Re-re-re-re-re

Bottle brush
To clean the mississippi delta up
but it's not enough
those blues keep coming back bottle-neck up
you gotta a crush
on my bottle brush
it's blue and green
but it that's enough to make you blush
hush, little bottle brush, everybody loves you
make our hearts all melt-a even though the delta is filthy as you-know-who.


Bottlebrush - v2

Recorded in 1992, probably Spring.  Peter on piano, Matt on bass.  I haven't heard this in 20 years, but I just found a 4 track at a guitar shop and was able to mix it down.  Sounds as good as I half imagined it to be, although I probably should have left it in my faded and incomplete memory.

God's Lounge Band - 1992

Spring 1992.  I vaguely remember this one.  It sounds like there is an amp tremolo, but I have no idea what amp that might be.  There is definitely delay, which I dearly loved.  The guitar sound seems like a mix of Cure and Starflyer 59.  The arpeggios at 0:44 are straight out of the Captive soundtrack by the Edge (circa 1986), but I probably wasn't conscious of that at the time.

When I'm Tired - 1992

Spring 1992.  There's also an atrocious version of this song with two trombones.  To give you an idea of where my level of shame is, it's somewhere between this take and the trombone take.  I think the percussion are some empty coffee cans.  And the lyric "arabesque, eldritch at best" is a line I always liked.  Seemed like something the Steve Kilbey from the Church would sing.  And while I knew the definitions of those two odd words, I had no idea what I wanted to say with them back then.  I just liked the way they sounded.

Peter Rasmussen