We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Guilty [OG 1980's recording]

from Almost Night by The Palisades

/

about

This is the second song from our never completed Sept. 1983 session, that also included ‘All Around the World’. What’s wrong with this? It sounds great – why didn’t we finish it? We lay down some absolutely solid basic tracks (bass and drums), and then leave it incomplete, with nothing but a scratch lead vocal, scratch guitar, and some half ass backup vocals, and then leave it to rot unfinished and unmixed. Oi Vey!

Though it’s frustrating and confusing as to why we would record a perfectly good performance, only to leave it incomplete and forgotten, I am grateful the multi-track was discovered, finished or not, so it could be posthumously remixed and sound somewhat finished. ‘Guilty’, like ‘All Around the World’, originally had no guitar solo, so JD cut one in 1996, and I think he also helped with some of the ‘guilty’ shouts on the breakdown.

Especially with JD’s proper tone, ‘Guilty’ was one of the hardest rockers we had performed, loaded with powerful catchy surf riffs everywhere. Eighteen year old Larry sounds absolutely great, impressively more solid, and much improved from the early days, on both ‘Guilty’ and ‘All Around the World’. I’ve always regretted that JD and I did not treat little Larry with more respect, back in the day. Bill Krodel could not complain about this performance! Both Danny and Larry just needed the time to become pros, that was all, but unfortunately for the Palisades, that time was nearly up. After this recording, the band would remain together for only three more months.

lyrics

I once tried to out run life

Found I ran on the edge of a knife

Though I thought I was moving ahead

I found life outrunning me instead



I learned –

Ain’t no one lese can solve all your problems

You’re going to have to solve them yourself

And if you’re having troubles with the answers

Don’t put the blame on anyone else



You’re guilty, guilty but carry no guiltiness

guilty, guilty but carry no guiltiness



I know a girl on the sad side of town

Love has always seemed to let her down

And so she hides in her room at night

Refuses to come out into the light



What do you think it is I should tell her?

Tell her to be more like me? ha!

Answers are only questions for questions

That is until you learn to be……



guilty, guilty but carry no guiltiness

guilty, guilty but carry no guiltiness



(guilty!) of caring for others reactions

(guilty!) of falling for others pettiness

(guilty!) you gotta stand for your own actions

you gotta, gotta, gotta accept it………..

guiltiness

credits

from Almost Night, released July 17, 2020
Lear Schwarze

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Palisades image

The Palisades Hawthorne, California

Dominating the South Bay music scene for two years (1982-1983), the Palisades were from Hawthorne CA (the same home of the legendary Beach Boys). Punk, Power pop, surf music, ska! No one sounded like the Palisades in 1982 and 1983. The music they wrote and performed was the music of being young – a celebration of youth.
It was a magical time in a magical place…come on in ... more

contact / help

Contact The Palisades

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like The Palisades, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now