39. CADILLAC OF SOULS (Birmingham, Draheim) - Bob's words, my music.
40. I GOT A LINE ON YOU (California) - I've been doing this song by Spirit since my first band, Uptown Dogfood. Our version is a radical re-arrangement that is highly regarded by Mick Skidmore, long-time rock journalist, Relix editor, producer of the Dinosaurs compilation "Friends of Extinction", and official keeper of the Randy California archives.
41. DON'T BELIEVE IT (Draheim) - Pretty good self-pity lyrics if I do say so myself. I'd just seen the French film of Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and got some ideas from that and the rest from a rivalry over a girl between the singer from the Chicago Static Cling and myself. These words originally went with the music that ended up as "Relentless" on the "Helen Wheels & The Skeleton Crew" disc.
42. TORPEDO OF MIRACLES (Draheim) - Call & response vocals from Cathi & me and an improvised middle section that has since been changed to an up-tempo 6/8 jazz thing loosely based on Coltrane's "My Favorite Things".
43. I THOUGHT IT WAS A HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL BUT IT WAS ONLY THE PRICE OF A BOX OF CEREAL (Static Cling) - This is a spontaneous composition / free improv - as is all of the stuff on Ron's side-project CD by J.A.R. and as will be anything that we might in the future record under the Spiral Cave moniker. That being the case, I'm not going to do song-by-song breakdowns on these projects. If you're looking for a hint about the stuff suffice to say that free improv is either your cup of meat or it ain't. Reaction to this song has usually been wildly favorable or a heartfelt "Gee, I liked everything on your CD except that last song!!!"
"Live Covers II" was recorded live in the studio as a demo to get us gigs in bars where they want cover tunes.
44. 99 1/2 WON'T DO - Here's that song again. Live it morphs into...
45. WALKIN' THE DOG (Rufus Thomas) - ...and this morphs into...
46. TIME IS ON MY SIDE (N. Meade) - ...daughter Irma's tune. Kinda like the Stones take (with great backimg vocals from Cathi) but we rip into the lead guitar break a little more aggressively - more like the Yardbirds might've.
47. HEAT WAVE (Holland, Dozier, Holland) - Martha & the Vandellas - one of my favorite songs to play out though no one else shares my enthusiasm for it.
48. I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (N. Whitfield, B. Strong) - Not surprisingly our version is similar to the Creedence take. Live it morphs into...
49. I'LL GO CRAZY (James Brown) - ...and this morphs into...
50. AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG (E. Holland, N. Whitfield) - by The Temptations.
51. BROWN-EYED GIRL (Van Morrison) - People love to dance to this so we stretched it out by adding a lead guitar break and writing a 4th verse...plus we often go into an extended jam off of it that eventually turns into "River Deep Mountain High".
52. WHITE RABBIT (Grace Slick) - and...
53. SOMEBODY TO LOVE (Darby Slick) - by Jefferson Airplane. We do these pretty straight though "Somebody To Love" is definitely a little more raucous and aggressive. Our biggest departure is the Quicksilver-like jam that connects the two.
54. CINNAMON GIRL (Neil Young) - Cathi wonders if people think she's a lesbian when she sings this.
55. BEAST OF BURDEN (Jagger, Richards) - To me, this one's kind of a throw-away but Cathi likes it and definitely tears it up vocal-wise. By far my favorite part is how we start it. See us live to catch what I mean and also to hear us morph into Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On".
56. SHAKIN' ALL OVER (Johnny Kidd) - One of my favorite guitar work-outs. Live we usually transition from this into either "Gloria", "Not Fade Away" or "Can't Explain".