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Welcome to the first installment of the Porchsleeper Digital 7" Series!
Friends, listening to music is different now. When your favorite band puts out a new album, you don't hear it on WLLZ or playing overhead in the local record shop. You don't discover music coming out of a car window or blaring out of a boombox from your older sister's room. You hear about it on your screen. Attention is precious. Carving out an entire hour on your device to take a chance on music is a big ask.
We think we've got that solved.
You're invited to the The Porchsleeper Digital 7" of the Month Club.
Each month for the next year or so we'll be debuting a new single from our upcoming album, lovingly recorded by Jim Roll. Each single has its own album cover art from a local artist who tolerates us, its own back story, rig rundowns, inside jokes, and a whole lot of 'Sleeper love.
The good news is that unlike Columbia House, each single we deliver to your internet is free (with the option to kick us a couple bucks if the song changes your life). No strings attached, no need to buy nine to get the tenth one free.
You can keep track of us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and we'll be making our singles available on here on Bandcamp and on Spotify, iTunes, Rdio, YouTube and anywhere else you're likely to listen.
So, now that we have all that out of the way, Next Mistake is the first song Porchsleeper has released in about seven years. A lot of stuff has happened in the last seven years. There have been marriages, divorces, births and deaths. This song is about all of those things. Things happen and decisions are made. Chances are you're going to be wrong some of the time. Or in Brian's case, most of the time. This song is about making mistakes and being ok with them.
Also, in the last seven years Brian discovered Moogs and guitar pedals. Lots and lots of guitar pedals. Hence, all the Helicopter Robot noises.
Hopefully, Ben Blackwell still hates it.
lyrics
NEXT MISTAKE
I don't want to play those old songs anymore
They don't mean the same to me
I can't run from my shadow anymore
It's getting too dark to see
I've been awakened by these visions
And I don't know just what's at stake
But I keep living just like I'm dying
Until I make that next mistake
I can't drink like I used to do
I lost all feeling long ago
And I could never be who you wanted me to
But you never really wanted me to you know
I don't think about you anymore
Waiting for that bough to break
I keep living just like I'm dying
Until I make that next mistake
Well, I've said every Goddamn prayer I know
Wishing I had a soul to take
But I keep living just like I'm dying
Until I make that last mistake
Until I make that last mistake
credits
released June 25, 2015
Brian: Sang it, He also played rhythm and lead guitars and synthesizers
Zac: Played bass and sang sweet harmonies
Steve: Drummed
Vert: Played more guitars and sang more sweet harmonies
Gear Rundown:
Guitars: MJT Esquire Cabronita Custom, Gibson Les Paul Gold Top, Orville Flying V, Fender P Bass
Amps: Naylor SuperDrive 60, Bogner Shiva 2x12 combo, Vox AC30, Ampeg BA-210sp
Pedals: Timmy Overdrive, Klon KTR, JHS Moonshine, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander and Hummingbird, Strymon Mobius and BlueSky
Synths: MiniMoog & Mellotron
Percussion: Premier Artist Birch drum kit, Zildjian cymbals
We recorded it with Jim Roll at Backseat on the west side of Ann Arbor, Michigan
www.backseatproductions.com
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