“Save Me” by The Tea Party

"Save Me" dates back to 1991, when The Tea Party wrote it and cut it for their self-titled album, and it was later issued as a promotional single in Canada. Jeff Martin sings, plays guitar and produced it, and he attacks the guitar with a violin bow, jacking the strings up high enough to fake a violin, a trick straight out of the Jimmy Page playbook. Stuart Chatwood plays bass and served as executive producer, with Jeff Burrows on drums and percussion.

Martin has called the song an apology to women for the way men have treated them. Floria Sigismondi directed the video in Toronto. On stage it stretched out into a showpiece: one Canadian review caught the band easing down around the eight-minute mark and sliding into Daniel Lanois' "The Maker" and Hendrix's "Third Stone From the Sun".

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