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Recorded: January 3rd, 2003, New
Alliance Studios, Boston, MA, & November 4th, 2007 at New Alliance
studios, Cambridge, MA
Released: July 2008
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Track Listing: No One Cares, Track
Team, It's all fake, Stupid Bitch, Trash Picker, Alcoholic, Leech, For
Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (AC/DC COVER), Fact Finder,
Everything, Throwing Cars at People on Coke With Thor
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Songs 1 - 6 and 11 were recorded and mixed on January 3rd, 2003. We were in
a rush to get it done because Thor wanted to use the "Throwing Cars at
People......." song for his next movie. I recorded it with a version of me
singing his vocals so he would get the idea of the timing, and I also sent
him a version with his vocal spots not there so he could record them. Thor's
publicist sent me a copy of the finished version, and I noticed it sounded
exactly the same as my vocals, but when I called him on it, he said that it was impossible
for it NOT to be Thor singing, because he was "the
worlds biggest Thor fan" and could "definitely tell that it was Thor's voice."
So, I had
him call Thor 3-way so we could both talk to him at once. Thor then admitted that
he couldn't get the timing down on the song, so he basically used my voice
as his. If you listen very carefully on the Thor version of the song on his
cd, "Triumphant," you can hear his vocals faintly in the
background, totally off time. I asked him why he didn't just use his vocals
and he said he had
never heard music like that before in his life, and then asked us to keep this a
secret amongst the "brotherhood of steel." So, I was totally bummed out that
I didn't get to do the duet with Thor I was hoping for. That really sucked.
Another fact from this session is that the song "Alcoholic" was originally
an Anal Cunt Song. We were supposed to do the second recording session in
October, 2004, but I (Seth Putnam) caught a coma in the
beginning of October for a month and when I got out of it, I couldn't move
any part of my body except my eyes and mouth. It took 9 months before I was
able to walk again. so obviously we had to postpone the recording. On
November, 2007, we went to do the second session so we would have enough
material for a full length cd. By this time, Ken Felton from Limited Appeal
records had already released the first session (minus the Thor song, which
Thor used on his cd, "triumphant" on a limited edition 12" of somewhere
around 240 copies. we recorded 4 songs, "leech", which is probably one of
the heaviest songs ever written, "for those about to rock (we salute you)"
which was originally done by ac/dc, "fact finder", and the 15 minutes doom
epic, "everything", which I had written in 1990 for another band i was in
back then called George H. Brown. this record was recorded 100 % analog, so
it would sound as heavy as possible on the 12" version (which limited appeal
put out as well, making around 307 copies). it was recorded on a 24 track,
2" reel machine, and mixed down to 1/2 " reel. so, the vinyl version of this
recording is 100 % analog for all of you purists out there. songs 7-10 are
from this session. |
