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Summer I Pissed You Away (non lp version)

from Leftovers by Michael Shelley

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"Summer I Pissed You Away" was written as a folksy acoustic guitar song - with campfire strumming. The kind of song you write alone in your kitchen. Before being recorded it never got the benefit of being played live – big mistake.

For the recording it did get a string arrangement that I never thought worked too well - it just didn’t sound like "me" and was impossible to recreate live. I think once the album came out I listened to it maybe once, and not even all the way through.

SO - Dave Green (drums) & Mike Randle (bass) and I (guitar) were playing a lot of gigs and worked up a fast version (with a lot of the best ideas stolen from The Zombies' "Care Of Cell 44") which turned out to be one of the highlights of our live set.

At a break in our tour we booked a 2 (or 3???) hour session at Studio G in Brooklyn and simply recorded our live arrangement - in an effort to get a Zombies-like sound we instructed the engineer to put lots of compression on everything.

All the overdubs were done in Jay Sherman-Godfrey's living room, with Jay adding all keyboards & extra guitars. Including a really cheap, small, nylon string guitar that I’d bought in a thrift shop that barely functioned.

When it came time to release the “Too Many Movies” album in the UK, we switched versions, so folks in the UK didn’t have to listen to that not-quite-right slow version.

It was mixed by Jay & by Peter Katis – I have no idea which version this is!

Special thumbs up to Mike & Dave (two incredibly nice guys - by the way) who did a great job on this track - especially on the minute long fade out.

Produced by Jay Sherman-Godfrey & Michael Shelley

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from Leftovers, released March 15, 2015

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The Onion: "Shelley finds common ground between teen angst and grown-up heartbreak." No Depression: "Proving wisdom and whimsy can coexist in the same two-and-a-half-minute-roots-pop excursion, Shelley's writing strikes the correct balance between conversational and clever. His adventures feel like your adventures presuming that you've survived first loves, sunburns and faulty relationships." ... more

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