Saturday, November 17, 2007

Hats Off To Charles Obscure - Lyrics Revealed!

Lots of comments to my post about what I rank as the worst Zeppelin song of all time, "Hats Off to Roy Harper," and the parody VoxMoose and I did in 1985, "Hats Off to Charles Obscure."

Harmolodic, I am not sure how we got that 'vocal tone' but I am certain we ran the mic through every effects pedal I had, which at the time was distortion, flanger, a wah, and this really awful delay pedal that had three faders on it with which you adjusted settings. It was useless as a proper delay but we sure used it to great effect for tweaking the hell out of stuff.

And guess what? I found the hand-written lyrics to the song, so here you go, VoxMoose! Of course they are credited to "Jim Squash" for some reason...

Those of you lucky souls who have not heard it yet can download it here. See if you can follow along with the words - like Karaoke!

3 comments:

VoxMoose said...

Oh my oh my and holy frickin' crap. Wait, is that MY writing? Damn.

That is seriously amazing you still have those lyrics. Good thing ol' Jim Squash scrawled that copyright notice on there...Now I really can't run for office. But it was worth it! At least I can still rhyme. Oh wait...

Isorski said...

Yes that is your handiwork. Still stands the test of time 22 years later, VoxMoose. A true classic.

VoxMoose said...

I think it is hilarious that you posted this, but I think you just lost 80% of your readership.