John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice & Kori Gardner Hammel
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice
Scott Solter created a real time percussion loop that holds the song together, inventing sounds and new ways of manipulating the forgotten junk in the drum box at Tiny Telephone along the way. Mates of State’s Kori Gardner provided vocals for the track, over which we get a triple-tracked Bill Swan t...
You know that guy
Who stole your girlfriend
Away from you
In the summer of '95
He's going to die
You know her name
Sits in your brain
Like a tumor
Eyes still shine in your memory
She's going to die
Well you can carry that grudge
Or you can let it go
But as sure as I'm singing this song, you know
She's going to die, she's going to die
Five'll get you ten so just let it go
That she and he and i will hear the final chord
Just let it go, let it go, we're going to die
Nikki Oh Nikki was written by John Vanderslice.
John Vanderslice released Nikki Oh Nikki on Tue May 07 2002.
On one track, he nuked a Schoeps 221 on a tambourine with a Distressor. He had me stand it up and hit the metal rings with a mallet, every third or fourth hit I would spin the rings as fast as I could. The effect is unreal to me: it sounds like a slot machine payout mic’ed in a small metal room.