GOD - My Pal (live)

The classic Aussie song “My Pal“ (1987) by GOD. Featuring a young Joel Silbersher (Hoss, Tendrils) and Tim Hemensley (Powder Monkeys). Characterised by a simple descending guitar riff, a driving rhythm section and the impassioned roar of Silbersher’s vocal, ’My Pal’ is ferocious but catchy and possesses an intoxicating, loose energy. An archetypal grunge song released years before grunge went mainstream. “It was extremely easy,“ Silbersher says of writing the song. “It was the first good song I ever wrote. And it was extremely easy to write the music. I thought up that line that goes through the whole thing and I was trying to think of another one, and then went... oh no, if you just do this... that’s a song. That’s a whole piece of music. “And then I had the “You’re my only friend / You don’t even like me” bit but then it took a while to erode the other lyrics into it. Which is funny when people think it’s about some specific incid