THREE BAGS
20 Years ago I was in a band called Digger - a punkish, garagey, power-poppy, devil-rocking mess. Playing guitar in Digger was the most fun I’ve ever had in a band. We were brothers, bad boys and rock-star posers with hair down to there. We just loved hanging out with other, getting stoned out of our gourds and playing really loud. Our reheasal-space exploits at Boston’s Sound Museum were up-all-night epics.
Digger actually came as close to getting a real major-label record deal as I’ve ever come.
This song, called “Three Bags,” is by our bassist/singer Daryl “Billy Nightshade” Frasier. I just remastered it today. I love this song so much it hurts. It’s about a very earnest and hard-working fellow who collects bottles and cans and cashes them in to make money. Refusing all handouts, he considers this an honest day’s work. Just when we get to really respect him, we learn that he is scraping up the dough to buy “a bottle of the good stuff,” the favorite of bums and winos everywhere: Night Train Express.
Priceless.
Literally one of my favorite one or two tracks I’ve ever been involved in.
Daryl Frasier, bass & vocals
Chuck White, vocals
Mark Frasier, guitar & vocals (Stratocaster, right channel)
Drew Townson, guitar, vocals (Les Paul, left channel)
Mark Mastrella, drums
Written by Daryl Frasier
Recorded circa 1992 by Drew Townson at Squid Hell Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA
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