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SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDiasporaHere's the Society Fringe Podcast denouement for 2021. This line won't leave my head. "The open road might call your name / The sky might burn a crimson hue of lust."
2021-11-2406 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe VacuumEverything I wrote before this led up to it and everything since is coming to terms with it. I'll include the lyrics this time. The vocals are odd in spots because I was choking back tears. I never thought this would get done. Your world ain't my world But my sun is your sun And I guess that it always was Cry, forgotten ones Love and hate Congregate Celebrate Love and Hate Dawn don't feel so good 'Cause nothing's understood And she's been wasting time And she's been forced to find a new...
2021-11-1754 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastLet's Smoke Some ReeferThis was written and released during prohibition. It sounds strange to say these days but in the old days you would get locked in a cage for having this plant in your pocket! We all know the intentions of the war on drugs by now. More like the war on blacks, hippies, and AIDS patients. Anyway, I like mainstream country every once in a while and I always imagined that Toby Keith might take a liking to this and sing it on one of his albums he released while the Afghanistan War was still popular.
2021-11-1003 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastHere We GoTo me this is the ultimate Circle 9 recording. From Joe's string quartet guitar solo via ebow, to the folk rock explosion after the last verse, to the George Harrison style back up vocals at the end, to the woeful tale of an out of control young-in searchin' for...he doesn't even know what! Something is empty. Something somewhere is off. I love this recording.
2021-11-0304 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastFBI ManI really really really like this recording. Joe's using the vocoder. We rarely ever played this live. It barely registered when we worked it up for recording. It was a "meh" song. Of course, as me and Bri learned through out the course of THE BIG OPERA, you just can't predict which recordings are going to stick. This'n sure did.
2021-10-2701 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTexas ThunderstormThis is gorgeous. I love the interplay between Joe's and my guitars. We had an electric and an acoustic version. We mashed them up. This is the prettiest shit with which I've ever been associated.
2021-10-2006 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastLady BaltimoreLook. It was absolutely insane and unexpected when the Raves won their first Super Bowl. I had been traumatized by the Colts leaving in 1984. My brother and I had season tickets. That we (WE!) came out of nowhere and rode off into the sunset as World Champs, in a way, it made me believe that anything was possible. Little stupid Baltimore, nothing since the O's won the World Series in 1983. We didn't even have an NFL team for over a decade! No hoops. No NHL. This was a transformative moment for me. It's odd to be so invested in...
2021-10-1303 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastAlrightAnother song for and about my wife. It's pretty catchy I think. These songs have a carefree spirit that is unusual for one of my records.
2021-10-0604 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe AbbeyKass and I went to New Orleans together when we were dating. It was achingly romantic and magical. We stayed at The Frenchman right on the southeast tip of The French Quarter. We befriended a bartender at a place called The Abbey on Decatur Street who had recovered from a stroke brought on by alcoholism. We called him "Strokey." That feels like a very New Orleansy thing. I had proposed to her soon enough after this. The band passed on this song for EUTAW STREET too! Harrumph. So this is "micro" in the parlance of the album SOCIETY FRINGE...
2021-09-2903 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastFreddieFrustrated with Circle 9 and in response to Steve Earle's COPPERHEAD ROAD I wrote SOCIETY FRINGE PLAYER. This is an answer song to "Johnny Come Lately." Yo dig I fuck up the geography pretty badly. I only have a rudimentary understanding of America's involvement in World War II. Mainly it's from Hollywood. It's very very unlikely that Freddie fought at Guadalcanal AND Normandy Beach. I'll worry about the narrative holes never. This shit's done been digitized! The main story, though, is about young men shipped off to war barely having ever even touched a woman. It's the Samwise Gamgee story...
2021-09-2204 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastAmericaI recorded a whole record while Circle 9 recorded EUTAW STREET because I was so frustrated. Eventually I talked them into doing operas. Tell you what. We passed over this song for EUTAW STREET and it pissed me off. So, being as I'm a Steve Earle acolyte, I figured it out on mandolin and did my own version of his masterpiece COPPERHEAD ROAD. First half macro second half micro. I named the album SOCIETY FRINGE PLAYER. Nowadays this is in the live version of TRAVELOGUE AMERICA PART TWO. It opens it up after intermission which for me means Twizzlers and...
2021-09-1504 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSong To KassHere I'm name dropping my wife in a song title AGAIN! ;-) This is Hamer supplementing the mighty 9 on trumpet and Marge from Duku singing the back ups. This also has stayed in the live set forever. It's as true a declaration of love as I've ever gotten. Unapologetic love songs are tough. I don't know how the Beatles did it without ever sounding like a bunch of drips. I reflexively want to sabotage lovely little odes with profanity. I still am pretty much a 14 year old boy at heart. Also, the vocal/guitar line is inspired by "I...
2021-09-0806 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDavid Koresh's Last WordsI love my country so much I oft get emotional when thinking about the undoubtedly excellent shit that we have established. We're also Robespierre levels of dangerous bonkers. Our two main freedoms collided together with the Branch Dividians, the freedoms to arm and worship. In this nation they go in that order. Distrust of governmental forces is engrained in certain strains of Americana. Of course it is. This is a nation built on people fleeing other nations. I remember reading an in depth article about Koresh in either Spin or Rolling Stone (pretty much indistinguishable to a hipster Gen X...
2021-09-0104 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastFandangoI was trying to write a version of Crazy Horse's "Cortez the Killer" for Circle 9. I STILL want to work up a live version of this with Bri and Ochster. I have an acoustic arrangement too. I want it to be SFP's "out of the blue and into the black." The fellas never wanted to play this one. We were doing mostly 45 minute sets around this time so we would only have 1 longish song. Bidnizz, jack! This is my favorite Circle 9 performance. Also, I didn't realize it at the time but Joe Gallagher introduced the SFPeeniverse with "Moai," "Gateway...
2021-08-2512 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastRisin OutlawI'm old enough to appreciate westerns. Yo dig. I was struck by something that conservative commentator David Brooks said during the upheaval of 2020. While discussing the protests sparked by the execution of George Floyd on PBS he said "(F)or many decades, the pioneer experience was the defining American experience. And then the immigrant experience was the defining American experience. Now the struggle for racial justice is the defining American experience." He's absolutely right. This here song is a romanticisation of the initial American Experience at the tale end of the European Conquest of the Americas. As a n...
2021-08-1802 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSherman's MarchBeing a rock and roll kid I didn't realize until much later that you could write songs based in historical times. Fantasy is well represented but actual history is almost nonexistent. Being a big Steve Earle fan and having been introduced to the Pogues by the woman I would eventually marry it was like a whole new world of possibility exploded upon my essential existence as a songwriter. The further back I went the more and more it felt absolutely right to base songs in a time period that decidedly ain't America from the 1950s on. It's such a...
2021-08-1105 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastMiss KathrynThis song was originally called "Life's a Beach" and I wrote it in 1987 whilst living at Ocean City, MD for the summer. I remember people crying when I would play it. I just RECENTLY realized that these piano middle C power ballads are very effective in bringing forth emotion. I repurposed it for THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. I used my wife's name. This is absolutely inspired by Ken Burns The Civil War which I watched over and over again. Growing up in Maryland we're there.
2021-08-0405 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastRebel StandThis is inspired by Clint Eastwood's THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by the Band. In today's polarized world it's a challenge to attempt to see each others' perspectives. Philosophically it's eminently frustrating. Here's a different approach. I used to be a construction worker. Every cliche is pretty much rooted in reality. Everybody is racist or homophobic until they're working with a person of another race or sexual proclivity. Once it's proven that a worker works they transcend the stereotype. It always bugged me that this enlightenment stayed on the job site. At...
2021-07-2803 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastCSS VirginiaThe US is completely insane. The threat of violence is always present. That's what the Axis didn't understand during World War II. We are ahead of the curve always in terms of a willingness to inflict harm on other human beings. I also find the image of Europe looking on in concerned fascination while we butchered each other with iron clad war ships amusing. One day we'll come to terms with our vicious soul but I ain't holding my breath.
2021-07-2103 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastFreedom AfricaHere's the big shift from bar band to rock opera band. We opened with this for years, especially in showcase environments. I loved opening with it because there's awesome head bang breaks where I made my hair look crazy. I shit you not. We were in denial for YEARS about boastfully being willfully ignorant of the way we presented ourselves but that was total horse shit. We absolutely played up the working class apocalyptic drunken mountain men on speed look for years.
2021-07-1403 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastNorth OntarioThis was one of the first songs I had to go back and change the lyrics because I got the geography fucked up! I was mimicking "Answering Machine" by the Replacements off of LET IT BE. I played this live until Ochster solidified himself as the SFP drummer. I was also trying to tell a sorrowful tale along the lines of another Replacements song, "Little Mascara" off of TIM. The open B minor would hurt my lil fingies when I played this acoustically.
2021-07-0703 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Revolution's Come & GoneThis was recorded during the same session as "Agenda." I was very proud of this. Honestly? Joe Gallagher is the only other guitar player I'll play chords behind. I was glad to hear him rock out here. I remember when we released this as a 45 we got feedback that Staten Island's college station played it muchly. This is me realizing that youthful rebellion turns into simply acting like an asshole at some point.
2021-06-3006 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastAgendaI wrote this between the Baltimore Colts and the Baltimore Ravens. It's my first, and almost only recorded, rapping. Even so, I write a lot of raps but they come out like singing. Everything always comes out a little differently (or even a lot!) than what is intended. This is the Dennis Barth Circle 9. Joey Joe Joe playing his old GEE-tar with the Egyptian symbols, and Pork on drums. This was the 9's first time in the studio. It was the first thing I recorded that turned up an a CD.
2021-06-2306 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDrivin Again 000505 This is the distinct link between TRAVELOGUE and SPACESHIPS GUNS AND BOOBIES 10 Makes sense. 15 We'll see what happens 20 BOW BOW 25 It's a banjo. 30 Is this a good idea? 35 They think the harmonica's a bagpipe. 40 It's not quite Lynyrd Skynryd. 45 It depends on what your experience is. 50 Everything happens for a reason.
2021-05-2453 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDrivin Again 000405 R-600s ride on them to go to war. 10 Gandalf is in Hurricane Island. 15 Andy's not going to be here for the music festival. 20 Now, understand it. 25 I don't even remember how it...uh. 30 Do do doo doo doo doo. 35 "A Woman's Work," maybe that's her. 40 Rear view mirror? 45 I felt really weird for a week afterwards.
2021-05-1749 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDrivin Again 000305 They all played and sang at the same time. 10 Looks like a Reaver. 15 Do you know what happened in the second season? 20 ...And they're playing to the Queen of England and shit? 25 I betcha it happened all over the place at the same time. 30 Blond guy. Blond guy? 35 In the middle of the street? 40 Just like it usually was. 45 It's called "they're turned." 50 Have a fastback on it? 55 Nice!
2021-05-1055 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDrivin Again 000205 ...that always feels good to... 10 I just started seeing musicians out on the street 15 It's like an undefined thing 20 I like cool new stuff 25 It ends with the epilogue 30 It's a good TMD record 35 We drove and talked about it 40 F sharp was never really in it 45 ...amp out in the kitchen... 50 It's just a guideline for dumb people
2021-05-0350 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDrivin' Again 000105 The computer talked to LOGIC 10 Maybe I was overreaching 15 ...weekly or monthly... 20 I love you, Paul 25 Turn the dryer off because we're doing tracks 30 This is like a brand new fucking thing 35 That's a bummer 40 I haven't even looked at my notebooks 45 Strictly because I don't have a CD player anymore 50 Just barely get a mark on it 55 Dark chocolate, that's the way to go.
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SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDogYou never know quite what to do You shut up when I'm in the room You lead me around by the tongue I see it all clear as the sun You love me when I play guitar Then throw me away in the yard You lead me around like a dog So lead me around like a dog Do do do do do do do do do do do do do All right yeah You lead me around like...
2021-01-2502 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSinkin DeepLost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday A different world a new country I found out today It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway Driving on back to my home where the radio's free Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road Every once in a while I just want to explode
2021-01-1809 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastChips & DipHere's some chips and dip Have a nice party, son I can see it clear as day All smiling cakes and fun Bring my chips and dip To your party later on I got some peanuts too For your happy birthday song Here's a dirty card Don't show it to your mother Here's a briefcase and a check When's last you saw you brother? Take my stuff on back inside It's yours now...
2021-01-1104 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSay You Love Me TooWhen I look in your eyes The clouds leave the skies My pain starts to wane So I'll say it again Say you love me too It's good making love Feels so good making love Tell my buddies roll on I'll catch up later on But we all know I won't Something I just won't do They're all down at last call While I'm in bed with you Say you love me too
2021-01-0408 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTakin CoverDo you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not from me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink y...
2020-12-2802 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSpringsongDrinking a 40 on the second day of spring We just sent off the mailing list Got a keg flowing in the afternoon It's time for drinking this So many cats on the mansion porch I know everyone inside Girl living in an upstairs apartment One day she'll be my bride Picked up D down in old Pigtown Got a ride in the van inside Smoking around an ounce of weed Laughing 'til it hurts my sides Thank...
2020-12-2109 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Agreement SongLet's agree on disagreeing Let's agree on moving on Let's agree just for agreement On second thought don't call me on the phone 'Cause I'm flashing back on days of sorrow Cold and melancholy like the night Frown around and feeling stupid On second thought I'm going out tonight I ain't going out just for the movement 'Cause I'm liking sitting here just fine Yeah Let's argue for just the talking Let's drive aroiund and...
2020-12-1404 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastHey DadHey, Dad, I'm dying Hey, son, I done my best Hey, Dad, you're lying Hey, son, I done my best Hey, Dad, I'm thinking Hey, son, I'm thinking through Hay, Dad, I'm starving Hey, son, I'm hungry too Hey, Dad, I'm running Hey, son, I'm running through Hey, son, I'm gunning Hey, Dad, I'm drinking brew Hey, Dad, it's night time Hey, son, it's morning dew Hey, Dad, it's summer
2020-12-0705 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSinkin'Got in my truck and I drove off I didn't say shit Looking for words when they left me to stew over it Every once in a while I just can't shrug it off 16 years sober will make you a shiny self cross So I apologized when we did plug in the gear All of this time I been wanting it's year upon year How can a something be somewhere wherever it is Can't it be nowhere and nothing and not of the biz
2020-11-3003 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSinkin DeepLost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday A different world a new country I found out today It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway Driving on back to my home where the radio's free Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road Every once in a while I just want to explode
2020-11-2509 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTakin CoverDo you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not fropm me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope...
2020-08-2502 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTakin CoverDo you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not fropm me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope...
2020-08-1802 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTakin CoverDo you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not fropm me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope...
2020-08-1102 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTakin CoverDo you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not from me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope...
2020-08-0402 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDoom Cookie Part 1 WinterDOOM COOKIE PART 1 WINTER WINTERTIME The bold and ragged beauty of a winter tree Struck Susan as quite odd as she looked to see A table full of papers but none up to date No chance to glimpse beauty when you're running late A far off police siren pierces through the air But Billy doesn't notice and he doesn't care Sirens don't man nothing in the county jail Doing time's the fine when you can't make the bail In wintertime the sun don't shine The ice it shines the world's unkind An accident just happened out on...
2020-07-2841 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe War Between the States Part 2THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES PART TWO ABE LINCOLN BLUES Man after man has wilted from the pressure and the stress Man after man has wilted from the pressure and the stress If I can't get me a fighting General I'll put my brains all on my desk I take freedom to give it Oh yes I see the irony I take freedom to give it oh yes I see the irony We're the first ones to really do it right It's all coming down to me All these chumps around me they just don't see what's...
2020-07-2149 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe War Between the States Part 1THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES PART 1 MOAI (instrumental) FREEDOM AFRICA Freedom Africa I shine on the light I'm a king I walk this land The earth is my gift The spirit flows through me FORT SUMTER BREAKDOWN (instrumental) REBEL STAND Who in the hell do these Lincolnites think they are? Trying to come down on my beloved Stars and Bars Arrogance and cotton is all they think we got But we got fire them Yanks can go to rot I was born in Dixieland I built this house with my two...
2020-07-1448 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastCantankeronus Part 2CANTANKERONUS PART 2 HOME IS HOME No man can catch her eyes She don't think much of guys With their macho bullshit talking trash To her it just ain't funny, man She's made her way to Beta 9 She heard New Earth's a damn good time She's seen it Yet she's coming back again Them love machines are fine for some When you're all filled up with Martian rum With their whizzing gears sometimes Why they seem just like a person But they don't talk and they don't laugh Unless the program tells them to It really ain't spontaneous...
2020-07-0748 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastCantankeronus Part 1CANTANKERONUS PART 1 NOWHERE ONES Fifty damn years on down the road I was driving late at night Under pollution lights But it didn't stop the sun from coming up To interrupt Everything I seen And everyone I known My young self stumbled by Too drunk too wonder why Ain't no stars in the sky for the nowhere ones That never won Beat you black and blue Bleed a drop or two I see it in my sights I glimpse it in the night I don't know what is right for the nowhere ones That never won We're...
2020-06-3049 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTravelogue The East Part 2TRAVELOGUE THE EAST PART 2 TRAPPED The scene is the Chinese island of Chin Pau. Billy's defeated, Johnny's disappeared, and Troubadour has kidnapped Charlene. We slow fade to an unreadable Comanche warrior lounging in an opium den in the far east, discarded, disavowed, relinquished, abandoned...trapped. Dave - guitar and vocals Brian - bass, guitar, engineering, mixing Andy - drums CONSEQUENCE Consequence smolders and trembles She fills my lungs Disappears when I lose reality Maybe choke on my tongue Let's rock let's roll It feels so good to give in Reason is a tumor Live for...
2020-06-2341 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTravelogue The East Part 1TRAVELOGUE THE EAST PART 1 BLOOD Roam, suckers, roam through the markets of Chin Pau With you races full of hope and your pockets full of dollars Roam, suckers, roam with the freedom of life blood Sucking face with grace in a love that's blessed by turmoil Mourn, sucker, mourn 'cause you spit on family blood And you turned your back on Momma, she never turned her back on you Mourn, sucker, mourn with your shoulder slinging nine And that bullet by your heart which your brother broke on purpose Roam, sucker, roam Laugh, sucker, laugh, 'cause revenge...
2020-06-1651 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTravelogue America Part 2TRAVELOGUE AMERICA PART 2 AMERICA I been looking for America in rock and roll and football And right now I can't tell stories coz I feel distant from you all Merging mergers fund the way confusing and too mindless The money man's greed bloodies hand an appendage of the spineless On a mountain a lone banjo player wails He's toothless and all moonshined up The ancient bluesman joins him for a solo Together they just puke it up There ain't no money in forgiveness unless you're already famous Not none of us not me or you not one...
2020-06-0249 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTravelogue America Part 1TRAVELOGUE AMERICA PART 1 OPEN ROAD I want an open road I want to drive away But nobody got a second chance Giving up too fast I want to play my hand But nobody got a second chance I Will crawl to you I will die for you But I warn you I cry too I want an open road where the wind it sings out loud A tune that's meant to drown another's pain I need an open road I got to fly away 'Cause the pressure's enough to drive a man insane What'd you say to...
2020-05-2646 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Cult Part 2THE CULT PART 2: THE VACUUM LOVE & HATE Love and hate Congregate Celebrate Love and Hate THE BALLAD OF DAWN AND REMOTE CONTROL Dawn don't feel so good 'Cause nothing's understood And she's been wasting time And she's been forced to find a new time Barely holding on Tracking footsteps in the rain Of a darkness spawned Never going home again She's insane Midnight's broken The highway's spoken "I don't have a soul" Thought Remote Control Heaven's cruelest joke Crossroads sign is broke Dawn breathes reprieves Remote just leaves Dawn burns best at night When she feels it's...
2020-05-1954 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Cult Part 1THE CULT PART 1: REVIVAL WON'T YOU COME BACK HOME The sun really ain't too bright but I got to squint to see anyway Sleeping in a stranger's car I jerk when it starts to sway I said "I'm just in from Jerusalem I'm just in from the sun" A six string in a gunny sack I'm looking to have some fun I been high every single night Won't you come back home with me And won't you try to be with me tonight Won't you come back home with me So I strolled up to the bar...
2020-05-1255 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe War Part 2 Commentary05 ...When we did it in my living room...or dining room. 10 Yeah, that's crazy. 15 Just do the normal two seconds. 20 (sniff grunt) 25 But it's just a different order now. 30 There's the big fluffy kind of fuzzy tone on the Les Paul. 35 Uh, lifting your legs up like this? 40 We played with him. 45 The Festival Of Fertility 50 ...Stuff with the chords and not any riff things. 55 How much is that costing them?
2020-05-051h 18
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe War Part 1 Commentary05 So it starts off with Andy's nice little beautiful percussion 10 You know how like they do in musicals? 15 I didn't get that shit. 20 Time heals all wounds and wounds all heals. 25 Now we have traffic. 30 They just had too much going on, man. 35 We're going to have to do something about your cursing, young man. 40 The sunken city off the coast of Cuba. 45 G major is the same solo as E minor. 50 ...and I get out of my car... 55 I can't rem...
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SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe War Part 2THE WAR PART 2: DAWN CITY FRONT LINE Dig it murder's suicide alright Suck it stubbornness is pride inside Fuck it breathing nitrogen again Shoot it war's a pathogen my friend I feel patricidal won't you come and slow my world? Here now downright tribal won't you come and slow my world I been laid low I been can't go I been fathomed out Where's my peep hole drenched in trench low is the highest bout I'd surrender or pretend or not to kiss the mud Blood and lice and smoke and lice and dying in the crud...
2020-04-211h 07
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe War Part 1THE WAR PART 1: ATLANTIS THE WAR OVERTURE (inst) Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion Ian - mastering MELTDOWN When the world started turning and it set to up and burning All the freedom of a megalopolis The United States was bleeding and the populace was pleading For a living breathing old sarcophagus Well she took to warring constantly for fossil fuels and Jesus And the lies of often civilated songs Turned the Middle East to glass and turned her back on her repast And said the...
2020-04-141h 07
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Orphan Part 2 Commentary05 You guys were so tripping. 10 Holy shit! 15 I was very comfortable with doing three albums a year. 20 This is also the first song I did acting instead of a solo at the end. 25 ...Tripping balls animation with regular stuff. 30 I think it's been, like, four years. 35 It's like the Who...STEVE EARLE! 40 Highway home is the orphan. 45 ...Aah, sweet, sweet bass line. 50 I'm happy to have been a part of it, you know? 55 I was trying to be, like, "Ballad Of a...
2020-04-0757 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Orphan Part 1 Commentary05 I thought we were listening to the thing. 10 This is still just the Elvis narrator. 15 Look how big it is! 20 That's fucking awesome! 25 Look, a hard topped jeep. 30 This was always one of my favorites. 35 I'm in charge. 40 Let me tell you what there's two dumb rednecks in a Ram next to me. 45 This a good one too. 50 Is that ironical? 55 I made omelets this morning. 60 Play it at Chuck E Cheese on the jukebox? 65 Just today.
2020-03-311h 13
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Orphan Part 2THE ORPHAN PART 2 FORSAKEN (inst) CRANK IT UP YOU FUCKING WHORES Gone for good is what I'm getting Death to me's a new direction But I want to make myself just suffer 'Cause shit is all there is Wishing crazy to me through the slumber Slouching closely to restricted thunder Crashed through motionless it becomes laughter So crank it up you fucking whores Let's talk about it The seascape melts into a laughing flower Slathered by gynecologic power Flowing gushing forth like arms of plunder And tripping balls just like the savior Crank it up...
2020-03-2454 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Orphan Part 1THE ORPHAN PART 1 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 Dave - guitars and vocals Brian...
2020-03-1755 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Lovers Part 2 Commentary05 They're all mixed up together. 10 "In the Butt" off of DREAD PIRATE. 15 As someone who understands the benefits of psychedelic drugs... 20 ...And I had a direct signal. 25 The boogie woogie. 30 Deep philosophical grilled cheese. 35 This is so radio friendly. 40 Always trying to be optimistic. 45 Here's the reveal of him...as a child. 50 There's Monster Rob on this one too. 55 (listening to the riff)
2020-03-1059 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Lovers Part 1 Commentary05 Quick check my anus! 10 ...And then they kind of go into play. 15 "To Be a Badass" was on the stuff before me. 20 My dumb new phone doesn't have one of them headphone prts. 25 He's an independent contractor who kills people for the government. 30 I hear he's Jewish. 35 We can do temporary stuff. 40 Ah whatever. 45 ...In a big huge sprawling urban shitscape. 50 It's like "Purple Rain." 55 I don't know why I think of that specifically. 60 ...And then this is different
2020-03-031h 04
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Lovers Part 2THE LOVERS PART TWO DESPERATION WALTZ Try us. If you got a reason I don't ant to hear it. Buy us. You can't afford to just even get near it. Slide show. Pictures of nothing and nothing plus hearsay. Pride low. Come up for air and then watch it turn our way. Closed up. In both physical and emotional ways. Nose up. A false display of hope why it's still a display. Comfort. Meted out just like a pill from a doctor. Sore sport. It's you and it's me and it's us and it's them. Waltzing to...
2020-02-2551 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastThe Lovers Part 1THE LOVERS PART 1 ELVIS IS GOD The second coming played a rhapsody Rubbery legged both white and black Kept the preaching to a minimum Blood and sweat poured down his sunburned neck His eyes shut tight and his soul was pure Jet black hair and karate pose Sang a song about a mystery Reverberated 'round the globe Side-burn Jesus was pumping gasoline Curled his lip and shook his ass Drove his truck up to the Temple The vendors said they'd take a pass Said "Get your sorry self on back to Memphis Don't want to h...
2020-02-1852 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDave and Dennis drive to Andy's again05 Do you have his phone number? 10 We've added a band called...um... . 15 John Dennis! 20 I didn't know. 25 People just...out and about. 30 Natalie Portman's awesome, yes. 35 It's kind of like a Tylenol but different. 40 Well of course, of course. 45 Nah let's just do the medley proper. 50 Some people don't realize. 55 Wait a minute, so John Entwhistle's dead. 60 This is such a great beat. 65 All through out most of the 90s the answer was always Rubber Soul. ...
2020-02-111h 16
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDave and Dennis drive to Andy's05 They gave out awards for different categories. 10 Whatever they get in. 15 See it starts at 7. 20 Aaaaaaaaaaaah right! 25 Originally I kind of had that in mind. 30 Then we got Cancelled Stamps. 35 We're always trying to give...give back. 40 How did it jump from being just Stevie? 45 Dave's cutting off four families of children. 50 You, uuuuuh, have to get permission. 55 All cover bands. 60 The word "perfectionist" is the complete opposite of rock and roll. 65 I asked him a lot of ques...
2020-02-041h 12
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDirty ShameWhat a shame Dirty shame All the same Dirty shame yeah It's a goddamn fucking dirty shame Lordy me Glory be Mercy me Glory be yeah It's a goddamn fucking dirty shame JOE! Holy shit It's a goddamn fucking dirty shame Oh looky here
2019-12-3004 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastHome Is HomeNo man can catch her eyes She don't think much of guys With their macho bullshit talking trash To her it just ain't funny, man She's made her way to Beta 9 She heard New Earth's a damn good time She's seen it Yet she's coming back again ----- Them love machines are fine for some When you're all filled up with Martian rum With their whizzing gears sometimes Why they seem just like a person But they don't talk and they don't laugh Unless the...
2019-12-2303 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSFPodcast503: Cracker Commentary 105 "Everyone Slumbers" 10 Oh here's the main riff. 15 ...Ol' Lutzy dancing out in the crowd. 20 I am about to press the play button. 25 Here's my solo. 30 There's always the thunderstorm at SoWeBo. 35 I get profoundly depressed.
2019-12-1837 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastOpen RoadI want an open road I want to drive away But nobody got a second chance Giving up too fast I want to play my hand But nobody got a second chance I Will crawl to you I will die for you But I warn you I cry too I want an open road where the wind it sings out loud A tune that's meant to drown another's pain I need an open road I got to fly away 'Cause the pressure's enough to drive a man insane
2019-12-1603 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSFPodcast502 Cabbage05 I totally doubted him so hard. 10 We go in the backstage of the Shamu area. 15 I don't have a bunch of old cars sitting around. 20 I only eat meat that I kill myself. 25 Make someone look like total shit and not tell them. 30 The bands really do kind of suck. 35 That was fire, man. 40 Use your blinkers. Be courteous. 45 Don't live in the desert. 50 I seen one space movie my whole life.
2019-12-1154 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastTo Be a BadassMy lifelong quest is to be a badass But it's made a mess of my whole damn life Oh to be to be a badass Or to be a chump That is lifeI've been around I've seen the worst That folk can do And do to you Such a shame Here in this rat's nest That is this life That is this life It's time to go To get to gettin' It's a bit more fun When you just don't care Everything conspires...
2019-12-0902 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSFPodcast500 Take TwoI messed up the publish date of this the first time arund. The good news is that it's even better now! Dave of Society Fringe Productions and Dennis of Sun Rider 9 Productions 05 Might be for the number one seed. 10 It'll look pretty damn good. 15 Went fishin' down by the bay bridge. 20 Somebody said they did see them on there. 25 At some point Warner took over. 30 What's the dog's name? 35 That turtle's trying to sit on that fucking fish! 40 Baltimore Colts Fight Song...
2019-12-0454 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDay To DayI'm thinking of a thing from long ago I don't know what it is And I'm looking at my life just like it's something That I can not give I don't give a shit For anything at all Oh no Oh no I made a record before I could even buy a beer By the time I was 22 I'd played more shows than I could hear Sang in smoke filled rooms And drank for free all night Oh yeah Oh yeah I seen 'em come...
2019-12-0203 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastSFPodcast501D&D 05 Ding dong ding dong. 10 Doesn't Joe Gallagher have a Santa Claus suit? 15 Maloney's is right at the bottom of the hill. 20 That's possible to do. 25 Making more enemies than friends. 30 It's a 2016 film. 35 But Disney Plus is coming out. 40 It's just never been on the podcast. 45 I'm going to need help booking bands. 50 I got to go back and listen to them.
2019-11-2755 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastDrivin' AgainI drove my truck right on down to the water Right up to the Chesapeake Bay Stared out at my destiny fading Spun out on that slick Maryland clay Everyone spends their time a-yelling Listening a thing of the past Harass me with verbal gymnastics And stupider opinions than that So hold on for me I'm driving and driving and driving again Hold on for me I'm driving and driving and driving again What are the terms of a failure Then again who really cares...
2019-11-2502 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastStars and BarsI woke up at noon With my alarm clock Packed my bags Searching for some truth I ain't found nothing What a drag Headed south to find Graceland's healing kind In redneck heaven the Stars and Bars fly high on a Hazy day in June I feel romantic Like Jesse James I shot some good ol' boy 'Cause he was fucking with me Didn't ask his name Headed south to find...
2019-11-1803 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastStoned Henge EssayCheck it out, y'all. Go research Graham Hancock and "lost civilization." Kaboom!
2019-11-1305 min
SocietyFringePodcast's podcastStoned HengeInstrumental with spoken words coming from one of Brian's whacked out books.
2019-11-1100 min