08 Bad For Me

Bad For Me
This is my personal favourite. It’s a personal song anyway but I dig how we played it, as if we were all buying into it and all mad as hell by the end… and heartbroken. Wild and mercurial and nowhere near perfect, it starts out low key and confidential, but because we cut it live and can hear each other and feel the emotion, the song was gradually able to build to a seething, guitar smashing, crescendo. Also, because we hadn’t really talked about how to end it, we just ran out of steam at the end. We could’ve faded it easy, but I’m glad we didn’t. It would have been wrong. It’s this soul-deep empathy that keeps Big Daddy Neil coming back for more. They feel it, like you feel it, they aren’t phoning it in. It’s not about the paycheck.
Billy Talbot – Bass
Ralph Molina – Drums
Phil Lee – Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
Barry Goldberg – Keyboards
Jan King – Guitar