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song: bite the dust
(© 2024 Gudrich/Gudrich)

Released  in May 2025.

This protest song helps you vent your frustration with people - those in power and those in general - who are part of the problem rather than trying to be part of the solution. Who have attitudes that actively oppose our values of tolerance and democracy, who only care about themselves, disrespecting the planet and all beings that live here, exploiting everyone and everything for their own purposes. We don't need them to build a better tomorrow...

If Bob Dylan and Greta Thunberg got together with a bad-ass guitarist and a recorder player and wrote a punk-metal ballad - that's what you'd get!

Lyrics

Bite the dust if you're an asshole

Bite the dust or change your mind

We don't need your backwards attitude

Change your ways or say goodbye

 

If your ego disrespects all beings - goodbye, my friend, goodbye

If your greed disrespects Mother Nature - goodbye, my friend, goodbye

We don't need you to build a new tomorrow

So kiss your influence goodbye

A last goodbye

 

Ego-centric alpha male

Money-centric idiot

Power hungry politician

narrow-minded bigot

You won't be missed

You won't be missed

 

Bite the dust if you're an asshole

Bite the dust or change your mind

We don't need your backwards attitude

change your ways or say goodbye

 

If your hate disrespects diversity - goodbye, my friend, goodbye

We don't need you to build a new tomorrow

So kiss your influence goodbye

A last goodbye

 

Bite the dust if you're an asshole

Bite the dust or change your mind

We don't need your backwards attitude

change your ways or say goodbye

Bite the dust if you're an asshole

Bite the dust or change your mind

We don't need your backwards attitude

change your ways or say goodbye

Story

In 2024, accomplished hit songwriter and Jazz piano player par excellence Jeff Franzel asked us if we could write a "protest ballad". He thought that this "challenge" might push us out of our "comfort zone". What Jeff didn't know was that we have no comfort zone! We'll write anything from heavy rockers to punk anthems to protest ballads - it's all music, it's all a way of expressing our views on the world and our feelings... So "Bite the Dust (if you're an asshole)" almost wrote itself. Jeff loved it and so do we - it's full of unapologetic attitude and badass guitars! And with things in the world going as they're going right now, this is a much needed song! A song that clearly tells the toxic capitalist patriarchy that they are no longer needed. Goodbye. Go colonize the sun with your fancy space crafts...

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Liner notes

vocals - Xavi | rhythm guitars - Xavi | high bass - Xavi | low bass - Sabú | backing vocals - Sabú, Amy, Sam | recorders - Sabú 

Recorded at Catfish&Crow Studios, 2025 | Engineered by Sabú Gudrich

â„— Gudrich/Gudrich 2025

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