SF Air/SF Hair
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
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
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Leslie SingerAfter high school and a year in the DC noise band, Psychodrama, I moved to SF in 1982. Archives
November 2020
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