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Exploding Nuts

from Music Box Orphans by John Tabacco

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Words and Music © 2013 by John Tabacco
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC)

An excerpt of a story I wrote while I was working the 1998 elections in Belle Terre, Port Jefferson, NY. The music was originally written for the Montage Radio Theater.

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Y : I’ve got a story.

X : Go.

Y : Well you know back when I was a newlywed...This was back in the late 40s, I was working as a telephone operator at a factory that made different colored pens for each holiday. You know like a green pen for St. Paddy’s day. Red for Christmas. Orange for Easter. Well, that was just a cover. What they primarily produced were deadly plastic nuts.

X : Deadly plastic nuts?

Y : Yeah, underground they had a plant that made like umm, toy acorns, walnuts, cashews with lethal explosives in them. Basically, they were a military decoy sort of thing they tried to use to fool the Nazis during World War Two. You could throw a dozen under a tree and poof goes the unsuspecting Nazi.

X : This is news to me.

Y : Yeah. Well, it didn’t work out and they swept the whole operation under the rug. You see, the army didn’t account for the massive squirrel population in Germany. Soon there were these exploding tree rodents everywhere. The squirrel remains eventually spread disease to just about anyone. Rabies and all sorts of foul sicknesses infecting millions, with no discrimination. But I digress.

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from Music Box Orphans, released July 24, 2016
JT : Music, Voice
Patricia Amnedolia : Voice
Music recorded at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY
Voices recorded at Suburban Hermit Studios 2, Stony Brook, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

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