Criminal. So William Burroughs, the beat poet, was getting heavily intoxicated with his girlfriend. She blurted, “Hey! If you such a damn good shot. Take your pistol and blow this apple of my head!” He missed. So in response, I did a cover version of Fiona Apple’s hit song from the 1990’s in a true garage rock fashion.
Psychotherapy! Here is another old school punk tune from way back in the bad old daze. I must chill out. I believe that I have pissed off the neighbors again. They are banging on the walls. oops….
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me. David van Ronk wrote this tune. I changed a few lines to fit my experience. Once again, Live to 2-track.
Let Me Follow You Down. This is a cover, live to 2-track.
I’m Looking Through You. I did the song as a confidence builder. Sometimes a football quarterback is put fresh in a game, and is given an easy lateral screen pass to throw immediately to show him that he can do his job. That is why I choose the tune, because these days I am not feeling very confident in my abilities.
I Wanna Be Sedated! I have an admonition to give from my personal history, personal experience. Do not go to your local psychiatric unit, and sing this song. The doctors may be all too willing to oblige.
Look What You’ve Done. There is something about how the song was written that seems very Beatle-ish.
Modern Love. Really should be Post-Modern Love. Description: Post-modern is easy. We are in the post-modern era. Basically everything has been done and there’s nothing new under the sun so the new way of creating is to take pieces of older stuff (deconstruction) and reassemble it. The variations are endless and so a new era of expression had been born.
Blue Jean. I really had no idea who or what ‘Blue Jean’ is. My first thoughts, knowing that the song came out in the 1980’s, was that Blue Jean is a code name for cocaine. The problem being that if your cocaine is Blue then it is mostly likely cut, and poison. That doesn’t jive. So I have settled that Blue Jean is a beautiful temptress female, which is the common logic. Hope you dig it!
She Belongs to Me. All I can say is… ‘I am a walking antique.’
POLICE TRUCK! (cover of a Jell-O Biafra tune). There is never a ‘correct’ time to do a song by Jell-O’s band. It seems with the overflow of weaponry by the United States Military, that our local Police Force gets the run-off of choice assault vehicles. The lyrics tell the tale of a fun-loving group of cops who get a new Police Truck, and revel by beating up drunks and hurting people, to say the least. So remember, everyone, tonight whilst imbibing, BE […]
Into Your Arms (cover of the LemonHeads) Happy Saint Patrick’s Day Everyone! Or as I like to call it, “Amateur Night.” Folks really need to get more practice at Alcoholism. 🙂
Artist- Ted Giffin - Musician 