MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

Here’s another song that started out as one thing, and leapt straight into another without me having any say so what so ever. The music came first, and in order for me not to forget it back in the caveman days of 1997, I came up with set of lyrics that were mainly placeholders.
(The concept being “MILES TO GO…” or something like that.)
Soon after, I started hanging with Zippy and he was all about the life. The life of farming. Of tending to your own crops. Of no one needs to be in your business but YOU. I liked that. At least he had purpose to what he did, unlike countless aimless others I had met. Mike even put up a wad of cash to get the Roasters our own PA System, which we paid back in full I’ll have you know. Zippy inspired me to write the story of a Family who fought back against the Man, and didn’t take shit. The generation before would have to sit back and watch their land either be taken by the Government, or the generation of the present could take over and do it the new way. Bam. That was it.

Musically, this song is all teamwork. I recall the moment I realized that the song was in E Minor, so that John Macbeth could rip it up on his Les Paul. Then I made an instrumental bridge that was in C Major, which would be like putty in Greg Marshall’s hands on keyboards. The chorus/outro is in G Major and that was what I liked to noodle in as the relative minor key was E Minor. Mark Ahles on drums preferred the song in the key of I don’t give an F, just start the song.
Chucky Palmer on bass, which was key.
It all worked out, for the song and the Farm. They’re keeping up the Family Tree.