Tuesday, July 15, 2008

(Get Up, Shut Up) Put Your Clothes On and Go Home

OSR Demo -- 1980
Zoomer Roberts: vocal, guitars
Tony Quero: bass
Mark Kays: drums

I spent most of the 1970s playing honky-tonk music in C&W bars. Keeping up with the latest songs was part of the job. Conway Twitty was hugely popular in those days, and his records kept getting raunchier and racier, until he wasn't just suggestive about the sex act, he was vividly describing it. I thought it would be fun to write such a song, and my brother and I put this together one afternoon over a few beers. I started singing it at the gig, and it was surprisingly well received. For the next several years I got requests for this song nearly every night -- usually from the ladies. That was an eye opener!