"It was how I would get drunk and be a dick."
"We needed to actually write an actual 'plot song.'"
The fellas recount plot points leading up to this and how Steve Earle figures into it.
Music nerd talk: pentatonic E is G major.
"Fuck ups are where ideas come from goddammit!"
"Eccentricity makes that shit special."
Overdubapalooza commences with this song.
Where did the change occur? The fellas debate it.
Dave bases his Shakespeare reading style on Ray Lewis's pregame speeches.
We're specifically trying to do 'Hey Jude.'"
"This is your third coat of mud.
KARMA WRECKER
Well they killed the malevolent colonel
I'll never see Atlantis again
They shipped me back to the front
Back to being just a grunt
My karma done got wrecked
New tattoo on my neck
They keep their eye on me
'Cause I seen what could be
I got to get back there
I got to get back there
Out of this karma wrecker
While in Atlantis I found an ancient record
It was made of vinyl Dawn she sat me down
It was named after an early gun
But the music was free and fun
She burned a sacred plant
She let the record chant
The band was clearly free
The band was clearly free
In the corner laughed a man in white
He was glowing like a tracer light
He ain't no karma wrecker
He said "Hello, son, my name just call me Elvis
Dawn she gave my whole life back to me"
Then Dawn began to sing
More beautiful than anything
I could see the notes she sung
As if it were from my tongue
I could taste her warming breath
She made me not fear death\
She made me feel alright
She said "You're a shining light
You ain't no Karma Wrecker."
In a trance I made it to the front lines
Dawn and Elvis met with Caesar and Temujin
I think I may have cried
My heart grew dead inside
The stink of millions dead
The polar caps froze red
Time to just survive
Make it out alive
To Atlantis where I believe
To Atlantis where I believe
There ain't no karma wrecker
I don't know
Dave talks to John Lennon.
"Atlantis" is finally addressed, been talking about it for a year and a third.
Tumbleweeds shout out around a minute 30.
"From here on out...we get bonkers with the production."
The nuance of applying building terms to recording production be addressed.
On analog we would "perform" the mix. Not so no more - good and bad (as precedent for the use of a dash I site Kerouac's DHARMA BUMS). "Educated Man" on Circle 9's THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES is a good example.
*Shout out to THE DREAD PIRATE DIABLO the legendary Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey G Gallagher.*
The fellas talk about the integration of Shakespearean soliloquies into psychedelic punk rock opera hillbilly stuff.
HANK III, bitches!
ATLANTIS
Got a side business booming
Found the guy that makes the fucking drugs
I know him as the malevolent colonel
The one who coddles all us fucking thugs
Got my buddies let me cruise right through the missiles
Guess in other words they're called the enemy
Give 'em drugs I give 'em cash and other goodies
And all the largesse coming back to me get down
Gotta keep this transport moving
Can't believe my motherfucking eyes
A secret entrance through the glass desert
And an underworld that's better than surprise
Got plants and art and poetry and women
And everybody's coming up to me
Got to thank the malevolent colonel
For everything now that I fucking see get down
They tell me that this place is called Atlantis
The throbbing people mingle sing and fuck
How'd this fucking place be kept a secret
Eventually it's got to die to luck
The mayor is a fucking sexy lady
She keeps it so it's never up and gone
I need to meet the woman with the power
I hear her name is sunshine lit at Dawn get down
Every time I pull into Atlantis
Where the scientists make robot hookers purr
I get out of the transport and I rare back
'Cause I'm pushing on my horse down through the spurs
It's nirvana to the bohos and the artists
Singing songs and dancing every single night
Only law is that there is no re-religion
'Cause the intellectuals don't feel it's right
Get down
Dave really likes his guitar solo.
"Lend me your rears."
"It was facing the wrong direction."
"Stories all melt together."
Correction: Ronnie James Dio not Tiny Iommi at 13 minutes.
Electric guitar evolution gets touched upon.
"Somebody took the Chuck Berry bottom and put the the Jimi Hendrix top on it. What the fuck's going on?"
"Is your toe that fat normally?"
"Eat some chocolate, man."
"I ain't had me lamb in a long time."
"I'm going to go get me a rollo."
They do an imitation of the Gourds covering Snoop Dogg.
Doctor Who at 56ish.
THE ROAR OF THE DRUNKEN GODS
Seven months in the shit
Turns out warring is legit
Killed as many as I lost
What a cost
It's funny how I love my gun
It's funny how they never run\
It's funny that I never sleep
Never eat
It's funny how they never beg
It's funny how they get new legs
It's funny how the night is day
Fades away
The roar of the drunken gods
The worst of the lightening rods
The drunken gods choose not to sip
Let her rip
The fellas have been working on overdubs.
The importance of riffs in extended jams is discussed.\
It's a special 4th of July podcast!
Act 13 gets dubbed "Space and Time."
The Big Opera is a mix of Doctor Who, Mad Max, Tommy, the Clash, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
ALLEN COLLINS plays the "Freebird" solo.
Dave's brother's family went to see Metallica in Houston.
Then there be a general pop culture landscape review, Netflix and CW/DC shows from Brian and Doctor Who from Dave.
Dave imitates the 10th Doctor saying "DAH-LEXX."
Dave says "Game Of Spoilers" when he means to name check the "Storm Of Spoilers" Podcast.
Dave does GoT.
"I avoid stuff as much as possible."
The fellas separate Bill Cosby from his comedy and break down the differences in different drywall muds.
Then they engage in July 4th Parade nostalgia.
Then Brian gives a thumbnail sketch of Tesla.