Trex - Kim 10

Back to Scat-Trav. Lots of percussion, sloppiness, and tape hiss. This adds acoustic guitar and keyboard parts that have nothing to do with each other. Very weird.

I'm guessing that this and the next several songs were recorded a few days before "Ivory Mirror" (1988-05-01). So, late April.

I guess this was from a story I wrote. "Markus the Lonely Rabbit" was the main character.

Messing around verbally, and on acoustic guitar and cornet.

Slow funk improv. Dumb rapping, but interesting chords, until I start playing lots of bad notes. Then it turns into a stupid percussion jam. It's muffled, which means I wasn't recording direct. Maybe this was because my dad took his dictaphone away? Whatever the case, at least the song is relatively short.

I was trying to play an old song idea, really pathetic. The recording is very muffled. Yuck.

The percussion solo is horrible, mostly because I had to stop the rest of the music except for the drums. Since I couldn't use my dad's dictaphone anymore, I had to record everything in a single track, which sounds really lame compared to the Scat-Trav stuff I was doing previously.

Slow, sludgy attempt at "jazz", with yet another lame percussion solo. What a dud. Puts me to sleep. Forunately, the "snappy snip snip" part near the end is kinda catchy.

Slow and kinda funny, if you listen to the words.

Did I say words?

The "I will leave you" references implies that this was the last song of the day. However, I kept playing, unfortunately...

I was trying to play our marching band's drum cadences. This is painful. Then I started making up my own. Even more painful. Thankfully, I've edited away most of its original 21 minutes. :) (See, even Trex has limits).

This came right after "Pbbt", and was probably recorded the same day (despite that song's implication of being the last one). I think I had to go play basketball with my neighbor Scott, who contributed some talking and (maybe) a little percussion near the end.

I don't know what is funnier/sadder: that I blithely subjected Scott to my racket or that I had the nerve to insult him (sorta) afterwards.

Right before playing basketball with my neighbor (Scott), we attempted to play music together. I don't remember which part(s) he played, but I'm guessing keyboard and guitar. This is a mess.

This song and the rest of the tape were slowed down in parts for some reason. I had to speed it back up in order for it to sound decent. It's a little too fast now in parts, but that's millions of times better than too slow.

Anywa, this first bit starts with a guitar improv and then adds more instruments until it completely loses the original idea. Sorry about the profanity.

This starts immediately after "Ivory Mirror", but has a different tempo. The early part was recorded at a different speed from the later part, which makes for a weird listen. If that's not bad enough, I then started to fiddle with the speed controls as I recorded. Yuck.

The ending, with the crisp drums, isn't too bad. Again, sorry about the profanity. I guess I was in a crabby mood!

Talking about the messy studio, my marching band, and bands that I liked at the time.

Improv, not too bad. Sorry for the bad words.

This is a cleaner version of "Picture of You". Just as dumb as the original.

This starts a new tape (number 4 in the package I was sending to my cousin). It was recorded the same day as the last song ("Cleaner Picture").

The music is okay. It's crisp-sounding and peppy, but no fancy solos or anything. Just some lame (well, par for me) "french horn". I was interrupted by a phone call near the end.

This was an attempt at creating a slow, moving song. Very cheesy. I quickly got bored with it, so ended it.

If you ever wondered just how awesome my honors band calibre french horn playing was, now's your chance to find out. Before you get to hear that, though, you have to listen to me whining about my messy studio.

This is a very long, sloppy jam. On tape, it was even longer because I recorded at the wrong speed. Near the end, I discovered the problem, which is why the recording speeds up like that.

The music is lame. It starts off focusing on the french horn, at which I was pretty pathetic. Then it moves to cornet, at which I was even worse. Then percussion, which is horrible. Even my keyboard solo was really stinky. And then comes the acoustic guitar. Yikes.

The lyrics are dumb, when you can actually hear them (they are very faint).

I know this sounds stupid, but I really did put the microphone underwater part of the time. At other times, I was simply putting it in a wet cup. I think I was trying to see if there was a difference in how it sounded. Anyway, I guess I was pretty bored.

Singing into a cup to cheesy keyboard rhymes while the tape warbles. Lame solos. Lame everything, in fact.

Out of ideas, I fell back on gimmicks.

The tape ended with several minutes of lame drumming and talking about nothing. Here's a sampling.

Jessica wanted me to play a cover song. This is our attempt at playing LL Cool J's "I Need Love". At the end she raps a Beastie Boys song. Great stuff!