To my knowledge, the 77s never fully-produced Tattoo (unless you're
holding out on us, Mike!) but if a song rocks in its demo form, it's a
great song. It's fun to play it live because you instantly lock in to
that groove. CCM bands who seem to write lyrics by mixing up a bunch of
Christian buzzwords in a bingo ball, would have written "Oh Lord, make
me ever-mindful of your awesome presence... keep me always in the glory
of your gracious beauty" or something like that. "Write me on your
skin" is a better word picture. And this song has one of my favorite
bridges ever..., it just keeps building and building til it just about
explodes.
I've covered Tattoo with my former band, The Orphans, so I already knew
it, and I was listening to a lot of the Dandy Warhols when I did this
particular version.
FOR YOU TECHIES...
I recorded it on a Mac G4 using Reason 2.5 (an awesome program that
handled all the synth and loop sounds) and Logic 6, where the vocals,
guitar and drum samples lived. The Guitar sound was a Rickenbacker 360
through a silverface Fender Champ (all 6 watts of it) being driven by a
Fulltone Fulldrive pedal, tracked twice.
Hope you enjoy it!
