Broken Bottle

So most of posts seem to have some sort of variation of "I'm recording soon."

Yeah I think you get it by now. But I haven't said much about the songs. I have a pretty good story about one of them. Some years ago I was packed into a large shed behind Cary Street watching the band PCP Roadblock. The only word I can use to describe them is intense. They are (were?) an incredible band that are closer to a contained riot than any other music group I've seen. Someone took a recycling bin full of glass, threw it down and the leader singer and fans did belly slides on top of it. Bloody and muddy stomachs.

My friend Bruce turns around and tells me his friend has a song called "Broken Bottle" and he starts singing it. I wasn't interested as um, people were doing belly flops on shards of broken glass right in front of me. But i turned and asked him to repeat it when he sang "Broken Bottle on the ground, where are you now?!!??Where are you now??"

I said that was some great lyrics but from the way he sang it I figured it was a grindcore song. Tommy (Wolf) later told me a few more lyrics, Bruce wasn't exactly singing it right and said I should check out the guy who wrote it, Lars. But I knew nothing else for years except those lyrics and they stuck in my head. I used them to fill out a song about Wolf and when I played people always said they liked that line. I told them some busker named Lars wrote it, I think he lives in Flordia but that was it.

Just this week I fugured out that Lars is Lars Din. I emailed him, telling him the story and he was gracious enough to give permission to me to use those lyrics. I say gracious because he downplayed the similarities between the songs. But mine wouldn't have been written if not for his.

He's a pretty fuckin great song writer. His version is definietly better than mine but I'm grateful he was cool about it cause I woulda killed the song if he said no.

Here's his version.

Mine is up at my MySpace.