I like to think of this as the down-home, wholesome version of “You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party” by The Beastie Boys. It contains that same teen angst around self-determination and the control over one’s destiny. But it’s also funny,...
I wrote this song shortly after visiting the office of a coal-mining company. Also, around that time, I was dating an aspiring fashion-model. To me, so much of songwriting is taking two or more divergent ideas, and then seeing how they might fit together. I imagined...
Gosh, there sure are a lot of gorgeous folks in Music. So it would, at least, appear to favor the physically fortunate. It’s funny how nobody’s ever come right out and said that being a patently unattractive person is a liability in Music. Because Music (videos aside)...
Look, I like a good torch song as much as the next person. Many such tunes are really big hits; acknowledged classics even! And, as a musician, I’d be delusional to even try to deny the obvious fact that the love song is anything but the cornerstone (if not the very...
So, what scares you? It’s a very personal question, you know? For some it’s very general: Insects, reptiles, bears, wolves, sharks, Etc. For others it is very specific: The possessed girl in “The Exorcist”, the demented clown in “It”. Maybe the formless creature in...
I wrote this as a “protest” song, of sorts, several years ago. The gist of it being that some guys are born on third, but believe that they hit a triple. It was around a time when I considered myself to be well-informed and politically savvy. (I know much better now.)...
I can’t remember the original impetus behind this tune. Though I think it was inspired by a talk with a relative. I’d also send thanks to Paul Simon: I always enjoyed some of his spitfire, half-sung/half-spoken, word salad songs. And I’ve always...
If you are ever fortunate enough to obtain a highly-prized, and also collectable, “Slight Psych” setlist (or just brave enough to fish one out of the trash) you will invariably find a line that says: “aka HML”. Here’s Why: We were playing...
