song 080 : Climb (Suburban Legends + Outtakes)
A rare example of a song that is both popular with people who like Lucid Nation and a favorite of mine, Climb is all flower vines and crescendos. Ronnie’s moody guitar playing, using his volume knob to create E-bow type sounds, and the stupendous female rhythm section of Grit Maldonado and Tia Sprocket, really got me going on this one.
The song is partly about Courtney Love, whom I had met online when she first hit AOL like a tornado; in fact I had been responsible for that. Just after Kurt Cobain’s death, Courtney’s father showed up on AOL selling anti suicide shirts in her name. I asked Jennifer Finch if that was okay, and next thing I knew Courtney was sending her email through me to people like Danny Goldberg and Slim Moon.
Over the next few years she was a comet that would sometimes enter my orbit, most conspicuously when Patty Schemel was staying at my house while rehearsing with Courtney for her Hollywood Bowl debacle.
I think this track beautifully captures my ambivalence about her. But it’s about more than Courtney, yes the flowers are her fans, but they are also flowers, and the larger theme of the song is the way everything in nature climbs without quite knowing why or where; you know, that e word: evolution.
Here’s what Randy Roark had to say about this song: "Climb" is probably my favorite track for the way it slowly comes into focus. Somewhere around the 3-minute mark everything coalesces into a very moving and powerful forward motion that carries it to the end.”
Listen to the song: Click Here
The song is partly about Courtney Love, whom I had met online when she first hit AOL like a tornado; in fact I had been responsible for that. Just after Kurt Cobain’s death, Courtney’s father showed up on AOL selling anti suicide shirts in her name. I asked Jennifer Finch if that was okay, and next thing I knew Courtney was sending her email through me to people like Danny Goldberg and Slim Moon.
Over the next few years she was a comet that would sometimes enter my orbit, most conspicuously when Patty Schemel was staying at my house while rehearsing with Courtney for her Hollywood Bowl debacle.
I think this track beautifully captures my ambivalence about her. But it’s about more than Courtney, yes the flowers are her fans, but they are also flowers, and the larger theme of the song is the way everything in nature climbs without quite knowing why or where; you know, that e word: evolution.
Here’s what Randy Roark had to say about this song: "Climb" is probably my favorite track for the way it slowly comes into focus. Somewhere around the 3-minute mark everything coalesces into a very moving and powerful forward motion that carries it to the end.”
Listen to the song: Click Here
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