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Rip Off is an outtake from "New American Standards". Wil commented: This one goes all the way back to May of 1996 when I was recording my "solo" stuff under the moniker Sugar Tones. I was fresh out of Lipscomb and before I got a job I just sat around writing songs and I recorded about a dozen or 16 on J Goodfred's 4-track, and then the @#$%ing thing ate the master tape and I had to redo all of them (well, I failed to re-record my techno version of the Cranberries' "Linger"). I'm hoping to get all of those songs up on this site one day. Anyway,I called this song "Rip Off" simply as a working title because I was "ripping off" the Velvet Underground's "There She Goes" (quite obviously) and the Cranberries' "Zombie" (in the outro). I always had a soft spot for this song (for reasons I won't go into) and wanted to play it out, but never had a band that I felt fit it until H&V came along. I think we played it at our first show and that was it...maybe a slowed down version at the first Bongo Java acoustic show. I don't know why it wasn't included with the album, but possibly Dave Spivey (producer and engineer of NAS who also plays the piano outro) didn't like the way it turned out.

Down in the Flood - Bill commented: Classic Bob Dylan song that is also known as Crash on the Levee.  I highly recommend both the Basement Tapes version with the Band and the acoustic version on Greatest Hits Volume 2. For some reason this song never made it out of Wil's bonus room where we practiced for the first few months.  Bob's drumming is solid on this song.

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