MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

MAGIC BEENZ

A song about nipples.

Kevin Beck and I really wanted to be Steely Dan one summer. We were locked in on every album they had, and while we wouldn’t learn their songs to play live, we would pick apart the theory behind the music they wrote and try to use those theories in songs that we would write.

In between those conversations we would talk about things that friends talk about. One of them would be the attractive qualities of the opposite sex, and the other would probably be buying a teleporter or something like that. During those important moments we surmised that nipples were amazing, and that some nipples were more amazing than a nipple had a right to be. Speaking of right, we most likely also chose a side, left or right, as to which was usually more amazing. Add all this to the amazingness of the fact nipples even exist and had a purpose so righteous, and things would get really heavy up there in the GILSON CAFE LOUNGE. We finally could not get past the analogy that nipples were in fact like Magic Beans from “Jack & The Beanstalk.”

So. We weren’t going to be writing REELIN IN THE YEARS on that night no matter what. We got to work on MAGIC BEENZ and didn’t stop until we had a demo (which is now on the Demo page). We may have taken longer than usual because we were cracking up the whole time. PROON learned that demo version almost note for note, and here it is in all its wild naked fleshy frenzy. Kevin was in Boston at this time going to a Music Conservatory and I’m happy to say I emailed him this track this morning.

I know. I know. You’re thinking: how do you even bring that track into the practice space, much less Mr. & Mrs. Allshouse’s cellar, and get the band to go. “Song about nipples? First word is Aereole? Cool. How’s it go?” Well, you’d be surprised, because once they heard the ridiculous demo and how fast it was it became a challenge. Then it was a challenge to get Shelly to sing it without cracking up.
“We did it, Joe. We did it.”