Trex - New Ear

This song was about japrock. But now it's just one big ball of warble. Fortunately, the warble lessens as the song goes on.

No warble here. Decent guitar, but dumb lyrics.

Vocal and shaker improv. Pretty dumb.

I was testing my new mp3 recorder, which I hoped would be an alternative to the 4-track. This is just a short, aimless guitar jam.

This short messy improv morphed into the first recorded version of "Country Boy", which I later remade as Tripecac.

I recorded it with my brand new handheld mp3 recorder, which was the "new toy".

This is the second, longer "demo" of "Country Boy". It's not really a demo, since I was making it up as I went along and had no intention of remaking at the time. It's crude, but since you can barely hear the vocals I think it's ok for casual listening.

It's a good thing I recorded this with the mp3 recorder in addition to the 4-track because the on tape the warble was horrible.

New side of the tape. No more warble. Unfortunately, there's no ideas here.

I was testing my new mandolin with an mp3 recorder in my office.

This is the second mandolin test, this time with lyrics. Dumb and minorly offensive.

Continues the theme of the previous song, not as offensive.

Talking about a change of gears.

This starts the third recording. Kinda silly.

More mandolin silliness. Kind of offensive, but it's an interesting tongue twister.

This is several stabs at soloing over a Pod loop titched together. The parts I deleted were the rebuilding of the loop each time it devolved into chaos.

My voice sounds like I had a cold. That's probably why there were no vocals.

Decent flange. Indecent vocals. Fizzles.

A series of repetitive wah jams, all noisy and pointless. It soundsl I had a very low level of energy and enthusiasm.

Dumb and sloppy, but at least I was trying to play and not make noise. At the end I explain why I think it was a dud.

More wah noodling and singing about gear. Horribly out of tune singing in the chorus.

Proof that sometimes the wah pedal makes things sound worse.

This talking kicks off a new tape. Wants to be funny but isn't really.

I was testing the acoustic guitar, which I got the same day as the mandolin. It sounds pretty good, and is a badly needed breath of fresh air.

Chatting about the acoustic guitar.

Another acoustic guitar improv.

A last minute improv, which I called a "bonus" song. Not bad; I'm glad I recorded it.

This was recorded with the dictaphone in my office; hence all the hiss. When it finally gets going it's pretty cool.

I don't know if this was recorded before or after the 4-track recordings that day. Since this was on a later tape, I'll assume these came second.

More acoustic guitar noodling recorded with the hissy dictaphone. The vocals are about the guinea pigs.

More acoustic guitar hiss. The vocals make fun of the big news for the day, which was an army guy throwing a puppy.

Short, hissy, warbly mandolin riff. Blah.

Hissy acoustic guitar again. The downside of using the dictaphone in the office is that there is a huge temptation to multitask.

Sloppy jam on the mandolin.

Shallow jam based on a silly pun. Crude at then end. Had to censor it.