William Notes: This suite was the combination of several recordings. The first recording was titled "Like a Hundred Bucks", which I personally would love to revisit, but this song was put on the back burner for a little too long while we finished other songs. And then we never went back.
However, the bulk of the song was unwittingly orchestrated by Bobby. During his downtime, between dating and truck yards, Bobby would send the band recordings. Ideas to jump off from for us to turn into full songs. This particular recording started with the Bobby harmonizing with himself on a looping pedal, then using the same pedal that also functioned as a delay he went off into the noise guitar he was always fond of. He trimmed the third part abruptly to go into his folk, alt-country leanings.
Michael "Lazylate" Leone was our third consistent member during the Internet era of the band, where we would write songs together, record those ideas, then complete the song for immediate release; after some rudimentary mixing. Lazylate was always very interested in synthesizers, drum machines, noise machines, and even gameboy made electronica. While compiling this album, I wanted to display some of his talents that never really made it to the light of day. He also sent me his recordings, his random tracks that he was working on; he still does.
During the noise section of Bobby's self-made compilation, I decided to juxtapose a gameboy arrangement he made called "QnA", a background music he made when I said I was going to make Science Youtube channel where I would poorly explain basic scientific concepts and refer to myself as a real-life doctor… I never did make that groundbreaking youtube series, but I had this track. Additionally, Michael had taken it upon himself to take a chorus from a song I wrote and make it voiced by a robot.
Finally, the track is closed out by an unreleased song that Bobby and I wrote while trying to fill the void of our first drummer Roger Perez. I had stringed together four chords that I thought were very pleasing, then as I played them for Bobby he pointed out that it sounded like "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan and/or a gospel song that Bobby was quite fond of (SLIDE UP IN HIS DM'S TO ASK HIM ABOUT THE GOSPEL HE LIKES).
Anyways, the song will not see the light of day, but this sweet organ and solo section will. The song was probably about communism because Bobby.
lyrics
(Bobby growling)
Just Enough
(later in digital)
Interstellar separation
We're drifting from red to blue
credits
from Powerlines,
released September 29, 2019
Drums - Ramy Almerie
Guitar - Bobby Pesti
Bass - William Davenport
Electronica - Michael Leone
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