[strandinthewind]

^^^

I agree with you. I was, however, referring to the fact that La Nicks states she takes journal entries and turns them into poems. Then, she writes a melody to fit her poetry. So, they start out as poems. LB's, from what I have heard, do not. Rather, they are a product of the music. So, that is where I was getting her poems are perhaps truer poetry because they started out that way, perhaps like some of the Psalms, which are now only mostly spoken.

I do think, though, that LB's poetry, in a borader sense, is in his layering of music.

I agree that it would heavenly if he did something along the lines of Steinman's epic "Bat out of Hell" - perhaps done very simply with a cello, celesta (the French four octave), tympany, and him on acoustic guitar. If there must be woodwinds, I suggest an oboe. If we must be modern, then a glockenspiel could suffice in crescendo, which I suggest will be many. I think this would give the mad musician something very different - Ersatz if you will.