Trusties

Composition: Veijalainen & Oikarinen
Lyrics: Ylilauri

Track details:
Oikku: electric & acoustic guitars, drums, keyboards
Ville: fretted bass

• Maybe the weirdest track of the album, short but dense.
• A video of this potential top-ten hit was premiered at OMVF in 2000.
• Features bottleneck slide guitar parts that are… well… unorthodox??
• Ville came up with the main riff and Marko composed the song around it.
• The ‘style’ of Marko’s drum arrangement resembles a certain Frank Zappa composition that we used to play.
• The riff was often used as the basis for group improvisations on live gigs.
• Some day we may release a version with vocals, hopefully introducing Matti’s Tom Waits-alter ego…
• Matti came up with the title.

~ by Marko Oikarinen on December 6, 2003.

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