Duck Duck

All the people scream and shout, they don't know what we're singing about...

Chords and lyrics to Get Up And Dance

A Rock & Roll paradigm. Band writes song mocking clueless audience. Audience loves song and goes crazy every time band plays song. Band laughs.

There's trouble with the car, trouble with the car...

Car Trouble

Always one of my favorites by D². A simple progression that allowed Kevin to just cut it loose. Originally my drunken friends and I added the lyrics "there's trouble with the car, trouble with the car" based on Kevin's main lick. Later, I had purchased my first brand new car. I had it a couple of weeks when an old man just absolutely broadsided me in clear daylight while he was pulling out of a parking lot. Asking him "what the hell happened?", he replied: "I thought you were someone else." I still don't know what that means. Did he mean to hit me? Anyway, from that point forward my drunken friends and I changed the lyrics to "I thought you were someone else, thought you were someone else" which still fit quite nicely. Nothing like taking a song and personalizing it so it relates to something directly in your life, eh?

The garbage man came and I saw his truck, I knew I was in for some very bad luck...

HAT can I say? It's the grand-daddy of 'em all. Anyone who saw it performed live knows what I'm talking about. There was a large, metal girder in the middle of the floor at The Safe. This thing was probably 0.5" thick steel, 4-side bolt-riveted HEAVY DUTY BEAM. People would slam dance with this thing when this song was played. They'd (and sometimes I'd help too, as I can proudly say I have "guest appearances" on the Bill and Live at the Safe cuts) say "mosh" and we did. Amazingly, nobody (to the best of my knowledge -- things admittedly a bit fuzzy here) ever died during this exercise. Steven King has a quote in It that goes something like:

God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned

That's my only explanation for lacking any serious bodily damage from the aforementioned exercise. I won't even get into the details of Duck Duck's last show. Let us just say that Scott, being a true professional and showman, did not disappoint the adoring audience by just going through the motions for the last live Toast 'Em Boy. You sir, are a true artist

Now fast-forward about 10 years since the last Duck Duck gig. My friend Shaggy is moving to Colorado and we are having a little send-off for him in Lowell. We mosey over to the Blue Shamrock and Scott & Kevin are there doing a little acoustic/open-mike thingy. Since it's Shaggy's sendoff, the allow him any one song request. Any Duck Duck, any Shods, any anything. Without hesitation, Shaggy says "Toast 'Em Boy". Now that's a svengali-like hold.

More pictures taken by me up in the woods behind Tewksbury State Hospital.