YOUR QUESTION:

10/20/2019 20:02:05

PacifistGreetings, Trevor Dunn.
My question is if you could describe your scrapped "Praise of Folly" track from the California days, as the name alone makes me quite curious.
Thank you for your indirect guidance and musical absurdity. Hope to die in lovely obscurity over drugged-out infamy! The Garden of Eden awaits more jazz nerds like us.
Not-quite-love-but-more-of-respect from Florida.

MY ANSWER:

The lyrics for that song were inspired by Erasmus’ book of the same title as well as an article in Harper’s magazine about End-Timers. The song structure is short and simple. AABA if I recall correctly with a simple piano countermelody. I seem to remember the bridge being somewhat barbaric and Nordic with thick strings. I haven’t heard it in so long that’s about all I can recall.