Rotten Head (1991 On 'Experimental Videos' TV Show)
'Rotten Head' by Frank O' The Mountain
Lead off song from the album 'Life On Earth', 1991
• Life On Earth
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Wrote this song in 1986 when I had a 102° fever, hallucinating and questioning my mortality. The video is from Sean Donnellan's show, 'Experimental Videos', in 1992. Shot in Nanuet, NY at TKR
On the recording: (July 1990)
Frank: Vocal, Drums, Synthesizers and Effects, Small Electric Guitar part
Gord: Lead and Rhythm Guitars
Magg: Bass
Recorded at Toad Hall Studio in Sneeden's Landing / Palisades, NY
Produced By Lance McVickar and Frank O' The Mountain
I remember that Magg and I cut the rhythm track in one take with great confident energy. We were a tight unit from playing together in Kablamachunk. It was supposed to be a level test, and Lance was rolling tape. Same thing for Gord's solo. He thought he was just doing a run-through test, but I thought it was great and kept it.
In the lip sync video:
Frank: Vocals, Guitar
Boho: Lead Guitar
Magg: Bass
Five: Pots
I shot the black and white cutaways at home while tripping, and I have braces on my teeth 😄.
In the future, I'll be dead
And you can find my rotten head
Lying on the ground
I never had the time to figure it out
I don't know what it's all about
(But anyway)
The present is so pleasant
I like it here sometimes
Yes, I do
Oh, I really do
And, before I was born, I don't remember anything
Is this what's waiting 'round the bend?
Do i just turn into several chemicals
When my lifetime ends?
Hmmmmm?
I don't know, and I don't care
Get back to work, you can't stay in there
I don't know, so I just stare
At everything out from my chair
Oh, I don't know, and I don't care
Get back to work, you can't stay in there
I don't know, so I just stare
At everything out from my chair
A million questions
You give me half-assed lies
Go away now, I don't like you
You got taxidermy eyes
Oh yeah