To me, it felt like the album has two sides.”
Starting with Holy Ghost Letter, those are from the morning after. I woke up the next morning, listened back to them and a few of them weren’t as good… especially a couple on the second-half of the album. I recorded every song in one night and mixed-in the sounds from the yard. It’s just myself and a guitar on one mic. “All of the songs are recorded in just one take, basically, with one microphone. As such, this solo effort both stands alone on its own merits, and as a companion piece to Pause for the Jets. The sonic simplicity of the material gives added gravitas to the original songs. It’s in the song by accident, but I thought it was fitting for the album.” I didn’t even know that was there until I listened back to the record on headphones. “The jet that passes in the third song, I Don’t Want to Go, that was an accident. So, the one that appears at the beginning of the (solo) album was intentional. One is doing a supersonic pass, breaking the sound barrier.
So he will probably be a bit surprised when he sees the video.“It was… I’m sure you’re familiar with the term ‘happy accident.’ For instance, the opening for Pause for the Jets, there are two jets. What I didn’t tell him was that I was going to spend the day peeling out, doing donuts and recklessly racing around an abandoned parking lot in his very nice vintage automobile. The 1968 Ford Falcon in the video is a really cool car that I borrowed from our record producer. James Tavern and brought in fans to serve as extras.
For the main sequence, we outfitted an unused, empty upstairs bar at the St. Then we added a little dark twist at the end. The concept for the video was to treat the duet as an actual conversation. At its heart, the song is a conversation between two star-crossed lovers. Basically it’s a relationship post-mortem. “Wasted On You” was the last song written for the album and we knew it was something special. James Tavern among other vicinities, follows an ill-fated barroom encounter all the way to a twist ending. The video, set at popular Columbus haunt the St. It also helps that Loveless has one of those powerhouse voices that elevates everything she touches. McGee has been writing extremely catchy songs for decades, and his expertise really shines through here. It’s a strummy power-pop tune about love falling apart, with McGee and Loveless singing in character as two halves of a broken relationship. Today that track gets a video.Īlthough Pause For The Jets is a “science-fiction rock-opera” that “testifies to the importance of pushing artistic boundaries and not falling victim to musical trends,” this song’s a little more straightforward. Due to those connections and probably several others (because local music scenes are nothing if not incestuous collaborative breeding grounds), breakout roots-rock star Loveless guests on “Wasted On You,” a track from Earwig’s upcoming Pause For The Jets. One of his drummers along the way was George Hondroulis, who now keeps the beat for Lydia Loveless, and George’s brother Costa still plays bass for Earwig. In the quarter-century he’s been fronting Ohio pop-rock combo Earwig, Lizard McGee has employed a wide range of backing musicians.
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