Paul Delph: Down Here On Earth

Music written and produced by Paul Delph and Paul Marcus. Video by Andy Markley at Art101 Central Command.

Keyboards and Vocals: Paul Delph and Paul Marcus
Acoustic Guitar: Paul Marcus
Electric Guitar: Ric Blair
Digital Drum Programming: Paul Delph
Audio Restoration (from an ancient cassette demo tape): Andy Markley

PAUL DELPH: 1957 - 1996
http://www.pauldelph.com

© Search & Seizure Music (BMI) and Micromotion Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.

Please donate to The Paul Lee Delph Memorial Music Scholarship Fund (details on the website). Paul's music is available on iTunes.

Notes from Paul Marcus:

We had walked down the narrow canyon that leads to Zuma Beach from the Magic Bus, Paul's 24-track mobile recording studio sitting solo on a vacant lot in Malibu ( see photo at http://www.pauldelph.com/gallery/magicbus.html ).

We were talking about how we both wanted to believe there's got to be more than this broken, poor excuse for a world. Sitting on rocks overlooking the horizonless Pacific, we found our way to a mutual temporary conclusion. We want to believe there's a God up there, but one thing's for sure... we want to live each day trying to make some small difference somehow. That led to "got to put my heart and soul in each and every line down here."

Two hours later, we had the groove, the chorus, and were crafting lyrics for the verse. All this time, Paul facing his mortality made talking and writing about these things inevitable, and you can easily see the tie into "A God That Can Dance" (Paul Delph's final album). Thanks to Andy for making this demo sound pretty darn good!

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Additional stock footage courtesy of FootageFirm and http://www.stockfootageforfree.com

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• Paul Delph
• Paul Marcus
• Ric Blair
• Jimmie Spheeris
• scholarship
• Magic Bus
• mortality
• AIDS
• memorial

[art101tv]

@videoblast thanks, videoblast. I had fun exploring your channel. I'm still playing with a final edit for this piece and hope to post it soon. Cheers.

[videoblast]

well done

[art101tv]

Thanks! Original audio tape has tons of hiss. Audio editing software (Bias Peak) has an amazing filter called Sound Soap that washes away tape hiss like magic. I'll continue playing with the video edit. I have a great photo of Paul for the end sequence and an astrophotographer buddy sent a fantastic photo he took of the Orion Nebula I want to weave in.

It's amazing how current Paul's work still sounds. He made great choices. Timeless craft from a much missed friend.

[proudprogressiveTG]

LOVE IT the imagery, sound quality its fanatastic and the song as relavent now as then - thx for keeping the fires burning Art101