| Well, one night I was watching the Benny Hill show and mixing qualudes and tequila. I knew this was the only way to write an epic and sure enough, after I puked for the 3rd time it came to me in a drug induced dream. In fact the intro pulse sound is me puking while running it through an oscillator. Later on that night as my stomach was being pumped I found it ironic that the doctor who was assisting me in keeping me alive only had one ear so I changed the line from "medical Rembrandt" to "medical Van Gogh" There Jeff, the mystery is still intact. Oh, I play the solo in the song too.
Seriously though I have no clue what I was doing other than trying to be as progressive as possible but lyrically it's so far removed from me that the above story must be true. But then again, Jeff had earlier discussed how I tended to not be so simplistic with lyrics and in this case I was. And wouldn't you know it, it's probably the most quoted song I've ever written.
"Dr Bob. The Zorro of tomorrow. Dr Bob. A medical Van Gogh"
Go figure. Musically it's a freak. Jeff's back in the refrigerator or off getting head while the intro is playing on and on. Todd and I again are playing riffs off each other which was really not just a cool style but also my attempt to get Todd involved in the songs as a guitar team. Too often a guy who writes the song gets all the highlight parts while the other guitarist is just trying to find some backing chords to play. The bridge section before the solo is crazy. I'm playing some arpeggio type run while Todd and Bill are doing right hand tapping on the fretboard. It then crescendo's to a harmony and stops dead. I don't get what all those dead stops are for. I use to tell Todd my writing style was like a train wreck. You take 2 unrelated pieces and put them on trains steaming towards each other on the same track and the subsuquent destruction is how I arrange my songs. I guess it all works, people like it. Billy and I sang backing vocals.
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"Dr Bob. The Zorro of tomorrow. Dr Bob. A medical Van Gogh"
This is a pretty funny story. It was almost too funny to sing. I had a difficult time taking it seriously. Later on in life I have grown to respect the song and quite honestly, have taken a liking to it. I have no idea what gave Tom the idea for this one. I think I prefer to keep it a mystery to myself. It will have more significance to me this way. The vocal melody just sort of blends in. It was actually fun to sing in rehearsal although it became somewhat boring in front of the audience because I do not think there was a connection.
"Why must you never take a wife? Patients first now that's no life. Why don't you try a golfing day? You work too hard enjoy your pay."
-Ludicrous, psychosis!
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