For those of you who want the genuine article. This is the same CD that was available on CD Baby and at Marc's shows. It's now here at Bandcamp. (1) disc in Digipack. Booklet includes photos, credits, and lyrics. You receive automatically receive a digital download with purchase.
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I'm a romantic, always have been. Only ridiculous romantics ever identify themselves as poets. This tune is the romance with romance. The romance with music and art and the romance with those first earth-shattering moments of self-definition. You find it and nurture it and build your personal mythos, which you get to carry around, hopefully forever.
I dedicated this song on the record to Brian Moskin because he heard me knocking immediately. So did my big brother Bryan Cogman, so it's sort of for him too. It's the second-oldest song in the repertoire (only "Porcelain" beats it out). I wrote this one long before I knew what to do with it, before I'd "gone solo" and all that, probably in 2005.
I'm playing the acoustic and singing and playing harp, as always. Kelli Noftle sings backup. Steve McDonald played lead guitar (on the day I first met him, coincidentally. This was our first ever collaboration.) Daniel Damico played upright piano. Dave Delhomme played the B3 organ. This track is unique in that it's not Frogs on upright bass, it's actually Giulio Carmassi. Justin Siegel plays the drums. Lead vocals and acoustic guitars were done at Archon in Sherman Oaks. Organ at Dave's house and bass at Giulio's house. The rest of the instruments were done at subSPOT in Venice.
lyrics
I was a ghost you heard on the radio a thousand miles from home, a dream you had ten years ago. An audible crash, a brilliant flash of light that woke you up at night until you went to sleep and let it go. But we used to have something that seemed worth dreaming about. And people liked to listen so we often just dreamed out loud. And they say there thinking that we had it all figured out.
And years down the road, you duck into a show and hear the songs you know, and you’re right back at the start. And after a laugh, you get my autograph, ‘cause I’ll sign anything, I’m so desperate to leave my mark. But we used to have something that seemed worth singing about. And people liked to listen so we always sang it loud. And we sat there thinking that we had it all figured out.
But we were just two seeds sprouting their first leaves deep underground. We were just two sweaty teens in a basement, fooling around. We were just two lost souls trying to find what can’t be found. We were just two wallflowers at the big dance, scoping things out. Yeah we were just two sweaty teens in a basement fooling around. We were just two lost souls trying to find what can’t be found. We were just two wallflowers at the big dance scoping things out. We were just two seeds sprouting their first leaves deep underground. And I was on my way up, you were on your way up, we were on our way down. I was on my way up, you were on your way up, we were on our way out. I was on my way up, you were on your way up, we were on our way down. I was on my way up. You were on your way up. But we were on our way down.
credits
from Welcome to the Danger Show,
released March 27, 2007
Marc M Cogman - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, percussion & harmonica
Kellianne Noftle - backing vocals
Justin Siegel - drums
Giulio Carmassi - upright bass
Dave Delhomme - B3 organ
Daniel Damico - piano
Steve McDonald - electric guitar
Produced by Marc M Cogman
Recorded at subSpot (Venice, CA), Archon (Sherman Oaks, CA), Delhomme's House (Mar Vista, CA), and Giulio's House (Mar Vista, CA)
Mixed by J.D. Andrew at YeRusto! (Santa Monica, CA)
Mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Sound
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