G-a-go-go (with claps) demo 97

I thought saccharine was a sacrament

Faux Friends,

Today’s song is very meta. (Listen in the player above)

It’s a song about itself almost.

Almost.

I didn’t have a lyric idea when I made this demo¹, but it was a rocker in the key of “G,” and I announced it as “G-a-go-go (with claps)” at the beginning of the recording.

I made this in my bedroom in 1997, with no drum machine or metronome, just claps and a sort of tambourine stick clacking along to the mumbles and original guitar part.²

There is also a Farfisa organ on this recording, which I had purchased to better sound like my new favorite group at the time, Stereolab.

Eventually, I stroked my beard a bit and thought back to the song “Going to a go go,” which appears on the 1982 live album “Still Life,” by the Rolling Stones—a record I had purchased with my paper-route money and listened to more than might seem reasonable in retrospect.

I thought maybe that was why I had called it “G-a-go-go,” because of “Going to a go go.”

And then I remembered the glimmer twins (Mick and Keith) talking on television³ about how they’ll be doing the Stones thing till they’re dead.

They’ve upheld that bargain.

These things started working their way into the lyrics.

My band The Spring Collection recorded this song and it appeared on the 1999 album, AQUARIUS. You can hear the song at the 2:50 mark at this link.

And then my band FAUX JEAN recorded “G-a-go-go” for the self-released 2001 album “Kiss Life on the Lips,” which was then re-released on the Susstones label under the new name, “NATURE,” in 2002. (listen in youtube link below.)

It’s all a bit confusing, ain’t it?

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In other news, Epic Games completed the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr, and half of the staff at Bandcamp has been laid off, if the post I saw was accurate.

I took screen shots of all of my releases on Bandcamp in case they disappear.⁴

I am hopeful those folks will get their jobs back and nothing changes over at Bandcamp.

Here’s a screenshot for my archiving purposes:

I remain your humble servant,

OX&C,

Faux Jean

1. Which is obvious upon listening to the garbled nonsense that I spewed onto the cassette tape.

2. There was no plan or arrangement when I recorded this. I just jammed it out for 4-plus minutes on guitar and then started adding vox & other instruments, playing along with that first guitar. I toyed with the idea of shortening this demo for release today, but then thought, screw it, let’s keep it real.

3. A German slang word for television is “Flimmerkiste,” which wound up on the album versions.

4. Gee I hope that doesn’t happen. Gee.