Story Behind The Song

DAGS is the experimental song on The Watery Eye. My idea was simple enough - to write a song where each sound would come from my acoustic guitar. The guitar parts are obvious. The bass line is simply a guitar line with the bass boosted and the treble cut. For the drums, I placed the microphone in various locations and tapped, smacked, and hit the guitar to make each of the pieces of a drum kit. I love the way this song came out. The actual "song" is an old tune called Anxiety from my first band, sans lyrics, of course, because the acoustic guitar hasn't learned how to sing yet. When my friend Heffe heard the first demo of the song, which I had called All Acoustic, he said "I feel like I'm sitting at a deserted Arizona gas station." Need I say more? Check the inside of the CD booklet for a Dawn's great snapshot of just such a place. If you listen carefully to the fade out at the end, you can hear my chair creaking. The last remnants of drum sounds pan from left to right, and it sounds like Stewie from the Family Guy running across the studio.

Song Description

D e s e r t e d A r i z o n a G a s S t a t i o n