Community Voices: Galston

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Younger speakers

Steven: So my assignment this week is to take one of my favorite songs and keep it, in some way, as it is
Interviewer: Yeah.
Steven: but make it my own at the same time.
Interviewer: Ah, okay.
Steven: Like All Summer Long by Kid Rock.
Interviewer: Aye, that's quite interesting.
Steven: It is.
Interviewer: Because it's like--
Steven: As much as I kind of want to be like "can I not just write my own songs?",
Interviewer: Yeah.
Steven: it's kind of interesting getting weird kind of--
Interviewer: Aye 'cause it's-- it's different. It's not just, kind of, them giving you a basic assignment, it's something, kind of, round about.
Joe: What song are you gonna pick, but?
Interviewer: Abstract.
Steven: I dunno.
Interviewer: Spit it out.
Steven: I was gonna do-- I was gonna do, eh, All Star by Smashmouth.
Joe: Oh aye, dae that.
Steven: Well, at first I was gonna do Moonlight Sonata. I came up with a really funky-- It was like the chords of Moonlight Sonata with, like, a funk bass line to it, it was amazing. But
Joe: You're a weirdo.
Steven: I dunno if I'm gonna go with that.

Older speakers

Colin: That was like yesterday, they're saying that Judge Rinder was on and-- Was that the one yesterday? The lassie had an accident wi her motor. Anyway, her mother had taen her oot and she had an accident, she hit a wall. Instead of hitting the breaks she hit the wall. And they were on about money. And I'm sitting and laughing to mysel before she comes in. I says "I wonder if I should say to her when she comes in, eh, "I'm gonna see Judge Rinder about the money you owe me, because you owe me a fortune.""
Mary: She just laughs at [name].
Colin: I said "I think I'll-- I think I'll claim a million." She just-- she just-- just off her, just, like, say it for a carry on.
Mary: Och, aye.