Nice little info on Had A Dad "God is Dead"

[Charles]

When I asked Perry why he said "G-d is dead" in Had a Dad he said he was just kidding. But I found out much later that it may not be true. It turns out he actually sang "Claude is dead" in reference to a 60's musical called "Hair" in which... the lead character goes to Vietnam as a proxy for the protagonist character Claude, and he gets killed. Heartbreaking, right? Right. But the engineer on the Nothing's Shocking session, Ronnie, is from Canada. He'd never seen the 60's musical called "Hair" and didn't know what Perry could mean. He didn't want to Perry to look bad in Canada, so he just fixed it. He skillfully grabbed an outtake of Perry saying "G-d bless you" when Stephen sneezed during the intro to the first take for Summertime Rolls. Then, late at night when he was wrapping up the dat to go to final mastering, he made the quick edit from "Claude" (is dead) to, what we all know and love today as "G-d" (is dead). Brilliant, right?! Yeah! The dat tape went to mastering the next day, the cd was released, the cover art controversy was the thing everyone focused on, and VOILA! We have rock history.

I love this stuff!!!
-Charles

[Charles]

It's like forever putting the JA puzzle together. After all these years...the photos, the tour dates, tour flyers(thx Mike) song info...gives me a hard on!

[TrevorAyer]

i've got a bridge for sale

[helicine]

What is the source of that? It is a nice story, but it's wrong. Maybe a nice tongue-in-cheek April Fool's joke.

But lets debunk this anyway - If you pull up the Paraphernalia boot, and listen to Had A Dad, at the 2:32 mark Perry clearly says "god is dead" - so since that's a different take than what appears on the NS album, thus the story just doesn't hold up.

Aside from that, the story just doesn't make sense.

In the context of the song, "god is dead" makes sense. Metaphorically, while growing up, children see their parents as godlike. "Claude is dead" would be totally out of context, and I don't think anyone (Canadian or not) would automatically make the connection to the play Hair.

[helicine]

Okay, found where that came from - yeah, I'm pretty sure they posted that as a joke.

[Mike]

Okay, found where that came from - yeah, I'm pretty sure they posted that as a joke.

Yeah that was posted on Casey's facebook page and I'm 99.999% certain it was meant as some kind of joke.

[Charles]

My bad. Just seemd like it could be real. So to clear things up, this is what the person said when I contacted her...

Like Perry said, "I was just kidding."
Some of it's real and happened but mostly not.

So whatever