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(music – The Mistakes)
The opening section of this song was originally a separate piece called “Acid Reign”, but I decided there were enough tiny songs on the album and started folding some of the teeny tunes into the larger ones. This intro section started life as an Andy – Prairie bass/drums improv. Henry did some overdubs, of which I kept only the Miles Davis-ish chords he plays from 0:17 – 0:31, and which I love a lot. The freaked sounding stuff on top of everything is me banging the keyboard of an M1 while changing patches constantly, and running that through an Eventide patch called “Acid Reign” which makes everything jump all over the place.

HK – guitar
MK – synth
PP – drums
AW – bass

(music, lyrics – Keneally)
After a weird intro with Jeff saying “rolling” over two Keneally guitars (sustainer guitar on left, Strat on right), Prairie hits two tom-tom notes which lead into a Henry – Andy bass duet (Henry’s six-string bass on the left, Andy’s five-string on the right). At 1:10 a couple of Keneally guitars come in playing a riff which has been used at just about every BFD show for the last year. The lyrics were written on New Year’s Eve 1994 about my frustration with a certain situation, one which, as luck would have it, has just been resolved as of February 1996. This is another of the songs which I demoed at home, but the guitar parts were so Keneally-esque that Henry opted not to learn any of the composed stuff. Andy and Prairie both play magnificently well on this outing. The bass line during Henry’s main solo at 4:25 was composed by Andy.

HK – six-string bass in bass duet, ugly noises at 1:35, 2:08, 2:24 and 2:29, guitar solos from 2:45 – 3:07 and 4:25 – 5:38, left speaker oddness from 6:44 – 7:19 and 7:32 – 7:41
MK – all other guitars, Wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizer, vocal
PP – drums
AW – bass

lyrics

Tie me to the mainmast
I’ll hang until the dawn
I couldn’t feel more strongly
It’s time for moving on
Proper ways of doing things
Improper ways of not
I can feel my heart break
As I watch potential rot

Pardon the short notice
But one heeds the heart at cost
I couldn’t face the morning
If I let these thoughts be lost
So tie me to the mainmast now
I’ll hang until the dawn
We sail without direction
The rudder long since gone

A very special episode
Tonight we wave goodbye
I heard there’ll be a spin-off
So dry that reddened eye
Tie me to the mini-van
It’s time to hit the road
I feel my spirit changing now
A goodbye kiss for toad

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from The Mistakes, released December 19, 1995

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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