The Living Rockumentary

Tony: Ah yes, that old "Pus-ty Paradise" idea. 'Twas mine, you know, he says, giving himself a pat on the back (Ouch! I pulled somethin'. Again, I marvel at my ability to type "Ouch" as I say it). Way back in the band Nag Nag Nag, I used to play scraps of classic rock riffs such as "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath and Skynrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" in "Pus." It really took off when you joined the band, as I think you were more excited about that idea than either Ari or Paul were. (Remember Paul always played the same beat- Tomorrow Never Knows- and Ari didn't play anything- rather, he just made noise by scraping his guitar strings against the mic stand- only you and I actually played song bits). Anyway, what about working on that old "Cover Band" song of mine? The "song" itself, that is to say, the original part of it, you and I could re-write so that it's better than what I already have and we could still keep the idea of the famous riffs part where the whole band would play two seconds of Day Tripper, then two seconds of Groove Is In the Heart, you know, like before, but the second time around, we could open it up so that Brian was playing, for example, the beat to Sunday Bloody Sunday, Ken's doing Axel F on keys, Max is all about Pink Floyd's Money on bass, etc. etc.- in other words, each song is instantly recognizable because of the particular instrument that's playing it (the drumbeat to Sunday Bloody Sunday is easier to pick out than the bassline on that song just as the bass on Money is more famous than the drumbeat and so on) and then we'll just start playing whatever we feel like and occasionally two of us would play something together, like during the chaos, you cand I could be whistling that famous part from Otis Redding's Dock Of The Bay in unison. So there would be method to the madness and since there's an actual song underneath about a cover band, the whole thing would make sense but we'd also get to go flippin' psycho at the end too and audiences would adore it and hate it at the same time.