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Listen/purchase: Nothing by Love Scream

the Words:

you’re always there for me, I finally feel happy

you’ve showed me what I can be and I want to pay you back

I’ll help you find that someone, help you accomplish your goals

I’ll take you where you’re going, I’ll even shovel your snow

and though I’m probably not your type, something seems to feel so right

I wanna be with you forever, we could dance and sing, I hope we grow old together, and sit around and do nothing

you never complained or whined, or slapped me until I hurt

you’ve never thrown me down the stairs or called me a jerk

it might sound way to simple or to plain

but thinking about you drives me insane

and though I’m not going anywhere it’s true

since I’m going nowhere, I’d like to get there with you

the What:

I’m pretty sure I wrote this song when I was 16 or 17. There’s a couple older recordings I made of the song before the boys of Love Scream put their coat of polish on it. As I recall we needed a few more songs to finish our full length, and we dug back into my catalog to do so. I’m grateful we did this in some ways, and in other ways I wish we would’ve used a few of the songs Josh Kaler wrote. They were different, but I always liked the idea of having a band that had multiple song writers in it. And not just the “I write 11 songs and you get the one at the end of the record no one listens to” kind of deal, I mean the half and half, beatles all the way... hell, give the drummer one once and awhile.... even Ringo.

There’s a lot of amatuer hour in these lyrics. They shoot all over the place but do land on a nice sentiment of wanting to be committed to someone. I will say, coming from a lower middle class family, and watching my grandparents as well as my parents who had what I felt were great relationships kind of showed me something crucial. If you’re in love, but you don’t have money, you don’t really go anywhere or do anything. You just kind of sit around and love one another and are grateful. If you’re not happy, you fight all the time, and I would assume if you were rich, you could go anywhere all the time and most likely fight all the time too. But there’s this happy but boring middle, where you care for one another, you eat some pizza, you laugh with each other, and that’s about the extent of it. Even at 16 when I wrote this it seemed like the top of the mountain to me... oh such ambition!

of course there’s even my self fulfilling prophecy line about “not going anywhere it’s true”... how nice of me to acknowledge that so early on.... I’m a treat.

the How:

as Mentioned above we added this song to our list of songs to record for our full length right near the end. We pulled this song and another older song of mine “jelingwits” from a record I had made by myself right before coming to berklee. It was a night and day difference recording and performance wise.

Kaler added the guitar line that is in the middle section, it’s not quite a solo, but it is. Then we as a band arranged it so it reprises at the end and I move to harmonics on the guitar and it comes into it’s own as all four of us work to separately but together to build to the songs ending in a way that slowly gels together until it’s a cohesive punch.

I remember being very against doubling my vocals. I still don’t like to do it that often. Many times early on when I’d try it I’d find myself searching for a harmony that I couldn’t find and ultimately, making my two vocal lines sound like dying seagulls that wouldn’t quite quit. The engineer, Rich Mendelson, got me to perform the chorus multiple times and was able to compile a doubled vocal throughout a lot of the song. Oh what a stubborn lad I was back then.

It was a good song, we made it sound really good. My only regret is that of course after releasing the record this band Love Scream would go on to write and record about 4 or 5 more songs, all of which I felt were better than this song.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I urge every band starting out to make your first record and then throw it away... or at least put it aside until you see what you’re starting to write next. You’ll always like what’s next and then you’ll be kicking yourself saying “why didn’t this make the record we JUST put out?” it happens 9 times out of 10 I promise.

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Mister Barrington - Only A Fool [Live] - Looking into starting a new project of my own and these guys are driving a lot of the inspiration.

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