Original Notes:

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.

Track 1 - 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.
Guitars:  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.

Track 2 - 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.
Guitars: 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.

Track 3- Open House
About looking at some "property". I never did get to see the inside.
Guitars: 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.

Track 4 - Lay Back
Here's the one that made me think of "Robin 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.
Guitars: 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.

Track 5 - Putting Out
t'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.
Guitars: 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.

Track 6 - 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.
Guitars: 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.

Track 7 - 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.

Guitars: 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.