BOOTLEG: EXCLUSIVE HORSE THE BAND SONG, “A PARTRIDGE”

In our never-ending quest to give you the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series. Throughout each month, we’ll post cool, new, and often-exclusive tracks right here for you to hear before anyone else.

This installment is HORSE the Band’s “A Partidge,” a song recorded for a Taste of Chaos compilation, called A Taste of Christmas, a few years back, but wasn’t used. It doesn’t appear on any other album. Guitarist David Isen fills us in on the song below.

REVOLVER What’s “A Partridge” about?

DAVID ISEN The realization of our singer's wildest Christmas fantasies.

And what was the inspiration?
Santa taught Nathan an important lesson about the meaning of Christmas. I'm not sure where the santa on a harley bit came from.

Which part of it did you come up with first?
We started with the keyboard part at the end of the song, the rest of the job was to just build up to that point somehow.

Was this an easy song to record?
Well we wrote and recorded the whole thing from scratch in one day, finishing in time to play a show that same night. It was the complete opposite of how we usually write music.

Why did this song not make the Taste of Christmas comp or one of your albums?
They said the lyrics were too offensive to be on the comp. It was the explicit references to the male and female anatomy during the “12 Days of Christmas” a cappella interlude. Instead of putting it on one of our albums, we elected make it available on Christmas only, on our MySpace…Until now.

Have you played it live?
We actually played it at our show in Philly the same day that we recorded it. Never since then, though. It is heavily requested by those in the know, though.

HORSE the Band: "A Partridge"

Photo: Sarah Hamilton