Forsake
I feel like we got about halfway through building this track, and both RC and I had added a bunch before it got left behind.
I feel like we got about halfway through building this track, and both RC and I had added a bunch before it got left behind.
This song would be rewritten as “Tellina Lie” and performed band-style. Vocals in bridge just had to go.
Not only did this track provide us with a name for our act, but the laid-back groove gave us our second video, which is sufficiently abstract that I think it holds up pretty well.
Tried to rework a year or two later with a band, didn’t work. Too moody. This song wants to be a happy one. So smile already.
This was kind of a half-finished version of this song, but it took a long time to build so here you go. I think we were kind of finding our footing still at this point.
The bass line here was so awkward that when I asked RC to play it, he thought I was crazy. “Bill Berry felt the same way about that song on Green,” I told him, to which he responded “Bill Berry ended up not playing that drum part.” Touché. I think the working title was “The…