It was also a very easy song for us to straighten out in the practice room since it's all the same tempo and doesn't have too many awkward changes or complicated sections, it wasn't hard for us to get to a point where we could blast through it fairly expertly. With this song, I actually wrote the intro melody in about 10 minutes before I was due to go out for a Rock Society social, on my Gibson Flying V I was noodling away idly, came up with the intro melody, quickly wrote it down then proceeded to tab the vast majority of the song in a very short space of time. Nevertheless, it's got a pretty catchy riff and people seem to enjoy dancing to it, so in that sense it's a good set-closer. However, it also brings a transformative, regenerative energy, whether it is the monster disguising itself in human skin, or the human transforming itself with the help of an animal skin.Chris says: The "single" off our first album, Tales From Rivelin, this has continued to be a popular song for us to play live, even if the lyrical approach isn't quite in keeping with the general theme of our newer songs. Yet skin in the stories also highlights the failure of reading it brings uncertainty, unsettling the boundaries of accepted knowledge. Skin is the most sensitive boundary, where body and world meet, and where the monster functions as readable. It takes Pu’s tales as a canonical text, which straddles the centuries, still being read and adapted today, mutating into new forms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Taking the theme of changing skin as a starting point, the chapter examines the figure of the shape-shifter as portrayed in ‘Liaozhai zhiyi’ 聊斋志异 or ‘Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio’, a seventeenth-century collection of tales of ghosts, foxes and strange metamorphoses by Pu Songling蒲松龄 (1640-1715). And it is skin which this chapter examines-how it is transformed, disguised, possessed.
A core figure in Chinese storytelling from myth to folk-tales has been the shapeshifter- from fox demons to flower spirits supernatural beings have stalked oral tradition and written records with their true natures disguised under human skin.
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