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ACAST. ACAST.com. Welcome to Raw Impressions, Monday's Music Mini Episode. Okay, this is like our fifth attempt at recording mini music Monday.
We're having a bumpy beginning. This song is the Freed Pig episode. For all you fans out there. This song is from 703, the third 702 album.
The first album to feature the band, Us Playing in a Studio, Eric Gaffney on drums. Although he refused to play drums on this song in the studio. Why? Because this song was about a mutual friend.
I think Eric chose to step aside so that even though he played it live with me many times, but he had Jason played drums and bass on it because Eric bowed out of the performance so he would not be aligned with my bitter song. Your rant? It's not really a rant. Yes.
I could say that looking back because it was many years ago, 30 years ago. I was an entirely different person. Yeah, you've matured. All of y'all have matured.
I like the big cheese wheel. Like a big ball of cheese. Big stinky blue cheese ball. I like the song.
I think it's really catchy. That's what I like to hear. Yeah, I like catchy songs. Don't make me work for it.
Give me some spunk. Hooks. Hooks, baby. Licks and hooks.
Yeah. Yeah. Tasty licks. Big hooks.
And spunky stinky balls. Wait a minute. Song. I'm dancing.
His five notes. You really dug deep on this one. Whoa. All right, here we go.
You were right. I was battling you. Tried to prove myself. I tried to bury you with guilt.
I wanted to prove you wrong. I've got nothing better to do. You picked too much attention to you. It's sad, but it's not your fault.
Self-righteous and cruel. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. Whoa. Let's start with laser. Yeah.
urther. I just couldn't get into it. Good news. You have some ideas that I can do too.
on and that I'm working on. Yeah, it's true. Well, to go back to Freed Pig, because someone said, can I just, can I read you something? Okay, so this is, but I'm intrigued by this.
So the person who requested this song on your Instagram page, their Instagram handle is goodguy21. All right, so when you go to this person's Instagram profile, zero followers, zero posts, no picture following three people. They're following Lubarlo, full-complosion, and Kenny's liquors. Nice.
So this is a real secretive person. And they just say, please talk about Freed Pig on a Monday music, we, I don't know who's we, but we want to know about the song. The family. Good guy's family.
Good guy's family. Seems pretty clear to be about insecurity, but would love to hear you describe it. Also, need a session on the songs on three with Eric, some of the best stuff, long live three. There we go.
Oh, seven, oh three, everybody. Good guy to this very mysterious fellow person. I don't, who are you? They just like disappear.
There's no profile picture. God, listen. So tell me all about your insecurity. Are you right?
Is this about insecurity? Are they right? It's good guy, right? I don't know.
I don't think it's about insecurity so much. I think it's a kind of a confident song. I was trying to crawl inside the, I had just been removed from Dinosaur Jr. And I was trying to figure it out.
And so I wrote a bunch of songs, some of which I will never play again. They are very angry and a lot of finger pointing, a lot of name calling. This, I think, this is what I'm trying to understand my own, maybe how I was perceived in the relationship. That's mostly what it's about.
It's like, it's trying to like crawl inside and figure out what perception they had of me that made it necessary for me to be removed from the situation. So that's what it's about. And yeah, I don't know. I like it for that reason.
Because it does do a lot of like me trying to weigh what I actually am responsible for and what I did. But then I called it Free Pig, which is kind of like, but then I'm the pig too. I was the Freedman as the first sebodoka set that Eric and I released was called the Freedman. The song is called the Freed Pig.
So it's kind of me. And it's also kind of a little bit of a finger point too. So. Yes, well, I said it earlier and I'll say it again.
I think it's, that is a good example of the power of the pen. So we, Lou and I went to see Lucinda Williams in concert a few years ago. She's really, I mean, this woman's incredible. And what a songwriter.
And she was talking about her music and she said, whoever holds the pen has the power. And I never forgot that when she said that in concert. And I thought, what a profound line from a profound woman. And she's right.
And that is a song that I think it is a, it's an edgy song, because it is, it's testing some boundaries, right? Like, okay, I'm going to talk about some stuff while also, like you said, I do think it kind of goes like, okay, but who am I in this picture to? So it's not just a solid finger point. It's sort of like, okay, let me think about kind of the big picture of this.
And I do appreciate that with that song. And I think that one stands up. Thanks. Yeah.
I still play it almost all the time. Oh yeah. I don't really have any, I don't know. It doesn't, I don't feel like I'm stirring up bad juju when I do it.
I don't feel, you know, I performed it definitely to an audience of Jay before. Sure. But my band mates, I don't know if they've listened. I don't know.
I mean, I think a lot of times when I was writing songs like this, I have written songs that are really directed. I never thought that the person that it was directed to would ever really listen. You know, it was kind of a freedom I had with it. I'm like, Jay's never going to like pick through this.
And somebody, the other people in my life that I've written songs where it's always like, I, they're never going to listen. They're never going to go through this and listen to these words. So kind of give me a bit of freedom. I need something to drink.
Oh. There you go. Yeah, I need, oh, is that a liquid death? This is not sponsored.
They're welcome to sponsors. Don't make me feel like a death commercial. They already do their own. They do a lot of really funny, they have a very funny social media presence.
I would like to say, just as my observation, I, one time we were here, God, was this before we moved? No, we were living here. Saburo played in Northampton. And Jay came with Louisa.
And I think some family, I can't remember some other people in the Masquez family perhaps came, he came to Saburo's show. And yeah, I mean, he's not like, he's not like hiding and stuff. I mean, you know, he actually would come and I mean, one of the reasons that we even got back together again is because he would come to my shows. Yeah.
People don't really know. I mean, there's not. I really, that's something that like when we reunited, I think one thing I really appreciated about Jay was that the music was the most important thing. Oh, yeah.
When I was kicked out of the band, the music wasn't quite the most important thing because we were kids and we were kind of like, you know, trying to get comfortable. Yeah, juggling a whole lot of ego, huh, at that time. Yeah, and juggling a lot of like, I mean, we were, we were spending a lot of time intimate time together in hotel rooms and in vans and things. And that's, I mean, some people struggle with that more than others.
That's a real imposition in your life. And it's something that you do have to learn how to cope with. And I think, yeah, it just wasn't. It didn't go too well.
That's the key word. Learn. That takes time to learn that. It does.
I mean, in a way, I mean, I think being kicked out of the band was a wonderful gift because it did allow me, because if we had stuck together and just were angry and I had let this anger get bigger and bigger, it would have been very unhealthy. Well, and now I think that people don't really know because there's still a lot of misconception out there. I think when I hear people talk about it, but it's probably not what people think. We all know each other.
We spend time together. There's no drama. And you guys play wonderful music together. Yeah, I really dinosaur such a wonderful part of my life.
And the fact that we got back together again, it's something that I mean, I've tried to reunite all my bands. And successfully, actually, they've all been reunited now that John and I are back together. John Davis. John Davis.
And the folk composition. I'm a very never-say-never kind of person when it comes to music and bands and songs. Well, you're fortunate that each of those three units all gave something pretty extraordinary, so maybe it was worth holding on to. Yeah.
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