Bury Me

"Interviewer: I would have guessed that there was a lot jamming of the band just the way the album sounds.

Jimmy: I dunno.

Billy: I dunno.

Interviewer: Okay so let’s take like “Bury Me” and that one is all worked out and it..

Billy: Yup.

Jimmy: That song was worked out in every detail.

Interviewer: So how does like who started that one? You know, did you have lyrics and..

Billy: No, “Bury Me” is the type of song that I literally wrote the whole song and just brought it to the band and then it was just fine tuning.

Interviewer: Hmm. So it’s like you come in with chords changes and this where this is where the solos go and then we do this and then we do that.

Billy: Exactly. It’s not always that way but it for a song like that it is

Jimmy: A particular song goes..

Billy: We’re very specific because this is answering a bigger question you haven’t even asked me but um what we do specifically, musically, to us its important in the sense of establishing something else. Like emotionally. So we’re more looking for an emotinal intangible element in musical. I dunno. It’s hard to explain how that works with how we make up our songs, but..

Interviewer: So, when its like “Bury Me” is to you its like this emotion I want to get across. And like “Rhinoceros” is a different emotion.

Jimmy: I don’t think it’s that specific. I mean, “Bury Me” was a very anal song when we did it in the studio eveything was worked out. But I mean when we do it now and we do it totally different. I mean there’s a totally different feel. I mean it’s not necessarily the same things that I was feeling in the studio when we did it or necessarily that Billy was feeling.

-1991