(GIMME THAT) WHITEBREAD
WHITEBREAD’S first real original song, and the song that gave the band the name. Jodi thought we could be the “Whitebred” Blues Band, but even in 1992 that was a bit …..much. We opted for just WHITEBREAD and it stuck.
Kevin and I together write the silliest lyrics you’ll ever hear a blues based band sing. Now that I look back, the lyrics Kev and I write are kind of B52-ish, but I know we had no idea who they were yet.
She don’t like rice cakes, stuck between her teeth,
LYRICS TO (gIMME THAT) WHITEBREAD by JOE AND KEV
she don’t like nothing, made of corn or wheat,
meat and potatoes. I’ll catch you later, trying to watch my size,
just gimme that white bread, and make sure you let it rise
It ain’t genetic, so be a little copacetic
it ain’t a disease, so use a little butter if you please?
She don’t like muffins, muffin men are dry.
She don’t like moistened cruller remnants
Wipe them on the side
Meat and potatoes I’ll catch you later, I’m trying to watch my size,
just gimme that white bread, and make sure you let it rise.
The song is an allegory to the old blues songs that would use food to make sexual innuendos and seem sneaky doing so. Knowing what I know now, I was really trying to recreate the funny yet bluesy stomp of “Howard Johnson’s” by NRBQ.
This song was the one that got Derek and I off on the right foot. He told me he was pumped becaue it was in C Major. Upon asking why that was good, he then told me that A Minor was the blues scale and his Schecter Strat style guitar had the extra fret length so he could play solos in 3 octaves in A Minor.
I put a pin in that bit of knowledge and would ask all of my bandmates from then on what key they liked to play in…..(except for Greg Marshall, who told me it didn’t matter because his keyboard had a “transposer-button” or something like that).
Good as Derek is on this song, I believe this is Jodi’s moment. He worked VERY hard on this bass part and I hope you can zero in on it.
Once more Kev and I are riding in the back of the bus and laughing at the whole thing. Are we really doing this? Singing about Moistened Cruller Remnants?
Yes.
Yes we are. And with a straight faced Chicago style blues jam that Jake and Elwood Blues would’ve loved to dance to, in my opinion. Go ahead: picture John Belushi singing this song.
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