Recording - Fishy Song

This song is an old experiment from Jesse and I, and was probably created around 2002 or 2003. It is featured as "Track 5" on the first Burt McGee album.

Allow me to explain how this song came about. Jesse and I stumbled into the recording studio one day wanting to do a song without any clear indication of what that song would be. (With Jesse and I this usually works out half of the time--this was one of the good times). We were in all kinds of different musical moods. Jesse was in the mood to do a light acoustic piece, and I was in the mood to do a hard rocking/shouting sort of piece (I was into System of a Down at the time). He showed me a "bit" of a song he'd thought up a few days prior. It consisted of a simple acoustic rhythm and the words "All the little fish swimming up the river." As he played it, the words "All the little salmon floating up stream, jumping, laughing" came to my mind (they seemed to fit the tone of the song).

We then decided to write an "anger buildup" part which would lead to a harder piece, and so we weaved a story about bears eating fish, and how the fish weren't going to take it anymore. After recording the hard rocking piece, we didn't know quite where to go. So (I don't know how we decided this) we decided to do an 8-part musical piece, which Jesse and I made up on the fly. He made up 4 of the parts, and I took the other 4. We then finished the song, with the fish enjoying the day after getting their revenge on the bears.

Killer salmon? Quite ridiculous, eh? Well, anyways, we enjoyed making this piece; and it was one of our more popular hits among our friends.

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