Not too long after, though, the professor refused to give T’s consent to represent his likeness in the screenplays for the Southern Time story T was writing at the time. ‘Neville’ was a song inspired by the breakthrough in the reconciliation process he and the cello professor who infected T with HIV were having in 2014. He was fed up with the vain promises and fake personas in Vancouver’s music industry, let alone the apparent lies in the mainstream media, specifically regarding the ‘War on Terror.’ Lies in religion lies everyone tells everyone ~ why our world is so messed up. It was then that T realized that his story and music would best be told in ‘rock opera’ form!Īnd, ‘Lies’ is what one gets for ‘searching for love in all the wrong places.’ T wrote this song when he was twenty-eight in 2004. In 2004, T wrote ‘Searching For Love.’ He played the cello and piano in a few rock bands for a couple of years but did not choose music as his career only to play ‘second fiddle.’ Since testing HIV positive in 1996 when he was twenty, he wanted to make the world better through his compelling story and musical talents, so in 2004 he attended a four-week workshop where artists learned how to merge business with their art. T had lived with HIV for six or seven years by now, and ‘Desert Moon’ encapsulates the feeling of isolation, marginalization, HIV stigma, and despair he had been feeling. When T turned twenty-six, soon after he moved into his place in downtown Vancouver in 2002, now determined to make his ‘rock star dreams’ a reality, ‘Desert Moon’ was one of the songs he wrote. Bryant Didier, the band’s bassist and producer, got inspiration from the brief intro of ‘Desert Moon’ to expand the piano chord arpeggio into an eventual, nearly one-minute soundscape of instrumental oblivion. ‘Tralfamador’ came as a most pleasant surprise as the Southern Time Band was recording ‘Lost in Love No More’ in the spring of 2020. Despite being incredibly in monetary debt, T had much hope and inspiration for what his future might hold. A few months previously, he and the Southern Time team had put on the first iteration of ‘Southern Time’ as a multimedia stage production in Vancouver, B.C. ‘Time’ was a song T wrote the day before he turned thirty in 2006.
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