SUBWAY FIRE
I had spent years playing music in the subways, I’d made and sold countless home recordings and discs, and after 9/11, the world changed. I changed. So I made an album of all those Subway songs.
Lipbone fans will be familiar with most of these tunes as they have evolved into further productions and records, but here is the raw and real beginning:
During the years 1996-2001 I performed under the name CitiZen One, which I’ll attribute that to the questionable legality and nature of my underground performances during the time. Looking back, It was a key piece in my evolution as an artist and one that Lipbone fans should not be without. My life is a book and you can’t just open it in the middle. So here is the prologue.
For those of you who have been with me on this long fantastic voyage, I offer this as one more layer to the ever-unfolding story. For everyone else, take it for what it is, a roadside attraction, and a bold and unapologetic desire to fulfill a musical compulsion.
Thank you for purchasing this recording.
Someone once said that if you come to New York and want to hear some great live music, just go down into the subways. Its true.
In autumn of 1998, after a 4-month tour across the United States, I found myself pining once again for the cultural riptide of the greatest city in the world. On the road I always forget the bad and remember the good, and so it goes with the city of elusive dreams.
With little more than my guitar and a suitcase full of songs, I returned to the great inspiration that is New York.
Everybody knows that the club scene in this town, for an artist trying to feed him/herself is a veritable rat race with cheap cheese. So, growing tired of being paid in alcohol and french fries, I soon got up enough courage to test my mettle as a real underground artist. A path most gratifying.
In the spring of 1999 I took to playing music in the subways for at least 2 nights a week. I soon found that not only was I making money, I was also gaining an audience at my club dates, selling CD’s and making friends.
Most of all, the acoustics in some of these underground chambers are truly ideal with lots of lush reverb that you can’t find in any sound system.
The songs on this recording are just a few of the tunes that I’ve played in the tunnels and mostly lend themselves to a long quiet platform at midnight in a city that doesn’t sleep.
To everyone who ever bought a CD or put a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, silver dollar, token, Five, Ten, or Twenty in the hat...
Bless you and Thank You.
Citizen One
All songs written by Lawrence Vanderpoel Behr II
Many Precious Things - Co-Written by Gary Heidt
​© 1998-2002 CitiZenOne Music (ASCAP)
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