Sunday, November 20, 2005

Best of Mario's Part Two

Hey thanks everyone for the nice comments about Whipping Post.

The next track in this series is called Gone. The players are: again Casey Gorman on guitar and vocals, Mike Brandon on guitar, John Springer on bass, and most importantly me on drums.

background and things to listen for:

This is a Gmin blues and the lyrics were improvised by Casey around a general idea he had. It was the first song we did the night of 10-25-05.

Mike Brandon does most of the leads in this song, he is the louder of the two guitars, which isn't unusual for him.

The bassist added an effects unit to his wonderful Ash Down rig, and during the song at around 2:45 seconds you can hear him fumbling around trying to get more low end in his sound. This also is the reason for the playful but fierce exchange at the end of the track. Apparently one of the bass eq knobs was turned way down on his new unit which he wasn't 100% familiar with.

I consider this one of my best recorded drum performances. Listen to the interlude after the second guitar solo at around 7:55.

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