My last night in Rolla I go over to Will S.'s house and we lay down tracks on his Concertmate keyboard (80 different rhythms, 150 instruments, small drum pad) into a crappy cassette recorder until 5 am. Lyrics from the heart--word.
We sing about the fearsome hierarchy of deep sea creatures, the mighty squid with his pulpy insides like stringy pumpkin guts, the shark, the whale. The whale finds himself beached in suburbia where he gradually adapts to the bewildering landscape of department stores and white picket fences. Pimple grease and 99% papers: we sing of math nerds. Racism, because, yo, we're not afraid to throw down on that. Finally an inane pop hook road song "rollin down 63" which basically just lists the towns on highway 63 towards & beyond Jeff City, but gets more boozy as we go so that at the end Will is chanting "beer in my hand, beer in the dash, beer in the carburetor..."
Posted by Alan at January 4, 2006 08:16 PMRacism? How dare you?! Actually, if that track had been taped, we could all quit our day jobs.
Posted by: Will at January 13, 2006 09:58 AMalan! I just read "Beer in the Carburator." I plan on hearing this nonsense someday. Hey, you should use this following information and take necessary action: Feb 6 2006, 8:00P, S.S. Marie Antoinette, Seattle, WA, The Show is the Rainbow LIVE! I'm considerably certain Mr. 1986 Jim and Jabid Javid will play with Darren.
Posted by: JoeWhy at January 14, 2006 12:24 PMwill: you forget, i've already quit my day job, and so have you by now i bet... :)
joe: that's terrific, i hope i'll be in seattle still (am considering vagabondage as an option also, VBDSM you know). in my free time i've been erstwhile working on this linux sound studio project which will in theory turn my apartment into a musical playground...you know, that thing i've been saying i'll do for the last 3 years but have never been unemployed enough to undertake. assuming everything comes together i'd love to get some sessions going with the lincoln posse.
Posted by: alan at January 19, 2006 04:04 AM