Hey folks, another track for you to wrap your ears around. I’ve gone for something quite old this time, it’s my old band Kagnee. I played bass and did some singing in the band along with various other things. We were a good band I thought but possibly lacking some organization… well alright seriously lacking in organization It was the best band I’ve ever been in though both musically and in terms of fun. I had to quit the band sadly when I got seriously ill but I still have fond memories of our time together. The old website I built is still up over at www.kagnee.com check out the animated intro I did with the darts, I’m still proud of that, it took bloody ages.

Warning this track shouldn’t be played if you’ve had a sense of humour bypass and get easily offended!!

This is a very funny tune, it was in fact one of the first tunes we ever played together, it was written by Spenner our guitarist and singer and started off as a little acoustic until the rhythm section got hold of it, we soon knocked the crap out of it. It became a crazy rock and roll tune as you can hear. I always thought the lyrics were hilarious but I won’t explain them to you and ruin the fun, you can work it out. Needless to say “I Ain’t No Tommy Lee” hehe

I’ll never forget we played this to open our first ever gig, it was in the canteen of LIPA (Paul McCartney’s music school) and before we’d even got through the first 4 bars we’d emptied the place. Seriously, completely emptied it, people were actually running away going “what the f&*k is that?!! Arrgh my ears”. I think about 2 people stayed and it was pretty hysterical. We got the same kind of response wherever we went after that and very few people “got” us. The fact that we changed styles every 2 seconds probably didn’t help, people can be so narrow minded. I remember doing a gig in Rhyl (North Wales) where we just started playing country songs for a laugh and all these young punk kids were shouting “just play some punk will ya!!!!”. Ah happy days.

We recorded this in a little studio on a farm near Wigan. We just banged it out pretty quickly as we paid for the studio from 11am till 7pm but got lost and went the wrong way down the motorway, nothing new for us. The studio was in a barn surrounded by kennels with gray hounds and other dogs in who kept howling. They didn’t “get” us either, philistines!!! It came out really well though I think and I’m very proud of it.

We even got the chance to get a copy of this tune to Tommy Lee, the man himself. I dunno what he made of it but I like to think he laughed and saw the funny side. I was told by a friend that someone he knew was doing the sound at a gig where Tommy Lee would be playing in Amsterdam, I passed him a couple of CDs and asked him to give them to Tommy, and if possible get him to sign one for us. He did a blinding job and came back with this. (click image to enlarge)

I was made up and it’s pretty funny. So there you go, that’s the tale of Kagnee and Tommy Lee, hope you like the track. That’s enough of my old rock stories for now… well… of course there was the time we needed to find 5000 brown M&M’s or Ozzy wouldn’t go on stage….

Peace,

Dan

P.S – This one’s for Charlie since I know he likes Vibraslap so much, something by Kagnee you won’t have heard mate

 

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