Deep Marsh

"Deep Marsh", by Five Style. One of my all time favorite jams. Actually, this is Heroic Doses playing the Five Style song, but the composer and guitarist, Bill Dolan, is seen here shredding. This footage is 14 years old and was just posted a few months back by a person to whom I owe a beer or two. In high school Drama class, me and a classmate put this song on and told this other kid who was incessantly freestyle rapping to have a go at it. We knew the slowdown part at the end would trip him up, and it did, and we giggled like schoolboys. I first heard this song in 1998 on KKFI 90.1 FM on a show called "Country Jesus Hillbilly Blues" and it still blows my mind. John Herndon was on the kit for Five Style's studio recordings but Ryan Rapsys from the posthardcore Chicago band Gauge looks like he has the beat under control.