LAST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE

The last piece of the puzzle is now complete. ALL NINE ALBUMS are now available, totally remastered and rebranded, on my Bandcamp page!

Now I can relax!

I remastered JUPITER RETURN a few days ago so this is a pleasant surprise, even for me. I have ABOUT TO EXPLODE on cd here at home but my laptop doesn’t have a cd player. I had files on a previous laptop but that’s dead and gone. So what do I do? Oh wait…ask my friend Ko if he has it on file!

Ko and I hadn’t talked in a while, as life gets in the way. But we had a great chat about, well, a lot. Of course I had to ask “You have the files from ABOUT over there?” And he sent them to me via Dropbox as wav files. Okay great, now I can get to work!

Oh I had a lot of work to do!!

I forgot how raw and noisy this cd was HAHA! This album came out three years after JUPITER (July 11, 2008 to be precise). Hearing these songs again brought back a lot of great memories, and the music jumps out and never lets go. It’s as experimental as JUPITER but damn I forgot how heavy this was!!!

Ko had a studio in his old house, and if you can picture a room crammed with guitars, amps, and drummer CJ’s kit…you couldn’t fit a toothpick in between anything. It was HOT in the room too but damn we had fun. Way different than the previous sessions, that’s for sure. I was hell-bent on reclaiming my throne (which I seem to do every so often).

Aside from how abrasive some of this sounded, the last three songs were in drop-A tuning! I did that on various albums here and there. Some musicians hate such a low tuning. Maybe I need to buy an 8-string with the low F#…hmmm. But again, this music totally slams from start to finish. I am proud of this album all over again.

Ko is a great guitarist, and he owns more Ibanez guitars than even Ibanez ever had! When he said he’d play bass on this, I was like “Yeah sure” and I wasn’t surprised that was equally adapt on bass. He even added some fretless on one tune, which was cool. CJ played great too, hell of a drummer! As for me…you can hear my anger and revenge seeping through the guitar.

The title track wound up on a compilation cd in 2009 called SHREDDING ACROSS THE WORLD and it stood out among the others (my opinion of course). This line-up lasted for about a year or so and then it just ended. No drama, no nonsense, it just stopped.

Now that all nine albums are on my Bandcamp, I can breathe a huge sigh of relief.

What a ride though.

*UPDATE: Mike and I now have seven demos recorded, one more to go. Had rehearsal this past Wednesday and as usual, it was pretty great! When we walk out of the studio more excited than when we showed up, that’s a very good sign!