Grillmaster has Jeff Brodnax and Gordon Bradley from Tidewater on it as well. The Grillmaster stuff should be released soon. David and I were in Splotch and Grillmaster together while in New York. Backed up some other artists and did some recording with them as well. Got to go to Europe several times with them as well as Canada and Mexico. Played in The Master Plan that consisted of myself plus members of The Dictators and The Fleshtones. Anyway, what was the question?Īny other notable things any of you have been up to since then? Backstage afterward, I collapsed on the dressing room floor, pancake-smeared face buried in my ripped T-shirt, crying, “Damn you, Oscar Hammerstein!!” And it’s all been one long cascade downhill from there. Dress rehearsal was rough, but somehow I managed to nail the performance. I was barely six months into puberty at the time, mind you, so my lower register was only just beginning to develop. I was cast as Emile in the school production of “South Pacific” and I had to sing “Some Enchanted Evening,” which features this ascending melody that starts in a low baritone and finishes in a high falsetto. The thing is … y’know, this all started back in 6th grade. I can just see her rolling her eyes right now. How have you fared these last three decades?ĭavid: Ya see, this is exactly why Carol (Taylor, the band’s former manager who passed away in 1996) always cringed in horror when I did these press interviews. Speaking of 30 years ago, Dave, you told the Daily Press in 1990 that without music, you’d probably be a sinner. I thought, “He’s cracked the code! He’s figured out how to work and play at the same time! It’s the workers’ playtime!” And the song more-or-less wrote itself from there. He had hoisted a giant 200-pound roll of carpet onto his left shoulder while gnawing on a chicken leg that was in his right hand. I was trying to compose somewhat of an “ode” to that feeling when I happened to observe one of my co-workers. We don’t get much peace during the average workday, so any quiet moment feels like a gift from heaven. What’s the backstory on the song?ĭavid Middleton (lead vocals, guitar): It’s a tongue-in-cheek glimpse at my life as a Teamster. There are some really clever, catchy lyrics buried in there. The expression wax poetic means to talk in an increasingly fanciful way.Jeff Bailey (bass): Just as Paul said, some really good things happen when we work out parts for these new songs, so why not capture that? But fear not, as there is a place of solace named after the late Irish writer where you can sit and sip until you start to wax poetic. In other words, a life without love is like Chicago in the winter.This excerpt is from a restaurant review. Glancing out the window of an old school bus after digging holes to a foundation in the heat might not make the average college student wax poetic, but my youngest, Brittany, had an epiphany as she posted a breathtaking photo of the mountainous Honduran horizon, quoting poet Sylvia Plath in the process.The excerpt below is about a girl quoting a poet when she felt inspired. Lorenzo: That’s true, but he’d probably speak in an even more poetic way that is even harder to understand. Lorenzo: He uses so many big words that I’ve never heard of and uses so many metaphors. He does tend to wax poetic when he’s talking about something he’s really excited about. I wish he would just speak plainly.Īlba: Yeah, I know. Lorenzo: I can’t ever understand what this professor is trying to say.
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