A double "treat" this time. First out is Hey, a song by Fastened Bulbous, a band that never has offically disbanded. For those who know our records (...), you will recognize the song, but not the version. It's the same take that can be found on our first record Strange Interlude, but with an additional guitardub on the verses that - fortunately - disappeared before the record was released. Also, the mix is slightly different. This song was made in a transitional phase for me, as a songwriter; wanting to make something else than fairly short popish songs, but hadn't yet started making looong, mostly instrumental songs, which dominated my "songwriting ouevre" the next few years.
Fastened Bulbous grew out of a feedback combo sometimes called The Moron Twins, consiting of Per Fikse and myself. We recorded a 3-song demo in the summer of '94, using a very basic drummachine (with the exception of one song which featured the drumming of Softcock Håvard Oppøyen), and on the basis of the demo we lured drummer Espen Mindrebø into the band and persuaded guitarist Odd Johansen to try out the bass. Odd soon left and was replaced by another guitarist, now mostly pianist, PG Fostad (agreeing to join while being drunk, regretting it ever since). Like VEP, rehearsals were infrequent, but we did manage to record a 5-song demo in the spring of '95. This song is from that session. If I'm not mistaken, we had yet to come up with the name, so we called ourselves something else on the few cassettes distributed, but if this indeed is the case I can't remember what. (edit: see this post)
Bonus-song!
Today's bonus is from yours truly, recorded under my ongoing solo-guise HelgeA. So, What Else Is New? is from the summer of 1990, when I lived only a four-lane road from the rehearsal space of Softcocks. That summer I lent my father's 2-track tape recorder, and fiddled around with it a lot. Purely experimental, the "song" was recorded in the sole purpose of testing what the equipment offered (not much, it turned out, apart from sound-on-sound and delay). This song is - believe it or not - previously released, on a cassette that commemorated the 6th anniversary of fanzine publisher/record company P-Productions.
I had, of course, no idea that J Mascis was making a (much longer and better) song by the same name at the same time.
har du remiksa de gamle opptakene med bulbous? det låt jo ikke så aller verst faktisk, jeg synes å huske at de av originalopptakene jeg hørte var noe mere ulne i klangen. musikalsk dog ikke helt en fulltreffer for meg. (det kan vel neppe være noen bombe...?)
SvarSlettden andre "låten" minte meg litt om ting jeg kunne finne på å gjøre i de sene nattetimer på min gamle tascam 4-spors... å jada, jeg har hatt mine eksperimentelle perioder jeg og...
-per
Nei, knappast. Hey er en "remastret" utgave av en gammel kassettkopi, muligens til og med en kopi av en kopi, som jeg fant for en tid tilbake - en tidlig prøvemiks. Det eneste jeg har gjort er å kjøre det gjennom et par ferdiginnstilte prosesser i SoundForge. Tror faktisk at de ordentlige opptakene vil høres temmelig mye bedre ut om jeg hadde gjort tilsvarende med de (og det kan det jo være at jeg gjør).
SvarSlettUllenheten du husker skriver seg mest sannsynlig fra stereoanlegget til PG, som såvidt jeg husker var like støvete som vannbordet på utsiden av huset hans.
Den andre låten var svært inspirert av en legendarisk kassettutgivelse fra midten av 80-tallet: En Skognkompilasjon.