All This

(For one crazy man!)

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This song appears to have gotten its start as a riff on Abhinandan's song Ah This but evolving enough to qualify as a new, different song in its own right. In fact, for a long time, its separate existence was not known and the wiki had it as just another version of Ah This, until a correspondent alerted us to its unique qualities. Its two known recordings appear similar -- long live recordings from late Ranch-era celebrations -- and may even be the same, according to our correspondent, with the longer one the original from the Mar celebration of 1985 and the shorter an edited version of that for a compilation album.

The song goes like this: For several minutes in each version, separate groups of men's and women's voices are singing just "Ah this", with chords / harmonic structure similar to the chorus part of Ah This, reproduced below. At some point, this morphs into "All this", a subtle difference not easy for everyone to discern.

The major innovation of this song can be hard to notice as well: Eventually, the men start singing very softly, "For one crazy man". According to our correspondent, the concept has its origin in a story from the Ranch: Osho was led around and shown all the the structures which had been built, and at some point in the tour he made the remark "All this - for one crazy man!" Almost everything Osho did in public was videoed, so likely this story is more widely known and the video may even turn up some day.

Lyrics and chord notation
(such as it is)

D             E            D            E
This, Ah/All this, Ah/All this, Ah/All this 

        D            E           F#m
Ah/All this, Ah/All this, Ah/All this 

Sheet music

Kindly provided by Nedko : 
(MuseScore.xml available)
File:All This - MuseScore.jpg

1985-03-21 Enlightenment Day Darshan ~ Fire of the Heart

Artists

Sw Prem Bhavito : violin

Sw Prem Git : bass

Sw Govinddas : guitar/sitar/mandolin...

Sw Chaitanya Hari

Sw Herren : clarinet

Lalit : bass

Ma Prem Maniko : singer

Sw Anand Nivedano : drums and percussion

Sw Rupesh : congas & tablas

Sw Samir (buddhafield garage) : guitar and singer

Sw Shabdanur : trumpet

Shiven : percussion

Ma Anand Suresha : singer

Sw Santosh Toby : flute, saxophone

Sw Anand Veeren : electric guitar

Sw Veetdharm : keyboard, pianola

Sw Vinit (Garimo/Arup´s boy friend): guitar

Recorded

1985-03-21

Released

1985

Audio - full length

06 9:00

Mevlana Bhagwan: Compilation of Darshan Music 1983 - 1985

Artists

Sw Anand Nivedano : percussion

Unknown

Recorded

1983 - 1985

Released

1985

Audio - full length

11 5:32