Here are 10 behind-the-music trivia about my recently released song Lovers and Fools.
- The electric guitars are from the original demo...I just didn't feel like re-recording them to make them perfect, which is why they're a tad out of sync with the opening drums.
- There's a lot of intentional flipping in the song, low-high melodies flipping to high-low, "what side are you on," lovers/Fools, etc.
- Kelly joins Alyssa in singing the last big round of harmonies
- I recorded the vocals on the same mic that Kurt Cobain once sang in, and almost all in the same take--there are some parts I wanted to redo vocally, but I just had to keep it
- The inspiration for the first verse was actually imagining the feeling of watching one of my girls fall in love with the wrong guy, (which is quite literally why I call the person "girl"), but then the song direction shifted and in the end the song ended up being about wanting someone to love you who maybe doesn't
- No, that's not autobiographical, but who hasn't felt it before?
- The drum style of the first verse was all Sage--he had a vision for that half time feel and I thought it was cool
- When I finished writing this song I thought it wasn't that good and was surprised to get a positive reaction, which is why I ended up recording it
- Since Cathedral was about love songs, I named the follow up EP after this song to mark a transition to the next idea
- The bright font of the word "fool" on the cover with me walking away is also marking the transition to the next musical phase. OK, that's it. I'll do a post like this for the other songs at some point.]