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This digitized version has since been updated to remove offensive lines. It's my 'Mickey Mouse,' basically.Editors’ note: This article was first published in print in 1994. He always wore a fedora-long before anybody was wearing fedoras. Because he was just this smooth character. It's somewhat based on a guy that I used to be in a band with, Tommy Crank. "I thought of this whole tomcat character, and him seducing this very voluptuous vixen. He never did win any checkered flags, but he never did come in last.

#Fishing in the dark song meaning driver#

He wasn't the best race car driver out there, but he wasn't the worst. So that was an image for me, for this "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" guy. And every now and again, do something stupid. "I knew this type of guy in high school who was not too popular with the girls, but had a car that was kind of a cool car, but not really the coolest car, and would always race it around and show off. "The whole notion of the "My Name Is Mud" song is basically about a couple of tweekers who are hanging out, and they get in a fight over something stupid, and one of them kills the other one. But the flame that burns twice as bright burns only half as long-which I say at the end of the song." And for better or worse, it's fueled a lot of progress in the construction arena. I was amazed at how much methamphetamine-and this was twenty-plus years ago-was in the trades. Some guys drink a bunch of coffee, some guys drink a bunch of coffee and do some crank. They're getting older and, to keep up with the young guys, do some crank during the day or before they start work. Some of these guys are friends with my father. And I've been around a lot of guys-especially older union guys. "I was in the trades, so I was a carpenter for a number of years before I was able to quit and make a living noodling my fingers around. So I thought, What would be the story of this guy? I remember hearing him say, "Oh my god, we're going down,' or something to that affect. They played the audio of this guy calling the coast guard, and it was unbelievably haunting to hear this guy going, 'There's a ship coming through the fog! It's going to hit us! It's going to hit us!" And then that's all you hear. Apparently, it had gotten struck by a cargo ship. "I remember years ago, I was watching the news and they had talked about, 'There's this fishing boat that's gone down outside the Golden Gate Bridge'-I believe it was a salmon boat. And then I thought, How can I turn this into something interesting? And it became this sort of double entendre about this girl with this beaver."

I just remember this thing-this beaver, this big brown beaver. And it made this huge pop, and I almost shit my pants. Beavers pop their tail when they get freaked out. It was this giant-ass beaver! It scared the shit out of me-we scared the shit out of each other. It flipped real quick, and popped its tail. And coming around this corner, there's this thing coming at me in the water, and it sort of spotted me at the same time I spotted it. It's not quite dark yet, but you can't see very well. I'm walking back to the car by myself, across this area where the two creeks come together. "I was up fly-fishing with some buddies at Hat Creek years ago, and the sun was going down. But it's funny, because when we met Bono, that was one of the first things he said to us-'You guys really remind me of this old British band, XTC.' And we were like, 'Of course! We're huge fans of XTC.'" "XTC was a big influence on us-at least me and Herb, I don't know if Ler was that into XTC. Krinkle." If you read the lyrics or listen to the song, it's basically about conversations with Mike. Krinkle" is basically about conversations I used to have with Mike Bordin, his hotel room name was "Mr. Whenever he would fall off the wagon, he would say, 'Oh, I'm going to go shake hands with beef.' So it sort of became this metaphor for deviating from the norm. So we did this little ditty and sent it off to them, and it became this huge thing."Ī buddy of mine was a vegetarian. "To be honest with you, we never thought it was going to get on television, let alone become this international sensation. Ahead of their June dates in London, Manchester and Birmingham, Les Claypool talks in his own words about some of their biggests tracks.