New Album: 'Crash Tender' is on the horizon
We're finally down to mastering the last few tracks on our upcoming debut, and then it is off to the duplicator. Stay tuned for the release date.
When the floor gives way
We’re still embracing
What house could hold
The weight we’re displacing
Dressed for a bunker
Like a hard won holiday
Tanning bed hibernation
When it’s your mind needs color
You builders of Rome
You placebo addicts
Must we feel everything through a mirror?
And rate it all like a pageant?
What’s that you’re wearing?
Something from the skeleton outlets
We are not what we own
Nor what we’re planning
Are you immune?
Before you curse your bones
A cancer is a flower is a hundred note
And no coffin cares if your name is known
Why set a course
If the sea is on fire
Though watch which men call themselves captain
And which ones lower the ladder
by gt
[NOTE: "Immune privilege is a term used to describe certain sites in the body which are able to tolerate the introduction of antigen without eliciting an inflammatory immune response. It is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation to protect vital structures such as the eye or brain from the potentially damaging effects of inflammation." (source: Wikipedia)]
Samuel Yager (aka Birthdays) invited Shane Sanchez and Chris Brown from Ghoul Poon as well as Ben and I to collaborate for a set of Birthdays tunes at Rock Hill in November. This Sub-Bombin supergroup had one rehearsal a couple hours before the show. Video courtesy of Chris Brown Productions
“Mating Falls”
Below is the result of 10 minutes of our recorded pre-practice conversation through Google Voice’s built-in voicemail transcription system. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s very polite.
If you wanna see how you’re shows lawyer Las Vegas, but, as well as well.
Yahoo.
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You’d like to give you a little bit later player address.
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If you go to pull over do with the logo and so yeah.
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What I will be with us.
Yes, this is sort of yours you know there’s nothing in it.
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Now life reply is X X and only thing.
Yeah, we’re just need to get in and out of the we’re going to hang out, you know there’s endorse.
Yeah, yo, so 9 or will be whiter
Hi Bill, Crystal’s sucks.
My phone comment on how to you later, bye.
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How did it.
You have a blessed day.
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I have a lot of yahoo and then we really wanted to work.
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Hi, I think you are well.
I don’t know who loses chairs.
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Let’s I’ll stay here.
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Yeah, you will give you.
We’re going to Point always give me a second.
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Hey man and I think it works.
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And hey, just talking to you then.
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That’s school. Woohoo.
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You gotta close.
We’ll talk to you.
I know you have a nice house at Joe that I have.
I’m going to go to noon.
Something was 10 and then there’s hope that helps people but yeah.
This song is still in the throes of creation, though we’ve been playing it for three weeks now and I give it a 70% chance at making into our repertoire. The title references the documentary Man on Wire which chronicles Philippe Petit’s attempt to walk a high wire between the buildings of the world trade center in 1977. Note the wah bass intro, reminiscent of a perilous and taught steel cable. Also the newest addition to the band, the Roland SH-201 synthesizer makes its first appearance; the patch we affectionately refer to as “Clark.” File under: moody dance rock.
PRE-PRACTICE BAND MEETING
In attendance:
Damon,
Greg,
Joanna
Ben
Nuggets the Cat
The time is approximately 3:30 PM and Greg has set up his laptop to record our conversations at his dining room table with a PC Mic made in Schenectady, China. There is a recent practice session track playing in the background and it’s among several tracks from the same session compiled by date. Joanna is enjoying her dinner of soup with rice and we began by talking about how we’re to record ourselves and how it may sound. We didn’t test it. The below notes are compiled by Ben for firstly what I can hear and secondly what I can qualify from memory. There are a few gaps in what cannot be discerned on the recording as either voices were speaking over each other or noises were interfering with the transcribing.
Part 1
Damon: Webcam it.
Greg: Just cover up the webcam?
Joanna: I know where the webcam is, it’s out on the porch.
Damon: We need to get 3 and like 1 input, so just wear them on our heads when we’re looking at each other.
Ben: Is it out back?
Joanna: It’s watching the squirrels
Ben: Apple Cam.
Joanna: Tracking to see how many times Nuggets walks across the snow and if he ever follows the same path. He’s super afraid right now, of everything. It’s kind of annoying.
Ben: Do you not use your pinky? Picking up and putting on the finger picks from a small guitar tool kit. There are only 4.
Joanna: I don’t know
Damon: Huh, I thought I had another one.
Ben: There you go. Putting a large finger slide on his pinky
Damon: There’s one in there or something.
Ben: You just have to use the
Joanna: Screw rolled dollar bills man.
Ben: I watched Inglorious Basterds again. I didn’t catch it the first time when I saw it in the theater. And Brad Pitt’s character is like snorting this powder the whole time, I didn’t know what it was. It’s like old fashioned snuff they used to sniff.
Joanna: It’s like a tobacco product, I think.
Ben: Yah
Joanna: I’ve seen it, but -
Damon: Where’s the keyboard – I thought this was the one with the synth?
Greg: Yah, there’s 3 separate tracks – one’s with guitar, one’s with just vocals, one’s with synth. The synth one was…
Damon: Shyntheshisher. Then searching on the ipod through the new tracks, reading thru the names
Damon: Murder house, laughing
Ben: Oh
Joanna: That one’s so weird. Referring to the thumb pick.
Ben: Thats for your thumb, right? This one?
Damon: Yah
Greg: Yah
Ben: Ok.
Greg: Yah. Damon, do you ever use those? Referring to the finger picks on Ben’s fingers.
Damon: Not really, they’re loud.
Greg: Go to a bar wearing those, laughing. Ben begins tapping his fingers on the table
Greg: Whaddya got?
Ben: Got tips for ya.
Damon: They’re pretty handy if you get the hang of it, if you’re finger picking a lot.
Joanna: This is a cat, loving the world, pointing to a sticker on the guitar toolkit. It’s a Firefox sticker
Ben: Firefox, pointing to the Firefox symbol on the guitar tool kit. Fox, right?
Joanna: It’s a fox loving the world
Ben: That’s it’s whisker signal right there, referring to the wifi symbol
Joanna: Signal noise. What’s the difference between a blue pick, a black pick, and a blue and black pick? Toughness?
Damon: I don’t know, I like those Fender ones though, I gotta get more. I need to make a trip to Parkway.
Joanna: Why, when they…whats wrong with all the ones you have? They chipped out?
Damon: They’ve worn out, yah.
Greg: You like these ones? Holding up the black picks
Damon: No, those are too heavy. Too thick.
Greg: Yah, I think
Damon: I like the medium gauge I guess. Those aren’t bad either, those are a little bit meaty, referring to another pick
Joanna: Greg uses the black guy
Greg: Yah, Jim something lasers? They’re my favorite. That was from Matty Mc that I started using those. This is awesome, this is a real glass slide. referring to the glass slide
Damon: Yah, you can borrow it man. I don’t use it.
Joanna: Get it out of there man.
Damon: Use the nails
Greg: You need the nails to get it out.
Damon: Lee Press-on nails. Greg attempts at getting the slide out of the slot in the toolkit
Joanna: You can do it. It pops out when Ben uses a finger pick to pry it out
Greg: Ben, did you see the thing about the King’s show?
Ben: Yah
Greg: You up for that?
Ben: Sure
Greg: Yah?
Joanna: When is it?
Greg: Whoa this is really…small
Ben: D said February
Greg: January or February
Damon: What are you trying to say Ben? Laughing
Greg: Uh oh it’s stuck. Referring to the slide on his finger.
Joanna: Laughing
Damon: Laughing
Greg: Fuck
Damon: Are you serio…oh no.
Ben: It’s not.
Greg: It’s really
Ben: Relax.
Greg: Dude it’s stuck.
Joanna: Just relax
Ben: Breathe out
Greg: Breathing
Damon: Laughing
Joanna: You’re going to have a glass finger
Ben: Put some soup on it
Greg: Thats the next song, Glass Fingers. Put some soup on it, haha
Damon: Nice. Immune Privilege plays on the stereo in the background.
Joanna: What song is this?
Ben and Greg: Immune Privilege
Joanna: Mutant Privilege?
Joanna: Do you guys play any of the ones that are on the CD you’re going to release?
Ben: We played DANC3 last time, right?
Damon: Um hmm. We played CATV I think too
Ben: Yah, you’re right. Every once and a while we play like Man of Action or something.
Joanna: The crowd goes wild?
Ben: It’s old
Joanna: Sometimes you just pull out Empty Full?
Ben: Laughing
Joanna: Every once and a while it happens
Ben gets up to get kleenex.
Greg: I don’t have a -
Damon: Want one?
Greg: I just have lockjaw
Joanna: You have lockjaw…
Ben: You do?
Greg: My jaw is like hurts so bad
Joanna: He was like crying when he was eating his sandwich today
Greg: No I was just shoveling and I was like clenching my jaw, like really hard. All of a sudden there was just this giant like…I was like ahhh
Joanna: He won’t do any jaw stretches, he was just complaining about it.
Ben: Jawrlie horse
Damon: Jawrlie horse, awesome. laughing
Greg: Jawrlie Everywhere horse
Ben: Laughing
Damon: Laughing
Greg: It’ll get better I’m sure, I just like tweaked it.
Joanna: Shoveling accident, it’s a near miss.
Greg: gahhh
Ben: I hurt my jaw shoveling… sarcastic
Joanna: And I didn’t fall.
Damon: What…oh. Soulever? Referring to Ben’s minipac of kleenex. There’s a tab on the back of it that says SOULEVER in French and LIFT in English for opening.
Ben: Yah, can you believe that? I saw that too. Soulever means lift in French.
Greg: What? DRASTIC TERRIBLE NOISE Are you serious?
Ben: Of a…yah. Soulever, pronouncing it in French
Greg: I can totally picture a band that would be called that and what they sound like
Joanna: Would they be more like…?
Greg: They’d be more like Maroon 5
Joanna: I was thinking…
Damon: Soul Ever
Joanna: I was thinking Creed
Ben: Yah, there’s probably a Christian band with that name
Greg: You can’t use soul in your name anymore. It’s illegal. There’s too many bands
Damon: sole?
Ben: Well, there’s probably a French band called Lift, you know. Something like that.
Joanna: That’s awesome
Ben: Lift Snot. Instead of Slipknot…
Damon: Lift Biscuit.
Ben: Pronouncing in French – Soulever. C.V.S. Or is it? No, it’s C in French
Damon: Reviewing tracks again. Murder House.
Joanna: Burned rice is good.
Greg: You like burned rice, I know that.
Ben: How did you burn it?
Joanna: Accidentally
Ben: Oh ok.
Greg and Joanna: Laughing
Joanna: I just left it on a little too long.
Ben: In the pan
Joanna: Greg was like, “mmm, smells like burning.”
Ben: Thats so hard to clean
Greg: Yah, that’s true
Joanna: It’s alright, it’s Greg’s turn to do the dishes anyway
Greg: Did you guys see what I got?
Ben: Thats how you do it
Greg: This is from my dad. Yes!
Ben: Oh you got one of those? Referring to a mini RC Helicopter
Damon: Oh yah
Ben: This is the new one, right?
Joanna: This thing’s so awesome
Damon: That’s awesome
Greg: I don’t know, it’s pretty awesome
Ben: Wull
Damon: Can you like, how fast does it go?
Joanna: It’s scares the fuck out of Nuggets
Damon: Can you take someone’s eye out?
Ben: Eric and I have these, we have the um, previous version of those I think
Greg: Cool. It seems like it’s, it’s pretty good. I mean it has…
Joanna: Some steering issues
Greg: It has a lot of banking problems
Ben: It has a lot of soulever?
Greg: Yah
Damon: I’d be so tempted to just like clip people in the head with that thing
Joanna: Well, steering it is kinda hard. Greg’s gotten good
Damon: Whoa
Ben: Watch out for the kite!
Greg: Yah right
Ben: That’s cool, it’s such a little powerful little thing
Greg: I can’t even make it turn
Damon: OUTTA CONTROL, mimicing the techno song
Ben: The one’s I have
Greg: Does your’s do that?
Ben: What
Greg: The continuous spinning around
Ben: No
Greg: No?
Damon: What was that TV Show with the helicopter, like Knight Rider…?
Ben: Airwolf.
Damon: Airwolf, laughing
Ben: begins singing the Airwolf theme song. 9:16
Damon: It was like Knight Rider, but it was like a helicopter
Joanna: Wasn’t there like a team of 5 in the helicopter though?
Ben: All I remember is Ernest Borgnine was in that show, and he was like the navigator
Damon: We should set up a youtube clip or something.
Ben: WE GOTTA CLEAR THOSE MOUNTAINS. AND BLOW UP THAT CAR. Impersonating Ernest Borgnine
Greg: There we go!
Damon: Nuggets try to get after it at all?
Joanna: No, he’s afraid of everything
Damon: He just runs?
Ben: Yah, I’m sure he’s really excited about it
Greg: He loves it
Joanna: He’s afraid of everything right now, it’s so annoying
Ben: How come it has, the different spinning rotors
Damon: Can it lift things, have you tried lifting anything?
Greg: No, laughing
End of Part 1
Traded up down on gold street
Here’s my new leaf, see no bloodseem
No more hawking organs
Playing nocturns, stretching skin for drums
I know this beat no one will follow
Whisper in my earface
I’m a hunter and I like your taste
What we don’t devour, we let sour
We let spoil alive
Remove the hoods and we will fly
But what feathers held you?
I take no money for this service
Even love will serve its own damn purpose
Though none exist beyond the owlid
by gt
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