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Tequila Good Times

(The Nuance)
January 5, 2007
Lare Crawley & Jamison M. Pettyjohn

Woke up in Seattle under my friend's coffee table looking at an empty tequila bottle lying next to my head that said something like, "it's funner when you remember what happened last night". It then took a while for me to piece together the events of the night before. Just as I had surveyed the damage done to braincells and living room alike, like a ninja, Sticks appeared out of nowhere and asked what the hell had happened after he turned in last night. I told him that the only thing I could be sure of was that it looked as if tequila good times were had by all. I guess that phrase sort of seared itself into my memory.  Postscript:  Lare played a chord progression for me right before we were going to go into the studio to record the album and said he was thinking about giving this tune to the band. I went home and made a demo of it, wrote some lyrics for it and then played it for the rest of the guys later that week at rehearsal.  It was the newest piece we'd written and had never played it live so unlike the other songs, the arrangement and solos were more or less worked out in the studio.  The studio engineer, Scott Reams agreed to do the backing vocals at the end of the song with Lare and I.  I think he mumbled something about it being the only song he sort of liked on the album and then sang that beautiful vocal harmony that really ties the song together, I think.