Robert: "This used to be a Mighty Joe Young song. 'Vasoline' used to be the original 'Crackerman.' Then we changed 'Crackerman' and took the original idea for it and made it 'Vasoline."
Robert: This is one of the only songs that I really like thinking about the video. A lot of videos ruin songs, but this was one of my favorites. Our video director, Kevin Kerslake, had a great time with this, as did we. That little wah thing you hear in the intro is me putting my bass through a wah. I also remember recording the drums with a couple of mics in a vocal booth.
Dean: "Vasoline" was actually an instrumental we used to open with when we were a band called Mighty Joe Young. So that song reminds me of different clubs we played in around L.A.
Robert: "That song was actually the first 'Crackerman', and then that was made into a jam we used to do, an instrumental jam called 'Crush', when we were Mighty Joe Young, in 1989/1990.
Dean:"I actually have that, when we played it at Ragis, on video. It was Vasoline as an instrumental." |
