HelgeA - proto-Earth x2

OK, short update for the nerdy ones. I have numerous times mentioned that Fastened Bulbous songs often took on a quite different shape during the recording process. This time I want to demonstrate that through two earlier version of the previous posted song, Not of This Earth.

First off is my demo of the song, slightly edited here from its 9:50 (!) lenght (due to the size limitations over at Reverbnation), which I presented to the band. At this stage it was called Size of a Head, a title I cannot remember the origin of, nor why I changed it. As mentioned in the earlier post, the song started out as an instrumental, and as such we find the guitar theme on the verse to be the main difference. That, and the horrible horrible 80s sound on the (programmed) drums... Another thing that got lost in the translation is the ending, which I kind of like and wonder if we should have kept in the final version.

Having shortened the song, and recorded the drums, it became apparent that the verse guitar didn't sit too well with the rest, so the next version, still instrumental and possibly still called Size of a Head, was an attempt at finding something that works in that respect. And it kind of does. However, before releasing the song, a vocal line somehow appeared (I cannot remember why we added the melody, but I think Per F. was the main creator of it). And with that, the guitar on the verse (which inspired the melody...) had to be changed once more as we felt it was too busy to fit in with the vocals. That kind of "discarding the scaffolding" occurred in a lot of Fastened Bulbous' songs.

I think that both proto-versions have their merits, but in the end, IMHO, the released version is still the preferable one. But, now eager listeners can make up their opinions.