Re: Dr. Morpheus Rides Again (Owen's reply to Lilli)

Lilli,

I wanted you to be aware of my plans; and, as Tim and I develop a concept for this project, I would greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts. If you don't mind offering your ideas, what do you think would be a worthwhile and realistic video project? What do you think of my basic idea, to do a mini-movie for each night featuring some of the strongest performances and making each of the individual songs into a stand alone video. Also, do you have an opinion about the songs I picked out from Friday? I realize you have not listened to any recordings so you would be working from memory. I made comprehensive notes about every song from Tim's recordings and will be happy to share them (and the recordings) with you; but, I don't want to burden you with all of this as if you aren't busy with a lot of other things.

 Obviously, the next step is someone will have to do the production work on the audio element to move it beyond the raw audio recordings Tim and Dave Stammer made. I'm looking at different options for accomplishing the audio production efficiently and effectively. I'm sure you, Lilli, have the capability to do that work. If you would be interested in taking on that part of the project, we can discuss your availability and estimate of the time and cost for you to do it. (I also hope to do a video of Saturday, but one thing at a time.)

Also, as I think about it, I would need your permission (and the other musicians, as well) to use your images and musical performances in any dissemination of a video product, whether for profit or not. If you or others have any reservations about being in the proposed videos, we will need to address them. My primary motivation is to create an artistic record of what we did, addressed to whom it may concern. Making money from this is not one of my goals. I'm not opposed to the idea of making money, I'm in favor of it, but I have never even looked into how to monetize YouTube videos or other forms of putting music out there. The fact is, I'm fortunate not to need to make money from music. However, I realize everyone who played at the gig is an accomplished professional musician who deserves to be compensated for their contributions, just as Tim is. It's always important to me not to take advantage of, take for granted, or exploit in any way the work of my friends. I will also say, we have beautiful recordings of the two songs you sang and I would love to produce videos of them that could bring you to the attention of a wider audience. You and I can discuss all of this further as needed.

 That's it in a nutshell. Despite my vocal impairment, there's a lot of terrific music in the recordings of Dr. Morpheus Rides Again. They are a personally meaningful part of my musical legacy, such as it is and for whatever it's worth. I don't know if I'll ever again manage to get another group of outstanding musicians to perform my songs and arrangements. Maybe it will happen but who knows? Having done all the work to get to this point, I just hope to take what we have and put it into a form that presents it as well as possible, within the limits of my resources.

 Owen

Re: Dr. Morpheus Rides Again (Lilli's reply)

​Tim, that software sounds super cool. Owen, help me understand what input you're looking for from me....​  ​

Lilli Lewis
General Manager/Head of A&R
Louisiana Red Hot Records

Re: Dr. Morpheus Rides Again (Tim's reply)

That sounds like a great idea. Once I make the long one I can just replicate it and delete the extra songs to make the short ones. With the multiple cameras it would be easiest for me to have the tweaked audio. The software synchs the camera angles to the audio and makes one multi camera video out of it. That is the one I’ll work on so I can switch between video feeds. I’ll send you a sample I was playing with.

Tim
Tim Rogan Design, Inc.

Regarding Dr. Morpheus Rides Again (to Tim Rogan and Lilli Lewis)

Note: My two evening event, Dr. Morpheus Rides Again, took place Friday and Saturday, October 20 and 21, 2017, at the Office Lounge in Athens, Georgia. Many of my friends attended and I had Tim Rogan take video of both evenings performances. The other musicians besides me were Rick Burgess (guitar and vocals), Lilli Lewis (keyboards and vocals). Dave Stammer (bass) and John Lewis (drums). Larry Freeman sat in on congas and percussion on Friday, making a fine contribution that enhanced a number of songs noticeably.

Tim,

I've come up with an idea I want to pitch to you for your thoughts and criticisms. What about making a concert mini-documentary for each night, starting with Friday? You could produce one continuous video with a selection of the best songs and also a separate short video for each of the same individual songs. The ones I would choose for this from Friday are: Pete Love's Strut Time has come today/Are you experienced Day Tripper/Satisfaction In memory of Elizabeth Reed Sitting on top of the world Stone Free If we agree this is a workable concept, you could start to put together the video without having to have a final audio track with the music. I'm working on lining up an audio person (or people) to come up the musical soundtrack using the two separate recordings we've got, yours and Dave Stammer's. When it is ready, you could integrate it into the video footage. What do you think? I'm going to copy Lilli on this message and ask for her input, too.