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8,278,927 Views - Six Feet Under Explodes as One of the biggest Internet Songs By the Web's Biggest Internet Band Greenhouse Effect. Youtube/ GoogleVideoCom Video footage. Guitarist Phil Keegan wrote this surprisingly big song in 1989 as his move to assert himself and his ideas up against the constant Lead Vocal Plans Of Drummer at the time Clark Hagins. "The thing about 6 feet ,..its just exploded,..its one of our biggest and best and I cannot deny it,...the lyrics are great,...some say that the singing is not so great but I gotta hand it to him ,...the good doctor delivered the right prescription here...and I think the vocals are just right for the track !!" says Hagins. Haggins ofcourse is referring to Keegan who is known in musical circles simply as Dr. Phil - maybe a comic dig at his reducing hair over the years. "Without Six Feet and Brandy, ...I don't know where G.e. would be in history" says Haggins "But with them,...we become the web's most formidable band,...we prove we got the best songwriting and production in alternative music that there is ,..but that we can also sound like Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughn ,..if we have to (Laughs)" SIX FEET UNDER is a marvel of Rock's most simplistic production styles yet this bluesy little 'tell all' song with the mighty angry terse lyrics that attack the recording industry with such accurate venom can be cringe-worthy and mega-thought provoking all at once ,...but always entertaining. "The fact that Phil Keegan sings one of the biggest songs on the internet that there has ever been is just plain funny to me" says Hagins "And it is so ironic how big this thing has gotten because when i first heard it - and those scary lyrics - I was shocked to my toes,...yet my foot tapped along,...and I wanted - and needed - to hear MORE !!,....Its a shame now looking back,..that Keegan never got a chance to further develope those vocals but he always said that he was a guitarist first - and he is,...he's the best and most important guitarist in cyberspace,..maybe one of blues and alternative rock's most important guitarists of all time ,..me and him,..we worked at Engima Records in 1989 as interns,...and I remember that there was a whole room of us,...me and a buncha other 22 and 23 year old 'dreamers',..we wanted record deals ,..but they had us on the phones,..and in the mailroom,.....,like promoting metal and bands like Poison - I thought that was cheap - ,..they would have us like telling lies over the phone to radios and various media ,..telling people that Poison were selling big records when they really weren't,....pretending that we were fans and requesting radio airplay,..I thought it was too fake of an industry and I left,....I think Flipper stayed for a few extra months,..he was trying to secure a record deal for G.e. - but even he was inspired to write this song SIX FEET UNDER from working as an intern at Enigma." 'Six Feet Under" was a vehicle that G.e. often performed Live in their hey day of the Late 1980's with Hagins handling the Lead vocal chores....."I had to Learn all those lyrics and sing them at gigs,..and I remember I began to "believe them". The millions of plays that the song achieves is a source of confusion and chagrine for Hagins as much of G.e's other material is bypassed as fans often just listen to two or three of G.e's many many songs "Yeah,....Do I think the song is worth it,..am I more than a little bit stunned at Six Feet - you bet I am " says Hagins "But I will take it,...G.e. gets alot of traffic ,..we are one of the biggest things video wise in the world that there has ever been ,...Six Feet only adds to the over-all glory that is the Greatness of G.e. - hey,..I love the song and I always did,..way back in it's day ,...I feel very quite proud that I actually 'promoted' this track a such a strong vehicle for G.e. - hey i ain't kiddin' you ,..now today, WE NEED THIS SONG - CAUSE ITS ONE OF OUR BEST !!,...IT takes the edge off - most certainly" SIX FEET UNDER has also been the gift that keeps on giving for the notoriety that is the greatness that is Keegan's guitar and the 'early days phase' that was the first incarnation of G.e. "Alot of people say that we sucked as a band without Keegan,...When Keegan left, we had to learn about being a band all over again,..and it was quite difficult,..but we managed,..we became great again,...I won't back down or back off on the second wave of G.e. because I know in my heart that 'Star' and "Brandy" are great tracks,..the rock opera is great,..but for a time with Keegan,..we really were a magical band,..we were the pinnacle magic trio - the ultimate rock three piece, Carmody knows it and so too do I " Bassist Rick Carmody splintered away to join the South bay Redondo's One Handed Readers punk rock band as Hagins and the G.e. project drifted away into the rock wilderness, unable to ever achieve a pro recording contract. Hagins began to actually contact KEEGAN about 1995 and 96' to no avail. "I discovered that he had relocated to the Bay area in Northern California" says Clark Hagins "I really wanted to play live music again and I formed a band with my brother Paul - the guy from the Jades - about 1998 ,..and Meatwagon bassist Mike Rimmey,....but believe it or not - they threw me out of the band (Laughs) ,...now try to imagine that,..they kicked out the guy who wrote Brandy ??? (Laughs)........Brandy has made G.e. international internet superstars what with it's emo trappings but it is SIX FEET UNDER ,..and the early days phase of G.e. that will always get the band respect,........... "We were the greatest band ever - WE 'ARE' THE GREATEST BAND EVER,...people watch us and people download us more than any other band,..we are monsters of the web,..we are entertainers forever,....AND thats all that counts,..We make people watch and we always look like we're having a great time and rocking out,....we bring a smile" says Haggins. With thousands of bands and various marketing websites clamoring to Link to the heavily Linked and Search Engine entrenched G.e., Hagins and Keegan and the band remain forever the Templet of Marketing that other artists and business websites cling to, only dreaming of the types of Webtraffic that G.e. routinely feeds on with tracks like "The Magic Man" and "People (that won't back down)" .... Says Haggins "I offer up secrets to people in the street once in a while who ask me how I landed on the front page of Google so much back in 2007 and 2008 ,..well mainly, its just that "White Black" and "Brandy" and even "Six Feet" where physical serious hit songs that worked and people in places like India and Japan got their first tastes of G.e. - maybe I will have years like that again someday but I doubt it,....We need new material,..me and Keegan have talked about a new G.e. album but our music was so great - We know we can and will never be able to match or touch the past and songs like 'Coke Snorting' ,..that was fucking great shit that was just timeless man,..we rocked the South Bay so well and i know we were good just by the amount of people who hate my guts (Laughs),...right now,...I just want to promote great bands like Batlord and Scorpio - I would love to see Batlord sell 2 million itunes,...I want to help them get to the top of the web and be one of the greatest bands ever,...because I dig that 60's scary sound that they got,...I love Batlord,...they are today's most important band,..both Live and on the Web .....they remind me alot of G.e. when we were young !!" Hagins implements top web tools like the Zeus 1000 Marketing Linking Robot to easily blast and Link G.e. to millions of other sites and videos but he has other tricks up his sleeve with web 'secret' companys like Somanymp3s.com that can Leak an artists mp3 and really get it heard and google searched - ALOT. " I GOT the best shit in the world" says Hagins "I ain't number one in the world for nuthin" - SuperNetCelebrities.Com

• Category

  Music

• Release Date

  Nov 24, 2009

• Runtime

  03:47