Melissa Gregory Rue, Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, D.P.. Alex De Grassi, Rick G. Nelson, and Dave Rue, Marigny Studio, June 6, 2018. Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee.
March 12, 2025
The GALLOP Quartet’s recording for MELISSA’s film over two days of June 2018 in Rick G. Nelson’s Marigny Studio kicked up to my mind overnight. We cut about 10 Tracks to accompany characters and scenes in the “Live Out Loud” documentary.
The three Principals chronicled by Melissa: Samaiya, John, and David.
The song came to me in less than 15 minutes—a song from showering after watching Melissa’s rough of her film the previous day in late May.
“Live Out Loud”
If I could I can
Then I surely should—
Say, live it loud!
I knew a dancer
Wore a crate on her head—
Say, live out loud!
Man made a movie
From parades in his head—
Say, live out loud!
Hands out with prayers
Cryin’ it’s all the same day—
Say, live out loud!
Live it like you can
Live it like you should—
Say, live out loud!
Here come the gleams
Here come shared stars
Say, yeah, live out loud!
Papers and waste pitch
Throughout Old Town
Say, yeah, live it
With prayers, live it with stars,
Live it with parades
And dancing with a crate on your head!
Live out loud
Beh-ba-da-yah-da!
“Live Out Loud”
Kidd, who had just “made” 83 (born May 5, 1935) in June 2018.
Melissa.
We always got along.
Hamid.
Alex.
Rick.
Kidd tells a story about Ray Charles
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