I’d begun to write songs and record crude demos on my own throughout the early months of 2006, and I’d traveled to play my first shows as a solo act in Portland and Seattle that May. but it wasn’t until June 6, 2006 that I first went into a studio for the sole purpose of recording my new, solo material.
I hadn’t completed very many songs yet, so to fill the time, I laid down a
whimsical song i’d whipped up back in 2005, always knowing it was too weird and different to be suited for my band at the time, the Neon Calm. The lyrics didn’t convey my signature heart-on-sleeve style. instead it was strange little short-story about a guy who seems to have run afoul of his female neighbors. How, when, or why wasn’t precisely the point. The song was, like the recording session at Record Plant, an experiment.
By the time september arrived and Welcome to the Danger Show was
actually taking shape, I’d written different songs with different themes. So “Girls Next Door” was cut.
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