Suicide is no joke. If you feel like shit call please the suicide prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255
Notes on the Andrew Grimm Interview
The center of the Baltimore Band Web
Brian got broken ribs!!
"I'm on the medimication."
Joel Baily shout out
Lucky Lucianos
WE DON'T NEED YOUR STINKING VENUE TOUR
Ellen Cherry
Andrew Grimm's musical history unwound
Dave here: Andy's a smart guy who adds some class to this endeavor.
Dave again: My interview style is kind of making me cringe right now. I wish we had someone else to proof listen to all this shit. I guess it ain't no different than the other 80,000 folks podcasting right now. Brian's interview style is NOT inducing Dave cringes.
The fellas talk about running sound at live shows.
Country music is awesome.
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 Available 24 hours a day
SUICIDE NOTE
My lips taste the gun and it tastes just like salvation
Cold steel on my tongue and it's dogging my salivation
Powder residue and an exit wound will be redemption
Hemmingway, Cobain, and Hunter S the congregation
I'm throwing in the towel, man, I can no longer fight
Too many goddamned hardass daystoo many sleepless nights
Just another suicide will be one in a million
It doesn't matter anyway to the rotting vast cotillion
chorus
I'm writing this all down but no one will ever read it
As soon as I'm all done I'm gonna motherfucking burn it
That way it's a gift to all like Jimi's burning Strat
Or maybe it's a gift to none I guess it could be that
I'm sobbing uncontrollably scared shitless of this ending
Just one twitch and soon enough there'll be no more pretending
I can't stop the flow of life remembering through my soul
Goddamn, make it stop, one twitch, oh shit I lost control
chorus
Click, combustion, bullet in the head
Yes it is salvation time
Suicide is no joke. If you're feeling like shit call the suicide prevention hotline 1-800-273-8255. Hang in there. Dave
Dave Linantud - guitar and vocals
Brian Lutz - bass, engineering, mixing
C.J. Johnson - drums
Ian Burke - mastering
Recorded and mixed at Possum Studios
TIDALWAVES
Silent sound don't mean much to me
Silent sound brings out the worst in me
I wonder should I lock my door
And hide away in my hideaway?
Violence found don't mean much to me
Violence found beings out the worst in me
I wonder should I lock my door
And hide away in my hideaway?
Hideaways mean a lot to me
Tidalwaves bring out the best in me
I wonder should I lock my door
And hide away in my hideaways?
In my hideaway
Tidalwaves
https://pearlygoats.bandcamp.com
NOTES WITH THE GOATS
- What t-shirt is everybody wearing?
- Paul had to talk into the room mic for the drums. It was moved to a stand in front of his chair.
- Drummer problems in common.
- Alaska and "music shed" building.
- CIRCUS Magazine and sewed rats.
- Brian and Dave say "nice" way too much.
- "The Baltimore Band Spiderweb"
- Editor's note: Thank Jeebus for Brian being there to get things back on track.
- "Have yo ever seen Loraine?"
- Stone Dust Riders shout out.
- "Holy shit that's long as fuck!"
- Thunder Muffin.
- Editors note: this is like a bunch of old guys having overlapping conversations about the old days.
- "Game Of Thrones" meets "High School Musical."
- "There's not going to be any potable 'wooder' so we must drink the blood of the animals we kill."
The trio discuss working out, AZT as sinus medication,and then Dave has mic problems. With tech issues resolved they resume the conversation by pining for a Circle 9 reunion. Then they do math, discuss construction projects, badmouth painkillers, breakdown SFPodcast005 (NARCISSISTS!), get into the several Star Trek TV shows, break KAYFABE, what part Brian would play on the TV show "Vikings," and Jon Snow says hello.
- Beatles mention in the first seconds
- Star Wars or Firefly realm?
- After this Dawn's jettisoned, Elvis is jettisoned, Angel White is jettisoned, and Baby Blue takes center stage.
- Dave talks about the first 3 times he saw the Replacements
- Brian talks about skating in DC
- Then the fellas talk about game and Filipino food.
- Brian talks about In Droves' last show and Secret Crush Society Fringe Players
- AJ from the beatings
"I'll put my rock and roll boots on to get the paper."
- Then they do math to try to figure out the years of cars.
THE ORPHAN
Affectation to affection can you find a new direction
From obliterated years in a lifetime full of tears
Crawling from the wreckage of forgiven sin
Oh, sweet addiction, I can't stand rejection
Well I tried to choose a wish but I hope it don't come true
'Cause every life's a style, everyone but you
Don't you know that I wrote this for you to listen to
Contrivances breed gloom
Swooning like a groom with a shotgun in his mouth
Who's my momma and my poppa?
Why we never met?
Even so I ain't dead yet
Were you hungry or depressed?
Do I have your eyes?
Either way your souls are blazing through my skies
Don't you know that I wrote this for you to listen to
Affectation to addiction placate fact from friction
And a lifetime came and went in solitude
Can you hear me?
Are you blind?
Words jump down around around around around
A quietness
a Whisper
I wrote this for you to listen to
Every night the light dims more
I'm wondering what my life is for
I feel like a failure and I wonder why
Something inside says I gotta try
I'll slide on by
Well you could say in my life I ain't accomplished a thing
Maybe a little too scared of what the day may bring
But come on and try to tell me that this ain't my time
You can see it in the sunset every single night
I'll slide on by
I hoped you'd say when I couldn't find my way
That you'd be there for me
Glory is gone
It never was an option
What can I say
It ain't free
You know I'm scared
More fragile than a notion
Afraid of love and trust
Understand
Confusion is reality
I'm overwhelmed
You and us
So fuck you all
You turned your back on someone
Needing hope and peace
Go run and hide
Blame it on rebellion
That's bullshit, man
At least
Suit of armor forged in fires of spite
Revenge is true violent love
Don't give a fuck
Existence is a lie
From underneath
And from above
So go on and leave
Take your shit and go
I don't care
That's a lie
Leave me be
Leave me the fuck alone
Sit on down
And fucking cry
I'll slide on by
Dave Linantud: guitars and vocals
Brian Lutz: bass, engineering, production
Andy Och: drums
Ian Burke: mastering
Made Hood: cowriting
Recorded and mixed at Possum Studios
Well, back to work and school for everyone, right? We'll drop the finale to Act 6:Baby Blue next Monday. In the meantime, this is the legendary "Brian Surgery Podcast" from the late winter or early spring of 2016. Brian and I had yet to actually undertake our schedule of releasing a song and a song commentary on our podcast each week. We were recording a handful of "theme" podcasts that weren't "opera specific" in case we hit a snag somewhere along the line. We recorded this a couple of days after Brian had hip surgery. We shared his drugs and experimented with a remote set up. We had yet to hit upon a formula. Along with Brian's doctor subscribed addictive narcotics I made some edibles to push us further into "I don't think this makes sense" territory. For the record I channel my inner Ian MacKaye/CM Punk, straight edge icons they be, whenever we play or record music or podcasts. Likewise I channel my inner Graham Hancock when I'm writing or doing research. I'll include my original notes in full. I hadn't yet worked up a formula with which to publish the commentary tracks. Enjoy!
Dave
From the original notes: Dave's mic's fucked up some. Is it aimless? Pretty much but Brian just had surgery! "Death In Her Heart" - collage audience. "Good music ain't ever gonna stop being made." Entertainment Weekly respects Science Fiction. Cigar tobacco is the dumbest drug in the world besides junk food.
Podcast notes writ whilst digging a trench
- The guitars are an homage to Joseph Patrick Gallagher.
- The fellas sing "It's Easy Mmmkay" off of SOUTHPARK: BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT.
- "You go into weird places when you do a lot of LSD with people."
- "Jolene" by Trent Sumner gets mangles.
- "Back in the day it was either mushrooms or whiskey."
- Brian extols the virtues of being a band member.
- Dave talks about jamming with the locals in Manilla and the Filipino New Year's Eve Celebrations.
- *SPOILER ALERT* Luke Cage stuff around 34:00
- "Diamondback" looks like Chris McCalister.
- Brian reviews DOCTOR STRANGE.
- "Every planet in the Star Wars Universe is a single ecosystem."
- "Doctor Who is an insanely important influence on the structure of this."
EPILOGUE
The future don't look bright
I can't control my fright
Something just ain't right
What can it be
Mine own hands seek the black
Run away or attack
All Hope is gone it's on my back
And my heavy head
Oh no
"The stone is given its existence; it need not fight for being what it is --- a stone in the field. Man has to be himself in spite of unfavorable circumstances; that means he has to make his own existence at every single moment. He is given the abstract possibility of existing, but not the reality. This he has to conquer hour after hour. Man must earn his life, not only economically but metaphysically. ...Things are given their being ready made." Jose Ortega y Gasset
There's something wrong, something missing
Something's gone I guess I'm wishing
It wasn't but it's still insisting
To be oh
The Driver Podcast Poem
Brian socks update
Entrance music
HTD guys shout out
"Circle 9: Making people do things they don't want to do."
Ryan and Brendan mention at 4:00
"What's left of the broken world."
"You know what? Fuck this."
20:00
An homage to Rancid
BMI=the Bowel Movement Institute
"It's like the old saying: 'Save that for podcast 44.'"
The fellas break down what's on Brian's table
The story of Brian's Marlboro "cable" Bag
Now we must hear the story of the Gargoyles
"I know French pronunciations I just ain't using 'em!"
51:00
"We're at the age where we have everything we want and need. Everything else is just more junk piling up around the house."
Candice Larae is tougher than you.
`
THE DRIVER SAYS IT'S OVER, YES
"I need to sleep" 's what she said
Out loud to none when she bled
Emotional projects of despair
Wondrously woven through her silk hair
Flowing freely like a winter sun
That's setting 'fore its work is done
It never settles in a sky
That's wounded enough to try
Conversely the arguments fly
Evenly like sandless beaches
Grasping at a butterfly that's
Floating just outside of reachless
Hands that grasp at everything
To be or was or so it seems
To blast off into evening streams
Of sunlight shadow dusty seams
Of reason
Of treason
Of poison
Beholden
Of superstitious portions of a
Brew that's boiling patiently
The driver says it's over, yes
It's over
Transparent transparency
Trans piracy
Piracy unbroken dreams
Cascading falls of brawling emotions
Pirated away
Spirited away
A way difference scorned
Crisis crises
Spices sailed from foreign lands landing
Unhanded
Mishandled
'Til the nothingness surrounds astounding
Fractured like a broken heart
Punctured but still beating
Still beating
Over and over
Yes it's over and over
"I need to sleep" 's what she said
The moon lurked softly by and by
Around the mourning of a sparrow
Whistling Neil Young's"Broken Arrow"
Harvesting a crop of memories
That motion t'wards the center
Of a universe that hangs a sign
The sign reads "do not enter"
The driver says it's over, yes
It's over
Notes from a podcast:
-Brian wardrobe update.
-Beatles reference at under 2 minutes
-Brian thinks Ringo is George.
-Singing side two of ABBEY ROAD at parties.
-Metal splinters from drywall screws.
-5 yawns in a matter of 7 minutes.
-The romantic poets and the Romantics.
-"Winter" by Shakespeare quote.
-"Get into gear, brain!"
-The fellas talk blowing in fiberglass insulation in an attic.
-29:00
-THEN the fellas talk about traffic in DC.
-THEN they speak on profanity's role in music.
-"Looks like it's time to take off into the bus stop."
-Pro wrestling mention at 51:00.
Why me why you why try try to
Why not why not you
Why should I try to
Why am I so blue
Why can't I see through
Notes Of a Podcast Poem
What's Brian wearing?
"This act is like the day after you eat acid." (sic)
"At our age people want to go home."
*DARK MATTER spoilers*
*CONTINUUM spoilers*
Supergirl AGAIN
Brian watched the POINT BREAK remake for some reason
And breaks down the GHOSTBUSTERS remake
Dave's phone breaks and hijacks the entire podcast
SIMPSONS reference @ 36 minutes
39:00
THEN the importance of a balanced diet and hydration
THEN how many socks must one wear in cold weather?
THEN they complain about steel toe work boots
"Take that thumb out of your ass and stick it in your mouth, crybaby"
No Beatles reference!!!!!!!
(Dawn POV)
The song was wrong all along ain't wrong
It's gone just gone away
The dream it seems it means to be
Free and gone away
The song was long the throng is gone
Long gone with ease
The crowd was loud but now out loud
Announce to all I gotta leave
Where is the sun to guide us through the dark?
Has it begun to even touch the mark?
How can it be when ours is just to question why?
Where do you go when you never want to die?
When the clock becomes the enemy and night time gets so cold
Last call for something more thn simply growing old
How can I ive without that ragged company?
It ain't for free
Cause I gotta leave yeah yeah yeah
I gotta leave
'Cause it ain't for free no no no
Here's the commentary track for Act 6 Baby Blue song 2 "Fever Dream." The fellas start off with "What is Brian wearing?" Then Dave can't pronounce "car...ni...val...bar...ker."
Quote one: "Tell you what. This is enough drugs to kill a younger man."
Then the fellas talk about "Safe European Home"by the Clash and "HappyJack" by the Who.
Quote two: "We're all skaters and musicians let's just do this thing."
Then they comment on the idiocy of "covers band" v "originals band."
Beatles mention at 25 minutes.
Next is how John Coltrane is NOT a doofus.
Quote three: "Yeah, dude, spiders are bitchin'."
Doctor Who mention at 32 minutes.
Then the fellas talk about the "dumbs" versus the "smarts."
Quote four: "The only way to gain power is to crush everything in your path."
*SPOILER* SECTION: Luke Cage, Dark Matter, the Flash, Arrow, Supergirl (better on CW than CBS), and the Marvel Universe in general.
FEVER DREAM
(Dawn POV)
Listen up gather 'round there's a new thing to be found
All around everything you -n- me
Have a care bout the things everyone get up and sing
Bout the way you and me can be free
I want a super new computer
But no one can ever use her
And the only one who knows her is me
And if somebody tried to get her
They couldn't even find her
And the only one who knew her would be me
Here's a joke or a screed to all the people now in need
Find the truth if you want to be free
Give a look or a wink don't care what anybody thinks
If you blink then you will miss it to be free
And if you think of even lying
There's no point in even trying
Cause then there ain't no meaning you see?
And if that ship just sails away
Just take the next ship the next day
And say "I didn't think that last ship wanted me"
Here's a look for the night when every other thing was right
And the only thing that matters here is you
Find a hope and a dream if you don't know what it means
Well the only one who needs to know is you
Come on
Take a breath or a day play it every other way
If you can't get back to zero then it's right
On the beach in the sun in the mountains on the run
Find the way to the day to fool the night
Fever Dream
Dave: guitar and vocals
Brian: bass, engineering, mixing
Ochster: drums and percussion
Ian: mastering, mixing
Bring the maul? Pro wrestling mention at 6 minutes. The fellas talk about new tattoos, the similarities between Chinggis Khan and Socrates, and the difference between Western Europe and the Classical World. Then Brian comes to terms with his recent Midwest trip to tend to his in-law's farm including country fried steaks. Then they get into the intricacies of tractor repair, spoilers in re "Gotham," and wait until 30 minutes in to mention the Beatles. Then they bemoan the slowness of the process getting medicinal marijuana up and running in Maryland, plug People's Pizza in Rehoboth, DE, and spoil season 2 of "Dark Matter."
BRING THE MALL
(Elvis POV)
Bring the mall and crash it to it's knees
Grow a dozen spineless wheezing trees
Circumstance confronted for a buck
Scream and rant and yell "what the fuck"
Fourteen in a bottle raze it to the ground
Laugh at evil sell it rich to keep you down
Boil it up frustration with its sauce
Arguments excelsior with the boss
Trade a name and number and a look
Fish a corpse out of the country brook
Fourteen in a bottle raze it to the ground
Laugh at evil sell it rich to keep you down
Maybe, man, the world don't make no sense
So a song reflects a vision that's all pretense
In the meeting of the matter of a trillion minds
That together all together go collectively blind
In the bedrock formed a condo bath
In a motion that gives man's epitaph
To a surly motherfucker in construction boots
With a fortune in his pocket from laundry chutes
So gather 'round the stage to see
Employment congregations in a word to be
Exploited in a question of monopoly
That never gives an answer of what's to be
For a moment just a moment in a fashion craze
And a trillion motherfuckers living in a daze
Of a colony that's bitterest of them all
In a sentence of an essence, man, bring the mall
Bring the mall
Dave - guitar and vocals
Engineered and mixed by Brian
Mastered by Ian
Here is the new end theme for the podcast. There's a fine line between cleverand stupid.
We were going to do Act 3 with "Old Man Blues" book-ending it like a Neil Young album but then stayed with the original song order. This here is the acoustic Act opener that we ended up ditching! It's also a nice callback after the two big suites.
Checklist: Bob Sipes's "Air Band," Reo Speedwagon, Alice Cooper, Ralph Stanley, Flock Of Seagulls, Hank Williams, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Oak Ridge Boys, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Rush, Chris Plummer, "No racists," Public Enemy, NWA, and a Beatles mention at the 13:40 mark. You'll have to listen to the rest!
Dave says what Brian is wearing as they record this podcast immediately after recording vocals on THE VACUUM. The fellas cycle through various shout outs namely to Joe Gallagher, Dennis Barth, Mike Kerr, and Chris plummer PLUS the introduction of the characters Chinggis Khan and Julius Caesar. Then the fellas expound upon Ancient and Medieval history. Also Mr Wind was fun with to hang out. Dave does a Captain Vane impression.
Term of the week: "Piece of ass-ness."
Then the fellas survey the general state of SciFi TV and go spoiler crazy giving away major plot points to Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Daredevil, and Game Of Thrones all seasons.
Dave and Brian start by getting levels and reminisce upon wife meetings. Then there's a John Lennon mention at the 7 minute mark. Brian talks about cleaning up his hard drive which turned out not as awesomely as hoped. Then Dave notes that the O's were beating the Royals 5-0. Then they launch into a pop culture potpourri consisting of Donny and Marie, Hee Haw, the Monkees, the Gong Show, F Troop, Scooby Doo, Pre Cable TV, Frank Turner, Lucero, and Marah (Philly is a rowdy town). Then Dave sings Ween's "Freedom of 76" and Joe Flacco stops by.