This one I know we wrote in 2004. It was a late night song. Made up on the spot and hasn't changed a ton since lyrically. This version is very electrified and kinda spacey and I'm not entirely sold on it yet. Definitely sounds better with headphones. There's a subtle baseball reference throughout due to the inspiration the night it was written and I think a fight was brewing but I'm not sure. Those days were volatile :). I revived this because it is actually one of my favorites when it comes to the late night stuff and because I wrote it kind of in response to someone I think of her when I hear it so it's definitely a good thing.
I'm feeling historically inaccurate as I write this and I blame beer. This song was written in 2003 or 2004 and for the most part it was written by Gooch. I just sang it and tweaked a few lyrics. I kind of dropped it to the background for years mainly because I had little to do with the original. It's now revived and I really kind of like this version. We were always unsure of this one but as time goes by, the vocals will pretty much make this a contender for The Gun Show. Quite a few good early recordings of this exist. I lost the master to the best one because of a mishap with my Sonar but it doesn't matter now that I got this version done. Hope you like it. I'm waaaaay behind on my blog.
I wrote the chords for this a long time ago. I wrote some words for it in 2005-2006 as part of a project that at the tie was going to be called The Reason. That album concept is no more because as time moves these things morph into new ideas. The title at the time was "Another Saturday" but I decided to shorten it because the 2010 version is a lot different. I like the "last dance" line. Probably going to be part of Self-Destructor as you can probably tell from the fact that parts of it sound like I held the mic up to a wind storm. That is intentional at this point. Hope the two people who read this like it. :)
When I moved to Seattle I got really into The Fine Art of Surfacing by the Boomtown Rats. Not sure why other than it's a really good album that is pretty highly underrated. So last Friday I decided to cover a song off of it after I was listening to it. So here it is. I will probably be doing an acoustic cover about once a week or so because I sometimes need a break from my own songs but still want to play. That is all. Oh and I picked this song because it's just so dark. I don't understand why it hasn't been covered a million times.
I wrote So Please a really long time ago. I actually was sick in bed the day I wrote it. For a while it was one of only a handful of songs that I had floating out there so there are a lot of recordings of it of various quality in my vast library of sessions. However, this is the first recording with a full treatment. As time goes on and I stockpile tracks, an interesting observation on this one is that it still remains one of those songs where I'll feel the emotions that spawned its creation from playing it. As I've mentioned before, that's kind of a rare occurrence because the feelings usually just disappear. Of course, that could be because situations tend to repeat themselves. But anyway, hope you dig. I'm still about 5 posts behind...
A while back when I still lived in KC, I created music with one of my best friends on the planet. We would write after hitting the bar and we ended up with hours of music that is vaulted on my old computer and still needs to be sorted through and mixed down (someday it'll happen). At one point he moved away and lived in the middle of nowhere, KS. This is something that he brought to me and I added some lyrics and tweaked some things. This is one of several true "Busdriver" songs and is/was intended for The Gun Show album that was conceptualized in 2006. I'm thinking track 3 specifically :)
This is kind of really personal and I finished it back in November or December after I wrote it because of personal stuff. I decided to release it today because I kind of think it's important for me to release all of it and because truthfully, I need to make sure I don't hold things in. This is about my days of partying and how I was collapsing and it's kind of like the sequel of "Take Me Home" because that was written in the early stages of my sobriety when everything was still hurting and this is more of a retrospective look at that time and kind of a thought of how I got through it all. Slightly Maladroit-ish. Laters.
So the interesting things about this one are: It came about because I was thinking about a book I read about Kurt Cobain where it mentioned he drank cough syrup all the time and secondly I think it kind of ended up sounding a little Pixies. Not by fault, just kind of how it went but I don't know. I hate comparing my music to other music. I like this hook. It's one of my favs. Next!
It's the 8th which means another month since I said goodbye to booze. This was written at a low point in the days of drinking although earlier than the other stuff. This version is very alt-country. I might throw out a separate vocal for this one later to see if it belongs on "self destructor". We shall see.
When you are a musician, songs are like children in the sense that they are an extension of you. And more often than not, I tend to love most of my songs equally. On occasion, for whatever reason one of my songs hits me in a particular way and I tend to love it a little more. "Lame" is one of those. I'm not sure why. I think it might be that I vividly remember being completely hammered on a Saturday afternoon and remember when it came about by accident or maybe it's because I remember looking at my bedroom wall while we were recording the original version and coming up with the "another shadow on another cracked wall" line which is one of my favorites because it seems to fit with the kind of relationships I tend to fall into or maybe it's because the song has no real chorus. I don't know but I know that I sat on the song for 6 or 7 years before I demoed it again and I'm really happy that it's back in this group. This version is really stripped down but that's intentional because it will probably be an album ender and I wanted to try it in a really raw state (with my pre-production stuff I'm trying to get these as close to how they will end up as possible).
I've now either got 7 or 8 songs in contention for "self-destructor" and three in contention for my new concept jam album called "kittens." It's going to involve lots of over-indulgent jams in the middle of songs you may have previous liked also going to include no less than two instrumentals.
I just had a whoa moment while I was listening to these demos in order because a transition just made me realize I might actually want to make the endings and beginnings match up in a seamless fashion on this thing. I could probably ramble about this for a good 10 pages so I'm going to stop now. Hope you like Lame. Laters!
This is probably the best recording I've done from my bedroom which is really good because it means I'm making progress as far as all that goes. This was written right after I got sober. It was written for the person who brought on that change and really is about who I was before all of that and looking back on it, this was kind of a thank you to her for putting up with my chaos. Also it's literally about getting a ride home from a bar because I was always too drunk to drive. Rough times.
So this song was written in probably sometime between 10:30 and 4 AM during a late night "jam" with my man Gooch in 2003 (possibly 2004 cuz those years are kind of a blur and I'm too lazy to check). Here are some facts:
Original recording I counted this song off with a lighter.
The lyrics have not changed much from when I wrote them that night and that USUALLY doesn't happen.
I wrote a song about rain before moving to Seattle was even on the horizon.
We were listening to lots of Alice In Chains during the period this was written and I have proof from when PARTYBOI got drunk and kept eating aluminum cans and quoting lines from "Rooster".
This is the first version of this with multiple guitars and drums etc.
This was called Throwing Pens for a long time because I think I was throwing pens at Gooch while he was trying to play or something like that.
Anyway, hope you like it. I'm not sure how I feel about the vocals yet because I was doing harmonies but they weren't working for me tonight.
PS - Reworking jamz you wrote during your "lost" era kind of rules the universe.
This is a little noisy because there was a wind storm tonight but overall I'm really happy with this tune. It's a weird deal because it's sort of about two things or maybe it's just about one. I'm not sure. I could say a lot about this because it became something completely different from what I expected but it's completely mine. That's what important. "Self-Destructor" is close to half done or close to all the way done but there will be some track shifting before I make the decision on the final tracklist. Love this.
When I decided to demo 100 songs I recorded 2 tracks the first night. #001 - Shattered which I wrote in college and what is now #028 - Something in the Way which is a Nirvana cover. I was reluctant to release it because it's a Nirvana cover and I live in Seattle. But I decided today I don't care. This actually was and could still be part of an effort to cover the entire Nevermind album but we'll see. This stands okay on its own. I have more to post so I hope you like. :)
I wrote this tonight. It's totally about my sweater. I dig my sweater but I can't really pay as much attention to it as I could when I first acquired it for various reasons that shall go unexplained. Sucks. Really really like the sweater. Was/is one of my favorite things. I was incredibly happy when I got the sweater and we had some good times and then one day it just wasn't an option anymore. Not really the sweater's fault and not really my fault. Still kind of hurt even though it was more external issues that have cut off the good vibes between my sweater and myself. Now it's just awkward because some days I really want to wear it but I know I can't. I hope you like the song. :)
Also I just ripped my pajamas and so I now need to get new ones tomorrow or have totally grunge pajamas.
