Episode 252: Iced Earth Watching over me year1998. English Version.
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00:00:57 - It's really a kind of a privilege to be, you know, 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a voice.
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00:01:18 - Rod Halford.
00:01:19 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important trying Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley but piano was inconceivable I mean you can't you can't just got by a piano his guitar is much more accessible I think I was very driven period it was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.
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00:01:59 - Iced Earth is a power thrash metal band founded in the city of Tampa, Florida, United States in 1988.
00:02:07 - The band underwent constant lineup changes, but its guitarist and leader John Schaefer has remained the only original member of the group.
00:02:18 - Watching Over Me part of the album Something Wicked This Way comes released in 1998.
00:02:23 - It is a slow song at the beginning, which alternates powerful riffs with calm sounds.
00:02:28 - It has a great solo that has a lot of influence on classic hard rock.
00:02:35 - It was air-written as a tribute to Schaefer's late childhood friend, Bill Blackmon, who inspired the name Ister. It's very crazy that at a time in people's lives a tragedy is the source of inspiration for a beautiful song, that's how it is here.
00:02:52 - This is the kind of horrible thing that happens to artists that can inspire their best work and while I still have a lot to learn about Isterth and
00:03:01 - John Schaefer. The song watching over me may be this creator's best work.
00:03:09 - What separates watching over me from other sad songs about the loss of a close friend is the uplifting message of the chorus. His spirit is like the wind, the angel that protects me.
00:03:24 - This is a very very positive spin on what would traditionally be a very depressing song.
00:03:29 - Although his friend is missing, his presence is always there, lingering indefinitely as part
00:03:34 - The lyrics of this song make us think if angels exist, and if when we die our soul persists living in other planes or dimensions, together with our deceased friends and family.
00:03:53 - John Schaefer elaborates through his pain an exceptional song, what lyrics for God, what a melody.
00:04:00 - He also develops a very current theory, which is that our relatives or friends, when they die from the afterlife, protect us, excellent.
00:04:10 - Who would say that a heavy metal band would dare to talk about these issues?
00:04:17 - Marilyn Rosner, doctor of special education, master of psychotherapy and medium says,
00:04:23 - We come to earth with spiritual guides who are with us all our lives, they help us to understand, to evolve. And when we die they help us leave the body and enter in the spirit world. But before we leave we stay on earth for a while, because we want to let loved ones know we're alive. And usually we all stay to watch our funeral, to think about it.
00:04:48 - Musically, the song is exceptional, it begins with acoustic guitars, and then ends in crushing guitars, masterfully sung by John, a masterful jewel of the 90s.
00:05:03 - And an interview conducted for the Faseculturi Outube channel, John Schaefer recounts.
00:05:08 - And I find it interesting because you say you had your kind of stories or ideas that you wanted to talk about.
00:05:14 - How far in the fans do you know this, do you kind of store ideas up over the years?
00:05:19 - Yeah.
00:05:20 - I mean, definitely, like this clear the way the song about the Irish Brigade, that's been in my head for probably 15 years.
00:05:30 - Not the music, but I mean the idea.
00:05:32 - It's the same with watching over me.
00:05:36 - For instance, that song was written many years after Bill died, and sometimes it takes a long time of processing things, and they bubble beneath the surface, and then one of the times right, it comes out.
00:05:50 - Was it still a tough song to write?
00:05:53 - Yeah, yeah, it's still tough to play it live sometimes, especially when you see some kid down in front, you know, whatever crying their eyes out, and it happens a lot when we're playing it.
00:06:05 - Then, you know, it can really shake you up, and it has, you know, it's gotten all of us before, and there's a few times where Stu's had to stop singing a little bit, and match, certainly, back in the day, dude, it's a powerful song.
00:06:18 - Sure.
00:06:19 - So yeah.
00:06:20 - And then kind of on this, because you mentioned the reaction of those people in the crowd.
00:06:24 - So I imagine that's a really good feeling to see somebody be able to connect emotionally to what you've written and what you've...
00:06:34 - Yes.
00:06:35 - It's the best.
00:06:36 - I mean, it's heavy in the moment, but then you're like, man, that's really what this is all about.
00:06:42 - Right.
00:06:43 - So it's cool.
00:06:44 - Is there maybe a reaction you have from a fan that sticks out in your mind?
00:06:49 - Sadly, I've heard the same kind of stories in a lot of times, because we always lose loved ones.
00:06:59 - It's an unfortunate part of a living, and so I've heard a lot of those stories through the years.
00:07:08 - But I've always heard that song and several of the others in the catalog have helped people through brutal stuff, battles with cancer, all kinds of shit, and it's great.
00:07:19 - It's a powerful thing.
00:07:49 - I cried through the anger and through the tears
00:07:55 - I felt his spirit through the years
00:07:59 - I swear he's watching me, guiding me through hard times
00:08:08 - I feel it once again, it's overwhelming me
00:08:15 - The spirit's stuck nowhere
00:08:19 - An angel calling me
00:08:22 - Oh I know, oh I know
00:08:26 - It's watching over me
00:08:29 - Oh I know, oh I know
00:08:34 - It's watching over me
00:08:38 - We shared dreams like all best friends
00:08:47 - The memories of the age of 10
00:08:51 - We lived with this, he paid the price
00:08:54 - Why?
00:08:56 - Why did he have to die?
00:08:58 - Still hurts me to this day
00:09:02 - Am I selfish for feeling this way?
00:09:06 - I know, he's an angel now
00:09:09 - Together we'll be some time
00:09:15 - I feel it once again
00:09:18 - It's overwhelming me
00:09:22 - The spirits lack no way
00:09:26 - Angel god in me
00:09:28 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
00:09:32 - It's watching over me, oh I know, oh I know
00:09:40 - It's watching over me
00:10:02 - I'm feeling once again, it's overwhelming me
00:10:20 - The spirit's like the wind, Angel God in me
00:10:27 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
00:10:32 - It's watching over me
00:10:35 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
00:10:39 - It's watching over me
00:10:44 - Once again
00:10:46 - Oh, I feel so overwhelmed in me
00:10:49 - I feel so overwhelmed in me
00:10:51 - I feel so overwhelmed
00:10:53 - Oh, it means you're guarding me
00:10:57 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
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00:11:04 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
00:11:09 - It's watching over me
00:11:12 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
00:11:16 - It's watching over me
00:11:19 - Oh, I know, oh, I know
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