two new Girls On Fire recordings

SF Air/SF Hair

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photo by Laura Cottingham

This song is about seeing and trying to come to terms with the unexpected.
​San Francisco was always known for being the big California city with clean air. Now, because of the Northern California wildfires, its air can sometimes be worse than the smog in Los Angeles. The realization of this change and its impact and how to communicate it vocally was inspired by Elvis Presley’s notorious “Desert Storm” speech of 1974. Elvis was in the midst of his divorce from Priscilla Presley and finishing up what would become his final residency in Las Vegas. There are recordings of his nine minute tirade against the gossip/movie/entertainment magazines for reporting/spreading rumors that he was “strung out on heroin.”  During this melt down he claims that he has never been strung out on heroin and that the only thing that he has ever been strung out on was music. The audience is clapping and very supportive of him during this harangue. He goes on to say how dangerous these kinds of rumors/reports (fake news) are to his father, his band, his audience and his little daughter.

​That is when I got to thinking about how his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, is/was one of the Ramones’ biggest fans. She was close friends with Johnny Ramone and helped pay for the statue of him at his gravesite in Hollywood. Johnny, who was everyone else’s nightmare (the subject of “The KKK Took My Baby Away”), was the light of Lisa Marie’s life. I think that there is a Buddhist moral in there somewhere but moving right along….

Editor's Note: These are the first new Girls On Fire recordings since 1985!

Thanks for the Feedback

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Bringing back the autobiographical elements along with real potty talk and some important, helpful public health information, the lyrics speak for themselves:

Cheap imitation furniture
Socratic landscaped
Broken sunglasses
Anthill off the freeway

Nice white ladies
With asses made of sandpaper
Sadly and quickly
Wore away the toilet seat

Go glasses away
Leviticus 2018
It is broken
Fuck this dumb shit

It turns out 
You can’t get scabies
From sitting on 
A toilet seat