I just found another track. This time it's a drunken demo version of "Louie Louie", in the style of Iggy Pop's track on "American Caesar". It was recorded on a Tascam 4-track cassette deck. The band was an Iggy Pop cover band, for some reason called "Flaming Maple". The track was laid down sometime early in 1995, before the "I'll Sing" track. I think we recorded four Iggy/Stooges songs that day, "I Got a Right", "No Fun" and "Dirt" being the others.
The vocalist is my best friend Geir, who owns the farm where we bbuilt the studio. He was never really much of a singer and didn't start playing or singing until he was in his twenties, but he had TONS of attitude and stage presence. And he was the world's biggest Iggy Pop fan. What he lacked in ability, he made up for live by commanding people's attention. The feeling is loose, but the band got really tight after a while.
The drummer in the band was on speed but was always very sweet and calm (he used to counter the effects of the speed by smoking large amounts of hash...). Snger Geir, has never smoked a cigarette in his whole life, let alone done any illegal drugs whatsoever, yet he was always suspected of doing speed or coke when we played. It was a proper rock 'n' roll band, but apart from the drummer, we were very much a law-abiding gang!
I'm playing the guitar in the right channel (opening the track) and the lead. I'm pretty happy with the guitar solo, actually. It's short, but it's to the point.
Again, there's a nasty hum from the cheap tape-to-USB device, I need to get hold of something a bit better, I guess. I've done a bit of enhancing in GarageBand on this one as well.
It's definitely something different from "I'll Sing", but it brings back great memories from my youth. We used to hang out at the farm, drinking beer and moonshine, playing into the wee hours. We'd throw parties there where we had different local bands play. Once, during one of the big parties some idiot set fire to the forest next to the farm. The police and fire brigade were called, but we managed to put the fire out before they arrived. 150 drunk people all pissing on the fire at the same time did the trick! We also managed to hide all the beer and moonshine we were selling in the two bars in the barn. When the police arrived they inspected the barn but didn't complain about anything since we had managed to put out the fire. The fire brigade turned up and were so happy with our work that a couple of them stuck around for a beer after they were done with their work. Thinking of it really makes me smile. You can say what you want about the music, but it's a part of my life I look back at with great pleasure. If I could go back and relive those years again I'd do it in a heartbeat!
Well, enough talk, here it is:
Louie Louie, by Flaming Maple
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