Bossa Me Lost Ya
"When the music starts, when the lights go down..."
Let's just say I had one too many during this particular recording. There's a first for everything. In any normal situation when I'm recording a song I won't engage in any type of illicit activities. However, if my memory serves me correctly I decided to record after a visit from the Veritas boys. During the winter months of 1993, Veritas was using my apartment as a practice spot and they had left their equipment with me on several occassions which gave me free reign to do what I wanted. The bass player at the time, Matt Skirpan left me with an ART effects processor that I put to good use. Most of the vocal material that was recorded for Prismatic was mixed using this processor.
During one practice, I drank myself stupid and after the band left for Allentown I was left to my own devices and a case of beer. I really didn't have anywhere to go so I decided to record a few songs that I had been working on. One was 'Footstep Paranoia' and the other was 'Bossa Me Lost Ya'.
The context of this song is very confusing. At one moment it's as if you're listening to Wayne Newton meets Ween with lyrics courtesy of Barry White. The next moment, you hear a very haphazard acoustic guitar solo as I am whispering "I like the sound of the acoustic guitar." The song reaches it's climax as the words "Baby, Baby, Baby" are uttered very enthusiastically and repeatedly. This ends up morphing into a repetitious chanting of the name "Dannay BON-AH-DOO-CHAY"!! Yet we are left muttering "Baby, Baby, maybe" once again as the song ends in a flutter of squeaks, and coughs and belches!
THE END... HA HA!
So without further a-doo... 'Bossa Me Lost Ya' from the Prismatic archive.
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