A few weeks ago I dreamed that my old high school friend David and I (let me direct you to the Restless Stags & Clean Wrinkles links on our blog roll) were in an eight person folk rock choir. We were performing in a small room and I sang this song:
Once I had a girl, she was devil
Once I had a girl, she wasn’t on the level
She was Beelzebub
Yeah, yeah oh yeah
I had a friend, his name was Lucifer
I had a friend, he reminded me of her
He was Beelzebub
Yeah, yeah oh yeah
The song, as I remembered it when I woke up, was kinda blues folky with a minor key feel. I demoed the tune as a simple two chord thing on my 8-track in my apt. Then I sent the demo to Chris Daily. He took what I did and improved it. He added wonderful musical touches and some killer guitar playing. Listen to the demo first then give your ears a treat by playing the Chris Daily version.
A Plumbers Nightmare
9 years ago
2 comments:
Wow, talk about two different versions (yours and Chris D's). I like your stripped, raw version, and I like Chris interpretation full of nuance and flourish. The real question is, who isn't Beelzebub? Keep up the great (dreamy) work, Boho believers.
Thank you for the kind (and apt) words...
..and Jeff, had I known how you heard it in your dream or how you were going to record it, my version would've probably been entirely different. I guess this covers the wide spectrum of beelzebubs out there - keep writing songs for me to cover.
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