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If you've looked at the cover of a Grammar Club album, or a Double Ice Backfire album, or our Patreon mascot "The Grammar Girl," you're familiar with the work of Ricky Henry, the Grammar Club's BFF (also a founding member of Double Ice Backfire).
The story of this track began years ago, when Rick asked me to co-write a theme song for his aspiring local-access cable show, then called "Basement Tapes," which featured rare, homemade, original, and found recordings, bookended by a comedic narrative about a guy and his robot friend cataloging and purging a huge pile of hand-labeled VHS tapes. Rick handed me some lyrics, gave me free reign to change them, and asked that I write music to them.

We went through two or three recorded itterations before deciding on one we liked, which sat unused for a year or so, until Rick asked me to re-visit the song, when he got the oppurtunity to actually get his show on the air. I recorded a solo version, which I posted to my soundcloud; and that version was used as the show's seasonone opener!

Fast forward a few years later, to this past October, when Rick asked if we'd re-visit the track as a group, for the next season of Electric Tapes. Of course, we were more than happy to, and came up with something that's way better than my solo version. We almost sound evokative of The Flaming Lips here.

-S

lyrics

Down in Cincinnati Town
Our pal Ricky owns
A bunch of weirdo garbage that he’s hoarding in his home

But from that trash a robot came
It’s given him a quest
To show you strange recordings helds on VHS cassettes

And they be Electric Tapes
Stay up late. Don’t go to bed
Electric Tapes
Put nostalgia in your head

Elections at the middle school, from
Back when trading pogs was cool. Come
Get a taste.
It’s about to start.

The Public-Domain Bogeyman
You won’t find on our show
We’ll hold your short attention span
With movies of our own

The finest backyard wrestling
High-school AV club
Endings from Nintendo games
And Ryan in the tub

And they be
Electric Tapes
Well-oiled men and busty gals
Electric Tapes
Space police are also pals

Enough of all your worldly terrors
All you need are tracking errors
Arm your capture cards

credits

from Live Slow. Die Whenever., released August 5, 2018
Beefy: additional vocals
Glenn: bass, guitar
Ricky: lyrics
Sean: drums, additional vocals
Shael: additional arrangement, lyrics, original demo, vocals
Tanner: mastering
Ty: arrangement, production

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Above art by Hex (zombiehiphophex.deviantart.com)

Album art by Ricky Henry and Joe Dunn

Additional site art by Art League Houston

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