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http://blog.chrisrobley.com Official lyric video for "Veterans Day," off of Chris Robley's 5th solo album entitled THE GREAT MAKE BELIEVER.

Nooga.com premiered this video, and here's what I told them about the song:

"Veterans Day" is partially about the nostalgia you can have for a failed relationship long after it's ended. I was trying to depict a moment of tenderness and frailty right in the center of the pomp of a patriotic holiday. I wrote this song in the strangest guitar tuning I'd ever come up with. It's so strange that every time I try to play it again after a long break I have to go look it up .... When we were arranging the song at our makeshift studio out on the Oregon coast, the band was quick to pick up on the lyrical differences between the verses and chorus. The verses were hyperspecific and full of details. The chorus hopefully balances that out with some big abstractions .... so the music got pulled in those same directions: tight and almost yacht rock for the verses, and then the choruses are more harsh, menacing, and yet open and uncertain—which is basically how I feel about November. That month is a bit of a bummer. It's cold, but not cold enough for the snow to stick on the ground yet. It just falls and melts.

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Produced and engineered by Rob Stroup at the Salt Works (Seaside Oregon) and 8 Ball Studio (Portland, Oregon). Mixed at KBC (Portland, Oregon) by Rob Stroup. Mastered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman at Mysterious Beard.

Drums- Anders Bergstrom
Electric guitar - Bob Dunham
Bass - Arthur Parker
Acoustic guitar, keyboard, and vocals - Chris Robley
Harmony vocals - Rob Stroup and Naomi Hooley

This video makes significant alterations to a clip called "Milk Underwater," made available through Creative Commons via Open Footage: http://www.openfootage.net/?p=17246

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