I remember when we were kids, my old man would always say, “I know you like a book.” And when he would say that, when I was a kid, I never thought that was possible, until now, I have two kids, and I know them very well. Because I’m a parent, and I think about my children, and hope that they’ll never be in a situation like that.īut also – this is the second part of this story. I finished the song on the day they found their bodies.Īnd I kept thinking about their parents, and just that relationship that parents have with a situation like that. I had this idea for this song, I was working on this song, and the news was playing in the background the whole time I was working on the song. I was partly inspired by last year, there was a big story about these two teenage kids who were wanted for second-degree murder. What’s funny about that – this is not something I was really public about, when we were asked to describe the song… In fact, we released “I Know What You’re Thinking and It’s Awful” the day he died. We were in the middle of doing all that promo. ML: He passed about two weeks before the album came out. And it would have happened just before the record came out. When this thing first hit, I predicted that my old man wouldn’t make it through. I’m just riffing, reflecting a little bit. And then I saw it for myself, at one point.Īnyway – I didn’t mean to talk about this. I remember when my family was telling me that, when I was inquiring about the possibility of playing, I didn’t know how far along he had been. He wouldn’t know where he was, half the time. But at that point, he needed a lot of babysitting when he was out in public. I wanted him to play with us live at one point – I thought it would be really cool for him to play with us. I wanted him to play on my second solo record, but he was past expiry date at that point. So, he plays on the closing track of Gang of Losers, and he plays on the opening track on Missiles. Years & years later – he never stopped playing – I invited him to play on Gang of Losers. In fact, he almost missed my birth because he was on the road. I remember telling my mother, just recently, about when I first started playing in clubs, when I walked into my first club, loading into my first club, the smell was so familiar! It’s something that I guess was ‘tattooed’ from my youngest days.Īnd my father gave it all up, because there was so much traveling involved. I spent the first five years of my life sleeping in a lot of dressing rooms. When I was born, he was still a musician. On my birth certificate, it lists him as a musician. He has skated through a couple of ailments before, but when I read what the symptoms were and all that stuff, ‘If he gets hit with this, he’s not going to make it.’
Just because, being in a place like that, an extremely vulnerable place.
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You just don’t want them watching TV all day, the kids. So, when I saw that phrase, “No new deaths today,” again, another thing just went off in my brain. He was in a home, and of course these homes were ground zero for this stuff. Because his quality of life had really gone downhill. In a weird way, it was a blessing in disguise. He had a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ kind of thing going on, when that if he got sick, they weren’t going to put him on a ventilator, they weren’t going to try to save him. And as you know, first it’s a mental beatdown, then a physical beatdown. Eighty-five years old, he was suffering from Alzheimer’s for a long time. So, Father’s Day rolls around, and I kind of was reflecting on a lot of stuff throughout the day, and then I read the news, and it said, “No new deaths.” My father tested positive for Covid, and he passed within five days. And so, I haven’t really had any sort of chance to unpack any of it. It was interesting how little things could be a triggering phrase for me. On a personal note, was the first day that they were able to record no new deaths in Quebec, for the first time since March. If I’m working on a big project that has a deadline, then we have to renegotiate our plan. Which basically, I work sort of half-days, and then if I can squeeze in a few hours after dinner, to continue something that I’m working on, then I’ll do that. So, I do the mornings Natalia does the afternoons. I’m usually on duty in the mornings, until around noon, one o’clock. The kids are home all the time, so it’s always ‘all hands on deck’ kind of thing. Mostly just Natalia & I never really have any time for anything. Murray Lightburn: It’s as challenging as you could imagine. QRO: How are you holding up with everything that is going on? Click here for photos of The Dears at SXSW 2011 in Austin, TX in the QRO Concert Photo Gallery
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