Stiff Richards says:Growing up in Berkeley, California and going to public schools in the 1970's and 80's meant you had a very multi-cultural experience. I remember learning some of those funky chants and dances from some far out sources. By high school most of those connections across social bounderies got lost. I guess this song speaks to the cosmopolitan nature of my pre-school. I wrote it with my now wife poet Elizabeth Treadwell. She wrote the really smart lines. Was a blast recording the track with Matthew King Kaufman and Michael Rosen. -Paul
This Fog (It's Gonna Lift) blues, rock, pop This always was one of my favorite Stiffies tunes. We recorded it days after Paul wrote the words so it's a fresh and straightforward take....
4:20 @ 7 Pools pop, reggae/ska One of the stonier instrumental dub bits we did in Stiff Richards. There's a creek up in a park in the Berkeley Hills where many...
Yolanda pop, urban/R&B, rock Growing up in Berkeley, California and going to public schools in the 1970's and 80's meant you had a very multi-cultural experience. I remember learning...
You Don't Know Anything rock, punk rock, punk rock, post modern angst rock Oh the anger. Oh the angst. Oh the big distorted guitars. Short and furious.