From: James Griffin
Date: 10/24/00
Time: 1:50:40 AM
Remote Name: 203.2.218.1
Dear Freida,
Thanks for the web address.
I've written poems all my life, as well as songs and radio plays. The plays were produced by ABC radio here in Australia - and as for the poems, some are published, some are not. I've recorded about 5 albums of songs, some solo and some with the bands, The Agents & James Griffin and the Subterraneans. The bands were based in Sydney and happened between about 1980 and 1988.
I've also had songs recorded by the Black Sorrows and by country artist, Lee Kernaghan.
THe performance of poems and other spoken word material has always been a part of my music based performance. They're exercises partly in the rhythm of language and partly in story telling.
But, you know, in all that writing I've never written a syllable about stuttering - except in one radio play I had a character who stuttered - because it gave an interesting texture to an aural medium - and because the character was based on a friend of mine who did in fact stutter.
Cheers,
james