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The Tale of Andy’s Lyrics
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The brothers Domino provide you with more entertaining whiffle about creativity and the joys of making stuff up. This episode includes:
- Exciting news about Volume 1 of The Best of TAJD!
- Skinny white boys and the prehistory of creativity
- A dramatic reenactment of a key moment from the history of the band
- What exactly is a degausser?
Also, a call to get involved in the challenge to write and record a song around the mythical lyrics from our sacred text, the book Rock Talk by Julian Colbeck, presented herewith:
[Verse]
Searching for time that just is not there.
Does it always have to take this long?
You said don’t push it too far, just let it fade away.
But I felt I had to do something before we threw it all away.
[Chorus]
Just a dash of creativity that's all it needed.
Creativity
with all of them trimmings that come with love.
[Verse]
So take heed,
before you jump that gun
settle your conscience.
Can't you see what I see?
Girl, are you blind
to the ways of the lovin' man?
You need. . .
[Repeat Chorus]
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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward
Edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Focus
00:00:00
Speaker
Yo man, give me that microphone and sit down because a bullet like me is known to get down. So get up from the rhyme and you'll find it's designed to give sight to the blind and enlighten the mind. And the lines are arranged in a strange and orthodox style that's not you out of the box. So block the competition on a mission.
00:00:43
Speaker
Believe it or not, that was actually better than when I rehearsed it. That's quite something that was. That was quite something. Please, please stop saying yo man on the podcast. Okay. Hello and welcome to another episode of This Are Johnny Domino. My name is Steve and, and my name is Giles. Hello. We are back. Thank you for joining us for another episode of our podcast.
00:01:13
Speaker
where myself and my brother sit and we talk about songs that we have recorded back in the day when we was young. But we don't just talk about songs that we recorded, we talk about all kinds of things. So you don't need to like our music, really, to like the podcast. So few people do. To be honest, let's be fair, you can really hate our music.
00:01:40
Speaker
and still get something from this, I think. Yes.
Digital Release Announcement
00:01:44
Speaker
However, if you do like our music, you may be excited to know that the first volume of this art, Johnny Domino, as in songs that we have chosen through the course of our previous episodes, is going to be released digitally on Friday, the 22nd of March. That is the day after this podcast comes out.
00:02:10
Speaker
Oh my word. That is exciting. It's going to be all the places that are digital. It's going to be on Apple and Spotify and Bandcamp and YouTube and wherever you want to. Yeah. And you're going to be able to put the songs onto like your playlists and stuff. And you can use it in your TikToks. Oh yeah.
00:02:33
Speaker
Great. There's plenty of candidates there for TikTok songs, kids. That'd be good, wouldn't it? Yeah, let's do it. Hey kids, for listening to this podcast. All you kids out there. Not so many of the kids, but you know. When I get on TikTok though, Steve, there's going to be hundreds of them. Literally hundreds. Yes. Because there are hundreds of kids that are on TikTok, aren't they? Hundreds of them.
00:03:00
Speaker
If you need a reminder about what all this nonsense is about, over 30 years, probably getting on for 40 years, we have played it in bands and we've recorded songs with our mates and we are listening to them again with fresh ears, not really evaluating them, but we're kind of using them as a springboard to memories and wiffle and waffle and chaff. My ears are feeling particularly fresh today.
00:03:27
Speaker
Shall we get into the first song? Let's go into the first song. That was a very podcast thing to say. And well, you need to talk about this first one because it's another candidate. Oh God. Oh God. Yes, it is. OK, so the first song we're going to listen to today is not by
00:03:47
Speaker
the Johnny Domino band or any other band that we've been in.
The Making of 'Una, The Happy Cavewoman'
00:03:51
Speaker
This is a candidate for the... That was something else.
00:04:09
Speaker
Now, on previous episodes, we've talked about various people that we've played with. And two of those people that we did a lot of recording with were our mates, John and Albert. And John sent me a song that him and Albert had recorded. So I'm just going to read you a little bit from his message. Go for it. This track I always quite liked that Albert and I record when we called ourselves Skinny White Boys. Brackets, a name that Albert never liked. The song is called Una, The Happy Cavewoman.
00:04:39
Speaker
and the lyrics are taken from a short story of the same name written by Patricia Highsmith. Albert is playing guitar and harmonica, I'm playing the rest, drums, bass and banjo, plus some speaking. It was recorded in my bedroom using your first four-track, which we borrowed for much of the summer of 1994. Now that was the four-track that was given to me by my old piano teacher. It was a Texon 4x4. And it seems like people that weren't us
00:05:09
Speaker
were able to use that four track quite successfully. It used to not re-record over tracks properly. Sometimes we didn't even have four tracks to record on, but Albert and John did quite well with it on this. It was a rickety old tape machine. It really was. I mean, it didn't even have a cover on the tape deck of it where you put the tape in. It's probably got a technical name where you insert the tape, then the lid goes down. The lid, I guess, is what it's called. Didn't even have one of those. I think it was actually gaffer taped on.
00:05:40
Speaker
A bit of jeopardy here though, right? Yeah. So, you know, we've got to decide what actually it's usually meant. Yeah. Whether this is going to be entered, admitted into the halls, right? No. I don't really know what criteria we use in here for this, but we're going to listen to it very, very carefully. Yes. And decide whether it's got that certain quality. Yes.
Storytelling and Influences
00:06:16
Speaker
I think this has got a touch of the earlier recordings of Arab strap about it. Yeah. Very rumbly. Very rumbly. Really good bass. That's John playing the bass. John, he bought the banjo. It's hard to play the banjo. It's really difficult. It's got to be really difficult. No, dear John.
00:06:55
Speaker
This is just a bet for a story. Yeah.
00:07:00
Speaker
She was a bit hairy, and front-tooth missing, but her sex appeal was apparent in the distance of 200 yards or more, like an ogre, which perhaps it was. She was round, round bellied, round shouldered, round hip, and all smiling, all as jolly. That was why men liked her. She had always something cooking, and quite a new diet. She was simple-minded, and never lost a temper. She re-clubbed over the head so many times her brains hadn't.
00:07:25
Speaker
It's not necessary to call on his family, but it's a custom rule that we try to push to practice on. When you lose confidence in dragons, then you never experience it. It seems to be in the top of your head when you do the same thing as a woman in the woods. The first child you call in which you will serve, you will write premonitions into a book that you will mention, and that's all you give.
00:07:50
Speaker
of the state, and, if anything, did it decrease the population, since many people told me I was mistaken for the occasional killing of my family. The meeting was at last killed by a jealous woman whose husband had not touched her many months. His name was the first of all I've ever seen. His name was Viggo. His man turned his lamp down, and said he could see the woman who was out, and he saw the woman who was not out. If you were asked to find the client who was out, it always seems like he was out.
00:08:19
Speaker
He was the only one who had the choice of seeing some kid. He worked a lot of hard to make a one-way turn to find his own kid and first artist as a drummer. All the others used to flintel me back when I was a young man, giving the only one to go and hang around and pick up a nice string of black.
00:08:35
Speaker
It was wise, it was slow, it was wide, and how you came along. You sing aloud from tragic song, and continue to sing in command, as tears were dancing in chains. The tribe considered killing him, because he was mad and difficult, and he would fright. People drew images of Erna in the wet sand by the sea, pictures of Erna's flat stopped on the mountains nearby, pictures that could be seen from a distance. They made a statue of Erna out of wood,
00:09:01
Speaker
When you understand, sometimes he slept with ease. And the clunky syllables in his language, he made a sentence which he bribed to you whenever you have to dig. If not the only one taking the word enough to be sentenced, you will do. And neither will you know. Look at what he was slain by a jealous warrior as well, an audition of his. A man of purchase will make the statues of one of the brave tribes, the last and recent letterman of four separate biosigns. He made a beautiful bushside casket.
00:09:31
Speaker
creating more senses as well. There's a man in the mind who looks so united in the moon, or the moon, and I ate him because he had looked at me as if he had not seen me. Many men were sad when people were scared of me, but in general it was people who were able to wake up, even a strange one to stare through some people's sleep at night.
00:10:01
Speaker
I've got memories of other things that they recorded as Skinny White Boys, and it was really quite varied. They did a bit of New Kingdom slash Beck-like hip-hop, and I wish I'd got more of it, but that's the only one that John sent me. I mean, you can tell that they are very much of the bitch magnet, slint, spoken vocals, really, really, really low in the mix.
00:10:29
Speaker
that you found the story, haven't you? Yeah, I kind of wish the vocals were a bit louder on that, but I did enjoy it. The story that is being read and the title's from, it's a short story by the American novelist Patricia Highsmith, who's better known for writing psychological thrillers like the Ripley series, which I've not actually read any of, have you?
00:10:54
Speaker
No, I've not read this stuff. I've heard things on the radio and I've obviously seen a few of the films. Carol was the one recently. This is from a collection of short stories called Little Tales of Misogyny. The story is called Oon of the Jolly Cave Woman.
00:11:11
Speaker
And the collection of stories is currently very downbeat and satirical stories, basically. But this one, I needed to read it so that I could understand what they were going on about on this track. And basically, it's about a cave woman who's
00:11:28
Speaker
describe it as having some sex appeal to her peers. And a caveman called Vipo falls in love with her and makes her an ornament. And then Vipo's jealous wife kills Una, the cavewoman. And then Vipo then kills his wife. And then he makes a statue out of wood and stone of Una. And this statue has become very popular with the other men.
00:11:54
Speaker
And then Vippo is eventually slain by a jealous woman whose husband was obsessed with the statue of Una. So yeah, it's kind of like that. So it's a bit like the birth of art or pornography or something, I'm not sure. It's kind of an interesting story. It's got a lot in it. So I can understand why they picked it.
00:12:18
Speaker
And it's, you know, they were like way more literary than I was at this point in history. Yeah. I mean, the thing I mentioned is something I was going to talk about, which is not controversial, I don't think.
Creative Process and Success
00:12:34
Speaker
And I've chatted about this with John and thinking about the artwork to the podcast and the tagline how not to succeed at music. Oh, yeah. And the more I think about it, we totally did succeed at it.
00:12:47
Speaker
in the fact that we were all obsessed with creativity, and we're lucky that we all found each other. I met John, and through John, our new Albert, and we knew Jim, and then through having Jock in the band, we met Dick and Chris and all those people. We just happened to be the same age, living in the same sort of area, and we're all just obsessed with music. Are you saying it depends how you define success? I mean, clearly,
00:13:17
Speaker
I am not sitting by a pool in, you know, in Monte Carlo or the south of France or somewhere where you would want to live if you had loads of money. But we made some stuff that didn't exist. You know what I mean? You know, if you think about like the Jeff Tweedy book, how to write one song, we created things. That's really cool.
00:13:47
Speaker
It's really cool. You know, on a Friday night, we could have gone to the pub and stood around and tried to talk to girls or more likely would have just looked at them and then left the pub. Yeah. And we did do that as well. But sometimes we would just go, let's write a song as this band or write a song as a band that sounds like this. And we just do it.
00:14:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's really cool. That's good. Well, that is that not that's just like, that's kind of who we are, though. And there's lots of people like that. And I think that's it's good. You know, we were by by the very essence of making this podcast, we're encouraging people. We're saying, come on.
00:14:26
Speaker
we made some shit, you'd do some shit. That's the whole point of it really, you know what I mean? It's like, creativity breeds creativity. And, you know, it's, oh my God, right? Okay, so Oona, the jolly cave woman. You know, it's like the birth of creativity. A guy is like, makes a statue, right? He just, you know, he had the time to just carve something out of wood. And that was like, that was a thing. And it got him killed.
00:14:55
Speaker
And he got him killed, but it was successful in making the statue. Yes. There you go. And he probably pissed a few people off by making the statue. Yeah. You know, that song though, I think it's, you know, thinking about whether it's going to be entered into the eternal halls. I think there can be no doubt really, because it is the very essence of four-track
00:15:23
Speaker
fucking about basically, you know. Yeah, there's weird bits where the music drops out and you just left with the bass and then it all comes back in and then there's a weird bit of fast-forwarding tape. In fact, I heard that in the background as well. I was listening to it then and I could hear like a high bit
00:15:43
Speaker
during earlier sections of the song and it was almost like they were trying to do a cut-price version of Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles, you know, like high-speed tape and I don't know if that was harmonica but in my head it was like a tape loop, like spinning at high speed.
00:16:00
Speaker
Whatever, they were working within the limitations. Exactly, exactly. That's my point, yes. And that's what's good, right? Yes. So yeah, that one is definitely going into the eternal halls of the four track.
History and Impact of Space Rat
00:16:17
Speaker
Congratulations, John. And elbows. T-shirts are on the way. Beautiful. There you go. Next, it's another band that isn't Johnny Domino.
00:16:28
Speaker
We're going back to prehistory. We're going back to our band. We were already in prehistory, Steve. We were talking about cablemen. This is like slightly less prehistory. Slightly less prehistory. We formed a band. I mean, he's got a terrible name. Let's just get the name out of the way. The band was called Space Rat. Space Rat. But it's like Mouse Rat.
00:16:50
Speaker
from parks and recreation but yes it looked really good on the post hey they really did look good on the posters yes but space rat and that was a band that started out as a three piece with me on keyboard bass because you love that keyboard bass and the drum machine you were on guitar and amé andy was on vocals and then we moved on from being a drum machine led trio and we met jock
00:17:18
Speaker
That was through a mate of yours at college, wasn't it? It was, it was. And it was very fortuitous. Oh yeah. Because Jock was a very good, hell yeah. And Ali still is obviously. So he joined us and we became a much more
00:17:35
Speaker
exciting live proposition, shall we say. So we did some cracking gigs at Space Wrap and set the streets of Sandy Acre and Nottingham on fire with our own brand of loud, punky indie rock, shall we call it.
00:17:58
Speaker
I found a series of posters at the weekend, didn't I? And one of them said, hardcore with flowers. Yeah. That's a terrible description. There you go. No, I think it was very good. That's what we were going for. All right. So, so this is a song by Space Run called Inside.
00:18:51
Speaker
It was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right? Looking at the face, it was gonna be a happy birthday, right?
00:19:49
Speaker
I just wanna see your happy face with all of ya. I just wanna see your happy face. I just wanna see your happy face. I just wanna see your happy face.
00:20:15
Speaker
Just let me give you the picture to go with that song. Let me give you the visuals, right? Basically, you got a young, skinnier version of me in a dinosaur junior t-shirt that has been worn so much it can probably walk itself. Somebody who can... I've got about three chords and I can just about play bar chords. And I've just bought a wah-wah pedal. I think you borrowed it off Russ, actually.
00:20:44
Speaker
But I did buy one eventually. And there's my younger brother, little curly-haired little fella. Probably in a Dela Sol T-shirt. For a Watchman T-shirt. My Watchman T-shirt, yeah, yeah. P.I. This keyboard, gamely plugging away, playing that bass. That keyboard bass. There he is, little fella. Then there's a lad with a strange haircut, very skinny fella in a homemade cud T-shirt, drumming away.
00:21:11
Speaker
very good drummer drumming like only a 16 year old can draw moving his arms up and down with great speed like it can move that wrist up and down really fast right and then there's another lad singing who's think he's trying to model himself on
00:21:30
Speaker
Jim Kerr, or maybe the singer from The Alarm. So he's got a very different reference point to the rest of the band. And we're playing in a back room of a pub in a small town next to the canal in Sandy Acre. In a back room of this, it's not a pub, it was a working man's club, the Alex Club. Don't go looking for it, it's not there. No, and there was lots and lots of
00:21:58
Speaker
kind of 16, 17 year olds jumping around, chucking furniture around as I remember it. And Andy stops them doing that at some point and says, dance is one thing, but breaking tables is another. So he does try and calm them down. But it was a jolly good time, wasn't it, Steve?
00:22:17
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you said 16, 17. It was 15 to 17. Maybe. I mean, a couple of my mates from school skateboarded over to Sears. It was good fun. It was all good fun and it was basically, it was an excuse for our school friends and college friends to go and get drunk in a working men's club and cop off with each other and we just made some noise and
00:22:43
Speaker
You know, I've got a live recording of them, of that young band and there's people there and they're into it. Space raps. Space raps. Yeah. And like, kind of like echoing what you said earlier in the podcast, I suppose, you know, we're not saying that we're the only people who ever did this.
00:23:01
Speaker
There's hundreds of bands like Space Rat, always happening all over the place, right? And young people having a great time, jumping up and down, listening to their mates playing the guitar. This was just our version of it, really. Good memories. And I encourage anybody to do it as part of your life, you know, do it. Now, sadly, Space Rat did
00:23:24
Speaker
reach a fairly rapid demise before we managed to break into the indie scene, the East Midlands indie scene, mainly because of artistic differences. I think it was Jock who left first because I think he was getting annoyed with the whole thing, but it all kind of fell to bits. Now, as part of the podcast,
00:23:48
Speaker
I wanted to tell a bit of the story of SpaceWrap, but I'm not really a great writer. So I got an AI to generate a script about a very memorable episode that happened at a SpaceWrap rehearsal. Now, I can't completely vouch for the verite of this particular account. However,
00:24:15
Speaker
It does get across a certain sense of things that happen. So I got the AI to write a script. It's a play. So this is new for the podcast, isn't it, Steve? It's a little play. We're going to do a play. Yes. Now, just before we start, I mean, the interesting thing about the AI, we've got a narrator, we've got a character called Jock, we've got a character called Andy, and then you have the guitarist and the bassist. Yes.
00:24:41
Speaker
Because I didn't bother inputting our name, Steve. Oh, right. Okay. I didn't know if the AI just said those two aren't important. That's not equal in the parameters that I gave the AI. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. Um, so yes, I will, I will be, I am doing the voice of basis, but I'm also doing the voice of jog. Okay. So enjoy that. So I apologize profusely to our Scottish listeners. Okay, here we go.
AI Dramatization of Band Rehearsal
00:25:11
Speaker
Opening shot of a typical suburban house in Sandy Acre, the neighborhood is quiet and peaceful and the sun sets in the background. In the seemingly peaceful town of Sandy Acre, something explosive and unexpected is about to happen. We join the space rap band as they gather at Jock the Drummer's house for their regular practice session. The camera follows the band members, Andy the singer, Jock Drummer and their guitarist and bassist.
00:25:39
Speaker
Whoever they are, whoever they are, as they enter the house carrying their instruments and equipment. The band, known for their unique blend of rock and punk music, have been making waves at the local music scene, but today something is not quite right. As they set up their instruments, Andy, the lead singer, seems unusually agitated. Hey man, what's going on? You seem a bit off today.
00:26:05
Speaker
Andy, I just can't get these lyrics right. They're just not coming to me. The guitarist and bassist stop tuning their instruments and look at Andy sensing the tension. Maybe take a break and come back to it later. Andy shakes his head. No, I need to get this done today. We have a gig coming up and I can't go on stage not knowing my own lyrics.
00:26:36
Speaker
The pressure is getting to Andy and he desperately tries to make sense of his jumbled thoughts. Jock tries to calm him down, but to no avail. Come on, man. You're a great songwriter. You'll figure it out. Andy stands up angrily and slams his fist on the table. No, I won't. This is all garbage.
00:27:06
Speaker
without another word, Andy grabs his notebook and lyrics and furiously starts ripping out the pages, crumpling them and throwing them to the ground. Andy, what are you doing? Andy doesn't respond, he just continues to tear up his lyrics and stuffs them into his pants.
00:27:30
Speaker
The rest of the band look on in confusion. It becomes quite clear that Andy's frustration has reached a breaking point. Hey guys, let's give Andy some space. Maybe we should call it a night. The band reluctantly agrees and they all leave, leaving Andy alone in the room. As he takes a few deep breaths, he finally calms down and realizes the gravity of his actions. Oh no.
00:28:04
Speaker
As he looks at the torn and crumpled lyrics he knows he's hit rock bottom but in that moment something shifts inside him and he decides to turn things around. Cut to the next day. The band are back at Jock's house and Andy is nowhere to be seen. Jock and the rest of the band are setting up their instruments wondering where Andy is.
00:28:27
Speaker
I hope he's all right. The guitarist spots Andy walking towards them with a determined look on his face. Come on, remember the voice. You're the guitarist. No, you're the guitarist. No, I was the bassist. Jesus. Look, guys, here he comes. What was that? What is that voice meant to be? I don't know. Look, there you go. Look, guys, here he comes.
00:28:54
Speaker
you're doing me aren't you you're doing prepubescent me all right the band turns to see andy walking towards them with a new notebook in his hands andy smiling sorry for the meltdown last night i've been working on some new lyrics and i think it's some of the best work yet turns out
00:29:15
Speaker
The destruction of his old lyrics was just what Andy needed to break free from his created block. And with the support of his bandmates, he was able to turn his frustration into something beautiful.
00:29:29
Speaker
cut to the band performing on stage, with Andy confidently belting out his new lyrics. The crowd cheer and the band beams the pride. Who knew that the little drama in the suburbs of San Diego would lead to such an inspiring comeback? The Space Rap band proving that even the most chaotic moments can ultimately lead to something great. There's a closing shot of the band in their element, rocking out on stage as the sun sets in the background.
00:30:05
Speaker
I'm clapping myself. I'm clapping myself. Yes, well don't. That really was something, wasn't it? I think we may have some more dramatizations of key moments from the history of Johnny Domino coming up.
00:30:22
Speaker
I think you may have set the bar particularly high with that one. There's more. If I can just take another moment just to apologise to Jock and anyone else from Scotland who heard that, I apologise profusely. I think you did very well. It was a bit of a Mrs Doubtfire, a bit Kelly McDonald.
00:30:40
Speaker
Shall we go to the final song from our selection? Let's. OK, now this is a song by Johnny Domino. This are Johnny Domino. And it is a song from Johnny Domino's last album. It's the last one we recorded. And that most recent album. Well, yeah, we're talking.
00:31:00
Speaker
How many years? It's got 20 years ago. When did we record this? Well, it came out in 2004. So yeah, it's 20 years old. Okay. So it's the most recent album. Okay. And this is a song called Breathe It Out. Now we went through a period of just having jams.
00:31:17
Speaker
where we would just plug all of our equipment into the 8-track, everything, like every instrument, every keyboard, the drum machine, sampler, effects unit, and we'd just record stuff as it just came out of us. Yeah, we're just like making stuff up. Just making stuff up. I mean, I'm not claiming that we're jazz, but we were just making a bit of a racket. And a load of it was sharp, really. A lot of it was a bit crap.
Creating 'Breathe It Out'
00:31:41
Speaker
And because on the first occasion that we tried this, I was waiting for the delivery of a degausser,
00:31:46
Speaker
or a demagnetizer. What is a degausser? It's basically, it's a demagnetizing rod and you can remove magnetic fields from your cassette player. Yeah. And I needed one for the eight track. So we were waiting for it. I was waiting for a delivery of one. So we called it a degausser session. And we used that technique on basically the last two albums that we did. That's a great metaphor, isn't it? Because it was a cleaner, it cleaned your tapes, right? And also the degausser sessions.
00:32:16
Speaker
It was like a way of kind of expelling all of our creativity. Yeah. So and the music on Breathe It Out is an unedited De Gausser recording. On this particular occasion, it was just me, you and Mark going straight into the eight track. So I'm playing guitar, you're playing bass, Mark's playing his keyboards and the drums. Who's playing those funky drums? Those funky drums are by legendary jazz drummer Billy Martin.
00:32:46
Speaker
who is the drummer in a jazz fusion band called Modesky, Martin and Wood. They consist of John Modesky on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums and Chris Wood on bass. Now when I worked in Virgin Megastore in the jazz department,
00:33:00
Speaker
their album, Shackman, came out in like 1996. And that was a bit of a hit with myself and Mark. Hi there, Mark. Not Mark from Johnny Domino, Mark from Virgin Megastore. We used to listen to that quite a bit. Billy Martin released a record called Illy Bee Eats, Volume 1, Groove Bang and Jive Around. It's a breakbeat album. And I think it might have been one of the first things I bought off the internet.
00:33:26
Speaker
because they were just selling it through their website. I've still got it, it's a vinyl record and it's an album of drumbeats and it's a really good listen to say it's just a drummer. There aren't that many drummers you could listen to and I'll allow them of Billy Martin's one of them.
00:33:44
Speaker
And for Breathe It Out, we took the drums from the track Brazilian Cowboy. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And then we wrote a song and it's a bit, just a little bit. I think there's a little bit of a can in there. Definitely. There's a bit of the thought in it. And the song is about kind of, uh, it's a bit like, it's like, you know, this is how to make yourself feel better. Okay.
00:34:21
Speaker
Sometimes you might feel like there is no way forward Out of the situation that you got your own self into I am here to let you know that I have been there many times All you can do is drag it up and breathe it out
00:35:12
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Wasted trail behind
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you
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Like there is no way forward out of the situation that you got your own self into I am here to let you know that I have been there many times All you can do is drag it up and breathe it out
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I'm not thinking about how it could be If I had done this out or whatever, turn up stepping to me
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Oh
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And I did say before we started listening to that, that it was an unedited degausser recording. Obviously I faded some stuff out at the end. I don't know how much longer we went on, on that riff. And you mentioned it's got a little bit of the fall in it. That bit of the fall is athlete cured. Oh yeah. Which is obviously a bit, um, tonight we're going to rock you by spinal tap.
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So yeah, it's a bit of that, definitely. Yeah, I really liked it. And I chose that to be in this episode because I wanted it to be a shoo-in for the next volume of the best of Johnny Domino, because I don't think there's anything else in this episode that would probably be admitted. Do you think that was a bit sneaky of me? So you're trying to game the system, aren't you? I am trying to game the system.
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Because the only other candidate really from this episode would be Inside by the band Space Rap. And that is quite a nice recording, which has been done on a tape deck. But like you say, it's from prehistory a little bit. It's a bit primitive. And I think Breathe It Out is a pretty good representation of Johnny Domino at a particular point. And I like Jim singing on it.
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But he's not on it much. He does like what he does in it though. I like what he does on it. The really high bit. Yeah, I love that. In fact, I love what everyone does on it. I like Mark's squiggly wiggly bits on the keyboards. And I like your guitar playing and the overloading and stuff. I think it's cool. And I like the drummer and my bass playing is all right as well. Yeah. I think it's pretty good. Yeah.
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So what do you say? Are you just going to make me hang on 10 talks for a while? I think both the space rap song and that Johnny Domino song are pretty good. That's it. You can have the casting vote. I enjoyed the space rap one. I enjoyed listening to it and I enjoyed our little play.
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But would you include, which one would you include on the compilation tape? You know, if you were going to make a compilation tape, which is going to represent us, if it's this, our Johnny Domino, which one would you pick? It's probably going to be breathed out, but I'll think very carefully about where it's going to be placed because I think it's okay.
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okay okay god that's rather you know i can say i can sense for either tone of your voice that you you you don't love it look i enjoyed listening to space rat and i enjoyed listening to breathe it out and i haven't got any strong feelings either way about either of them so if you want breathe it out to be on you can breathe it out we'll do that then
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happy music or relatively happy music and really tragic lyrics.
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Thank
Musical Contrast and Listener Challenge
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And the best example I've found is a song called Draggin' the River and it's by a country artist called Ferlin Husky. From 1959. Got to number 11 in the US country charts.
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you very much for joining us.
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And Ferlin Husky gives us a beautiful song that I'd like to go away to listen to. It's not very long. Happy little tune, right? But it talks about the fact that the narrator of the song is having such a bad time in his relationship that the next thing that's going to happen is that they're going to be dragging the river for him. How lovely.
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which I think is about as contrasty as you can get, right? So get into that, Furlin Husky. I'm loving the contrast between the happy song and the very, very, very sad lyrics. Excellent. Well, if things get worse, I can't shake this curse. Then start dragging the river for me.
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00:43:51
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Links will be in the show notes and we'll be back in another couple of weeks. If you listen to the previous recording, then you will have heard our challenge to you, which is to write a tune to go with the lyrics. Hold on. Hold on to lunch. Hold on there. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay. We need to do a bit more upbeat here. Okay. Here we go. Right. In the last episode, we set you a challenge.
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And the challenge was to write some music to go with some very... Well, should we say they're amazing?
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Let's say they're amazing lyrics. They've given us a great deal of happiness over the years. They have. Some amazing lyrics by the fictional band, as far as we know, called Out To Lunch. And these lyrics are now available on all of the different social medias that we are on, right? So you can find them, right? And I'll put them on the notes to this podcast. Anyway, please have a go. Join in. We want you to record
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your own version of this song in whatever genre, whatever style you like to record it in, right? And I think this is going to be quite good fun if people get involved. We're going to probably have a go at recording one.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going to we're going to have a crack at it, aren't we? At least at least one. And you never know. Right. We might actually through the majesty of the Internet, we may actually find the the actual version of the song. We never know. Right. So get involved with that. That's going to be something coming up in the near future. And we've got another episode coming up in a couple of weeks, which Steve's going to pull some
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bangers out the bag which you know is gonna you know it's gonna he's gonna be he's gonna say something more than just it's fine about it which is good right and yeah there you go so thank you for listening thank you for listening and please join us again next time so was it was it my turn to be grumpy