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While going through my Garageband folder, I rediscovered this tune. It wasn’t entirely forgotten; it’s been sitting around for a long time, on and off the ipod, and I’m not sure why the reluctance in posting it. One day I didn’t like the lyrics, the next day, I did.
Technically, the genesis for this song came about from noodling on the classical guitar; I did some detuning and finger picking on the open mic, and managed to get the sounds out of it you hear here. I’m not quite with it enough to classically noodle and competently sing, so I just looped all the parts in a certain order, picked up an old lyric about barrel laughs and black lungs, and went off into the land of going slowly.
When I first wrote it I wasn’t confident in any aspect of this song at all. But now I find the lyrical imagery pretty satisfying, not obscure for obscurity’s sake, and the classical guitar and RV-3 combo complement each other nicely. The lo-fi nature of the track doesn’t hurt, as I am still a sucker for that stuff. I could be rationalizing a great deal here unnecessarily. The long and the short of it is, there is much joy to be found in digging up an old, quasi-forgotten song and finding out it isn’t total crap. Thank you.
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The second song from our latest visit to Andy and Jen’s. Full post is here.
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As our handful of faithful readers know, Get Help performed at Andy and Jen’s Flophouse way back in November of ought six. It was an eye-opening performance for us, and was fittingly enough also our first. Their living room and our DNA are intertwined, and I am speaking figuratively, of course.
If you’re not familiar with the Band in Boston Podcast and what they do, you should get over there now and read up. There are pages and pages of great performances, served up in lunch-sized portions, all done in the cozy sanctity of Andy and Jen’s living room, backed up with the requisite toy drum set. Midriff guru E.R. is the Alec Baldwin of their SNL, and our troubadour hero Fanged Robot makes his appearance on their pages as well.
So we returned late last year for another go-round. Our hats are off to Andy, whose skills at the mixing board have gone from impressive to amazing, as evidenced by how skillfully he retouched and prettified our rumbling and bumbling and stumbling into the endzone. He makes us sound better than we ever could ourselves.
We have posted two songs from the session here, but please check out the whole podcast episode for some deep cuts and colorful covers. You have a money back guarantee on 24 minutes of your life, courtesy of Get Help Community Enterprises, LLC.
The setlist: Early Hours, Fall-in-Love-to-Song, Punishing Good Deeds, It Begins Well, (Not) Not a Friend (Sebadoh paraphrase), Red Jacket Orchards, Sugarcube (Yo La Tengo cover).
