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Those Days Are Gone was a song I had written almost 10 years earlier about our childhood. I never got around to recording it cause it just never quite "fit in" with anything else we were doing at the time. It suddenly seemed perfectly fitting. This also happens to be my favorite recording on the CD because it's the best example of complete and total teamwork. We were totally in sync with each other when we recorded this song - no fighting or bickering - and it shows. I guess it's fitting that we got along on this one. I wish the whole thing could have gone like that but it didn't - the wheels would eventually come off.
Public Skool was one of Faris' attempts to contrast the rather bleak nature of a lot of the songs I was presenting. I'll never forget sitting at the mixing board, two feet away from him, as he casually played the acoustic guitar and knocked it out in one take. Then he did the lead and backing vocals in ten minutes - took a hold of the faders and said "that's it - finished!" I wanted to add bongos...but he didn't let me.
My little Innocent One was another completely in sync recording - that was a great day - we were both enthused about Steve's glowing response to our initial recordings and were anxious to get him more material. We went in and knocked off this one, Who Are We and Heaven is the Day all within 24 hours of each other. Heaven was built around a demo I had done a couple of months earlier without a metronome. It proved to be quite a pain in the ass for Faris to play drums with my ragged, out of "perfect time" guitar - much cursing was done before this task was finally accomplished. It also led to the really really lo-fi sound of the entire recording - I wanted it on the CD despite all that because this song had really fond memories attached to it for me. We wrote it one glorious afternoon with our long-time friend Bob Schneider.
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