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Genesis
of "Independent (Be-Go-Do)"
Whew, where do I begin? This is going to be
long...
This song is the ultimate frankenstein, and a moral to NEVER throw
anything away.
The two separates are primarily the verse and the chorus, so here goes:
Verse--started out on acoustic (but written for electric), it
immediately found its way to a synth tone. I believe I was just dicking
around with sounds when I happened upon the synth tone and just started
playing the riff. It was close but I needed more. So I added a little
portamento and boom: there it was.
The one thing this verse thing also had was the general melody and the
1st verse. I was able to spit that out pretty quickly. Then.......
Nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing... at all. It sat around waiting to be
finished. I wondered mightily whether it was even worth working on. It
just didn't have any beat that I could settle on (although I did want it
to be groovy). And I tried a ton of chorus ideas that just simply didn't
work.
Then it dawned on me (blast from the recent past):
A couple of years ago this manager asked me if I wanted to tryout for
what was to be Velvet Revolver's band because Duff had heard my voice on
a CD the manager was playing in his office one day and (his words)
flipped out. After some hemming and hawing (mostly because I was in my
old band and also because I wondered whether they'd even care about my
style), I said, You know what? I'll do it if for no other reasons than
to call my friends from back in Orlando and simply say "You're never
going to guess who I just jammed with!"
So, I get this CD with 3 songs on it; no lyrics, no melodies, just
music. Here it is Monday morning and I was told "write lyrics, melodies
for audition on Thursday." Ha...I love a challenge.
Very quickly I wrote stuff I actually liked a lot. During the audition
though it was apparent we were all from different styles of music, but I
left really feeling good about the fact that I wrote so quickly under
such hilarious pressure. And since the melodies and lyrics were mine,
perhaps they could one day be retrofitted to work in a new song.
Fast forward to a few months ago: The key was different, the rhythms
were different, but I just thought these chorus lyrics could work if I
re-fashioned it. (The good news is I only used the chorus; going to use
the lyrics for something else!)
So, I did. And after a while, the song came to shape. The 2nd verse
started writing itself, and more importantly the drums came to me.
Lyrically, I just felt the song should be about how no matter how hard
we try to be different we end up all being the same. Anyone get a tattoo
recently? A piercing? Then you know what I mean. Rebellion is now in
fashion and the norm. That strikes me as infinitely hilarious. Check out
the
geekout section for two tidbits related to
this.
So strike your rebel yell and listen to this song. That is, if you don't
got something to rebel against... ;)
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