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Arguably the best song H&V

Arguably the best song H&V ever did; it was always fun to play, I thought the lyrics were good, the music was great and the recording was excellent. I think Bill had come up with the main riff messing around on his sister in law's guitar and she commented that it would make a good song. He showed it to us at the next practice and it got fleshed out from there. The name "Tower" is in reference to the movie "Mermaids" where Winona Ryder's character "loses it" ie "her flower" aka is "taken in the tower." The lyrics are about Anne Boleyn being a punk kid in high school, though there is an alternate third verse that is a more direct reference to the movie, however, Bill wouldn't let me sing it live and that's ok 'cos I never could get through it in practice without laughing. I'll see if I can get the admin's permission to print them here.

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Tower records

I obviously hadn't played close attention to the lyrics, but I naturally assumed it was a reference to Tower Records.

 

Post whatever you want.  I won't censor you (within reason, of course...no one wants to see that one-man homemade adult film you made where you played all of the roles).

Mixed Up

I think you've got me mixed up with someone else.  I've never written a song on my sister-in-law's guitar and she never commented on a riff in progress.  I've always considered this as the best collaboration that Wil and I have done so far.  I wrote most of the music and Wil wrote some of his best lyrics.  I always enjoyed playing this song because it was one of the very few H&V songs that actually had a guitar solo.

Really? Oh wait...after we'd

Really? Oh wait...after we'd been messing with it, you were playing it on that weird slinky string guitar and your sister in law commented how she liked it. Was that how it went? Was I even in this band?

 

Also, I like how you said best collaboration so far. :-)