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Branden Lee Cravalho is an impressive guitarist from Oakdale that teamed up with a few of his buddies from high school and formed a group known best as the Purple Baby Llama Fetus Experiment. They used to frequent the Queen Bean's open mic during its golden age and he himself concurrently hosted a similar open mic at a coffeehouse in Oakdale called Roasters during the opening stages of 2011. I was invited to play the first big show they had there, and it was such a fantastic night!

Regularly playing at Roasters was my first time seriously playing in places outside of Modesto frequently, and I met so many people and got to play all sorts of shows and make connections thanks to him! He later helped me co-host the Queen Bean open mic when I took over towards the end of that year, and ceded co-hosting duties to me 100% early on in the next year as he began focusing more on his classical guitar studies and fading out of rock music. PBLFE was an eccentric, dick-jokes-everywhere Queens of the Stone Age-type band that only publicly released a single (this song) and finished an unreleased album with Drew Blum, and somehow I taught myself how to play this song by ear, at least partially, by summer 2011.

Having always respected the guy's work, what he did to help my career at the time, and also having always PBLFE (aka Eight Equals D and the Classy Choice towards the end), I asked if it was cool to cover this'n and he said it was cool to do so.

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from Ready Or Not, Oh Brother Spaceman​.​.​. I'm Sorry the Cat Hates You, I'm Sorry We Hate Each Other, And I'm Sorry We Hate Ourselves, released January 17, 2017
Written by Branden Lee Cravalho.

Instruments used: Casio keyboard, Ibanez electric guitar, Fender Modern Player Jaguar, Yamaha bass. Recorded at the end of August 2014, with minor touchups done at the end of December 2016. Mixed gradually between August 2014 to January 2017.

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