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BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 9 April 2007 by to the following categories: Feature, Stories.
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One of my high-school bands was named Factor 8 (think proverbial Eight Ball) and I played bass. My brother Brian was kind enough to dig up a little ear candy from "the early years." If you've ever been interested in knowing how a couple of pimply-faced teenagers interpret "alternative funkadelic hillbilly folk", by all means have a listen.
Before you download the song, you should know that Factor 8 was inextricably inspired by the following musical grandfathers: Clapton, Hendrix, The 5th Dimension, Green Day, Nirvana, Filter, and most importantly Cotton-Eyed Joe. See if you you can pick up the following subtleties (extra points if you can spot the theme):
Dude - that’s hilarious. The Percussive bass slap made my evening :-)
Glad you liked it; it’s easily the loudest part of the whole song.
I have two possible comments for you, take your pick.
Hey you brats ! TUrn it dowN!
or
I gotta have more cowbell!
I guess your an agresive player as I was years back.
Its always fun to piss of the guitarist by simply turning the volume up sligthly all the time until they suddenly realize you are way to loud and the bass have completely taken over the whole song.
And then do it LIVE too!
Henrik, I like the way you think.