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Listen/purchase: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not by Jackass Penguins
It’s been a while since this has been up here. Don’t listen if you are easily grossed out.
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Listen/purchase: Greasy Arms by Jackass Penguins
This song was recorded as it was played for the first time. The title reflects a George Harrison track from the Wonderwall Music soundtrack that I had discovered around this time and inspired the flow of this song.
This is another demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. This particular song would have been in the same theme as “Honest Engine”. I lost the lyrics sheet, but I can barely decipher the lyrics here. I need to record this one properly, as the melody gets stuck in my head 11 years later.
Washington is really mad, California’s all been had, Oregon is smoking pot, Arizona’s way too hot. I’ve been thru the west, time to pave the rest. Idaho is such a drag, all the guns in Utah sag, in Nevada, lost my cash, Colorado’s smoking hash. I’ve been thru the west, time to pave the rest, I’m sick of the west, time to pave the rest.
I am posting the demo from 2002 again. Today’s version has an extra verse with Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Just wanted to share this once again. Since the new version has been made, I haven’t really listened to the demo. Good stuff.
This song is taking off on Soundcloud. It is on track to be the most-streamed song on our Soundcloud page. You just never know when people are going to find your music.
The summer of 2002 was very special to me. It was the first summer that I spent mostly outside of California. I walked in my graduation from UCR, even though I still had one more class to take. I took a trip to the southwest first. Hiked down to Plateau Point in the Grand Canyon, went to Lake Powell, Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce and Zion. Then I went up to Hayward to join my new classmates. We then drove through Nevada and Utah to Dillon, Montana. Our base for the next 7 weeks. I mapped rocks most days until the weekend, when we took a side trip like to a hot springs or an old dusty town, and Sundays were usually laundry days and hanging out at the Metlen. I also went to the internet cafe (remember those?) to email family and friends. After I was done with the class, I got picked up by my parents in town and saw a remarkable reenactment of when Lewis and Clark met with the Shoshone to switch over to a land voyage and Sacagawea recognized her brother as the mediator from the Shoshone, exactly 197 years after it happened. We then went through Butte and Helena to Great Falls on the plains. On the way back we went through Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. When I got home again in late August, I won tickets to Doheny Days, which was all reggae back then. I got my Bachelor of Science in the mail. The summer ended with me meeting my future wife.
This is the background to how Flat Earth Society started. It’s exciting to me that the songs I wrote on that voyage will finally be released in the near future. Yes, there are some older songs and new one mixed in to this album, but the theme of that summer speaks throughout, and I think I may have finally topped Hourglass. Don’t think that there are no mistakes, though! It’s still a Jackass Penguins album. 😃
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http://jackasspenguins.bandcamp.com/album/dilutions-of-grandeur
Lo-fi tribute to Bobby Darin, one of the few artists that could pull off both genuine 50’s rock and roll and Sinatra-like ballads. This song doesn’t do him justice, thus the name of the album “Dilutions of Grandeur”. At least we aren’t delusional about the quality of our music.
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Listen/purchase: Greasy Arms by Jackass Penguins
An instrumental for your Tuesday.
Another demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. I only recorded this demo and maybe played this song 2 or 3 times, which is why I stopped in the middle of it. I think it needs a bridge or something, but it has a nice flow to it.
This is another demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. This particular song would have been in the same theme as “Honest Engine”. I lost the lyrics sheet, but I can barely decipher the lyrics here. I need to record this one properly, as the melody gets stuck in my head 11 years later.
Washington is really mad, California’s all been had, Oregon is smoking pot, Arizona’s way too hot. I’ve been thru the west, time to pave the rest. Idaho is such a drag, all the guns in Utah sag, in Nevada, lost my cash, Colorado’s smoking hash. I’ve been thru the west, time to pave the rest, I’m sick of the west, time to pave the rest.
This recording was a demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. An acoustic cover of the Bobby Darin classic. Enjoy.
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