His Eternal Rest

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So, “His Eternal Rest.”  For a long time, this reigned as the longest Toast song.  And, for whatever reason, I had a difficult time remembering how the song was constructed.  Who knows why, since this is not a terribly complicated piece of music.

Regarding this recording:
• I like how Ingus’ guitar tone changes over the course of the song, though he only used a single pedal.
• There’s a point during the long instrumental break where the combination of guitar, bass, and reverb add a phantom organ.  I’ve been able to achieve a phantom piano on a different recording, too.  Overtones are neat.
• Immediately before aforementioned instrumental break, there is a bit of what was intended to be 3-part harmony.  Somewhere along the way, my part vanished.  As it is on the same track with all the other vocals, this presents a mystery.  However, said disappearance is not a tragedy – Ingus and Louis seemed to enjoy giving me higher harmonies to sing, even though I’m a bona fide baritone.  (Read that last bit as: in 1995, my tenor pitches were not exemplary, so it’s better this way.)
• That re-recorded bass part a) is much more interesting than the original part I played, and b) sounds like the money I spent on the setup was well worth it.  Listen to that intonation at the end!  Not bad for a 25-year-old (at the time) hollowbody bass.

Up next should be the first studio recording of “In Your World.”  I should mix my “orchestral” version and send it to Ingus, so he can post it here.

- Ingus:
Whoa! I’m second on this post. Sweet!

• This is not the only case of the phantom organ popping up on a recording.  There’s a sweet one in State of Bliss.  Don’t remember which song, but I’ll try and point it out when we get to it.
• Sorry about the late update.  My bad.  Lots of work at work.
• Like Thom, I’m loving my tone on this track.  That’s the Lilu Dallas Multi-Pedal, if I’m not mistaken, but most of the tone changes are from switching pickup mixes at the changes.  I remember seeing Slash do this on a GnR video and always thinking how cool it was.  Now, mind you, Most people record different tracks for different tones and then bounce and compress em all together, but listen, pal, we only had the four tracks.  So I did it on the fly.  Cause I’m bad ass.  Like Slash.  Yeah.
• I’m nothing like Slash.
• I may have just killed Louis by using an emoticon in a toast post.  Sorry about that.

Our picture today is a flyer for a show with Grampac and Cloud Car.  I bought tapes from both bands.  I don’t remember Secret Lab, but Grampac and Cloud Car were both super cool bands filled with super nice guys.

Louis – Yup, it’s just as melodramatic as the other recording.

I sound like I have a cold.  Ingus is a harsh taskmaster, not letting me wait ’till I wasn’t sick anymore and whatnot.