The United Dictators Of Mars - SONG

Double-0-Nothing

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Music: Mody, Words: Harris

A broken glass. A tilted picture on the wall. Behind the door remains a stranger to us all.. Calm as could be. Safe from harm. He'll steal you with his deadly charm.

Thinking every move he makes. Covering the tracks he made. Not your ordinary vice. he's cool as ice.

He'll entertain in his disguise. Master among many a spy.

A house of stone. A secret passage in th wall. Don't be alarmed. He'll be where ever danger crawls. Sharp as a knife. So hard to kill. He'll spare your life just for the thrill.

Moving swiftly in the night. Stand in shadows out of sight. Reaching for his golden gun. What we call Hell, he calls fun. Zero, Zero, Zero.

The music for this song was written at the time of my music demos which became my album "Word". As I mentioned in the liner notes for Father, I came up with some great bass lines by typing on the drum machine key pads as opposed to fretting a bass. This is another great bass line and that can inspire some cool guitar riffs. Writing over a bass line also helps you create guitar verses that aren't based in simple power chords. You can do some melodic phrasing or harmony pieces where as if you tried to write them without the bass lines they would sound very thin and hollow. This song has alot of single note phrasing which I tried to rub against the bass line as opposed to following it. I think I'll take a jab at Jeff here and fess up that I'm not a big fan of his work on this one. It's too lazy a vocal melody that probbaly needed more time in the studio to flesh out. I undertsnad where he came up with the spy subject matter because the bass riff does have that feel but I think I prefer not knowing what the hell he's writing about. I'm sure I can expect an email from him shortly after I post this on the web site. These liner notes are just a place for honest reflection. Besides, I didn't want to do this song on the album even prior to his lyrics. I wanted to do what eventually became Frame of Mind on the UDM "Smash Hits" album. I thought that would be a more danceable song (why do I keep saying that! Did I really think that way?) but as Frame of Mind turned out, Jeff made it more spooky than danceable so he obviously wasn't hearing what I was for the EOR live show.

What a cool title. I originally titled this song: Zero, Zero, Zero. Upon explaining this story of a spy who is a poor version of James Bond 007 (Double-O-7) but thinks he is this cool hero but in reality he is a zero, to a colleague of mine, I told him I didn't really like the song title that I had come up with and asked if he would like to give input. I swear to God the first words out of his mouth were "Double-O-Nothing". Now that is funny! Perfect. Brian Leviker receives credit for this title somewhere in the CD credits rightly so. I don't think Tom ever really got it with this song. It isn't really one of my favorites. But I think that it didn't get the time it deserved. Billy Rock-n-Roll would have called it a "filler song" and probably rightly so. I think Tom forgets that this is a song we threw together right before going to the studio and it didn't get any pre-production rehearsal time like most of the rest of the material. I basically wrote and structured real time in the studio for this one. It is the song which took me the longest to record vocally. And of course, I didn't have much time in the studio as the rest of the musicians to cut my tracks being the last to do so and us running low on funds and studio time. Woe is me. Anyhow, the story and title are cool. This title also reminds me of another cool title – "Frame of Mind" The title has multiple meanings. This I will leave to the viewer's/listener's imagination. Double-O-Nothing could have been a good song but didn't translate to disk the way I had intended it to. Oh well.

Tom's Rebuttle: I didn't realize he was a second rate spy. "Zero-Zero-Zero", I get it! That is funny- I like the song better now.

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