By definition, when one is an experimental musician sometimes the experiments fail. This is one of those but as it was also a glorious failure I had to share it. This was most likely recorded January 16, 1999, edited & mastered January 23, 1999. The composed portion of this was, like The Black Page, written originally as a drum solo. But I am no Terry Bozzio, instead the drum solo was composed on a Roland TR-707. More on this later.
The 'band' on this was me - keys & drums, a woman I found in the musician's classified - vox & her boy toy - bass. While she had a nice voice & good breath control, she was also a nut. For starters, she claimed to be highly allergic to cats so in order to rehearse I had to cart 300 lbs of gear across town & up two flights of stairs then I & her b/f would proceed to wipe every surface w/cleaner & towels before she'd allow the stuff inside. Obviously we didn't play together very long. Worse, she had no concept of copyright WRT to lyrics, for her they were merely words to be used freely. OOPS. There are lyrics from some show tune(s) in the first, I think and the in the second she is singing Riders On The Storm so that one is stream-only. However, I don't think any fan of the Doors could possibly confuse this w/the original - while the b/f is fooling w/the Riders riff, he couldn't get the notes right. That's how, for example, My Little Red Book became Interstellar Overdrive...
The drum pattern is a fast 6/8. The "waterfall" noise parts are from a Roland JX8P controlled by an Oberheim Cyclone arpeggiator synced to the drum machine. The whole thing was live to two-track in her apartment that day. Enjoy!
Deconstruction 1
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