17. JUST THE FAX (Draheim) - A song about Son of Sam. The lyrics are mostly paraphrased from his letters to Jimmy Breslin. I played the second guitar part with my feet.
18. THE TORCH (Draheim, Fus) - Brilliant lyrics by my long-time comic book business partner, Thad Fus, and brilliant keyboards by Jim Taylor.
19. ALWAYS EVER STARING (Draheim, Erangey) - Another holdover from Chicago, my music, Tony's words.
20. LAST TWIST OF THE KNIFE (Draheim) - The lyrics are adapted from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by T.S. Eliot and the guitar lead is the best thing I ever recorded.
There was a time that Static Cling was practically the house band at Spirits in Auburn. "Live Covers" was recorded there:
21. 99 1/2 WON'T DO (Cropper, Pickett) - Wilson Pickett song, this owes a little bit more to the Creedence Clearwater version.
22. IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Cropper, Pickett) - Another Wilson Pickett song, our version falls somewhere between James Brown testifyin' and The Grateful Dead signifyin'.
23. HEARTBREAK HOTEL (Axton, Darden, Presley) - A really "out there" arrangement - but I copped it from a John Cale record.
24. SUMMERTIME BLUES (Cochran, Capehart) - &...
25. MONEY (Berry, Gordon, Bradford) - Two songs we always ran together in loud, time-honored, sweaty, bar-band tradition.
26. I'M CRYING (Price, Burdon) - The Animals song, our spin.
27. NOT FADE AWAY (Petty, Hardin, Holly) - An excuse to jam.
28. MAGIC CARPET RIDE (Kay) - More jamming.
29. WILD THING (R. Presley) - Still more jamming, but drunker and stupider.
"Roseland", still our best overall recording. The songs are:
30. HETERO LOVE (Draheim) - I wrote this when I was 18 and glam-rock was in full swing and everybody was tripping over themselves claiming, "No, I was bi-sexual first". Cathi's vocals at the end still give me goosebumps.
31. PRECIOUS LITTLE (Draheim) - Patti Smith had a poem called "Precious Little" that might have had the line, "Precious little's what you gave me". If she didn't then I dreamt it. Either way, I built the song from there.
32. untitled (Draheim) - The music is inspired by a half-dozen obscure Australian bands that I love. The lyrics are inspired by my Bukowski-esque world-view.
33. I'M NOT YER DOG (Draheim) - One of our fans was infatuated with another one of our fans. Fan #2 was unhappy about this and at one of our gigs screamed at fan #1, "I'm not your dog". This song ensued.
34. YOU STILL GOT MY GLOVE (Draheim) - We played a gig in Boston with a band called Dogzilla. Then I wrote this song in the van on the way home. It was my attempt to kind of half-ass rip off their style. The lyrics were inspired by an off-the-cuff remark made by Tommy Moonlight of Hackamore Brick at CBGBs years earlier. And dig that psyched out flanged guitar in the bridge!
35. BURNING IN WATER, DROWNING IN FLAME (Draheim) - My attempt to distill a 2-hour John Cassavettes film down to a 4-minute song and name it after a Charles Bukowski book.
36. RAILROAD BOY (traditional) - Our arrangement is pretty close to that of The Blues Project but we take everything just a little further. Got some real cool unintentional effects out of a seriously over-amplified guitar just before the lead.
37. I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (Hank Williams) - You can't beat sincere lyrics, simple chords and a good melody. Hank Williams knew that and so did The Ramones. Ever wonder what they'd sound like cross-bred?
