Shout

I wrote the line “I fell in love at a rally” months before attending a rally and falling in love with Heidi Love, whose presence was immediately felt in the band. She and Marshall Thompson, our new keyboardist, joined me on our first tour as I basically forced my way onto Clan Dyken’s “Nobody For President” tour in ’92 with Woodstock legend Wavy Gravy after we all attended the Healing Global Wounds event at The Nevada Nuclear Test Site. We wrapped it all up playing a gig in front of George Bush’s White House the day Bill Clinton was elected.

The track has its own synchronicity. It was the first one we recorded in the studio on day 1 of 7 we had booked in Mary’s Danish’s rehearsal studio. All in all it might be my favorite performance I’ve ever recorded and, just as in the case of “What’s Wrong With The Mirror” it features a freakishly perfectly timed phone call, almost interrupting the take. If you listen close, as the last note fades, you’ll hear the phone ring. That’s our manager Ty Braswell informing us that the city is about to erupt in the wake of the “Rodney King verdict” and telling us to get the hell out of there, advice most of the band took, well, all of them, except me. I stayed the night and returned the next day. Why? You may ask. I guess because even though people often thought of us as a political band, I always saw us as an historical band. That night, and many others, I made choices that felt historically correct in ways that only history, such as it is, can judge.

Written by Andras Jones
Recorded live and engineered by
Colin Mahoney & John Nason

Andras Jones – Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Marshall Thompson – Keyboards & Vocals
Clay Goldstein – Harmonica
John Nason – Lead Guitar & Vocals
Brian Mastalski – Bass Guitar
Colin Mahoney – Drums