Song written by John Mosko and I helped him with some of the lyrics.
I was looking on a world map to find an exotic sounding place and picked Karbala in Iraq, who knew what would go on there years later?
I think John was on drums and keys, I was on guitars and vocal and I think I did the bass too.
Some may use the the term "out of tune" to describe the lead guitar but I prefer "microtonal plus" which means some notes may go beyond a semitone."
This was early on in my guitar playing and then, as it is now, I don't really know how to play lead.
Guitar was a beat up Dan Electro with a mini humbucker plugged into the left channel of a Radio Shack preamp out of there and into the right channel of the preamp to get that fuzz.
Our good friend John Dyke, who produces many history videos on this site and was recently named City Historian of the City of Perth Amboy, put together this video to accompany this historic song and it turned out great.
Song recorded sometime in the 70's at the House of Mosko basement facility, Perth Amboy, NJ.