I'm Here to Give You the Bad News (2024 Version)

Robert James

This song is the highlight from the 2023 Record Every Month. I had a lot of fun with it when I originally wrote and recorded it, and then had a lot of fun with it again when I re-recorded it. It’s simple and straightforward and it’s kinda groovy. I like it.

The rhythm guitars are my Les Paul Custom into an Analogman King of Tone into a Seymour Duncan Vapor Trails into both a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox MV50, both using their direct outputs and cabinet simulators. The lead guitar tracks used the same guitar and amps but the pedal chain was a Real McCoy Customs RMC10 into a Wren and Cuff Tall Font Russian into a Klon KTR into the Vapor Trails.

Verse 1
I’m here to give you the bad news
I’m here to lower the boom
Come for the alternate views
And do whatever you choose
There’s no avoiding the confused
It’s up to you

Chorus
Come see all the things we have in store
Experience it all and so much more

Verse 2
One up ahead of the come down
Last chance before it comes ‘round
so many ways to compound
every thought seems so profound
Show me that everything we’ve found
is safe and sound

Outro
It all happens
Come along with me