slight surface noise

More record memories, I found this record somewhere and bought it. I used to skateboard to Record Outlet, purchase a record with whatever money i stole from my mom's purse or my mom/step fathers coke bottle full of change. It was easier buying a 3 to 5 dollar record with change rather then skate to tower and buy a CD.

I might have found this record called Slight Surface Noise at Record Outlet or bought it off one of the bands I saw. I can't remember honestly, I just remember getting destroyed after putting it on and all my friends wanted to borrow it.

I can't even find any information on the album, can't find any pictures of it. All I know is it's distributed by K records which was one of my favorites along with kill rock stars growing up. I also know that it was recorded by Steve Albini and the drums sound massive as usual. Those were the two reasons I bought the record in the first place.

I honestly keep writing about the records because I have to sit here as I record the songs. Any ways... more coming most likely.

More on slight surface noise. First of all, here is a bandsite:

http://www.worshipguitars.org/bands/ssn.html

pretty informative.

They basically sound like Shellac with unwound and fugazi together. The songs build up to screaming and go from minimalist to abrasive. The album was recorded in 1996, 2 years after Shellac released Action Park. One song is called 'i fucked your mom last night'.

no work, record shopping, writing more music

Digging through my records, I found Mary Timony's Mountains. I remember being one of the very few to see her play this album at the Troubador and I brought my future wife who barely knew me. I was a big fan of Helium growing up, especially the no guitars ep when they went all medieval. I bought the album off her with cash and about a dollar or two in change cause that's all I had. Man, this album will now be on heavy rotation especially the song 'the bell' with it's epic ending. She is definitely a better guitar play then me. I only wish I had her sign it.

Heading off to record outlet in Thousand Oaks, it's still there, and they still have cheap records. I got Saint Vitus Born too late and another album in one double record collection for 10 bucks.

We have a show coming up on January 21st at the airliner through our friends from Earsplitters. More info coming soon.

Twisted Mind of I and Fog Tiger

2 more songs from our soon to be released full length are posted here: www.myspace.com/snakesalivemusic

Twisted Mind of I was more of an experiment that turned into something. It was added late, but not as late as Camden. We recorded the main riff with drums 23 times and I wrote the lyrics as usual just before recording them. Then the guitar line just came to me when we were messing with the song and thinking of throwing it on the album. I threw a capo on the guitar and hit part of the main riff then just messed around trying to make the song sound unique from the other songs on the album. It's also very subtle but i pulled out and put in the guitar cable to the guitar starting and ending that second guitar line, something I think i picked up from Khanate I believe.

The next song is Fog Tiger. The layout of the songs is in the order so far of the full length as it will be released (some songs missing at the moment) but I mainly bring this up because these two songs we believe sound awesome together. The noise ending the Twisted Mind of I into Fog Tiger has a large impact for both songs as it's basically like a wave of fog and a light cutting through it in my opinion. Brian and I drive to work together sometimes and after Thomas brought this song to practice we worked together on the lyrics. This is one of those songs that has so much power that was unknown at first but is now one of the most powerful songs on the album along with Blackbird. The middle part is mostly just brian and i playing around with a e-bow we got him for his birthday and a guitar slide. Fort he album he held the ebow and the guitar was on the ground as i slid the slide up and then down, we tried it twice and he threw both on the album. The last part where we are screaming wasn't fully planned out it just happened where I screamed some of it while Brian screamed other parts of it. We did it almost at the same time, in one take as usual and it came out kind of interesting.

Market This

13DEC09

We are returning to the place we played for the first time. Hopefully we will be able to debut some stuff we've been working on.