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The All That Jaws land vehicle recently ran over an already-run-over skunk in the pleasant Atwater Village section of Los Angeles, and we couldn’t help but think of a certain Boatswain’s Mate, a baseball player from Cleveland named Herbie.
The skunk had been cut in half. Continue reading
With the economic and environmental realities facing 2011, it isn’t surprising that a Peace Train is no longer a viable conveyance of strummy, acoustic idealism. But a Hope Boat, on the other hand…
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Hope Boat
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As this week marks the 35th anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the song of the same name was a signature hit for the man who is referenced in 1/3 of the syllables of our band, we are proud to share with you, fellow Internauts, a song that most likely will never be played onstage. Continue reading
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Doubtless you’ve wondered why every other day of the week but Wednesday has a popular song dedicated to it. “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Monday Monday,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “Friday on My Mind,” and a dozen songs about Saturday spring immediately to mind. Continue reading
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There are many dates that help to define a person, a band, a country. The day we get our driver’s license, the birth of our children, The Rolling Stones at Altamont, Pearl Harbor Day, the release of the first iPhone.
Then there’s the night Lance threw up in his own car after eating at the Cheesecake Factory and watching “Machete.”
Well, most of “Machete.” Continue reading
Elusive preeminent power trio Fogelfoot are captured in this rare clip from an undisclosed location. Here we can see them laughing, crying, creating, and engaging in hand to hand combat with the Muse in order to subdue Her to the band’s will. And yes, the Muse submits, floridly. Then Kennedy is shot.
For the Friday, April 30 show at Jensen’s in Santa Barbara (the opening night soiree of the Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival), we are debuting our version of the Stagger Lee legend, told so well by everyone from Ike & Tina Turner to Wilson Pickett to Nick Cave. Ours has the Stag going to space and becoming a constellation.
Here is the demo of the song. You have to imagine it with castrati choir, theremin, Thera-Flu, and chain gangs.
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Stagger Lee
See also: Jensen’s, Santa Barbara Minute
Because we are unmistakably a product of our time, Fogelfoot likes to dabble in uneducated patriotism. We were so excited about playing “In the Eyes of an Eagle” as the showpiece of our SuperBowl halftime appearance that we completely forgot we weren’t invited.
This song is about the tender, last-minute reconciliation between a father and son set against the uniquely American backdrop of vinyl mills, tobacco fields, Tea Party activism, and the Ford Motor Car Company. It is also about Freedom. And Freedoms.
For this reason, “In the Eyes of an Eagle” is being offered as the national anthem of Afghanistan, Somalia, and Haiti as part of the U.S. government’s nation-building efforts in those transitional countries, and its lyrics have been reprinted on the igloo dome of the Alaska state house.
If you don’t like this song, you hate America and don’t support our troops. Avoid pushing your Prius up to highway speed, commie.
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In the Eyes of An Eagle
The idea was simple. We were thinking about Abba’s “Fernando” and how odd it was that those Swedes would write a song about a Mexican revolutionary in love with a United States citizen who, er, hears drums and crosses the Rio Grande.
This made us think of “Brandy” by Looking Glass and similar songs about men whose true love is anything other than the chick who’s serving them whiskey and wine.
Then there was the propensity of the 70′s cokespoon class to call women “Lady,” as distinct from how Jerry Lewis might do it.
We then wrapped these complex feelings into Jose Feliciano’s “Chico And the Man” and – there you have it – The Greatest Song of All TimeTM.
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