An old song our friend Dave Moe mentioned a couple of weeks ago. What we sounded like before we started making records, I suppose. The rhythm track was made in Autumn of 1993 at the second of two sessions (total, I think) that Jöe, Ted Lukas and I did together (the first would have been with Matt Alison at Windy City Recorders approximately half a year earlier). This one was tracked with Milo Milovanovic at Steve Yates recording, and...I cant really argue with the sound (I think we did this and the first ever recording of I Get What I Want on that October day - that original IGWIW has a certain something, if I recall correctly). By the time we went in to do overdubs a few weeks later, Ted had left the group, and Joshua Shane accompanied Joe and I to/at/on the percussion/vocals session (he would fill in on bass for us for about 10 months). I dont remember our mixes ever taking more than 10 minutes back then, and...I suspect I could learn a thing or two from my 23 year old self. I remember writing this at my aunts enormous fancy ass townhouse in the UIC area - my musical diet at the time consisted largely of Super Hits Of The 70s, and I can definitely hear that sort of Ill write one of THOSE! youthfulness all over the thing. I thought it was our best song ever at the time (we closed with it for ages), and I remember bringing it to rehearsal with sort of an Boys - Ive just written our first number one! hubris. The guitar solo has some nice mojo (either my Rickenbacker or Joes Gibson L6S through a Big Muff and an octave pedal), and the piano and percussion (and dozen or so repeating choruses) seem like the suburban Hey Jude or something. Joes vocals are pretty great.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:20:05 +0000
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