LET ME TAKE

A SONG OF ROMANCE AND HEARTFELT LOVE.

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 SO ONE DAY, I GET A VOICEMAIL FROM JASON…

…and he’s singing to me in a high pitch falsetto… “Let me take your clothes off, Let me touch your body.” I had texted him back that he he needed to write more, because it was catchy, and it was stuck in my head for a few days. I think I listened to the voicemail several times… it was hilarious and it was infecting my brain. This was back in maybe 2006, early 2007.

Some time had passed, and it was time for his wedding. At the time, I was trying to get on my feet having moved across the country, and he wanted me at his wedding so bad that he had paid for me to fly up to Wisconsin to be in his wedding. I warned him ahead of time that we were going to record this song he kept singing to me, and he damn well better have finished writing it. I packed up a suitcase with some recording gear and arranged to borrow a friend’s computer to run Pro Tools on.

We First laid down some drum tracks for him to sing on top of in his sister’s basement where he had his drums. He kept them there because she had room for them, and she owned the house. That’s the tough thing about drums… not very apartment friendly.

The cool thing was that at the time, his sister worked for Miller, and she had a stockpile of every alcoholic beverage that Miller made or distributed. Seriously, she had two refrigerators down there completely full, and cases upon cases lined up ready to restock it. A perk for working at Miller is that you can take home some free drinks every month or so, and she didn’t drink any of it.

“You see, at this point, Jason had still been telling me that the lyrics had been written already.”

— FACT

Pure gold in the making.

So after several drinks and setup of the recording session, which admittedly may have taken less time if we had not been drinking, I cued up his drum tracks, and was ready to hit record. You see, at this point, Jason had still been telling me that the lyrics had been written already. I was so anxious to hear the whole thing, having only heard just the hook, or chorus… or whatever it was. Didn’t matter… it was pure gold whatever it was and we had something like 20 minutes of his drumming recorded for him to sing on top of. We were ready to go.

What is he doing?

I hit record, and watched him deliver the pure gold hit that we had been talking about all along. It didn’t take me long to realize he was making it up as he went. The bigger problem was containing my laughter as to not show up in the recording (it did). Watching him was tough too. He was doing all sorts of hand movements like he had been studying a combination of Boyz 2 Men videos, WWF Wrestling, and Ravers with glow sticks. Trying to keep quiet while witnessing this visual show and the lyrical content had me in tears, and for a part of it I was hunched over with abdominal pain from holding the laughter in. I thought I was going to die from laughter blockage.

I spent the next few days writing the music, and trying to edit it down from nearly 20 minutes of material he provided. My goal was to get it down to at least under 5 minutes long, which I did. I managed to get the song done enough to bring it to the wedding. We played the song on bus that took all the Groomsmen to the wedding location and everyone was dying of laughter. After wedding was over, at the reception there was non-stop music blasting and people were dancing. I figured, hey, why not give the song to the DJ. I did. The DJ played the song, and although not many people noticed because there was still bass thumping for them to grove to, a few of us recognized what was happening. His new bride, for example, was giving me a not-so-happy look… however Jason’s parents were giving me a thumbs up. It was a hit.

 Fast forward about a decade into 2017.

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