext of humility and "moral learned" as the pair bumbled their way through The Real World.

I’m also a fan of Graham Greene, the prolific British writer known for exploring ambivalent moral, political, and spiritual issues of the modern world. His specialties were paradoxical characters who (often reluctantly or surprisingly) became saviors through ironic or redemptive acts.

Meanwhile, Greene would carefully detail the sin-nature of so-called Innocents. Greene’s story-endings weren’t always tidy and Hollywood-friendly (even though many of his books became films), yet you have to accept it—because everything happens for a reason. The lyrics propose the notion that Greene could’ve written a film script for Laurel & Hardy (The Innocents) on the theme that parts of life are unresolved tragic-comedies. In a way, the song is a refraction on the hymn “Farther Along.”

Tracking was started on a 4-track a portastudio in a loft in San Francisco, then released in an acoustic version on SNAPSHOTS (2002). I played all the violins—multi-tracked countless times. It was a noisy room, but somehow we EQ’d the violins into shimmering submission (I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do that again!).

Five years later I digitized the tracks and moved them to Mind’s Eye Studio in Williamsport PA where I added bass and drums (under the engineering wand of Scott Francis). That became the “Kick Mix” issued on the GRATEFUL CD in 2007.

The end result is probably one of the most Beatle-esque things I’ve ever done.

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from SNAPSHOTS: LIVE & HALF​-​PLUGGED Expanded Reissue, released September 11, 2003
JJB: guitar, keyboards, violins, vocals

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"Johnny is a virtuoso"--Brian Wilson
"Pop music with a conscience.”--Goldmine
“the Harry Houdini of rock and roll.”-- Spotlight. Listen to Johnny's fast-paced mix of old school soul, psychedelia, punk/new wave, & classic pop/rock. Singer-songwriter in his own right, he was also a sideman for Davy Jones and The Monkees + performed with David Cassidy, Al Stewart, Buddy & Julie Miller, & others. ... more

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