There Was a Light by Rich Tupica

Author:Rich Tupica [Tupica, Rich]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781682619292
Publisher: Permuted
Published: 2020-07-25T15:54:08+00:00

Adam Hill: Everything about “Cosmos” was thought-out. He wasn’t winging it. If you listen to the solo, that’s not an improvised blues solo like Page would do. It’s not your standard blues-box bends. With “Cosmos” he went in there with a game plan.

Ken Woodley: Chris knew what he wanted and tried to get it in the studio. That’s what you hear when you listen to his music — it’s exactly what his ears wanted it to be.

Jody Stephens: It starts with, “Every night I tell myself, ‘I am the cosmos, I am the wind,’ but that don’t get you back again.’” It just comes in so heavy. Not as people define “heavy” these days, but emotionally heavy — instrumentally, too.

Rick Clark: The music is so huge, but intimate at the same time. And it’s such an utterly, insanely personal opening lyrical sentiment. In a way, it’s arresting to listen to. You can’t help but to connect emotionally on some level, but at the same time you’re also hearing a train wreck.

Richard Rosebrough: All of his songs have kind of a pleading quality to them, almost a morose, sad tone to them. It’s hard to explain.

Matthew Sweet: “I Am the Cosmos” has this otherworldly glow coming off it sonically from a lot of harmonics blending together. It’s very multi-tracked and has a specific sound to it. The sound is cosmic. Our bodies are made entirely of matter from stars that exploded. In an intuitive sense, he knew he was the same as everything. I care a lot about science and physics. I try to find ways to get those ideas into my songs more, but with “I Am the Cosmos,” it’s the pinnacle of that idea. Also, he’s aware he can’t change the thing that’s hurting him most. It’s trippy, probably because he’d done acid. It likely opened up his mind to that kind of concept. It’s all about feeling. Steve Jobs was so obsessed about that; he said taking acid was one of the most important things he’d done in his life.

Terry Manning: I didn’t say this to Chris at the time, but “I Am the Cosmos” is the best emotionally driven pop song ever written. It’s just amazing to me. The dichotomy of dark and light, yes and no, happy and sad — all in one song — is just astounding.

Warren Wagner: Today, I live in the hill country outside of San Antonio. Shoe Productions is long closed, but the building is still there. There’s a guy who distributes blues records from there. I visited the building recently and the guy told me people come up all the time, ring the bell and ask, “Where was ‘I Am the Cosmos’ recorded?” These people are from England, Germany, all over the place.

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