I finally have some half decent recordings of my band to show you. The stuff below was taped last week during rehearsal. Of the 12 songs we did that night, I picked four which I consider my favorites.
"Social Vein" is the most recent of this lot and features some neat shifts in time signature. I really get off on the almost brutal middle bit ("But when you're middle class..."), pure energy...
"Beautiful Jails" is one of the earliest numbers from this project. The song, goes through three riffs the key of A, F and G. The song then goes into a bridge section, borrowed from "The End" by the the Doors. The idea came from our drummer, Mel Goulding, after we jammed that part with our former singer, Kewin Moret (who left us just a week before this rehearsal). With Kewin out of the picture, we might substitute it for something else (Hendrix' "Third Stone from the Sun" was brought up as an alternative).
"Famous Faces" is typical Mark Theis (keyboards) composition. Check out the bass riff in the verses, I think it was Matyas Zlatnik (our former bassist) who came up with that one. But my favorite part is the "outro" section with the chugging V-IV-I chord progression.
"What's Your Style" is again a thing Mark came up with. His original version didn't seem to hold up well, so I sat down with it at home. I rewrote the lyrics around Mark's ideas, added a part (verse 2: "Because you were so frustrated...") and that was basically it. It's also the only song I play in dropped D tuning.
The band that you hear on these recordings is composed of Diane Frisch (vocals), Mark Theis (keyboard, vocals), Mel Goulding (drums, backing vocals), Zsolt Pataki (bass) and yours truly (guitar). All four songs were written by Mark with each one of us adding their own bits and pieces here and there. The recording was made in stereo using two ambient microphones. You'll hear some clipping, we had a pretty hard time setting levels.
