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6 Days now until the release of “Mountain”. Got a tracking number yesterday on the vinyls. Shipped out the CD’s yesterday from the Kickstarter, and as soon as the vinyls come in the rest of the orders will be filled ahead of schedule. Excited to see what this record does, and very happy with the choice we made. There’s a press release coming out in the next couple days about our progress/success and some more cool stuff next week. Please stay tuned and thank you for continuing to be here, and for telling other folk to check us out. It’s helping!
Here’s a break down on “Gone (Not Dead)”
I wrote “Gone (Not Dead)” in a time period when I was going back to the roots and listening to some influential albums for me. The Cult “Electric”, AC/DC “Flick of the Switch”, The Four Horsemen. Wanted to do just a straight ahead rocker with a fat riff chorus. I liked having those breaks in the verse to get a line in without the music underneath it, which also works great with us being a two piece band as far as dynamics. Lyrically the song is just about being trapped somewhere that is really heavy on you. A lot of tongue in cheek stuff here, innuendos and references. I’ll run through this one line by line below and give you my thoughts at the time I was writing it. I’m not saying the song is about Evansville, but I think we have had some frustrations that we as a band have always been bigger outside of the place we reside. We were getting played on radio outside of Evansville at the time. Still when we look at our reports and numbers we have always had more fans in listeners in Chicago, Nashville, or Atlanta than Evansville, and I think it’s always frustrated us. That being said, I wrote this song two years ago at a time when we were pretty frustrated with some specific situations. For all the things we would take issue with here, some of our best friends, fans and family also are here. But those of you living here, and reading this, probably have had some similar feelings. We just want to see some positive changes in this place and are trying to create that change. But this song could be about anywhere. I guess. Here we go….
Gone (Not Dead)
Dirty water on the holy ground (things are not right here…)
And the preacher done left town (not much chance of getting better, feels like hope has left town)
Spider with 7 legs (again, things not adding up and not seeming normal)
Never trust what your momma says (whoever is telling you that things are cool, and normal, nah, don’t trust them)
Nickel slots on a river boat (a big fancy smoke filled casino with a cheap game. At the time I was getting over cancer the city was letting people smoke in the casino for purely financial reasons, knowing it was killing our citizens.)
Rolls Royce on a dirt road (you can have the nicest things but if you treat them poorly you will destroy them)
Never know where I wanna go, oh no (anywhere but here at the moment?…)
Just wanna be gone from here, and not dead (Wanting to get out of here, before the place literally or mentally kills me)
Just wanna be gone from here, and not dead
Gravedigger with a broken back (Can’t seem to get things done)
Got a train, ain’t got a track (Can’t seem to get things rolling)
5th son of a 7th son (Not much luck at the moment)
Guess I could never really get it done (guess I’m stuck here)
Nickel slots on a river boat
Rolls Royce on a dirt road
Never know where I wanna go, oh no
Just wanna be gone from here, and not dead
Just wanna be gone from here, and not dead
