I am also singing about how a child grows and shines like an awesome blossom. There is a busted up old guitar on the wall of a little restaurant on Vashon called Pure and one day after a walk in the woods during the best part of Spring I went there to eat and while my food was being prepared I wrote this song on the old guitar about how bursty the world is in spring. I went out and bought a special distortion pedal to get a special fuzzy guitar tone for this one. One of my neighbors has a big loud motorcycle and in the summertime he turns it on in his backyard and it always scares me! When I am out in the world and walking by the seaside and someone comes blasting by on a motorcycle with no muffler it scares me! Basically I am scared of those loud motorcycles and thought I would write a song about it that does not tell them to stop but just lets everyone know how I feel. I wanted this one to kind of sound like a lost Bob Dylan song if Bob Dylan ever sang about old cookies. I saw part of a stale cookie on the sidewalk one day and imagined it's whole story. This is another song that came out of my frequent habit of looking at something small and weird and giving in an inner life. This one also started out as a fragment from along time ago. I loved the music so much that I stuck with it and now I love it! Maybe this song will help when the kids get grumpy at the beach? It started out being about a family of bears in a river then changed many times before ending up being about staying cool in the summer sun. The lyrics to this song took a million years to figure out. Once we figured out that perspective the song sort of wrote itself. We came up with the idea of that lonesome rambler narrative like Roger Miller's KING OF THE ROAD. My brother Tim helped me out a lot with writing lyrics and focusing the feel of this song. I didn't feel like it captured what I thought of and felt when I would see a balloon floating by itself across the sky. The Presidents had a song called LOOSE BALLOON that I wrote but I wasn't really happy with how it came out. I love the baritone saxophone in this one! Originally it was called "People All Over The World" but I changed it to "babies" because I am all about the little ones! I hope kids will listen to the song and imagine all the people all over the world and how everybody's doing something at every moment. I think I wrote both versions in the late 1980s. Ah, recycling.I combined two very old rough drafts of the same song together to make this one. Apparently they make a lot of their own instruments and electronic effects. I even had the pleasure of seeing photos of shovels and pitchforks with guitar pick-ups. I ended up interviewing the band in the tour bus and I found out they truly do live the “hillbilly lifestyle”–moonshine, old trucks, country music, and more. I have to say, hanging with the “Fearless Hillbilly Boys” is like hanging with the beer guzzling Canadian comic duo The McKenzie Brothers or perhaps Larry, Moe, and Curly if they were Swedish metal heads. The lighting was still not favorable so we all ended up in the men’s room. I must be in a parallel universe.” We usually see American bands playing viking metal or pagan-influenced music but not vice versa.Īlthough I was unable to see them perform (I watched the videos on YouTube later and was really impressed) I decided to interview the band called “Fearless.” I needed to find a well lit place and decided to take some photos in the hallway. He said, “Ve are frum Sveden and ve are HILLBILLIES!” I thought, “Wait! This can’t be happening. I was floored when I heard a distinct foreign accent and the gentleman said the band was from Sweden. When I walked into the nightclub, waiting to see The Maension perform, I started to chat with one of the ZZ Top Doppelgangers. During The Maension’s interview I could hear the vibrations from a bass amp and muffled music. I figured they were a local Southern rock band. They were wearing denim overalls and had straw hats on their head. I was getting ready to jump on The Maension’s tour bus for an interview session when I saw a few long-bearded, ZZ Top-looking guys getting ready to play inside The Brass Mug. Venue: The Brass Mug, Tampa, Florida-August 16,2015 Fearless
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