209. RED LIGHT (Erangey) - This basic, bar-band rocker was Tony's only foray into song-writing before he joined Static Cling.
210. LONELIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD (May, Taylor, Waller, Alder) - This is a song from The Pretty Things' psychedelic period. We radically rearranged what was originally a very brief, quiet, acoustic song.
211. ELEGANT GIRL (Draheim) - This song was written for Bryan Ferry to sing. Since he was never a member of Static Cling it never realized its full potential. The keyboard line Karen Porter played on the Farfisa always sounded pretty cool. Karen went to live in Woodstock. The Farfisa went to live at Saxon Recording Studio in Rochester.
212. MOTEL BLUES (Loudon Wainwright III) - This was a solo acoustic song that I radically rearranged for rock band (right around the same time I did the same thing with Gene Clark's "With Tomorrow").
213. TEDDY BEAR (Mann, Lowe) - Static Cling's "Teddy Bear" had the same lyrics as the Elvis original. Everything else was different - a ferocious, MC5-like sonic attack.
214. I JUST WANNA HAVE SOMETHING TO DO (The Ramones) - We always called this song "Tonight". It was the evening opener for years. I hear Garbage does it now.
215. MISS X (Wayne Kramer) - This might be my favorite MC5 song. Try it in your band some time to find out just what a great singer Rob Tyner was.
216. JUST SOME CHICK (Draheim) - I remember almost nothing about this song - it was a slow song that I think the Chicago band played out once at a combo bar/pizza parlor in Palos Hills, Illinois.
217. ___________________ (Draheim, Erangey) - Tony and I wrote a song together that ended with the band playing "The Marine Hymn". Don't remember anything else about it.
218. DIRT (The Stooges)...and...
219. TV EYE (The Stooges) - Two songs off the "Fun House" album. Both of these songs go way back to my days in The Gurls...maybe even The Go Go Boys.
220. ___________________ (Erangey) - Before joining Static Cling, Tony Erangey was in a traditional Irish band with his brother and father. Shortly before he left Static Cling he wrote a song that drew on that influence and experience. The only other thing I remember about it was that, between the Irish-sounding melody and the dual lead guitars, we sounded a lot like Thin Lizzy when we played it.
221. ROCK & ROLL UNTIL THE COWS COME HOME (Don Leady) - This song, originally by The Tail Gators, sounds pretty much like you think it does.
222. ROCK & ROLL (Lou Reed) - We copped Mitch Ryder's arrangement - just like Steve McAvoy's band, The Dean Martins, did - which is where I got the idea.
223. GIMME A PIGFOOT AND A BOTTLE OF BEER (Draheim) - This was a pretty heavy funk original from the early days of the NY Static Cling. The title is stolen from an old Bessie Smith song.
224. SUGAREE (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) - I heard the Dead play this live before it appeared on Garcia's first solo album. During the intermission of that show all of us Deadheads wandered the corridors of the Syracuse War Memorial in stunned astonishment reverently whispering, "What was that song about the jubilee?"
225. THE LONG GOODBYE / ONLY MADMEN ASK WHY (Draheim) - Probably my first attempt at writing a soul ballad. In Chicago it was "The Long Goodbye". In NY I wrote new lyrics and re-named it. The new title was also the name of Eric Ott's Grateful Dead tribute band.
226. HEY BARTENDER (Draheim) - New lyrics to the old Chicago Cling song, "Cannibal Love".
227. KILLER SHREW BOOGALOO (Zappa, McAvoy, Draheim) - This song goes back to my first band, Uptown Dogfood. On The Mothers' "We're Only in it for the Money" album there's a fragment of a surf instrumental. McAvoy took that fragment and fleshed it out to a full-length song. Years later I re-wrote some parts.