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We conclude today’s Sasquatch sighting with a new track, ‘New Low’. This is the Get Help wheelhouse of distorted reverb guitars, this is a back-to-base guitar anthem, something you might have heard on a mid-90′s Matador sampler.
This was my first blow-through with my shiny new Pod, a wonderful tool for making music late at night in an apartment with paper thin walls and, uh, thinner-than-paper floors and ceilings.
Everything about this track was invented from finding the guitar sound. I’ve noticed that once I get a particular sound, in this case the distorted-reverb rhythm track, song ideas from my memory banks are triggered, and the song writes itself. Writing in this method usually presents the uncopyrightable danger of completely ripping off a song without realizing it. But in this regard my memory is much like the squirrel’s in autumn, who hides food in multiple locations so that their winter pantry isn’t decimated by a single winter theft, yet inevitably ends up forgetting where they hid 10-20% of their spoils.
In the squirrel’s case, these lost acorns grow into oak trees. In my case, it remains to be seen.
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It’s hot in the city streets, and the city streets are hot. Help yourself to two flavors of Get Help this month:
Tuesday July 17, 9pm
PA’s LOUNGE (Band in Boston Residency)
Somerville, MA
Our very first show was at the Band in Boston Flophouse, and its necessity mothered some invention; invention which has left an enduring imprint on how we go about writing and playing our songs. So while we may not exactly owe them our first born…um, no. We owe them our first born. Moving on, this concert will feature the full experience: Bill, Dennis and Dan will be bringing the noise as well.
Friday July 27, 8pm
CLUB MIDWAY
New York, NY
There isn’t much of story here, other than to say it’s Mike and I performing as a duo, it’s an early show, and we may be joined by some special guests. We hope to see you there.
Oh and because they were lying around, we have posted two more mp3s from our first Band in Boston set: Town Fires and Temporary Speed Zone.
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Compression is a (the?) wonderful beast. Used incorrectly, it’s a weapon; it’s the metal spatula, squeezing the bejesus out of the already tired-looking chicken about to be laid to rest in a grave of yellow rice at your local Halal truck.
When overused, it’s also a weapon I guess, but something more along the lines of the Death Star. It makes drums sound like surface-to-air missiles. Listen to this version with headphones.
