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(c) 2005 by Lewis D'Aubin Science Fight mp3 Last night at the lab Everyone was there Everyone was having fun Partying down without a care Suddenly some chemicals Got spilled across the room Everyone started freaking out And I knew the party was doomed... Well Drs. Frankenstein and Jeckyl up and started to brawl And Dr. Phibes hit Dr. Morgus with a medicine ball Doc Marten threw his sneakers right at Dr. Scholls And then Doc Oct grabbed Dr. Strange with his tentacles Dr. Dre started beating eminem's behind Dr. Spock almost lost his mutha-vulcan mind Well we were gonna wind it down at midnight But now it looks like it'll last all night Because it started as a science party But then it turned into a science fight Well Dr. Who tried to strangle me with his scarf Dr. Phil spiked the lemonade and somebody barfed Dr. Ruth threw a condom into drumbot's face And Dr. Pepper just got splattered all over the place Dr. Watson set a fire with his magnifying glass Dr. Suess started kicking Dr. Evil's ass Well we were gonna wind it down at midnight But now it looks like it'll last all night Because it started as a science party But then it turned into a science fight Bridge: Just then, somebody spoke up... What are we fighting for? Why, we're not here to brawl and such, it's science we adore! If we used our minds before our fists, this conflict would be through! So before you fight consider this: "What would Einstein do?" "Einstein? Oppenheimer could have beat Einstein any day of the last millenium!" "But Einstein's a GENIUS!" "But Oppenheimer's Da Bomb!" "Oh yeah?" "Yeah!" "Oh YEAH?!??" But Dr. Dolittle's monkeys then began to attack Dr. Demento tried to hide behind the record stack Dr. J started dribbling all over the floor Dr. McCoy was just to drunk to find the exit door Doc Holliday shot someone in the head Dr. Tischner started gargling and finally dropped dead Well we were gonna wind it down at midnight But now it looks like it'll last all night Because it started as a science party But then it turned into a science fight Would the last one in the laboratory Like to turn out the light Because it started as a science party But then it turned into a science fight |
Way back in 1998 or so, before we had even gotten our first airplay on the Dr. Demento show, I had thought up a crafty approach to getting on the air. "Why don't we just make a novelty song where we namecheck Dr. Demento? He won't be able to resist putting THAT on the air!" Yeah... and we could even namecheck all the other pop-culture Doctors... Doctor Who, Doc Emmett Brown, Dr. Pepper, etc. The result could be an entertainment lawyer's NIGHTMARE!!! The idea lay dormant for years until fall 2004 or so, when this little melody POPPED INTO MY CRANIUM! "Gee" I thought, "ANOTHER Meatloaf ripoff! What's wrong with my BRAIN?!??" The style was WAY too much like "Hot Patootie", "Time Warp", "Ballroom Blitz", etc. I quickly jotted down some lyrics and made a rough demo of the song to copyright it, then shelved it along with several other promising new tunes, while we concentrated on finding our new guitarist. In August 2005, we had the pleasure of performing at the local Rocky Horror 25th Anniversary party in the soon to be destroyed by hurricane Chalmette Cinema. This song was WAY too appropriate, given the circumstances, and we decided to debut the song there. Was it ever fun to perform?! We got a lot of compliments... Flashing forward to 2006, we had become comfortable with performing the song onstage and in rehearsal, so we put the song on a fast track to completion by replacing the stumbling demo guitar tracks with some sharp new ones, recorded by Dr. A Rachnid with his wonderful old '72 Telecaster through the Line6 POD, (as usual). Dr. Z put down a new bass part, recorded on his Purple Heart bass through the Johnson J-Station via SPDIF (as usual). Dr. Rachnid contributed a nice harmony to the vocals. The wonderful Misty Marshall then showed up in town and we got her to sing a high harmony on the choruses. She even contributed a spoken part to the bridge, which I wasn't happy with. I was happier with her part, until one weekend while visiting a Magnificent local scientific peer, I took the opportunity to ask him to contribute his own reading to the bridge. Happily, he accepted, and suceeded in taking the entire recording to a higher order... Credits Drums...........drumbot Guitars.........Ed Merilh Bass............Jim Fairchild Lead vocal......Lewis D'Aubin Backing vocals..Lewis D'Aubin, Ed Merilh, Jim Fairchild, & Misty Marshall Special appearance by Sid Noel Recorded and mixed Summer 2006 at C.O.G. Secret Lab, New Orleans LA |
