Defibrillator-Alex Kapranos

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.09]Defibrillator [00:01.74]Written and read by me：Alex Kapranos [00:06.27]I didn't know Big Jamesy that well [00:08.64]He hung about with McPherson my flatmate [00:11.88]I met him on Christmas day when I worked a shift at the 13th Note [00:16.56]He sat at the end of the bar drinking and drinking [00:20.25]Until he threw up over it [00:22.26]Watery spew dripping onto the pint glasses on the shelf below [00:26.85]Christmas day [00:28.89]Thanks Jamesy [00:31.59]McPherson was the star of the Glasgow easy listening revival [00:36.15]Spinning Klaus Wunderlich and Peters and Lee records [00:39.03]And a kipper tie and polyester suit [00:42.33]Smellig of Oxfam [00:43.74]And Brut for men [00:46.14]Let's get a band together It'll be great Big Jamesy can play guitar [00:53.28]He's rrrrrreally good [00:58.05]I'll ask Baldy Keith to come down and play drums [01:00.84]He's got a band as well [01:03.54]So I was back in the basement at the 13th Note with Big Jamesy McPherson and Baldy Keith [01:09.84]We didn't have a name [01:11.10]Any songs [01:12.21]Or any idea of what we were going to do other that it was going to be [01:18.21]Big Jamesy looked like one of those late Ramones [01:24.51]You know those guys that came in to play the drums [01:27.54]Or the bass when Dee Dee had gone off to rap [01:30.72]Leather jacket black bowl cut surly stoop and malnourished frame [01:36.30]And on drums it's BENNY RAMONE [01:40.44]Instantly identifiable but completely anonymous [01:46.32]We set up our gear [01:48.03]Baldy Keith's parents had bought him a huge ostentatious kit [01:52.08]With too many toms [01:53.55]And one of those backwarrds cymbals [01:56.82]McPherson's bass a beautiful Paddy's market semi [02:00.27]That shreked when any amp was turned over two [02:04.53]I was gonna sing [02:06.36]And Big Jamesy brought out his Charvel [02:09.27]And plugged it in a luminous yellow DOD Metal Maniac pedal [02:32.91]Then turned every dial into Peavey tranny amp as far to the right as it would go [04:14.07]Then he started [05:38.73]Ah s**te