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Lethargy Tar-Tare
Ok, I debated posting
these for a LONG time because once I listened to them again I
realized that they don't exactly sound...good. They're awful.
I mean, I admit it, they're really bad. In our defense, we had
been partaking of beverages pretty heavily (and in the full tape
you can hear how bad it is), and that's bad enough. You can hear
me practically beating the hell out of the guitar, which had really
flat strings to begin with... But let me frame this in the terms
that are most significant:
This recording is from
January of 1995, so we'd only been aware of the DH music for a
few years. All we had was the one duped cassette tape and no lyrics/liner
notes. I was in law school at the time, so I was only able to
get out and jam with my friends on infrequent occasions...and
I'm not that good to begin with...and while I had hoped to get
a recording where we had a crowd, on this tape there was just
one friend who was rapidly passing out...
So why post these at
all?? Well, they're posted on another site for the sake of our
own humiliation. But I have to link them here as concrete proof
that we were trying to cover these songs from the outset! 1/1995
is the earliest recording I have, but I know we were playing
them before that! So here we go...I'll even add song-by-song disclaimers
so you can have a good laugh while you're at it!
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Lethargy
Tar-Tare, January 1995, recorded in an attic in Waukegan,
IL
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| The
Drag (take 1) --
pretty late in the evening, and I royally screw up in the
middle, but all in all, not completely awful...yet... |
| Lil'
Bit Girlish (take 1) --
I hadn't actually figured out the bridge ("organized
anything...") yet -- so you get to hear us try to figure
it out without taking the time to re-listen to the song...then
the tape ran out... |
| Cigarette
-- getting late in the night, what may be most troublesome
about this is that all I could do is play the same two chords
the whole song...and try to figure out the middle on the fly...this
is pretty bad...but again, what impresses me most is how well
Matt had the words memorized -- and he did so without the
benefit of the lyrics sheet/liner notes |
| The
Drag and Lil' Bit Girlish (take 2s) -- heartened by
our "success" with cigarette, we go after these
two again...I miss my cue on the "wants you to what?"...and
I'm fading pretty fast...but Matt still tries to give me another
beer...but I don't hose the middle again! as for Lil' Bit
Girlish, well, this is moments away from the end of the evening...it's
3 or 4 in the morning and we're in jeopardy of waking our
parents...but we manage to finish at full volume in utter
goofiness... |
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Farm Dogs
(and
check 'em out on MP3.com)
This is a Houston band
that has long since disbanded, but at one time seems to have had
a lot of fun making music. They cite The Duckhills as an influence
on them and their music, and recorded a song specifically called
"Duckhills."
So there you have it...now
I'm hoping that others won't feel so scared to bare their musical
talents and share with us all their own tributes to our beloved
Duckhills!
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