Marble
Ah, those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. Heartfelt strapping lads we were, and it was a great launching for all the grim looking chaps you see in this yellowing scrapbook. But i try to be temperate on the reminiscing, just like the wine (*yeah right*).
So here are some songs from this golden era--Kurt Cobain had just killed himself, Eric our bass player delivered the news on a nice day as soon as he walked into the Flower House rehearsal space, on the threshold, indeed.
Suede (Instrumental) link
We recorded this in my basement on a fostex 4 track. There was red carpeting and decorative nautical supplies. Good thing, because the basement would flood and grow mushrooms. Isaac the drummer was behind the padded semi circle bar under the red lights, silver dollars epoxied into the bar top. Eric on the Gibson Ripper his dad gave him. I was playing through a Marshall combo. This one rocked pretty well, mainly because it was not the occasion on which i wore a leather vest and satin heart boxers.
Our singer's name was Tom, and he wrote this next song. I think "Slip" was one of his best; i really savored the thing when we played it live. We first arranged it in my Dad's old office in the tool and die shop.
Link for "Slip"
Next up is the song "Abe's Dream", recorded at Suma Studios in Painesville, Ohio, with Paul Hamann at the helm.
Link for "Abe's Dream"
Suma made me love the recording studio, and Paul Hamann was a frank and inviolable force. He let you know when he liked something and when he didn't.
The last in this installment of Marble songs is a song that does not have all those other good fellows playing on it, but just Isaac and I. Over a weekend down in the aforementioned basement, I recorded the drums, then guitars and bass; i asked Isaac to sing it. I must've taken 50 swipes at the guitar solo before I was happy with it, and i compounded my anxiety over it by worrying about the noise that was being added with every successive overdub.