i've been going through some old md-cassettes, discovering alternate versions of many older songs played at rehearsal rooms in laajasalo and kerava - a new way to play the second half of sinking steamboats (an addition rather than a completely new take on the song), an extremely old version of hush that seems to have a certain something that the recent version lacks - work on this song seems to be constant, as we decided to replace most of my guitar-parts with violins, and the lyrics have been changing forever.. and finally, a recorded version of the fourth part in the turned series, tentatively moscow. by no means what the song will sound like finished, it gives a fair idea of what the piano and guitar might sound like together some day. these recordings of hush and moscow seem to be from late 2001, the first committed to minidisc in the front room of a house in laajasalo and the second at our first rehearsal room in laajasalo. hush has jere on guitar, otto on bass, ville on drums and myself on guitar and doing the vocal parts, moscow is otto on piano, jere on guitar and me on my usual vocal and acoustic guitar duties.sinking steamboats a and b.
early version of mox kow.
crocodile teeth is one of the shortest songs in our roster, but i feel the lyrics are our most accomplished. the picture above is a recent drawing of our bass-player kelanen by our drummer & resident art-school student tuukka. due to continuous arguments and stupid fights while in studio around last christmas, kelanen left the band, and emily and i wrote the crocodile teeth lyric based around him and his penchant for arnold schwarzenegger impressions:
"lines are strewn across
marshes eye and pot-holes
like across your crooked stance
like across candid demands
you were our mountain of man
caricatures built in sand
a bad actor with a speech-impediment
poorly mouthed and forced in sentiment
i can't remember, much else of you"
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