As Advertised! The name of this release-candidate was of course an in-joke against the duo of Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen aka "Hot Tuna", a duo that I've seen several times and whose work I did & continue to revere. The truth here is that I & SS never played w/a live drummer & frequently played w/o even a robot drummer.
The first tune is a punk tune I wrote to put on access teevee. This version is similar but not exactly the same as the version on the extant video which I will post when I'm able to. The main difference is that my vox on this version, while buried, are still audible unlike the vox on the video which are masked by tape echo. The raison d'etre for the lyrics was to write a political song that used the f* word as many times as I could (10?). What was funny was the video at ~3 minutes was good filler and appeared on the local access channel for quite some time in-between fundamentalist preachers' shows. Date 10/91?
SS is direct through his Digitech rack fx & everything else is midi.
Track_1
A piece that we worked on for 8 hours straight one Sunday afternoon. SS brought me a partial progression, we extended it and I wrote midi parts for it. On the final take, the one documented here, I stuck a live microphone in front of SS and commanded that he 'sing now, dammit' and sing he did. The lyrics are simple as he made them up line by line while he was singing them, but I always liked his ideas on this and thought them far better than 'adequate'.
Track_2
Found another version, probably a previous recording as it doesn't have vocals. Or it might be from when I archived my 4-track recordings as it wasn't mastered until some time later.
Track 2 (81st)
Last one on side one and was a rushed improv - I'd only played through this SS progression once or twice but we ran out of time and so had to record it when we did. While I made a number of (bass) mistakes in the song, I think I did a decent job of convincing unsuspecting listeners those mistakes were 'supposed to be like that'.
Track_3
28 October 2008
27 October 2008
112992
Do you too seem to sense a gap in my memory from late '91 until sometime after '94? Various reasons would explain same but I'll leave them to the shrinks, ok? I'm here, I'm now, and what else matters, eh? Some life seems to have erupted during this (2008) October, hence the paucity of posts as of late...
Again, don't remember many of the details for this piece. Think that's the Poly800 for the first lead (& definitely a Lexicon LXP-5 for the fx). I think the bass was from the Ensoniq Mirage as I didn't have any other resources for that 'toothy' bass sound back then. Mastered to cassette most likely.
112992
Again, don't remember many of the details for this piece. Think that's the Poly800 for the first lead (& definitely a Lexicon LXP-5 for the fx). I think the bass was from the Ensoniq Mirage as I didn't have any other resources for that 'toothy' bass sound back then. Mastered to cassette most likely.
112992
19 October 2008
10-19-2008 aka something new
Yes, this was snagged off my loop recorder and the last part was recorded moments ago w/my Moog Voyager. It's in the WIP queue meaning it's something I've fooled with over the last 18 months but it never really had a 'formal' work session so outside of all the sounds being recent, can't really go much deeper into the performance details. It was recorded direct to digital loop machine.
101908
101908
01 October 2008
051893 & 070293
This piece represents an interesting conundrum - the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. The core idea, the quiet little sequence at the center of this piece, is something especially lame. Yet after coming up with that rippin' drumpart and adding those dense slabs of Poly-800 washes/pads, wow, something worth sharing. So here t'is.
Somewhere in the mythology this became the "Ricky Ricardo Drum Piece" as for some deranged reason I could see Desi Arnaz whaling away on his conga up on stage waiting for the moment to yell "Babalooah!". I think this piece was specially created for an ambient demo tape ('Ambient Shit', the tape the last few pieces are from) and may have been the inspiration for the tape itself. I gave a copy to someone who was doing an electronic music show on the radio and heard later that some of the tape was actually aired. Since it is all Midi this was most likely simultaneously tracked and mastered to a three-head cassette deck.
051893
This is a related piece from a similar time, again off my 'ambient shit' cassette - who needs vox, eh?
070293
Somewhere in the mythology this became the "Ricky Ricardo Drum Piece" as for some deranged reason I could see Desi Arnaz whaling away on his conga up on stage waiting for the moment to yell "Babalooah!". I think this piece was specially created for an ambient demo tape ('Ambient Shit', the tape the last few pieces are from) and may have been the inspiration for the tape itself. I gave a copy to someone who was doing an electronic music show on the radio and heard later that some of the tape was actually aired. Since it is all Midi this was most likely simultaneously tracked and mastered to a three-head cassette deck.
051893
This is a related piece from a similar time, again off my 'ambient shit' cassette - who needs vox, eh?
070293
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