Audio
With The Firebombing (2008 to present). Our CD is available on iTunes, Zune and CDBaby.
With Dustraiser (2009 to present)
- 10-Cent Stamps, an example of trying to play fast as possible and accenting the 2 on the snare for some reason. I have no idea what I was thinking. This is played with a single pedal.
- Brazilian Crystals, a straight up 4/4 instrumental. The snare on all of the Zoinks! stuff is a 5″-deep Ludwig Black Beauty, but the producer for the CD, Kevin Army (Operation Ivy, Green Day, etc.), did a special, non-effects treatment to it getting out of it the best it’s ever sounded on tape.
- Your Perception, an incredibly fun song to play, recorded in the wee hours of the night somewhere in Wisconsin (“demo-quality” alert)
- Chest Pain, big sounding recording done by Mass at Sonic Iguana in Indiana.
- Roid Rage Talkshow, recorded in a skate warehouse/recording studio in Sacto. Some fun beat/feel changes throughout.
- Through the Turnstile, fast, with some measures of 5 thrown in
- Well and Good, recording this CD to me represents some of my better playing. There’s a spot in this song where I’m trying to mimic double bass by playing the floor tom and kick in a 16th-note pattern (LLRFRF), reaching with my left hand under my right (which is playing straight 8ths on the hi-hats) to go back and forth from the floor tom while keeping the 2 and 4 on the snare. You can kind of see it in this video.
Prima Volta
The Prima Volta stuff was more ‘experimental’ than most of my playing … riding on the high tom, adding in percussion (no overdubs!), playing with mallets, etc. This was a demo in all its senses, recorded on a 4-track cassette, usually in one take, and then ‘mixed’ on computer. The band consisted of two couples — Deb (bass) and me, and Rob and Andrea (keys) — and was a tremendously creative time.
- Sirens … riding the high tom
- Speaker Head, playing shaker in one hand, also playing with mallets, then switching to sticks at the end.
- Blotter, fun cross sticking going into a thrash style beat at the end
- Digress, ghosting on the snare in a half-time beat
- Fragments, a sloppy bossa nova followed by rock
