Welcome to Raw Impressions! Tuesday! Music, mini episode! I'm so sorry.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, so sorry. I'm gonna say let's just turn this around.
Let's just turn it around. Should we tell people what happened? Super briefly. Yes.
I didn't record. We just did the most brilliant episode of Raw Impressions ever and I did not record it properly. I only recorded my voice. My least favorite voice of the podcast.
Oh, honey. Well, it is a loss. It lives somewhere in the air. Oh, it's totally gone.
It never happened. It never happened. If it wasn't recorded, does it even exist? Did it ever happen?
Apparently not. Let's move on. This will now be the second greatest episode ever recorded. Oh, for all impressions.
Well, you know, it is early evening. I'm having a glass of wine. I do feel a little loose. I could really...maybe I could shake this up.
Round two. What are you gonna do? Are you recording? Yes.
Check. Okay. I see a bunch of colored lines. That looks like a good idea.
Yeah. Okay. So this, we were talking about this thing. Right?
I'm not gonna do a tape-check thing. A Panasonic. A Panasonic slim line portable cassette recorder. Okay.
Yeah. I mean, I didn't know all that. But yeah, I always see the little thing that says slim line. Mm-hmm.
This week I was slated to record a cover or not cover myself. No, you were gonna record cover. I was gonna do me. I was gonna cover myself playing my own song.
Well, you were gonna do a request. Request. We had a very nice request that we're just not gonna talk about because it'll be for another day. Mm-hmm.
Lovely. Not happening. Something else. That's a lost example in some.
Oh, God. So, yes. Oh, my love that's so much. I find this.
This was part of my collection that I have. That was actually recorded on a Panasonic slim line. And your parents' attic. And my parents' attic.
It was deep wound. We collectively came up with this idea. I think Jay probably spearheaded it. But a song called, Hey Bud Let's Party.
And so you can hear in the beginning, Jay says, Hey Bud Let's. And then we kick into where we're all screaming party, party, party, and the most prominent voice being Scott Helen's voice. That's so cute. So that is a completely never heard before.
Right? It's far too long. As far as I know. We're talking, I've got a little bit of a sketchy memory about the things that I've put out in the world.
But I'm pretty sure that one is not. Unreleased. Unreleased. Oh my gosh.
Well, I was saying in the previous episode, and it bears repeating, is that that song, it makes me have this crazy big grin on my face. And I'm immediately kind of back in my late teens, early twenties, you know, and I'm feeling like being at a party or a bar or someone just throws that song on. And you're just like, Oh yeah, we're going to get wild tonight. This was the early eighties, 83 probably possibly early 84.
It was the late latter days of the band. That's times that Ridgemon High was a big thing. And of course, has it should be as it should be as it was. Hey, and hey, Bud Let's party was the catchphrase.
Oh my gosh. Sean Penn. Sean Penn. He's character.
He didn't pen it, but his character says it. Yep. And that was our ode to that. And it should be and the way that we were talking about it in the previous episode that we did not make it that I did not record properly was that that was kind of suggested.
That should sort of be like a national anthem of some kind. It really should, right? I mean, let's all raise our virtual hands that I think that every DJ, every house person, house person, house party person's going to be like, I really need that song, bro. Hey, Bud Let's party.
Hey, Bud Let's party. Oh my gosh. Well, thank you for sharing that with me, Lou Barlow. Well, it's amazing what these little tape decks can do.
And from the beginning of that, it was a family tape. It was a tip that was sent from my uncle sent my grandfather. And when my grandfather moved in with us in the early 80s, I found that cassette. I think that's fascinating.
This idea of family communicating through cassette tapes. Like I'm going to send. So did they send it in the mail? Of course they did.
From Ohio to Massachusetts? No, that was actually from, they could have been in Salt Lake at the time or possibly Tacoma. Huh. To where?
To Westfield, Massachusetts. Right. Right. So what I mean?
So you'd get like what an envelope with a cassette tape? Yeah, you know that. You sent out cassettes for the Barlow family general store. All the time.
The general store. We had a related items. And the gallery. But, no, I mean like did they even have little padded envelopes and you'd get it and you'd be like what is this?
Oh, it's another family communication. Communicate. Who are these people? I didn't get to get other people's family.
Do this. My family was not doing this. Both sides of my family. NBS of this.
My mother's side, the Loree's and my father's side, the Barlow's. We sent cassettes back and forth. That's really cool. And then I sent, I've told you the story that my friend Mark, when I moved from Michigan, I stayed in touch with him by sending him cassettes.
And that's actually how I started writing songs. That's so fucking cute. I love that. So I used this recorder.
I'm holding up now for now. Yes. Panasonic Slimline. Flashing it for me.
Oh, please get it out. I used it today. I used it today. Okay.
Things I can't control. I'm the weather in the wild moon. Winding the way it lands. Tell me everything's alright.
Shadow on the promise land. Not that's way it's day. Air on bloodshot. You know, land of kind of kind.
Make careful. We've got that bloodshot. We can't abide. It makes us feel alright.
Own that bloodshot. I recorded that while you were in a dance class with Izzy. I don't know why. So now I just heard this just for the second time.
Ever. Go ahead. I was going to say I liked it when you just heard it once. Now I'm going to go work on it and finish it in some way.
Well, I don't know why, but this time, now I feel like crying. After hearing it. Yeah, it made me sad. That's kind of why I wanted you to hear it just one time.
Because when I'm working on lyrically with that song is not complete yet. And I think I didn't want you to hear it twice because, or anyone really. Because, yeah, I'm working on it. I'm working at some, there's some heart of that song and I'm trying to find it and I've been trying for a really long time.
And that is more, I found like a skeleton of the song and transitions that I like. And I like the length and I like the transitions and then a lot of parts of it. But lyrically it's like, where am I going with this and I don't really know exactly. So I like it when you just start it once because then it would be gone.
And then you know, you don't, yeah, because I'm still working on it. And the lyric part of it is like it's really the hardest. It's the hardest and also the most enjoyable part for me is trying to find the right words to something that I heard in a burst when I first came up with the riff. And I was first writing and I felt something strong, like an emotion, like a thing.
And then it's this thing that I then try to articulate through like editing this editing process and playing it over and over again. And then becoming a mantra for me and becoming something that I repeat and becomes my defense against. My defense against Taylor Swift. Folks, we ingested so much Taylor Swift this weekend.
I love Taylor Swift. Don't get me wrong. She's a fucking gift. And she is so unbelievably talented that it blows my mind.
That being said, it can still be tough like hearing it so much. Anything, anything so much. I mean, we had some long drives this weekend. We were in Cape Cod and so we were heading out there and then coming back.
And you know, here's the thing. I actually, I do have, I do feel like I try to be pretty fair with Izzy because I feel like I understand the obsession. When I am very interested in something, I get that, like that just obsession, that fixation on something. You want it all the time.
And right now she wants Taylor all the time. We do have headphones. We do have headphones. So you understand she does hear it through headphones, but still.
We have to play through the speakers at some point. Yes, we do both in the car where it's also like in the car loud for everyone and then also on her headphones. Can I say this? Quickly.
This is a short episode. I want to say that today because of this onslaught of Taylor, I felt a real urgency to record something of my own immediately upon arriving home today. So when you went to get Izzy, I did record that song quickly. Yeah.
Kind of wipe your slate and pull the thing on. Yeah, fair enough. And again. Tuesday.
We'll see you Thursday. Bye. Bye.