At the end of the day, I'm pretty happy with this one.  I didn't want to do any up-tempo songs this time around - I wanted something I could put on when I'm just bumming around.  Also, I felt like doing an all-electric "album".  There's only 1 acoustic guitar on here but it's buried in one of the songs.  The purchase of my new toy - a Rotovibe pedal - didn't hurt things either.  Also what was a huge help was seeing Joe Walsh and Robin Trower during doing this - that gave me a big kick in the pants to play better.

The only other thing I can mention about this "album" is that it's the first time I used my old Goya on everything - the Brown Bomber.  When I was remixing Open Season, I found I really missed the Goya.  So I brought her back.  But the bass on Into Deep is the Fender Jazz bass but that's only because it was originally from a different "album".  Not bad for not really being a bass player.

And about the cover - it's not really that morbid.  I figure how much more laid back can a person be if they're dead?  They can't.

Geek Part:

Here's where I like to blab more on the songs.  I do it for me but you're more than welcome to read on

Drive Thru
I'm not a fan of Drive-Thrus just for the convenience alone.  My friend Les came up with the idea of the Drive Thru thing.  He's good like that.

Well, the obvious wah-wah is yes, inspired by Robin Trower's Shame The Devil.  I just haven't used a big wah-wah guitar in a while.  The solo guitar is the Goldtop through my old Maestro Phaser.  The vocal was a little different.  We all know I'm no Pavorotti, so I thought I'd phase the vocals but how it turned out was that it sounded better separated.  So the left ear is phase-less and the right ear is phased and distorted.  Sounds neat through headphones.

Nice Shoes
And it rhymes with...  The two are interchangeable.  I think this one's my favourite of the bunch - probably because I was in a good mood when I was doing it.

That's the Goldtop again and the solo is the Studio through a Boss Auto Wah pedal.  I did another solo for it with a Boss Harmonist pedal, which was OK, but I went with the Auto Wah solo.  And yes the ending is an edit.  I though it was too short and ended too abrupt, so I tagged on a few bars at the end so I could fade it.

Open House
About looking at some "property".  I never did get to see the inside.

Surprise, it's the Goldtop.  Man, I can always rely on her.  The solo is the Studio through a real wah pedal this time.  And the panned guitars are my SG Classic who didn't get much recording time on this one.  Neither did the Junior.  I feel like a bad parent all of a sudden.

Lay Back
Here's the one that made me think of Trower, probably because I'm a super big fan, but I initially got the idea from hearing Buddy Guy do Isaac Hayes' Do Your Thing.  This, I think, has my favourtie guitar sound I've recorded so far.  That's my new Les Paul Studio (with 59 Classics) through the Rotovibe.  And that's real backward-echo there too.  "Real" as in take the tape out, flip it over, record the echo, turn the tape back over again.  Only on a 4-track, only on a 4-track.

So as I mentioned, it's the Studio for the main guitar.  The solo was the Goldtop and in one take.  And that's about it.

Putting Out
It's just a jam.  I didn't plan on keeping the in-direct pilot guitar but, even though it has a few goof-ups in it, I kept it.  The words aren't much either but that's OK.

That's the Studio again.  I almost passed out doing the background vocals - the song was longer than what's here - and anybody could have gotten easily winded.  So I edited an ending up anyways.  Sorry about the vocal in the left ear at the first chorus and the distortion is on purpose.  The tape drops weren't on purpose.

Came and Went
An instrumental, even though it didn't start out that way.  I had words (about having a "quicky") for it but couldn't come up with a way of doing a vocal.  I'm the first to admit that I'm no singer.  So I kept the title and played a vocal line on the guitar.

That's the Goldtop.  I love that mushy guitar sound from the Rotovibe.  The Studio is the solos and, surprise, it's a one taker.  And the one and only acoustic guitar is hidden on this one.

Into Deep
This started out about being on the wrong end of a...er...certain "number position".  Suffocating love.  Then the line "Baby really needs it/ You know how I can tell?" came out and I ended up basing everything around that line.  But I kept the original idea - that's the "I can't see/ I can't breathe" thing.  Anyways, I think this is probably my favourite rock song I've done - I think I just got lucky.

There's the Studio again, all fuzzed out.  Nice.  And the Jazz Bass too.  I was originally going to do a talkbox solo, and have two more in each ear (like Those Shoes) but that meant I had to grab my microphone stand from my car and I didn't feel like getting it.  I did do a solo with the Studio but I didn't think it was fun enough, so I used the Goldtop and a Boss Auto-Wah with a delay - easier than running downstairs.  Oh, and there's an organ on there too.

I personally love doing these self-indulgent kinds of things.  I used to feel bad about being self-indulgent but then I thought, "Well, I am trying and it's fun".  So there's my reason.

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