Gotham Five Oh Two Six Four

 

Don’t ask me why this song is named Gotham Five Oh Two Six Four. It is a parody of the Chicago song “25 or 6 to 4” and I was trying to get some vocals down so I could play around with a lead so I made up words for the second chorus.

Instead of repeating:

A podcast thats for the winners

Its Bat Books for Beginners

 

I had:

The Batphone’s ringing behind the door

Its Gotham Five Oh Two Six Four

 

It was funny for a quick second, which happened to be the quick second when I decided to first save the audio file. So that’s where we are.

I am not a big fan of “25 or 6 to 4”. I don’t think it is a bad song, but I always felt it suffered in comparison to Zep’s “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”. The second half of the Led Zeppelin song is almost identical to the bass riff here.

But I heard this song at a Hamburger and Fries lunch truck last Wednesday and it stuck in my head. I had to do this recording or it was going to drive me crazy. I listened to the Chicago song a couple of hundred times trying to come up with an interesting angle on the tune and realized it isn’t a bad song, but it does have the absolute worst ending of any song I can think of.

My first try at this song wasn’t as punchy and went on way way too long. I had fantasies about putting all kinds of leads and licks behind the vocals to copy the horns on the original. At some point I just boiled it down to the basics, kept just the few licks I used here. I got tired of thinking about this song so I decided it was good enough and time to move on.

Anyway. I do like the vocals more than usual. There are some spots that I had guitar licks I ultimately removed. It seems a little bare to me but at this point I need to listen to something else.