Busted Dimmer (4:12)

Here’s an awesome track from The Pejoratives at the Clocktower on April 26, 2007. It’s another one of those “we just made it up” tracks. I started out on the Rhodes with a kind of salsa groove and it grew from there.

The rhythm actually came from the noise that one of the dimmers in the lighting at the bar was making. It wasn’t regular by any means, but it was interesting. I had gotten up to get a beer (forgot to get one before we started…d’oh) and I noticed this sound coming from the ceiling when Bill the barkeep turned down the lights. It sounded like morse code, or someone trapped in the ceiling trying to escape. I hurried back to the Rhodes to hammer something out.

It turned into this weird, dissonant, latin-esque, syncopated groove thingy that I doubt we will ever be able to reproduce again. Good thing it’s on tape.

Audio: “Frank And Beans” – The Pejoratives

Here’s a little taste of The Pejoratives. In case you don’t know, I’m the one playing the Rhodes. This clip is from one of our more productive practices.

The title came about as I was splicing together parts of different takes of the recorded audio. Since it’s a fairly new song, we didn’t have the structure fully hashed out, so we were just jamming on a riff that Blip came up with for a while, then added a couple neat parts here and there. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a full take from start to finish, so I pulled an Edgar Winter and took the best from a bunch different takes. “Frankenstein” was already taken, so “Frank and Beans” became the title. Now you know.