DEMO TAPE
.(Not Released) - 1997

 

Where the songs came from

 by Joe Nolte

RED HAIR

Listen to a clip of this song: (MP3)

 

(written February 1995)
Rather large time gap here, as the only compilation stuff that came out between the mid-80's and the mid-90's were songs on SST compilation albums that were taken after the fact directly from the albums. By early '95 I was wide awake again and writing furiously.

Which is to say I was writing a lot of songs, and I was usually furious.

This is a particularly furious one, the only one thus far recorded that was written for the "K2" girl ("K1" we've met on "Awakening"). K2 was taking a shower while I hammered this thing out one morning in about ten minutes. Sort of a Kinks meet Nirvana thing, with a strange chord progression at verse's end that I'm particularly fond of. The Last return to Punk Rock - finally!

Lyrically, well, the words speak for themselves. And it's all true.

I played it for Randall (former manager), who couldn't get past the fake Kinks riff and wrote the song off as Joe not being able to get out of the sixties. I don't play songs for Randall anymore.

Beware of the last verse - there are naughty words.

This and the following two were quasi-released on a demo tape in mid-1997. However, I believe they are currently [floating around] as MP3's, since the sad fact of not having a label should not prevent the listener on the street from having the opportunity to hear the stuff.

 

ANYBODY ELSE

(written Aug 27, 1994)
Also from the tape, this was written for "J", but just missed getting on the "Gin" album. A good example of "the Beatles get pissed", or something. I like it a lot, in spite of the fact that the last part of the verse is pretty much stolen from "Book" from the "Confession" album. I have decided, however, not to sue myself.

Lyrically, as with most songs from this era, it's a true story.

I am contemplating slowing it way down and doing a version of it Everly Brothers style.

 

TAKE CARE OF HER

(written July 1995)
The only song written for "M2". Musically, it's me doing Descendents doing me. Lyrically, it was a true story that was happening as I was writing it, a true story that ended rather horribly and is responsible both for the loss of the SST era musicians as well as the catatonic seclusion in which I have remained ever since.
To be continued . . .