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Freaky Dan Pt. 1

from The Juvenalias by William Remmers

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"I knew this guy/He was pretty freaky/I'll tell you about him/Here I go..."
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8TH GRADE

This track is, I think, my "greatest hit." Eventually when I began to share my music, not by selling CDs in school, but by putting songs up on MySpace, this was the track that got the most attention. In another world, this track would have started this compilation, but, next best thing: I'll make it the featured track.

It's never been clear where Freaky Dan, the character, begins and where "this guy" who "was pretty freaky" ends. I welcome your interpretation. The dragging sound at the beginning? Me bringing the computer microphone closer to me across the desk, circular plastic-on-wood.

It first appeared on the EP of Doom which I remember not selling successfully or maybe I didn't even bother to sell it. It's the only album that I found multiple copies of in a box: all sharpied up with no covers or cases. This EP ran forty minutes and I include all but one of the tracks here (I understandably eliminated "Habeas Corpus," a 20-minute solo improv jam with 20 minutes of backwards speech played on top of it).

In my college song-writing class, there was one week where I was highly depressed and had nothing to present, so I just performed this song as if it was new. No one bought the gambit.

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from The Juvenalias, released May 1, 2020

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William Remmers New York, New York

William Remmers has been doing music since he was a prattling babe.

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