"This song reminds me of Joe - before the band officially started he used to pick me up regularly from my parents house in his busted up Cadillac to hang out. We used to just drive around, look for parties and talk - he turned me on to Parliament cigarettes (before they were cool) and Bob Dylan (he was already cool). We were the best of friends then. I miss those times more than any others that we shared. Just two book obsessed punks that didn't have a clue what they were doing with their lives but didn't give a quarter of a fuck what anyone thought.
Joe was never very involved in the songwriting - he was always the guy that just knew what needed to be added to make a good song great. However, "40/80" was different - I shouldn't even have to mention the frantically beautiful solo he added but he was also responsible for the best line in the song. Honestly, looking back, I think he just got sick of hearing Adam and I fumble over what the third line in the chorus should be and yelled, "Just say, "Imposing their ancient values"!!" It was funny how his ideas came out so eloquently when he got annoyed. We should've annoyed him more.
from Stubhy:
"This song reminds me of Joe - before the band officially started he used to pick me up regularly from my parents house in his busted up Cadillac to hang out. We used to just drive around, look for parties and talk - he turned me on to Parliament cigarettes (before they were cool) and Bob Dylan (he was already cool). We were the best of friends then. I miss those times more than any others that we shared. Just two book obsessed punks that didn't have a clue what they were doing with their lives but didn't give a quarter of a fuck what anyone thought.
Joe was never very involved in the songwriting - he was always the guy that just knew what needed to be added to make a good song great. However, "40/80" was different - I shouldn't even have to mention the frantically beautiful solo he added but he was also responsible for the best line in the song. Honestly, looking back, I think he just got sick of hearing Adam and I fumble over what the third line in the chorus should be and yelled, "Just say, "Imposing their ancient values"!!" It was funny how his ideas came out so eloquently when he got annoyed. We should've annoyed him more.