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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 16, 2021 4:47:38 GMT -5
Btw, personnel on all of the recordings I've posted so far:
Jennifer Werner- bass
Dominick Nervi- guitar
Django Phillips- drums
some disgusting pervert- vocals
Dom pretty much wrote all the music and I wrote all the lyrics, and then we'd all arrange it to fit the two together.
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Post by Mayzshon on Apr 20, 2021 13:58:25 GMT -5
Returning to 'Returning', I've added a number of new sound bites and two bits of backing vocal. I couldn't quite grasp what I wanted to do with the vocals. The first bit I am mostly satisfied with, and the second is...odd, but kind of trippy for it, so I may keep it that way. Returning (to a New Place)Really love the bassline to this one. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 1, 2021 4:52:37 GMT -5
I am thisclose to finishing work on a song by Shrink Trip that has turned out very well, and I am eager to play it for you, but there's this one little detail that I need to add, and, of course, there's a hitch. One of the lyric lines has a reference to a friend from another band that we knew, and I knew it would be perfect to toss in a sample from one of their songs at that point. So I go to find the tape I have of their recorded material, a tape that I have passed by countless times while looking for other tapes, and now...No. Where. To. Be. Found.  |
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Post by Deeky on Jun 14, 2021 23:11:17 GMT -5
I couldn't quite grasp what I wanted to do with the vocals. The first bit I am mostly satisfied with, and the second is...odd, but kind of trippy for it, so I may keep it that way. This weekend I recorded my first vocals from the first ever set of lyrics I wrote. It was fun, though the results were less than spectacular. I am not much of a singer, so went a bit Ogre and just kind of barked. Not sure what I'm trying to do here, to be honest. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 15, 2021 5:31:30 GMT -5
I couldn't quite grasp what I wanted to do with the vocals. The first bit I am mostly satisfied with, and the second is...odd, but kind of trippy for it, so I may keep it that way. This weekend I recorded my first vocals from the first ever set of lyrics I wrote. It was fun, though the results were less than spectacular. I am not much of a singer, so went a bit Ogre and just kind of barked. Not sure what I'm trying to do here, to be honest. Can you shoot me a link to an MP3? I can only hear it on Instagram and my laptop's sound sucks, so I'd love to be able to put it on my player. |
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Post by Deeky on Jun 15, 2021 9:41:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll do that today.
(Also I'm planning to take you up on your offer for backing vox on this track.)
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 20, 2021 5:11:31 GMT -5
Shrink Trip's studio material consists of two four-song demos and the one 7". I have mixed (although generally positive) feelings about all of these recordings, but that's actually part of why I'm fucking around with them, to make them closer to what they would have been had we had the time and resources to work on them further. This is the first song from the first demo, Puce-Colored Glasses. The personnel was: Andrew Hurford- guitar Mike Thomas- bass Bob Joyal- drums, percussion, backing vocals that guy again- vocals, guitar I contributed a bit to writing this song, but it's mostly Andrew. Really pleased with the way this came out, so much so that I'm already convinced the rest if it isn't going to come out nearly this well. (I'm not as young as I used to be, but I'm still just as neurotic.) Psychedelic Promised Land |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Aug 8, 2021 5:20:48 GMT -5
First track from my new project, Weebles Wobble, which currently consists of me alone. Very raw sound on this one, and loud. Other tracks will be different. You will probably be able to guess what it's about. Hateful Mirror |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 12, 2021 5:29:10 GMT -5
My first band, not counting the various bands I pretended to be in with my brother and my friends, was called Room X, named after the room where we practiced at Saint Mark's prep school in Southborough, MA. We had various tastes and ended up playing a slightly odd mixture of punk, hardcore and new wave. The line-up was: Jim Souvlis- guitar Alex Rodberg- keyboard Andrew Stauffer- guitar Lance Blair- bass, vocals uh-huh: drums, vocals We recorded a short LP's worth of material (minus Andrew, who wouldn't join until later) and some other varied material after that. I haven't decided what I want to share yet, but I am going to toss out these three hardcore tracks we recorded in one session, which are among my favorites of the recorded material that I've been involved in. I've heard a LOT of hardcore compilations with material obviously recorded on a boom box (I have great fondness for such recordings), and these tracks would have fit right in. Lance wrote and sings the first two and the third was mine. R.O.T.C.Unhip GenerationGet Out of My Brain |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Sept 26, 2021 20:23:36 GMT -5
My first band, not counting the various bands I pretended to be in with my brother and my friends, was called Room X, named after the room where we practiced at Saint Mark's prep school in Southborough, MA. We had various tastes and ended up playing a slightly odd mixture of punk, hardcore and new wave. The line-up was: Jim Souvlis- guitar Alex Rodberg- keyboard Andrew Stauffer- guitar Lance Blair- bass, vocals uh-huh: drums, vocals We recorded a short LP's worth of material (minus Andrew, who wouldn't join until later) and some other varied material after that. I haven't decided what I want to share yet, but I am going to toss out these three hardcore tracks we recorded in one session, which are among my favorites of the recorded material that I've been involved in. I've heard a LOT of hardcore compilations with material obviously recorded on a boom box (I have great fondness for such recordings), and these tracks would have fit right in. Lance wrote and sings the first two and the third was mine. R.O.T.C.Unhip GenerationGet Out of My BrainI think I told you about the guy I ran into wearing an "I ate and learned" shirt years later, yes? |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 27, 2021 4:58:29 GMT -5
My first band, not counting the various bands I pretended to be in with my brother and my friends, was called Room X, named after the room where we practiced at Saint Mark's prep school in Southborough, MA. We had various tastes and ended up playing a slightly odd mixture of punk, hardcore and new wave. The line-up was: Jim Souvlis- guitar Alex Rodberg- keyboard Andrew Stauffer- guitar Lance Blair- bass, vocals uh-huh: drums, vocals We recorded a short LP's worth of material (minus Andrew, who wouldn't join until later) and some other varied material after that. I haven't decided what I want to share yet, but I am going to toss out these three hardcore tracks we recorded in one session, which are among my favorites of the recorded material that I've been involved in. I've heard a LOT of hardcore compilations with material obviously recorded on a boom box (I have great fondness for such recordings), and these tracks would have fit right in. Lance wrote and sings the first two and the third was mine. R.O.T.C.Unhip GenerationGet Out of My BrainI think I told you about the guy I ran into wearing an "I ate and learned" shirt years later, yes? I vaguely remember you telling me that, but I remember no details. Anything you can add? Edited to add, for everyone else: Eat and Learn was the name of our "LP." And we did have a small batch of t-shirts made. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 22, 2022 6:24:20 GMT -5
I was going to wait to show this to anyone until the whole thing was finished, but it's taking a while and I really want to play it for someone, plus, I've begun to think I may break it up into separate parts anyway (very prog-rocky), so what the hell. The second track from Weebles Wobble. Las Brujas (Part 1) |
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Post by Deeky on Jan 22, 2022 9:05:49 GMT -5
I dig it!
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 30, 2022 6:40:42 GMT -5
The fourth song on our first demo was also the first song I wrote for Shrink Trip, a writing endeavor that was totally based on a) my inability to actually play the guitar and b) having learned from Paul Leary that the notes you play aren't necessarily important, so long as you sell it that it's all completely within your control. (Gibby was the guy I got the most references to as a singer, but Paul really was just as influential to my guitaring, such as it was.) I know I want to ornament this song in some way or another, but I'm having some difficulty deciding exactly what I want to do, because, truth be told, I'm really goddamn happy with the way it came out in the first place. Which is why I'm posting it here now instead of waiting to work on it. I'm definitely going to end up doing something to it, but it probably won't be that much. So, not the first song that I wrote (and special props to Mike for coming up with that bass line), but the first song that I wrote for a project that was uniquely personal to me. I give you... A Day in the Life of the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
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Post by Deeky on Jan 31, 2022 15:55:43 GMT -5
This is great!
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Post by Deeky on Jan 31, 2022 15:58:46 GMT -5
p.s. If you ever want a remix, I'm available and interested.
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Post by Mayzshon on Feb 14, 2022 16:19:15 GMT -5
This is great, and you play guitar far better than I do.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 26, 2022 6:22:40 GMT -5
No time for a proper introduction, but I'm exceptionally happy with how the latest Weebles Wobble track turned out. To anyone who guessed I would someday present you with a Grateful Dead cover, I am stunned by your intuition. New Speedway Boogie |
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Post by Deeky on Jun 26, 2022 8:40:03 GMT -5
That was cool, and I never would have known it was a cover if you hadn't mentioned it.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 13, 2022 21:23:29 GMT -5
Thank you for inflicting all this on us. I, for one, badly needed it.
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