Jesus Just Wants To Dance.
I came into work one morning and bumped into good friend and now collaborator, Stafford DeBruyne*. He told me a story about being on vacation somewhere in the Caribbean. He & his party were at some stage show and the big finale featured a dude dressed as Jesus. The whole cast comes out into the audience getting people to dance with them. Jesus comes up to their table and tries to get the ladies to dance but they wouldn't. This is when Stafford utters that now fateful line: "Come on! Jesus Just Wants To Dance!" As soon as Stafford told me that, my eyes got real wide and he just said, "it's yours." So it is, my friend. So it is.

*Just after Sapphic Delight was sent to the Duplicators, Stafford DeBruyane was killed in a car accident. If Smegma Records had the finacial capabilities to halt production and re-do the liner notes we would have, so instead we decided to use the web site to relay our condolences to his family and our thankfulness for having had Staf in our lives.

Tin Of Love.
What a story behind this song. For a wedding gift I gave some friends something called "Honeymood For Lovers" which was basically a metal can full of marital aids. The thank you note thanked me for the "tin of love." Now I already had some ideas for a song about sex toys but I couldn't pull it together and this phrase did it. The song almost wrote itself after I had the hook. A special, Whitee thanks to Melissa Bolton for the idea. But the story doesn't end here.

I wrote the lyrics and did the music and was ready to go. My idea was to get someone in the studio with me to improvise a short thing about a couple using the Tin Of Love. I thought about getting Jessica Vazquez back in the studio (from Stumpy The Ho & Sexmom fame) but she was out of town and I tried to have Rachel Cannioto come back in (from She Called Me Buddy) but she wasn't able to make it. So co-producer extrordinaire, Robert Blackburn, hooks me up with T-Dog. There's theories and speculation about T-Dog, but we prefer to keep it just that. Anyway, I showed up that afternoon with a bag full of sex toys; T-Dog was already there. We talked for about 20 minutes, went into the studio, played with the toys, washed all the lube off our hands and faces, listened to the music and she left. I haven't seen or heard from her since. I feel so cheap and used, but it's a great song!

Socialist Love Slide.
I've been kicking around the lyrics for this song for a while and finally busted it out for SD. There just aren't enough gangsta love songs for anti-capitalists. Well, I did my part. The vocal samples are from some old exercise record I found at the Salvation Army.

Lesbian Lover
was written many years ago about a woman who I had as a teacher for one day and one day only. (What she taught isn't important) Coming out of that class I developed a crush on her only to find out...that's right...lesbian. Luckily I had music as an outlet. The lyrics to this song debuted on an underground tape in the early '90's and I tweaked the lyrics only slightly.

Trials & Tribulations.
Another great story is behind this song. Like Jesus Just Wants To Dance, I came into work one morning and there was our old friend, Stafford. He wanted me to listen to this new CD he just got. It was a John Prine record and damn was it depressing. Every song was about somebody dying, leaving or doing somebody wrong. So I went to work deciding that I could write a song even MORE depressing than those. Trials & Tribulations came out of that effort. Later that day I showed the lyrics to Stafford. He tweaked a few things, after which I tweaked some more. Stafford wrote the guitar part and Robert stumbled upon the beat on the 808 while looking for something to keep time while recording the guitar part. I threw in the shaker later on and while mixing, it still didn't seem right so Robert added some bass. We couldn't quite get the vocals right and on his own, co-producer extrordinaire, Robert Blackburn, put himself into the mix by singing the other track with me. This collaboration turned out pretty well.

I Give Up
was written especially for Sapphic Delight. A little bit of everything is in here. I love the music for this song and I can't wait for someone (hint, hint) to go nuts with the guitar solo on stage. A jam band could have a field day with it. Lyrically, it's a bit of venting.

Lesbian Soup.
At the time I wrote this I was working with two friends who were (and still are to my knowledge)lesbians. At that time they were living together. For Valentine's Day they had decided to rent a hot tub that would get delivered to their house and they invited me over. I didn't end up going, but it sure made a great song. Judy Cannioto helped me when I got stuck with some of the lyrics. This song is where the title to the CD, Sapphic Delight, comes from.

Purdy.
OK, I don't like to admit this but I wrote this song to put some closure on a relationship gone awry. Originally it had a more bitter ending, but after recording it, co-producer extrordinaire, Robert Blackburn, decided that it needed another verse at the end. So as he mixed the song I sat down and came up with the last verse. I was running out of things that rhymed with "purdy" so I didn't have many options. The song ends in a way making the narrator sound a bit wimpy but some day the right words will hit me. I really like the song.

Good Pair of Slacks
was written in the early to mid '90's and lyrically debuted on one of the "underground tapes". I think it was K-Boy who wanted me to re-create it on CD. It's just a little satirical tribute to fashion and those who worry so much about it. I tweaked the lyrics to make it fit the music better. It worked out pretty well. If we had any real money, I'd have used some Dennis Leary samples to go with it, but he doesn't like white people who rap anyway.

Two Lesbians in Columbus.
Yes, I know two lesbians in Columbus. No, this song isn't really about them. At the time I wrote this I was listening to a new (at that time) Red Hot Chili Peppers CD a lot. One day I was explaining my music to someone and as I was telling the person about the diversity of people who dug Whitee (oops, third person) one of the things I said "two lesbians in Columbus" which had the same structure & rhthym of a line from one of the songs on the RHCP CD, so I jotted down some notes and wrote it later.

As for the new version on Sapphic Delight...I recently added a verse or two just to freshen it up. Musically, one night at Black Dog Studio as Robert and I were working on TLIC, a friend of his, Jamie Bryce stopped by. Jamie's a killer drummer and he brought some of his toys with him so we plugged in his stuff and let him play. Thus the percussion during and at the end. I thought his solo at the end of the song was a good way to wrap up Sapphic Delight.

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