Flashback Barbeque
The record kicks into a different gear with the album’s Memorial Day track.
Adding a band to a song and recording it in the studio can be a daunting exercise. “Flashback Barbeque” with its heavy storyline; its dark humor; and the falsetto vocal on the chorus is particularly delicate. What’s good about a tune like this can get overwhelmed by drums and the rest.
In this case The Previous rhythm section of Colin Mahoney and Brian Schey brought a lot of…dare I say…intimacy to the track. You can judge for yourself by comparing this version to the one on “Religious ’99”.
Lyrics
FLASHBACK BARBEQUE
I’m flippin’ burgers for the family yeah
in my backyard circa ’93 yeah
when one of the burgers starts to talk to me it says,
“Let my people go”
Whoa
My mind’s ripped back to the days of violence
that I spent upon those foreign islands
when a plaintive voice one night it
cracked the silence it said,
“Let my people go”
Let my people go
It’s just a flashback barbeque
What do you know?
Flashback barbeque
The flashback barbeque
Where can you go?
By now the burgers have developed faces
I remember from those far off places”
and everyone of those faces
they says,
“Let my people go”
Oh but,
what could I do?
I mean I had my orders
I was responsible to headquarters
They said the enemy was at the borders
I could not let her people go
So we lined ’em up
and we shot ’em down
in the middle of that little town
I hope they know I’m sorry
I better get back to the party
It’s just a flashback barbeque
What do you know?
Flashback barbeque
The flashback barbeque
Where can you go?
So…
I’m just standing there doing my deep breathin’
while all my relatives are frenzy feedin’
on the meat that keeps repeatin’,
“Let my people go”
Let my people go
And now that the visions have all subsided
it’s easier to think about what I did
just smoke a joint sit back and shut my eyelids
No more
No more
No more
No more…
“Let my people go”
It’s just a flashback barbeque
What do you know?
Flashback barbeque
The flashback barbeque
Where can you go?
Credits
Written by Andras Jones
Andras Jones – Electric Guitar & Vocals
Tom Johnson – Hammond Organ
Brian Schey – Bass Guitar
Colin Mahoney – Drums
Produced with Brian Schey & Colin Mahoney
at z’gwon,th studio in Lawrence, Kansas – September & October 1999
with engineering help from Tom Johnson,
Dan Balsinger & Anne Stephens
Purchase
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