THE SLAMMER! || HORSE CACTUS MUSIC

THE SLAMMER! || HORSE CACTUS MUSIC

For most of my working life subsequent to military service I followed a productive career as a general contractor and owner/Broker of Pacific Coast Realty in Florence, Oregon. Due to an utterly unforeseen set of circumstances that necessitated a major relocation {my three-year-old daughter was violently kidnapped; we got her back in 138 days with help of the old FBI}, I got wound up for nearly a quarter-century working in the corrections industry, first in Tennessee and then Illinois, including as an Educator on Death Row at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, a position I held for two years.

THE SLAMMER, performed here by Nashville's Paul Pace, is the theme song and title for a movie script making sporadic progress these past twenty years during those two decades of mostly hell, using daily notes and real situations in many of the scenes, the intensity of which has been nearly beyond measure or endurance.

This song will be employed twice in its entirety during the duration of the film with only a single word being changed. First heard over the opening crawl in a foreshadowing by a pair of brothers in the acts of earning their eventual culminated death sentences further on in the film, THE SLAMMER, at first hearing, will pertain word-for-word and precisely to convicted felons.

At the end of the film, as end credits roll, an accurate memorial will show photos and a short bio of any number {remaining-footage-dependent} of Correctional Officers who recently have lost their lives in pursuit of the most perilous and repugnant job that I know of available to anyone in the work force. Throughout the show the horrifying dangers and casualties endured by those caught up in this work will be emphasized, all based on true recorded events.

The Bridge identifies those two alternate words that, when swapped, change the entire meaning and value of the movie script and of this song. Don't know of such a thing having been attempted before.