The words for the song, "Logging Roads", were written in the van on the awesome drive from Dawson City to Whitehorse, February 1997. The band was up there playing the Frost Bite Music Festival and had the opportunity to tour our little one act play, Dream Catcher, to the native communities, which included a one night stand in Diamond Tooth Gertie's. Great time had by all. Once the business of playing theatre was over, Shawn and Jen took the front seat, me and Shag sat in the back. We bought some new CDs for the mega drive back down to Whitehorse and the one I bought was Neil Young, Weld, a double live CD. The boys love NY. And when I heard "Cortez the Killer", while cruising through that snow-covered magic landscape, the idea for a tune came calling. I started with the end verse and worked my way back. Shag looked at it and said: "I don't know how you could ever write a song backwards".
We made it safe and sound back to Whitehorse, traded in the Chevy Suburban super limo deluxe for a jet and flashed back to Ontario and the rehearsal hall.
Next thing we know, Shawn's got this smoking song with no words. So I scrambled and wrote what I remembered of "Logging Roads". We tossed the lyrics to Jen, and we went through it a few times.
They, Shawn and Jen, took it home, worked out the timing and when they came back we had another absolutely smoking No Rez tune on our hands. And that baby sees a lot of action. "Logging Roads", if Jen is on the road with us, is on the set list at just about everywhere we play.
Of course the band plays other types of music too, this is just one small example of what we have for you. Visit our No Rez web page for the all the news, songs, the whole nine yards. We have a link there for you to make it good and quick and easy.
Copyright & copy; 2001 Mark Seabrook