The FIRST Single from the 1982/1983 cassette-album, 'The Tokyo Connection'.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
Song Info
Genre
R&B Funk
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1982, 1983, 2007
Uploaded
April 22, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:48
Story behind the song
Like all the tracks on what would become "The Tokyo Connection", "Bad, Bad Children" was recorded immediately after the "Funkendectomy" sessions (March, 1982). "Bad, Bad Children" was the 3rd track recorded for that session, but the first one chosen to be a single--mainly because it was just plain catchy. The song is about Juvenile Delinquency and it's consequences. The 'cautionary' lyrics and chorus ("You Didn't LISTEN To Your Mother"!!) sounds as hokey NOW (2007) as they did THEN (1982)---- But, sadly, not only will "Kids Be Kids", but "Stupid Is As Stupid Does"--and just like then, the RESULTS are still the same. (This is the full version. The single A-Side is edited by about a minute.)
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