Trust, if you don't believe in you than you have no faith. Fear, fear is in your eyes. Do you follow, there's no clue. One can hardly say.
Relax, you're much too tense. Your aura and all just makes me scream. Please wipe that expression from your face. Such wit. Such charm. Such grace.
There's nothing we can do the rest is up to you. Come back, come back, come back! You're peers have made a pact. Better watch your back, Come back, come back another day.
Your lies, deceit will get you no where in this life. Shame on all those childish games. Are you present in your mind. One can hardly tell.
You Know Who is a song of many mysteries. The first of which involves the lyrics. It's a song of sarcasm, lashing out, and to be honest, it's quite cruel and hysterical at the same time. Yes, it's about someone but Jeff and I aren't saying. At least not until our residuals check comes in from VH1's Harbinger Behind The Music. Musically it's a mystery as well. I must have wrote this in the summer of '91 after the recording of "the Inevitable". The video is from my first show with Harbinger. It was an encore song. The mystery is if we ever played it again and why we didn't play it in Archivon. I don't have any video evidence that it was played in our auditorium shows in late '91 but we recorded a 4 track demo of it in early '92. Maybe we did play it again but we probably didn't play it in Archivon out of guilt. The song was created off a riff of Todd's but probably 80% of the song is mine. At this period I was really trying to be heavy and progressive and this is definately one of my most ambitious. Todd was showing me some arpeggio scales and I adapted them immediately to this song. The clean parts are a picked arpeggio and we do some arpeggio harmony runs in the solo. The solo section is quite inventive. I start out with a little melody then Todd and I do runs in opposite directions meeting at harmony notes and then we continue on with a harmony. Then I do a quick solo ending in a joined harmony. Todd follows with a quick solo and again it's joined in a harmony. I've always worked hard at being creative with my song endings and in this one we do the picked arpeggios but distorted and in harmony- nice touch. Jeff sings this quite manic but in perfect attitude with the intent of the lyrics.
Ah, You Know Who. A very well written musical piece. Tom and Todd at their writing best. The lyrics pretty much targeted a certain undisclosed individual at the time, but it eventually took on a life of its own. I now just think of it as a well written song. The past is the past. A band is like a marriage of multiple people. It is difficult to always agree and tolerate each other. Everyone has different opinions and philosophies. The lyrics to YKW were spawn of the tension and irritable eccentricities. I really dislike publishing the truth of this matter because I retain some guilt over it. But the lines can pertain to anybody at this point. Next Subject....The video is very cool and was the trial run to our SADD high school tour. Performed at Nardi's, a local club where the bar owner, Bob Nardi, owed me a couple of favors. We collected by utilizing his establishment to set up our show on a small scale and play the venue to our friends, followers and families. The biggest obstacle would be performing live in front of people with a drum machine in place of a drummer. We would use this show as a way of measuring if the audience was receptive and if we could sequentially pull it off. The scheme was to draw attention to our stage show and distract the audience away from where a drummer would otherwise be. It's too bad we weren't yet in the age of advanced technology with laptops and LCD projectors. We could have paid Andy James to video tape himself playing and recording simultaneously our songs in sequence, and then we could have projected it on a large screen behind us every night. That would have been the ultimate dimension that would have given us our edge and comfort. Hey, we pulled it off with a drum machine. Why wouldn't we be able to do so with this method?! But I digress. Tom wonderfully surprised me with this video on the site as he usually does. I think it's perfect and now we can finally lay to rest the theory that YKW would never get the listening exposure it deserves as Tom and I have had this discussion recently. Perhaps this discussion got Tom to thinking. Bravo, Thomas!
