Dirty Second Hands
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| Single by Switchfoot from the album Oh! Gravity. |
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| Released | 2006 | |
| Recorded | 2006 | |
| Genre | Alternative Rock | |
| Length | 3 min 16 s | |
| Label | Columbia/Sony BMG | |
| Writer(s) | Jon Foreman | |
| Producer | John Fields | |
Dirty Second Hands is a song from Switchfoot's 6th studio album Oh! Gravity. This was the first song released from the album, made available for purchase online as a single. Despite this, the song is not intended to be released to radio.
When the song was first released on the band's web site, it contained several differences from the album version. The first verse was backed by an electric guitar section which on the album version doesn't appear until the second verse. The chorus also didn't have the brief electric guitar dropout between vocal lines. It was also significantly shorter because it didn't contain the vocal portion of the bridge. This version of the song was replaced a few days later by the album version.
The song was produced & recorded at Bigfish Studio by John Fields. As per Exec. Producer Steve Lillywhite's suggestion, the earliest rough mix from the day the song was tracked, was used on the album.
[edit] Live
This song was introduced into the band's live show during the Oh! Gravity. Fall Tour prior to the album's release and quickly became a concert favourite. The concert version of the song features an extended instrumental coda which includes frontman Jon Foreman wildly playing the suspended cymbal and climaxes in a distorted guitar solo by Drew Shirley. The light show for this guitar solo during the Appetite For Construction Tour incorporated large amounts of unsynchonized strobe lights, increasing the dramatic effect. The coda closes with an instrumental reprise of the chorus riff, at the end of which the band suddenly cuts off.
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