endless automata

Mar 16

If you ever used BBSes or the early internet you’ve got to check out this game - even if you didn’t - definitely worth a look. Brings me back to my Apple II days.

Mar 12

I realized that I own 11 guitars but only have 4 stands. So, I guess I need one of these - or maybe I should get rid of a few guitars…

Mar 11

I finally got my Peavey DDL-3 Digital Delay working tonight. If you tweak it just right, it doesn’t develop the odd percussive sound most delays experience when set to infinite feedback. Some soldering this weekend should fix it for good.

Mar 09

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) -

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Mar 07

The latest bike building project begins to take shape. Hopefully under 20lbs. when fully built.

Mar 04

The First, First Album!

So, what should I happen to find this morning, but Drawing on Eve’s first attempt at recording our first album. It’s raw, and noisy, and it’s wonderful. I listened to the whole thing - hilariously on a tape titled “Olivia Newton John’s Greatest Hits”. What’s amazing is that most of the songs changed very little between this rough first recording and our official first album. Some of the more interesting differences:

Prologue, Epilogue, Julia, 11:00, and Scorched Paper Way are all missing - Scorched Paper Way, Prologue and Epilogue hadn’t been written yet, I was thinking Julia was too soft for the album at the time, and 11:00 was, frankly, mostly filler.
Saturday Night Seduction/sns - both versions had a little intro Ryan played - it’s probably better this was cut. Also, Ryan sings the full 3rd chorus over the solo on both versions instead of coming in at “Fly away with us.” I remember thinking he shouldn’t do that, but didn’t want to tell him how to run his song.
Golden, Life, and Anonymous - slightly different lyrics.
Dave has harmonica, and it’s mostly AWESOME - I wish we had kept that. Also, Jake does a sinister laugh at the end - and there’s the sound of a knife being sharpened and something being chopped at the beginning
Glyss This - this version is hilarious - I actually sing totally different lyrics during the verses. During the break, instead of instrumental solos, we say things:
- Jake - “Remember me?”
- James - “Hey doobs!” - a common saying of the main subject of the song
- James again - The best scream I ever recorded - I swear - really!
When I Was - Mostly the same - except there’s Harmonica on this one too - which is not nearly as good as on Dave.

If there’s any interest - like if there’s still one DoE fan out there who actually is curious - and the other guys don’t mind, I’ll digitize the tape and post it.