Got them pretty road cases Protect our asses, protect our faces, protect our guitars, protect our amps. Got them pretty road cases throw them out an airplane and they'll just bounce
Paint our name on them road cases, stencil and white spray paint "Drive-by Truckers" on every one or maybe just "DBT" Gonna get ourselves a big tour bus, maybe even an airplane Fly around the world and back. Hope it don't run out of gas.
Got them pretty road cases...
Someday we'll hock our road cases, when we don't need them anymore To pay off that big cocaine dealer (the only thing they're useful for) One day we'll sell our road cases, when we don't need them anymore When we outlive our usefulness, The only thing road cases are useful for.
Got them pretty road cases.
(Hood/DBT)
Have at it.
For myself, i've always liked this one. SRO is an album awash in storytelling, famous people, and the mythos of the South. This song is none of those things. Instead, the microscope focuses in on an implied over-the-hill band (Patterson has mentioned in show banter that the inspiration for this song was all the old ARS - Atlanta Rythmn Section - cases that seemed to be in every music store in the mid-90s).
Zip City wrote:I've never understood why the road cases say Drive-By Truckers (or maybe just DBT) when the band in the story is Betamax Guillotine
I think there are three layers to SRO - since the album is DBT telling the story of the south and Betamax Guillotine. Some bits are clearly, in the Canterbury Tales tradition, framing story. Really it breaks down into 3 categories:
"Framing Story"
Days of Graduation The Three Great Alabama Icons Let There Be Rock Road Cases
"The Saga of the South/Betamax Guillotine"
Birmingham Ronnie & Neal The Southern Thing Wallace Cassie's Brother Life In The Factory Shut Up and Get on the Plane Angel's and Fuselage
"Betamax Guillotine Songs"
imagine this was a Behind the Music/Rocumentary - Plenty of the "bands" own songs would be useds as interludes and background music
72 (This Highway's Mean) Dead, Drunk, and Naked Guitar Man Upstairs Zip City Women Without Whiskey Plastic Flowers on the Highway Greenville to Baton Rouge
Zip City wrote:I've never understood why the road cases say Drive-By Truckers (or maybe just DBT) when the band in the story is Betamax Guillotine
I think there are three layers to SRO - since the album is DBT telling the story of the south and Betamax Guillotine. Some bits are clearly, in the Canterbury Tales tradition, framing story. Really it breaks down into 3 categories:
"Framing Story"
Days of Graduation The Three Great Alabama Icons Let There Be Rock Road Cases
"The Saga of the South/Betamax Guillotine"
Birmingham Ronnie & Neal The Southern Thing Wallace Cassie's Brother Life In The Factory Shut Up and Get on the Plane Angel's and Fuselage
"Betamax Guillotine Songs"
imagine this was a Behind the Music/Rocumentary - Plenty of the "bands" own songs would be useds as interludes and background music
72 (This Highway's Mean) Dead, Drunk, and Naked Guitar Man Upstairs Zip City Women Without Whiskey Plastic Flowers on the Highway Greenville to Baton Rouge
Great breakdown Tyler.
and that pussy Alec Baldwin blew that girl away, and speaking of pussy Steve got it all!
