IPECAC - Leaping Leper Limousine

This is an instrumental version of "Share, Peace, and Love" (from Gourmet). It's the first song I remember recording at Jon's house, and the first which uses a piano.

This was named after a story that I had started. I think I wrote the music on 1998-11-15. It's a simple instrumental, built around a bass line. We recorded a new version of it for Best of IPECAC 2.

The date "Nov. 15, 1988" is written next to this song on the tape cover for Leaping Leper Limousine. I don't know if that means the song was written or recorded on that day. Since I had pre-written "Medea" but had the 19th written next to it, I'm guessing that we actually recorded "Five Through Night" on the 15th. That was a Tuesday, however; we didn't normally record on school nights. Weird.

This is a simple boogie-woogie. I played the piano part, which was pretty standard. Jon noodled around on keyboard, and later overdubbed a sax part. I may have overdubbed a second piano part, but I don't know.

I don't know how much of the writing was ours and how much came from a practice book. The tape cover says "theme decomposed by Travis and Jon". You can interpret that either way.

The best part of the song is the end. It's a chaotic free-for-all, containing more energy than the rest of the song (and perhaps all the other songs on the album combined).

This could have been recorded on either the 15th (Tuesday) or 19th (Saturday). I'm not sure. For symmetry, I'm gonna guess the 15th, so that the first 3 songs of the albums are on the 15th and the last 3 are on the 19th. Nice and neat.

The buzzing is from a signal generator which was Jon's idea for a "poor-man's electric guitar". Jon wrote the lyrics that he sang, and I wrote mine. We had different music in our sections too. The song feels schizo... like it's possessed by something (ha ha ha).

I think "Mayflower of death" was a reference to a computer game Jon had written. In his game, a Mayflower was a colonizing space ship. As for the "death", well, maybe it had guns or something?

It's funny that Jon flubbed "leaping leper limousine" both times. We later named the album after that line. If he hadn't flubbed it, would we still have named the album after it? I guess we'll never know.

It sounds like I played 2 piano parts. Unless I sprouted a demonic third hand for this song.

This was a simple jazz ditty that I had written previously. The title came from a play we had recently read for English class. We both liked this a lot, and later re-recorded it for Best of IPECAC 2.

This was IPECAC's first and only Christmas song. It starts off as "Joy to the World" but then devolves into chaotic buzzing and chanting.

We ended up playing a coulple Christmas carols door-to-door that year (I think), Jon with his sax and me with a keyboard. I'm pretty sure we were pathetic