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The Lumbar Sessions?

 February 28, 2009 • No Comments

The Lumbar Sessions?3 new tunes for you, but it’s been a rough start for 2009! We recorded the drum tracks in Chicago with  Holy Maloney behind the kit, and Adam Mormolstein at the board. Upon our return, I was laid up for 6 weeks with two herniated discs in my low back. Time to trade in that Fender Twin Reverb for something a little bit lighter…

While delivering the scratch tracks to Anna, Bradley and I were rear ended - and the culprit left the scene of the crime! A concerned citizen witnessed the accident and chased the offender up the road, got the license plate and waited for the cops with us. Thankfully, this person was caught, and arrested that evening. She blew a .13 and we believe she is suffering dire legal consequences for her actions!

Finally, Bradley, Tim, Anna and I settled into some sessions at Metro Recording Studios with Award Winning Producer Kevin Sharpe. Things went swimmingly with the exception of my having to lay down on the floor in between takes. It was truly great to hear Anna’s voice again on these songs, and I hope there will be more of that to come. Missing in action was our own Yukon Jack. Schedules just couldn’t permit getting him into the studio, so our Award Winning Producer Kevin stepped up to the keyboard plate.

We have three new tracks for you… and we encourage you to download them here  and distribute them freely. We’re really quite proud of the tunes, and we hope you like them too.

Bradley and I are quite busy with NoResolve.org, so we’re unsure when a show might be put together… as soon as something is in the works, you will be the first to know!

Stay tuned, and enjoy… cheers!
- Dennis

Download: Audrey’s Song
(Dedicated to the Memory of Audrey Simon)

Download: The Longest Way Home

Download: I Will Not Go Quietly

Currently, Dennis is listening to:
Lies Unknown - Lies Unknown (local guys, really great stuff)
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievences (this album is amazing)
Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy (I really can’t help it!)
The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event

Lyrics…

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Audrey’s Song: We’d been driving for 14 days, She tells me I should slow my pace, So we pull off the highway and drive up to the beach. She says “you’ve been gunning for so long now, Just relax, I’ll show you how.” She holds my hand as the waves crash on our feet

Your heart exploded we don’t know why and sent your fire up into the sky. I guess your spirit just had to be released. But I still see you in my dreams as bright and vivid as you’ve always been. Holding my hand out on that beach

Well I miss you. I miss you. I wish I could go back to your house on Creal Crescent, feel your hands upon my back. Well I miss you. I miss you. Wish I could have it all again. Your dance, your scent, the afternoons we spent. I wish I could see you again.

The Longest Way Home: He takes the dark road, the longest way home. He keeps his weary eyes on his feet. And he’s all on his own, and he’s desperate and knows that he just can’t afford to be free.

Still he walks through the night, hoping one day he might find the ocean and the warm summer breeze. And he never lets go, though the storms and the snow may sometimes knock him to his knees.

This overwhelming sadness, this underlying pain… He doesn’t understand why it’s coming back again. But it’s all gonna pay off someday and the bruises and the scars will fade away. Yes it’s all gonna pay off someday. And the bruises and the scars will fade away. And we know in the end, when we see him again, he’ll be smiling and he will be free.

I Will Not Go Quietly: I will not go quietly into the night, gonna keep on searching, gonna keep up the fight. And if I grow weary, I’ll just close my eyes, but I will not go quietly into the night.

Other people’s houses always felt like home. After all of these years, I’m still on my own. But it’s always darkest before the night, and I will not go quietly into the night.

It’s so hard to believe when it all falls apart at the seams. It’s so hard to believe, just to keep chasing all of your dreams. When you’ve wasted half your life, trying to keep up with that other guy. Cause he’s got it much better than you, and all you want is enough to get by.

I’m still in this house, I’m still in this hole. I still haven’t shed my skin. I’m tired of this town, I’m tired of this weight. So sick of the middle I’m in