Up the Lake: Music Video! Stinging the Blues

Key things in life are often:

A) Who you know

and 

B) Timing

Lucking out in these two areas led to the first ever original song I wrote that actually has a music video to be posted on this blog.

A) Was covered by being fortunate enough to count Gary as a friend.  Click here to experience his impressive and entertaining musical skills.

B) Was a twist of fate.  Almost all the songs I have written, and continue to write, are parodies of existing numbers.  However, on exceedingly rare occasions, I come up with a song that’s done in a style or genre with no specific source.

In this case, I envisioned it as a basic eight bar blues recounting the tragic tale of misplaced trust and air rifles Up the Lake.

Yes, a Joe was involved.

I sent the lyrics around at the same time as Gary completed installing his new, in-home studio, and I was amazingly lucky enough to have him consider it worth trying out his extensive talents on on some equipment he'd only just read the manuals for.  To add to his impressiveness, the rockin' bridge was his first guitar solo!  He's primarily a keyboard player, but the "have a couple beers and go for it" method turned out to be amazingly effective.

This effort turned a goofy whim of my head into something awesome and artistic! 
It is a feeling I will never forget.

Watch below to see images featuring locations of the song's occurrences, or click the link here if there are browser issues.

Lyrics are after the video of the newly remastered song. 
(George Lucas eat your heart out)

“BB Blues”

I woke up this mornin’

Day was goin’ kinda slow

So I joined a game invented

By my paaaal’s big brother Joe.

I was young and naïve and foolish

I just didn’t have a clue

That’s why I wound up sing-in’

The shot in the ass with a B B Blues….

He said the game played like tag

And we’d have a lot of fun

Instead of running us down

He’d  uuuuse a B B gu-un

Don’t know why we listened to him,

Guess there’s nothin else to doooo

So I joined the game that led to,

The shot in the ass with a B B Blues

We ran into the forest,

He claimed he’d pump it once,

When I heard him pump it four times

I feelt like such a du-unce

I gave up really quickly.

Stood there shakin’ in my shooooes.

Then he sent me back to home base.

And the shot in the ass with a B B Blues

He said he wasn’t tryin’

He claims he didn’t aim

But when he yelled “MOVE” and fired

He hit me just the sa-ame

I felt stinging pain and burnin’

I felt nauseous and confuuused

The brass in my skin gave me

The shot in the ass with a B B Blues

So the lesson of my story

Is one all you kids should know

Never play a game invented

By a guuuy who’s name is Jo-oe

Or you’ll hurt and cry and limp a lot

All your self respect you’ll loooooose

Cause there ain’t no lower feeling

Then those shot in the ass with a Beeeee Beeeeeeee

Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuues

Oooh, pass the neosporin…yeah.





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