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Piranha

from Dog Daze by BrainSquid!

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Kent: Another innuendo-laden classic by Zeus, this one is pretty much all him, as I only contributed background vocals, extra percussion and the majority of the spoken word rhyme. I tried to lay down a guitar solo, but couldn’t come up with anything satisfactory, so that’s Dave’s tasty licks you hear. The main riff reminds me of Jethro Tull’s ``Locomotive Breath,’’ but I don’t think he had ``Aqualung’’ in his record collection.

Zeus: I went through a phase of juxtaposing boneheaded riffs and juvenile lyrics in the verses with really complicated chord changes in the bridges, so much so that this one ended up with two different bridges.

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from Dog Daze, released January 21, 1987

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Armed with a yard sale snare drum, a Casio MT-40, baritone ukulele, 1 Fisher Price happy apple, 2 Radio Shack portable cassette decks and a plethora of Beefheartian song titles, childhood friends Kent Kimes and David Henderson set out to conquer East Point, GA's non-existent music scene. 30 years later, the mutant fruits and fauna of their labors are emerging from the tentacled cocoons. Behold! ... more

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