Cannot Get It Up - Free Download - justin_guber

Cannot Get It Up - Free Download

Khaimano - Can't Get It Up (411C Demo Version)
Khaimano - Can't Get It Up (full band version)
So yeah. I'd been thinking about putting up a download page for awhile now, letting all you few readers that actually visit this site a taste of what supposedly creative endeavours I've worked on or are currently working on. And what better way to start of the section than with a song that, for some odd reason, a lot of people seem to like.

Or so I've been told.

(If you never read about Khaimano, you can click here to read my post about it in the Recollections section.)

Back when I was writing songs that would end up on my demo tape when I was looking for members for a band, I had an... incident with a young Russian lady that was, in retrospect, too hillarious to not write about. In fact, out of the demo tape, this is the only song that ended up on the full band playlist.

I could tell you about the events that led to this song, but it's all there in the lyrics. All I can say is I was tired, I was intoxicated, and on other (more sober) occasions I have been known to be harder than Superman's schlong. It's the only time it happened, and the fact that it happened twice with the same girl is funny. Very funny. Even though it's embarressing, it's funny.

The song didn't just come about from the event, however. At the time, Shaggy's "It wasn't me" was a huge hit. I thought the song was alright, but very mysoginistic. This is a song about playa's (or at least, wannabe playa's) and it made me wonder if you could do a flipside to it, an Anti-Shaggy.

Which is why the 411C demo version is very poppy in its production style. This was the one I recorded in London in my room by myself (My room number was 411C, you see). It even has a little intro to the song but the vocals in general were too... restrained. I still wasn't comfortable singing at the time and singing alone in my room is actually worse for me. I don't have an audience to play off. I'm not really that good a singer, not by a long stretch. But I'd like to think I know how to perform.

That's what makes the band version so different. Stripped down of the waves of chorus-infected guitars, it's a bare three piece band and the vocals are a lot closer to my actual speeaking voice, although this was before 30 cigarettes a day.

This song also got us Peter Brown's attention. We were playing at the Acoustic Jam at the Commonwealth Club as one of the open mic guys. We took ages setting up, I couldn't tune my guitar, everything went to hell. Then we sang the song and the crowd lapped it up with laughter. Thank God.

This was also a curse in disguise. It made us as a band believe, at least for awhile, that it didn't matter how shit we played, if the song and the lyrics came through and everyone laughed, we'd be safe. But that wouldn't work for a non-literate audience, would it?

Anyway, enjoy the downloads, forgive the amateurishness of it all (it was quite a few years ago) and ladies, I can get it up. Seriously, I can. I have no need for Tongkat Ali Gold.

Honest.

30.3.05 06:44

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Flatline Josh / Website (30.3.05 15:02)
Ah memories. Was the young Russian lady a foreign exchange student? Did she look like Shannon Elizabeth? Which is worse, not getting it up, or pulling the trigger too fast?

(31.3.05 03:48)
Nope, she was a full time student.
I reckon not getting it up is way worse 'cos if you pull the trigger too fast, hey, at least you had some fun.
Too bad for the lady either way, though.

Man Method / Website (31.3.05 13:56)
Skinny skinny skinny skinny

(1.4.05 04:15)
'fuck is that supposed to mean?