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The Please Say You'll Stay Variations

from Cold Sky​/​In Process by Cold Sky

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The Please Say You'll Stay Variations (11/?/88).

GS: Unfortunately, that little bit of botched vocal was the last straw for this tune, for all of us. Amongst the post-song banter here, you can hear Hyam say we'd worked on this one more than any other piece, and he was right. I might have been willing to keep going with it, but I felt so completely demoralized by not being able to nail everything after this much time that the doubts were difficult to shake. The other guys were, I think, only too willing to let it go- it was just a little too pop. While the band may have originated around my songwriting and my vision, no band that isn't on salary can really stay that way, and will always become a blend of the players' tastes and tendencies. It's my opinion that as a unit, when it came down to it we were fundamentally more comfortable playing less mainstream music, and would inevitably drift in that direction (as we did). On this track we basically parody the song to death. At the time it was just some silly fun, but the bits of "Over The Rainbow" I noodle during discussion were ultimately prophetic. We decided it wasn't ready for the KXLU show, and despite mention of working on it at a future rehearsal, we never played it again.

(In retrospect: despite how it seemed then, there really wasn't that much time spent on this, if you count actual time played. We rehearsed once a week, whenever possible- George and I were very, very busy gigging and recording with Paper Bag, and Hyam traveled a lot as part of his job. Needless to say, there were quite a few gaps in the alleged "once a week" schedule. So we relied on our semi-regular rehearsals and raw talent to pull tight renditions out of the proverbial hat. I think we needed at least a solid two rehearsals a week, if not more, in order to pull off properly tight material. That never happened but I think we did pretty well, all things considered.)

HS (on Please Say You'll Stay #2): I must disagree with Greg about the botched vocal being this tune’s last straw. I think that what really killed it was my failure to come-up with an appropriate drum feel, which caused the song never to properly gel. (Although my double-bass pattern on the chorus does add some balls, it still doesn’t really fit, and shows that I was heading in what turned-out to be the completely wrong direction for the song.) Whatever the official cause, here you have the opportunity to hear a song’s death knell. And what’s a death knell without a eulogy, which brings us to...

(The Please Say You'll Stay Variations): I’m SO glad that Greg included this little gem on this disc. The post-mortem bossa-nova and march versions of the song are hilarious. (You think that Springsteen or U2 screw-around like this during rehearsals? I sure hope so; their music is certainly ripe for parody.)

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from Cold Sky​/​In Process, released April 25, 2014
Written by Greg Segal. Arranged by Cold Sky.

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