Kim Mitchell Go For Soda Lyrics

"If it saves a single life, if it saves a single person from serious injury, that will be an amazing achievement, " Hobson said. The public service announcement comes in time to reinforce Festive RIDE patrols police are currently conducting across the province. Nobody hurts and nobody cries, nobody drowns and nobody dies. Well the bomb in my head is love. He had just released his second solo album, Akimbo Alogo, and f*** was that a great album! That didn't prove to be an issue. Hobson said he has one goal in mind for the public service announcement. Might as well go for a soda, MIGHT AS WELL. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. Written by: Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard. Lyrics taken from /lyrics/k/kim_mitchell/. And I sort of stopped right there, and in my truck, my van, I pulled my guitar up and started to write it, " Mitchell recalled. The page contains the lyrics of the song "Go For Soda" by Kim Mitchell.

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Thirty years ago today—on July 23, 1984—Kim Mitchell played the first show of a two-night stand at Club Soda, that old rockin' party palace on Homer Street. There's a ballad called "All We Are" and another ballad called "Called Off", which is right on the end of the album. That means their blood alcohol ratio was 50 milligrams of alcohol to 100 millilitres of blood. And I was saying, "Well, piss on that, because there's nothing wrong with 'The Party', there's nothing wrong with 'The Hangover', there's nothing wrong with 'She comes across like diamonds diamonds'. Actually, Pye lives about five minutes away from me, so I just walk over. I just sit down and start dicking about on the guitar, and then if I'm lucky in a couple of hours I'll be on to something, and I'll just ride with it. Lyrics © BMG Rights Management. All of the lady's cornbread and the moo moo makes me thirsty for halah. Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. It's just a simple process like that, but a very magical simple process that gives me a real nice high when I'm doing it. Kim Mitchell gets it. How do you and Pye work the songs out? You've got to throw your arms up in the air and say, "Hey, I might as well go for a soda. Written by Jason Vermes.

They'd roll the tape and I'd play just to make sure the sound was allright, then we'd roll back and I'd bang off the tune. Mitchell fans can expect to hear Go for Soda and other hits such as Patio Lanterns and I Am a Wild Party when Mitchell performs at The Venue on Feb. 22. Toronto-based musician Kim Mitchell told Cross Country Checkup, with a laugh. 10----8-10--------10----------------10----|. That's not really an intentional thing. And those who don't, man I don't blame you, " Mitchell said, laughing. What's the message there? "You let me worry about getting a hold of Kim Mitchell, " Hobson, who grew up in Peterborough and attended Kenner Collegiate, told the other committee members. 15/18-------------14----------------------------------5~---------------|. Because we demoed that song about a year ago, and the solo I played on the demo was just a terrible guitar solo. It was written very recklessly. "Might as well go for a soda, nobody drowns and nobody dies, " Canadian rock icon Kim Mitchell sang on his 1984 hit single Go for Soda, seeming to imply people should choose pop over booze. Might as well go for a soda, oh yeah, nobody drowns, nobody dies-ies-ies-ies. Might as well) might as well go for a soda.

So, when a friend told Mitchell that his quintessentially Canadian summer song was a hot topic on the air, the musician phoned the show's toll-free line to share the song's backstory. Writer(s): Mitchell Kim, Woods Paul Phillip Lyrics powered by. "[My] cowriter, as he was getting out of the car, just gave me a set of lyrics. In Peterborough and Lakefield, police have stopped 1, 350 vehicles during RIDE patrols over four nights so far this season, traffic unit Sgt. Solo (Guitar 2 plays verse 2). When a Midland group needed a theme song for its campaign to end drinking and driving, the choice was obvious. Makes me thirst for love. Might as well go for a soda, it's better than slander it's better than lies-ies-ies. Disclaimer: makes no claims to the accuracy of the correct lyrics. A song like "Lager and Ale" for example—that whole song was like that.

Go For Soda Lyrics

Mitchell called me from Toronto the week before the Vancouver doubleheader, and here's what went down: I've been listening to your new album quite a bit lately. Then I'd set the guitar down and go for a fuckin' soda! 8b-----9b-b-b~--------|. Speaking with former CBC television and radio host George Stromboulopoulos, Checkup's Ian Hanomansing said there has been a backlash to the much-played summer jam.

What tempo should you practice Go for Soda by Kim Mitchell? Or when you watch the six o'clock news and it's making ya puke? "Thank you to the fans for digging the tune. So we're in one of your blue moods. Nobody hurts, nobody cries). Nobody drowns and nobody dies. Because the real hardcore Max Webster fanatics like it. Loading the chords for 'Kim Mitchell - Go For A Soda (Lyrics on screen)'. Your solo in "Rumour" is a real fret-burner. Our systems have detected unusual activity from your IP address (computer network).

Well, that was the only solo on the album that was really worked out. You're working with Pye Dubois again. 15---15-14-------11-11h13p11----12-14-15-12/15-15-10-10--8-8-3\--5~---------------|. Might as go in muumuu. We barely knew the changes we were gonna do musically when we started to record that song. It's one of the nicest highs in music—all of a sudden seeing this song start to unfold, even though it's just you and the guitar.

Go For A Soda Kim Mitchell

Sometimes it's written on matchbox covers, sometimes it's written on toilet paper. Do you find yourself rocking harder and harder as the years go by? All we knew was we wanted to record it for the sheer fun of it.

Whatever the original intent, the idea of the song as an anti-drinking and driving anthem has now been cemented, as the public service announcement hits airwaves across Ontario and in the Northwest Territories. Vocal Chorus: Slap Guitar body. I am a lover of all kinds of music, and I keep my eyes open and my ears open all the time. When MADD endorsed the song and started to use it in their campaigns in the 1980s, Mitchell said he was pleased to let them. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4----------1-3----1-3------3p1-----|. I actually held a couple of the songs on this album from the days with that band. Mitchell won the 1987 Juno Award for Album of the Year with his second release Shakin' Like a Human Being, which features the divisive track. Newt note: at the time Mitchell's band included rhythm-guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Peter Fredette, bassist/keyboardist Robert Sinclair Wilson, and drummer Paul Delong. "There's just certain songs an artist will start to record and things could go really smooth or they are an effort. 10-8-10-10-8~------8h10p8---8-10\---10-8-10-10-8~-|. Max used to have trouble getting American deals—or keeping them—because they were saying, "The lyrics are weird, they're esoterical, and we can't identify with them. " If I never hear it again, I'd be OK. '".

I had to nod at the guys when the chords changed and we took the first take! None of those stopped had high enough blood-alcohol levels to face criminal charges, Chartier said. Oh yeah, nobody drowns, nobody dies). These players just know how to translate what I've written a little better than Max did. I wanted to ask you about that song. But after recording more songs than could fit on the album, Patio Lanterns almost didn't make the final cut.

But that's no slight against Max Webster—I'm very proud of that past. A real fret-burner, yeah. 11-11-11-11b-9---------------8b-----9b-b-b~--------|.