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Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at10:17:

Dfbb

hi folks! happy, er, wednesday.

recently, jasoooooon (uvulapie) asked me about darn floor big bite, about how the song came about, and the album itself and what i remembered about it. i thought i'd answer it here.

the song started with the bass part which sort of just popped into my head (actually my hands) and then i had only the very basic guitar part and chord structure, and then Terry, and Greg (with all the great guitar invention) made the song what it is. i think i've said this before: it all really starts and ends with Terry. he's the one who puts it all together and there would be no DA if there were no Terry. but the other thing about that record is that, to me at least, sonically speaking, Greg practically owns the record with all the guitar stuff he did.

(there's a technical term you can only come by after playing music for 35 years: "guitar stuff")

what i remember about making the record is this:

it was the first DA record that Greg, and Terry and i sat around in a room and made stuff up (musically) together. the music (Terry always comes up with the vocal melody and writes the lyrics) was mostly created and captured initially on a cassette player in the living room of Greg's apartment in pasadena, ca.

it was the second record we recorded on Doug Doyle's recently purchased 24 track machine at 3-D studios (the other half of his orange county duplex.) we recorded vox humana on an 8 track at 3-D, then he bought the 24 track and we did fearful symmetry on it.

i was 27 years old at the time, and it was the first record that, evidently, i had any idea at all about how to go about playing the bass (i have no clue whatsoever as to what i was thinking, or thought i was doing on the previous 3 records--if you doubt, listen carefully to vox--i suck--[and i'd been playing bass for 15 years by then!]). i was married 2 years to Maria, living in a 600 square foot apartment in south pasadena, and, because we were fairly poor at the time, i brought a lot of chicken salad sandwiches to the studio for lunch (why the hell was it specifically chicken salad??)

Posted by jiminy on 10-11-2006 at11:14:

HEY CHAN MAN......

great tale!

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at11:15:

hey, jiminy!

Posted by Ron E on 10-11-2006 at11:28:

and now we know the rest of the story... though I think you're still holding back...

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at11:32:

hey, Ron!

holding back? seriously, ask me anything Smile

Posted by joey on 10-11-2006 at12:05:

RE: Dfbb

c.. glad i found this on sale...

hi tim! Big Grin

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at12:10:

hi, joey!

Posted by bereal on 10-11-2006 at12:14:

Tongue!

Tim!!!!

good to see you here! great story............

especially this part

quote:

(there's a technical term you can only come by after playing music for 35 years: "guitar stuff")

..........is chicken salad all maria knew how to fix????? Confused

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at12:21:

hi bereal! no, it wasn't Maria--i kept making chicken salad and i have no idea why now.

Posted by bereal on 10-11-2006 at12:29:

oh, that's too funny........... Big Grin

Posted by Woggy on 10-11-2006 at12:34:

........prolly cheap, and easy to throw together, and you must've liked it?

Either that, or you're just weird Wink

Posted by Woggy on 10-11-2006 at12:35:

ooooooo, COOOL............double post !

and i wasn't even trying Big Grin

Posted by bereal on 10-11-2006 at12:38:

it must've been worth saying again. i shoulda said so. chicken salad is cheap and easy to make. yummmmmmmmmmm.............

i never get chicken salad unless i get it somewhere else because mf doesn't like it. if i make it, i only like it while it's fresh ~ i have a serious aversion to leftover chicken............i won't eat any chicken dish left over. i'd rather eat peanut butter or tuna or sardines as to eat leftover chicken.................

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at12:40:

hi Woggy! David Lynch would go to a Bob's Big Boy and order the exact same lunch every day for years. maybe i had the same problem?

Posted by bereal on 10-11-2006 at12:43:

i went to college with a lady who ate the exact same lunch everyday: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and an apple.

Posted by Woggy on 10-11-2006 at12:57:

quote:

Originally posted by tchandler
hi Woggy! David Lynch would go to a Bob's Big Boy and order the exact same lunch every day for years. maybe i had the same problem?

Hmmm, that could be ONE of your problems Wink

heh heh........................

HEY, Tim, we're getting SNOW here in the North Country today! What do you think of that????

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at12:58:

i'm ready for snow!!

Posted by wes berlin on 10-11-2006 at13:02:

hmmmmmmm......bob's big boy!

now, i am hungry.

oh, "hi" tim.

Posted by tchandler on 10-11-2006 at13:03:

hi, wes!