Ahhh this takes me right back to my white-tiled floor bathroom in the apartment I lived in with my brother and a couple of our friends. It consistently carried a wandering scent of bong water and cigarettes.
We lived on the third floor of an apartment building in north San Diego, and it seemed like every fucking weekend we had some new complaint from one of the poor sonsabitches who lived below us. Listening to this demo, I can understand why. My computer couldn’t even handle the volume of my singing and playing as it’s obviously peaking at every word.
Good memories in that apartment. It’s also sadly the place where The Frights van was broken into and all of our gear was stolen, including the guitar I played on the first EPs and the self titled. It was a bright red mustang that I strapped so high up on my chest, that it choked me if I turned the wrong way. Bummer.
This song was a no brainer for me at the time. It had the doo wop thing, and it had the fast tempo thing. That was our MO. Listening to this demo, I notice that we ended up dropping a lot of these lyrics and that was for the better. During the recording process of YAGTHT, we got really good at trimming the fat off of songs. This is one that certainly benefited from that. It’s a song that The Frights almost always have to play at shows even to this day. I like this song. Even if the recorded version features a vocal track from myself that is painfully out of key during the chorus. Maybe I just notice that? Or maybe its part of the charm? Sounds like fucking shit to me!
Heres the demo:
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