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Johnny

Decaying Orbit

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recorded live in 1994 on a beat up tape deck that really needed batteries bad!!! Originally released on the Mike Ash album, "revelations". From The Album, "Disintegrating Alga Rhythms"(2015)
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Decaying Orbit is an unorthodox, highly diverse & genre-splitting band from Texas led by their infamous front man Mike Ash.
Decaying Orbit is an experimental, unorthodox, highly diverse & genre-splitting band from Texas led by their infamous front man Mike Ash. "No, this music's not about that, it's not about sound quality, it's about passion." - Mike Ash. Decaying Orbit is produced by their label, Decaying Enterprises Productions and has released many studio albums since they formed in 2008, after the violent break up of the Psychedelic Rock band, Strangefire, of which Mike was the former front man. Decaying Orbit believes in unadulterated musical & creative freedom, Mike describes their music as a "cathartic purge" or "nervous break downs caught on tape.". The band believes that creating music is a sacred, spiritual and magical art form brought to them by the Muses, wraiths and demons hidden just beyond the veil between the worlds of the physical and spiritual realms. Decaying Orbit has traveled beyond the veil and into the realms of the spirits, only to reemerge, like a caterpillar from it's cocoon emerging as a beautiful butterfly, so does Decaying Orbit get reborn through the fire of their cacophonous tunage. The band believes in complete freedom of lifestyle, I.E. sexuality, religion, spirituality, drugs, manner of dress etc. They believe that music is an interstellar language that needs no translation to be understood by absolutely anyone. It's the passion behind the emotions found in the music that matters to Decaying Orbit, they believe that integrity is more important than fortune or fame. This is our Decaying Orbit & we do hope that you will N'Joy tha' show!!!!
Song Info
Genre
Beats Beats General
Charts
Peak #138
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Mike Ash
Rights
(c)Decaying Enterprises 2017
Uploaded
December 27, 2014
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:39 minutes
Story behind the song
I had a really close friend in grade school named Johnny and he had a LOT of problems at home, IE abuse, neglect etc. I loved that kid, he was so very kind and sweet, I felt so terrible that I was in no position to help him. I told my parents & they said I should mind my own business, that it was probably nothing. a few weeks later he disappeared from School, & I never got to see him again. we had gotten really close in those last few weeks and my questions to the teachers as to his whereabouts were met with stern disapproval, I just missed my pal and was sooo afraid that something terrible had happened. I NEVER found out what happened to Johnny, but I pray that he made it through alright. so, when I was 14, in memorandum of that event I wrote this song, my cruddy little tape deck was running out of batteries and I didn't realize it until after I recorded the song, but I kept the distortion in the song because it seemed like it made emotional sense towards the subject matter involved.
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