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Electronic Delay Laptop Thing

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When we started playing "Why Don't You Pass the Time By Playing A Little Solitaire?" live, we used Doug's Ipod to play the electronic beats back through the PA system, while we played along with them. But when we started playing clubs, we had a really hard time hearing the beats well enough to play in time, so we just stopped using them at all. But then I got a free computer from work and rigged up a way to have the tempo flash on screen in a way that Matt could watch the screen and play along. I figured maybe we should try another song with the computer and then it'd be worth bringing it to shows and risking it getting beered and all that good stuff. We had been playing a really premature version of this song with me on drums (!!!) and Matt playing keyboards and auxiliary percussion, because he wanted to get out from behind the kit, but Doug wasn't too comfortable with me on drums. So I programmed some electronics and wrote a guitar part for me to play instead of drums, and we ended up with this arrangement, which has Matt playing keyboards for the first half of the song and then joining in on drums along with the electronic beats about halfway through. It went really well, I thought, but we couldn't come up with any lyrics and we just kind of moved on to other stuff. I'm pretty partial to this recording, though, even as an instrumental, and for a while I wanted to try and really record it in higher-quality, to maybe release on a 7" or something, but I think we had sort of forgotten our parts by that point, and were writing other things. I'm really glad we got a decent quality practice recording of it though.

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from Are Done., released November 7, 2006

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