GLU trivia question

Jawa242 · Post by **Jawa242** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:09 pm

Why couldnt God Lives Underwater ever play "Tortoise" live after the beginning of 1996?

silvercrank · Post by **silvercrank** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:49 am

guess # 1,2,3...

they couldnt remember how to play it? or maybe they lost their audio files of it or had some sort of equipment failure... no, really how come couldnt they play it? its such a good song i'd think they'd love to play it live.

gludude · Post by **gludude** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:49 am

was it some record label bs having something to do with it being featured on national lampoons "senior trip"?

gludude · Post by **gludude** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:56 am

alrighty maybe im wrong since it was released in 95.
was it something to do with the drumming?

Jawa242 · Post by **Jawa242** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:15 am

exceprt from the book:

David started to chuckle in the passenger seat as he was watching the Boylston St business pass us by.
“What?” I asked.
“I haven’t told you yet why we can never ever play the song ‘Tortoise’ live ever again.”
“No, you haven’t and what?!” I was half curious on why that would be, and half pissed that, if David was serious, we just lost a song forever.
“Well, you know the all the synth lines on that song were from a keyboard that we built ourselves. We built it out of parts and is one of a kind. You can’t buy that keyboard, or even fix it if it ever got broken.”
“I didn’t know that.” I replied.
“Ya, well after a show just recently, we were loading the equipment and the Tortoise Keyboard was dropped and shattered into a million pieces onto the ground.”
“Are you serious?”
“Ya, so unless we play that song acoustic, which will never happen, that song has been put to rest forever. I can never rebuild that keyboard.”
Paying attention to the street lights, and the rules of the road, I let out an, “Oh man” realizing exactly what he was saying.
The funny thing was that “Tortoise” was probably my least favorite God Lives Underwater song off both cds next to “Try”. As much as it was awful that song was sent to the God Lives Underwater graveyard prematurely, it wasn’t like he just told me that the keyboard that was used in “Weaken” had been destroyed. Still a typical David story though.

gludude · Post by **gludude** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:49 am

interesting i knew i should of asked if it was instrumental...

Fiveliter302 · Post by **Fiveliter302** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:03 pm

Interesting... Thanks for sharing!

silvercrank · Post by **silvercrank** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:14 am

aw shucks i love that song. it figures.

weaken is one of thsoe that i liken to try...and try = *ugh*

asamorris · Post by **asamorris** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:44 am

i knew that.

no, no i didn't.

i'm so ashamed.