The Thanksgiving Day Super-Secret Hxaro Lovefest!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:54 am

GlennCase wrote: The name "Insects Ahead" can be re-arranged to "Case and Shite".

Yeah, I had the idea it was an anagram, so I was rearranging the letters in my head in the car one day ... thinking it's "case" ... and "shite"... right, but who's the other one? Oh, it's "and"

I now know of 3 different covers of the track... This one, King Arthur's, and one that Roymond did for a coverfight a while back. It actually amazes me how different each one of them is. The robotic vocals and arrangement of this one gives it a driving, almost creepy, neat sound. Thank you, Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints!

You're welcome!
My wife said: "This one is more paranoid than the original" which I took to be a compliment, given the lyrics

Neat to hear K.A.'s as well - nice contrast!
-bill

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:04 am

"and shite" would like to thank bill and charles as well.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:38 am

The groove on Accelerator is mostly thanks to Scott Westervelt, who sorta runs the recording studio at ASU West, and who recorded a real e-drum part for me so's I could mute the MIDI drums on this one. The studio had suffered something of a meltdown not long before (ProTools stopped talking to the console), or we might've even had real drums on it.

I brought in tracks for drum machine, a couple guitars and the vocal and he recorded the drums (I think we wound up muting the drum machine during the song itself, it was messing with his groove too much) and then I flew that back onto my Yamaha digital recorder and added the rest of the tracks.

Charles

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:52 pm

Oh hey, I can *finally* ask this now!

Glenn, in your Back From Brazil, first verse, what the sam hill is the line you sing between "In a foreign country" and "Eight nights, seven days"?

This have been driving me batty for more than a while now. And thank you again, for bringing the rock!

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:58 pm

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:Glenn, in your Back From Brazil, first verse, what the sam hill is the line you sing between "In a foreign country" and "Eight nights, seven days"?

I was wondering that as well. I'm hearing it as "knife in my waist." <ow!>

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:30 pm

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:Oh hey, I can *finally* ask this now!

Glenn, in your Back From Brazil, first verse, what the sam hill is the line you sing between "In a foreign country" and "Eight nights, seven days"?

This have been driving me batty for more than a while now. And thank you again, for bringing the rock!

HEH!

The line is: Naive in my ways

And I am not singing the lead on this one, that was DDD's lead vocalist: Chad Smith. I did help to write the song, and I AM playing acoustic guitar, bass, and backup vocals, but I can't take credit for the lead vocal.

Here are the lyrics as I remember them.

Drink Drank Drunk
Back From Brazil

Went there on vacation
I know I needed rest
What I would get into
I never would have guessed
In a foreign country
Naive in my ways
Eight nights, seven days
Back from Brazil

Drank up all the beer
Didn't touch the water
Saw the girls in little thongs
Butts bigger equals hotter
Beans and rice and Jesus Christ
Spread his arms for me
Paid my hotel bill
I'm Back from Brazil

SUN AND SAND AND GIRLS WITH TANS
AND ROWS AND ROWS OF OILY BUTTS
I'M IN RIO!
Back From Brazil

(solo)
(repeat Chorus)

Little by little I
Miss my hotel room
Home is cold but shower's colder
Back from Brazil
Where the party's always jumpin'
Where the girls all wear
nothin'
Back from Brazil

BEANS AND RICE AND JESUS CHRIST
I WANT YOUR VIRGIN SACRIFICE
I'M IN RIO!
Back from Brazil

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:03 pm

Ha! Got all the lines but that one. (Had settled on "Ninth in my ways" for the descending numbers with the next line, after trying and discarding such gems as "Nice itchy waist" and "Nights in my days".)

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:42 pm

I messed up one of Glenn's lines too. "I need a purpose. Do I deserve this?" became "I need a purpose to walk the surface". In a song about a ghost searching for the reason he came back, that actually works pretty well.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:07 am

now that's weird... i'm just listening to puce's, and that exact line was on when i was reading it.
synchronicity!
-bill

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:17 am

Okay lyrics as sung and with correct lyric for first line of the bridge as supplied by Glenn.

In Glenn's original I believe he uses a D# open tuning (E dropped a half). Then he uses a variety of standard open tuning chord shapes and "twiddly bits that I could not easily emulate in standard tuning. I had no hope of singing in D# so had to work out an alternative tuning

I put my (interpreted) chords below. Emsus4 is an A with the G and B strings open. I thought is was a form of A but when I ran it through chord checker Emsus 4 is what came up. Rythm is a little more standard than the nice swing that Glenn's version has to accomodate the picking style I decided to adopt.

Great song that I felt special affinity for (being a chap of older years LOL)

Keep bringing the Rock Dr Funk!

Young as you feel - Glenn Case

INTRO
A Emsus4 A Emsus4

VERSE 1
A
The tape behind the posters
Emsus4
Starts to wear away
D A
Paper folds in half the heroes of my yesterdays
A
The calendar keeps flipping
Emsus4
At increasing speed
D G A
I lost track long ago but thatâ€™s just me

CHORUS
C# D A
Iâ€™m older than Iâ€™ve ever been
C# D E
It only gets more true if you should ask again
Bm7
I donâ€™t dream the way I used to
D
now that I have seen whatâ€™s real
A C#
and Iâ€™m smart enough to know thereâ€™s more to come
Bm7
I donâ€™t dream the way I used to
D A
but thank god for times that make the soul feel young

VERSE 2
A
I feel my bodyâ€™s starting
Emsus4
to shown signs of age
D A
This open book has found its weathered page
A
And what keeps me going
Emsus4
Is wondering whatâ€™s next
D G A
I like to feel alive before I take the rest

CHORUS
C# D A
Iâ€™m older than Iâ€™ve ever been
C# D
Some pages are still blank
E
Thatâ€™s why I have this pen
Bm7
I donâ€™t dream the way I used to
D
now that I have seen whatâ€™s real
A C#
and Iâ€™m smart enough to know thereâ€™s more to come
Bm7
I donâ€™t dream the way I used to
D G
but thank god for times that make the soul feel young

BRIDGE
A
Like we nearly sign between the strings
(Actual Case lyrics: â€œLike when Ellis signed between the stringsâ€

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:54 am

Man, am I embarassed about missing the deadline on this one. In my defense, I've been wading through more gear problems than I've ever had. But I think I've got them all worked out now, so I give you the first fruits of my new equipment (actually, it's been mostly done for a while -- it's just that last 5% that was a problem).

http://www.c-hack.com/mp3/bad_attraction.mp3

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:28 am

Man, C-Hack, you rule. Very nice balance on that mix.

I actually went to your website yesterday to see what you've been up to these days.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:57 am

I actually went to your website yesterday to see what you've been up to these days.

I tried from work it says "Hack, Hacking not permitted" You computer deviant C(omputer) Hack!!!

Post by **Lunkhead** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:43 pm

Happy Hxaro Glenn! Erin and I also wanted to cover "Need Stilts" (like every other SF! couple, apparently), but we weren't able to get ours recorded in time. After hearing the other covers we decided to finish ours anyway, since we veered a little farther away from the original. Anyway, here it is, we hope you like it:

http://www.bozos.com/merisan/songs/meri ... achael.mp3

The Secret-Hxaro Santa · Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:53 pm

That's a killer version you guys!

I added you and c hack to the original list as well. This makes it a true case of Glenn!

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:49 am

Puce wrote:Man, C-Hack, you rule. Very nice balance on that mix.

I actually went to your website yesterday to see what you've been up to these days.

Thanks Puce!

I actually have been getting back into photography, partially because all my audio gear stopped working at once, and until a couple months ago I couldn't afford to replace it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/csehak/

But I'm over the initial surge of excitement, and now the music's coming on again.

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:09 am

Glenn,

It was great fun doing this. Thanks for posting the itemized reviews.

BTW, I was able to find the lyrics on Google, probably in their cache of
Dumbrella. I would have done "Failure and Regret" if the original wasn't
already perfect. PERFECT!

Standout tracks IMO were Puce and Hip Cola.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:27 am

Hey! Who wants to hear a really bad quality recording of a very drunk Australian singing a Glen Case song to a small crowd at a suburban Brisbane pub?

Need Stilts live at the Manly Hotel

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:04 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:Hey! Who wants to hear a really bad quality recording of a very drunk Australian singing a Glen Case song to a small crowd at a suburban Brisbane pub?[/url]

I DO! I DO!

This thread just CONTINUES to provide smiles for me. Thank you, Ray. I know that I don't always agree with everything you have to say, but I really do appreciate this. It's been kind of a tough week, and hearing this performed in a live setting made me happy just now. Thank you.

For the record: I also enjoy the Merisan and C Hack entries. Thank you ALL so much!

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:11 pm

Does that make GnR's Need Stilts the most covered song on Songfight?

Ken

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:12 pm

That's the best avatar I've ever seen, Glenn.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:30 pm

I like the Star Wars ones better, like this one:

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