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Volume 4

Posts 76-100

Friday, November 2, 2007to

Thursday, November 29, 2007

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Video File #1: Muffin Loaf "Crazy Train"

The first installment of the new Video File feature is a treat from the Metal XORvaults. The band Muffin Loaf burst onto the music scene in 2003 with a warehouse

show. They held one rehearsal and then the show. A video was put together using

low-res pictures from the rehearsal and show and it is set to the song "Crazy Train"

as it was recorded during the rehearsal session.

Click here for the YouTube post.

Posted by - Mune Mud - at 7:52 AM 0 comments

Labels: Video File

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Album of the Week #11: Lambskin Temple

Project name: IsthmusAlbum name: Lambskin Temple

Release date: November 19, 1996

Release format: cassette

Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Tracks:

1. Pin Needles in the Eye of the Beholder

2. Fly in the Garden

3. Last Summer (Train to Chicago)

4. I Never Knew (This Is Earth)

5. Heritage

6. Sunny Days

7. Didn't See It Coming

8. Burst

9. Used to Be Like

10. Hey, Mama!

11. I Wish I Was Born in the UK

12. I Wanna

13. Angel Breaths

14. Born to Be Wild

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15. I'm On Stage

16. The Sound a Tree Makes . . .

17. Wicked Game (Autumn version)

18. notEworthy

19. Harry's Symbol (w/solo + junk)

This album came from ajam session that Harry, Jason, and Jimmy had on

Saturday, September 21, 1996 in Jason's driveway. This was unofficially known as

"Isthmus Jam 2".

This time they did not use the 4-track recorder but a standard boom box set in the

center of the trio. And this time they had a drummer, Jimmy. Jason played bass

and sang some of the songs while Harry played guitar and sang the rest of the

songs.

They filled two 90-minute cassettes during this jam. Most of the songs were

originals created in the typical Isthmus fashion . . . "start playing and make

everything up as you go along!" There were a few covers recorded and two of them

ended up on the album, including "Wicked Game" which has appeared on every

Isthmus album.

It was a few weeks later in October that the tapes were logged out. Then in

November Jason put together a play list for the album. And since this was not

recorded on the 4-track recorder there was no way to add instruments or parts to

the songs, so what was recorded that day was the final take of each song. The

album was completed within days of the final play list being established and was

released.

On one of Jason's notes about this album, a suggestion for the album title was Bull

Dozerbut they went with Lambskin Templeinstead when Harry mentioned thatwas the name of a building he saw in St. Louis.

This album was also the first to use colored paper for the album cover. All previous

tape covers were printed on white paper.

Next week's Album of the Week: New Mexico Iglooby Isthmus from 1996.

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Labels: Album of the Week

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Lyric Booklet #4: ...Libra 971

The fourth album to include lyrics was NueroMud's 1994 album ...Libra 971. Thebooklet was titled "Anonymous Reality Tales" and was only eight pages long.

This was the second of what was to be a new series of "mini" lyric booklets (there

ended up only two in the series). It measured 4"x5.5". The print was very small so

2-3 songs could fit on each page. There was no table of contents or epilogue to

this booklet, just lyrics to every song on the album.

This booklet was released on August 27, 1996, almost two years after the album

was released. The first "mini" booklet made was for Mune Mud's 1996 album

Equationof Time, then the Studio went back to create booklets for older albums,

starting with NueroMud's ...Libra 971.

The title of the booklet came from the title of unused lyrics that Jason had written

in the late 1980's. The subtitle "From the Dusk Channel" is taken from the title of

track #5, "Dusk Channel", on the album but the reason why that song was chosen

has long been forgotten.

Posted by - Mune Mud - at 5:51 AM 0 commentsLabels: Lyric Booklet

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Studio News: New ORC Project

Plans for a new ORC album were officially announced yesterday.

Metal XOR Studio (Jason) and Attic Works Studio (Jimmy) will soon be working

together on a new ORC album. This will be the first release since ORC's 1999 debut

album Purging the Great Abyss. The current plans are for each studio to start

songs independent of the other one, then exchange each song for the other studio

to change (add/remove parts, write lyrics, etc). The music will bounce back and

forth between studios until each song is finished. The recording is set to begin

January 1, 2008, and end on February 29, 2008. There may be additional post-

production in March, but the album should be out by the end of March.

The next two months will be spent getting equipment set up and updated at each

studio. Test tracks will be recorded to ensure the compatibility of the two studios.

At least one test song has been recorded at Attic Works Studio and three test songs

have been recorded at Metal XOR. In addition, lyrics have already been written for

a song titled "Clunky the Fisherman". So as the ORC machine slowly gets up to full

speed, keep checking this blog for further updates.


Labels: Studio News

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Project Spotlight #11: Who are the Traveling Deengelburys?

In the late 1980's there was a band called The Traveling Wilburys. The band had anall-star line-up: George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob

Dylan. So what did a small southern Illinois town in 1989 need? Their own all-star

band. Enter the Traveling Deengelburys!!!

It started in the fall of 1988. Jason and Harry had a Spanish teacher who played

guitar and bass. He would occasionally get his acoustic guitar out and play for the

class. At the time, Jason and Harry had been tinkering at home with their own

instruments. So for Christmas of 1988, Jason, Harry, and their Spanish teacher

played a few songs in class for what seemed like half the school.

Early the next year, the school was having a 50's & 60's dance to raise money for a

needy child. The music at school dances always came from tapes and new-fangled

CD's, but this dance would be different. Jason, Harry, and their teacher recruited

a few other musically inclined students to form a band to play at the dance. Half

the members of the band were heavy into the Traveling Wilburys, so when it came

time to name the band they modified the name into something more appropriate

and called themselves the Traveling Deengelburys.

The Deengelburys were Mark (lead guitar), Mark (the Spanish teacher, bass), Harry

(keyboards), Jason (rhythm guitar), Darrin (saxophone), Jay (vocals), and Brad

(drums). They also had two background vocalists during the show, Jody and David.

The unofficial Deengelburys included Jeremy and Joe.

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Friday, March 31, 1989, the day of the dance, the band played one song at each of

the two lunch hours to raise the hype of the "live performance" at that year's

dance. And that evening, sandwiched between music from tapes and CD's, they

performed their 6-song set with a 1-song encore. The crowd went nuts. And then

the dance was over. They have not performed together since.

A few of the members of the band wanted to get back together in 1999 for a ten-

year reunion jam but that did not happen.

There were Traveling Deengelbury t-shirts made for the show to raise additional

money for the fund raiser. As far as additional memorabilia there was the concert

poster that hung in the school and the large banner the band painted and had on

the wall behind them during the show.

There has never been an official release of any of the recordings. Their first

rehearsal was recorded on cassette. The dress rehearsal practice on the stage the

night before the dance was video taped. Both of their two lunch time

performances were video taped. Their final rehearsal was video taped. And the

show at the dance was videotaped. There may be a compilation CD released some

day. . .

A detailed account was written several years ago of the whole Deengelbury

experience. Metal XOR Studio is trying to get the rights to that story so the whole

world can read what it was like to be a Deenglebury.

Next week: What is Pheonix?


Labels: Project Spotlight

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Collector's Corner #17

The Traveling Deengelburys performed at a high school 50's & 60's dance on Friday,March 31, 1989. The local newspaper was there and this is the picture that was

taken.

A few observations about the picture . . .

The caption says "The Traveling Deengelburts". There are two hypothesis on

this misspelling. The first is that the newspaper did not want to publish the

word Deengelbury, even though that is not how the word is really spelled.

And the second is that is wasjust a typo.

Only six of the seven official Deengelburys can be seen. The drummer,

Brad, is hidden behind the lead singer, Jay. Brad's drums can be seen

though.

A few of the Deengelburys hand-painted a large banner with the

Deengelbury logo. That banner can be seen behind the drummer.

This is the only group photo of the Traveling Deengelburys that the Studio has, so

it is enshrined in the Kodak Moments Wing of the Metal XOR Studio Museum.


Labels: Collector's Corner

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Studio News: New Website

As Traveling Deengelbury Week nears its end, Metal XOR Studio is proud toannounce a new website dedicated to the 50's & 60's band that invaded a small

southern Illinois town in March of 1989.

It is the Official Traveling Deengelburys website. It provides audio files you can

listen to, the history of the band, members of the band, and various Deengelbury

memorabilia that was produced. It is the most comprehensive Deengelbury website

on the Internet.

Please visit the new site and show your support.


Labels: Studio News

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Album of the Week #12: New Mexico Igloo

Project name: IsthmusAlbum name: New Mexico Igloo

Release date: December 17, 1996



Tracks:

1. Run, Run Rudolph

2. A Homeless World

3. The Holiday Song

4. Jingle Bells

5. Patricia Corrigan

6. Silent Night

7. My Toy

8. Merry Christmas, Baby

9. Oh, Isthmus Tree

10. Baby, Please Come Home

11. Oh, Holy Night Blues

12. Speech Impediment Wino

13. The Christmas Song

14. Speech Impediment Wino Returns

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This album came from a jam session that Harry, Jason, and Jimmy had on Tuesday,

December 10, 1996. This was the third Isthmus jam. There were two things

different about this jam than any other previous Isthmus jam: there was another

person playing on the album and they recorded the album in a church.

Jason played guitar. Harry played bass, then guitar, then keyboards. Jimmy was

bass and then drums. And Tim was the guest musician who played drums, then

bass, then lead vocals. There was also another person, Erik, who showed up and

played guitar but most of that was not recorded.

It was recorded in the church Harry attended. They decided to record there for the

acoustics of the sanctuary. But the acoustics did not help, this album is considered

to be the biggest flop in the Isthmus catalog. The mix was bad for the recording,

the songs they played were nothing special, and it just did not have the "Isthmus

spirit" that the other albums had.

As far as recording equipment, they ran all the mics and instruments into a mixer

and from the mixer into a standard cassette recorder. So it wasn't quiet as

primitively recorded as their previous album, Lambskin Temple, but they needed

to work on their live mixing.

They had set out to create a Christmas album. So many of the songs they recorded

that evening were traditional Christmas song, some were their version of Christmas

songs, and then the rest was original material. The majority of side B is a track

called "The Christmas Song" and is basically a twenty-minute free form jam with

hints of Christmas thrown in.

The image on the album cover is a molecule of salt. They thought that wasappropriate since salt is what you put on the road or sidewalk to melt the ice and

snow. So in an Isthmus sort of way the molecule of salt represents Christmas.

An alternate title for the album was An Isthmus Christmas, but that was dropped

for New Mexico Igloo. And what is a New Mexico Igloo? Harry and Jimmy's dog,

Jake, had an enclosed dog bed that had a southwestern pattern all over it. So one

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day Harry mentioned that the dog bed looked like a New Mexico Igloo. They had

their album title!

Next week's Album of the Week: Ideasby Isthmus from 1997.



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What was the stylish new fad for the summer of '89? The Traveling Deengelburys t-shirt!!!

The front of the tee sported the Deengelbury logo: a Traveling Deengelburys

banner draped around the world which hid a golden eagle clutching a guitar in its

left claw. No one knows what all that means, but it was cool to look at!

The back of the shirt advertised their 1989 Lost in Time World Tour. Inside the

circle was printed "The Brothers D" which was the collective nickname for the

band. Each band member also had their own Deengelbury nickname. These

nicknames were hand-written by each member around the outside of the circle.

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And buried behind everything is a list of towns on their tour. Unfortunately, for

reasons unknown, the tour was canceled after the first stop.

There were fifty-three T-shirts printed for the show. They sold for $8 each and

sold out! There were also six jerseys made but those went to members of the band

and not available to the public. Each shirt also came with its own Certificate of

Authenticity signed by Wally Deengelbury.

Today the Studio has one T-shirt and one jersey packed away in protective

storage. Who knows what happened to the other shirts? Keep checking e-Bay, you

may one day get your chance to own one of these apparel pieces of history!



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Project Spotlight #12: What is Pheonix?

Today we travel back in time to Harry and Jason's first band. . . Pheonix. Therewere a couple of incarnations of the band in the late 1980's, but the core members

were Harry, Jason, and Brad. And yes, Pheonix was misspelled (except in the

album cover concept art below drawn by Jason).

Pheonix originally began around the year 1986. It consisted of Harry on

synthesizer, Mark on guitar, and Brad on drums. They got together a few times and

played songs from Genesis, Black Sabbath, Boston, and other popular groups of the

time. It wasn't long until Jason had his own keyboard and started jamming with

them. The jam sessions were very unorganized, usually with more than one song

being played at a time, and not much musical progress was made. Only a few

recordings from this time exist.

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Then Jim Bob joined them with his bass for a session or two. They created a track

list of original titles for their first album but only two of the songs were ever

pursued, "Princess" and "Changing Man." So their Wrath of Pheonixalbum and their

1989 Circus Tourwere never fully realized. In fact, by 1988 the band had dissolved

and the only members left were Harry, Jason, and Brad. After that they went on to

create other musical projects.

Will Pheonix some day rise from the ashes to finally record their Wrathalbum?

Don't hold your breath!

Next week: Who are the Two-Tones?



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A Look Back...

Local legend has it that an albino boy was playing on some railroad tracks and waskilled by a train. So now when you park your car on the road that crosses the

tracks, your car rolls uphill towards the tracks. They say it's the ghost of Albino Boy

pushing your car towards the tracks.

On October 20, 1994, Jason, Harry, and Darrin ventured to investigate this urban

legend. With camcorder in hand, they parked the car and sure enough the car

rolled towards the tracks. But skeptics Jason and Harry were conducting an

experiment to prove the road sloped downwards towards the tracks and that the

road sloping downwards away from the tracks was an optical illusion when a car

pulled up to them, the back door opened, and a cranky old Irish man s tepped out

and said to them "The best thing you guys can do is get your [donkey] out of here!"

Jason and Harry made their wise guy responses and it soon turned into a heated

conversation. Finally the conflict came to a head when it nearly came to fisticuffs

between the Irish fellow and Jason. The best part was all of this was on video!

The video was shown to most of their friends and family and was an instant classic.

Jason sent the audio of the incident from the video tape to the morning show on alocal radio station who had mentioned the Albino Boy urban legend. The station

enjoyed the audio so much they played it on air with their commentary. It wasn't

long after that Jason recorded the "Albino Boy" song using sound bites taken from

the video tape. Below is the advertisement he faxed to the radio station the day

before he dropped off the tape of the song.

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Unfortunately the song was never played on the radio. More than a year later he

recorded another version called "Albino Boy (Dance Mix)" which was more

techno/dance than the original song.

To this day the Albino Boy incident is talked about and often re-enacted where

Jason and Harry work. The incident and both songs will probably live forever.


Labels: A Look Back

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"Etesian Wind" was a popular song on Mune Mud's 1991 album Olympus. There aremore versions of this song than any other song Metal XOR Studio has recorded. Yet

the same question came up time after time for years after the song came out:

what is Etesian Wind?

Jason's not even sure where the term came from. He had heard it somewhere,

liked how it sounded, so used it for the music he had just recorded. Then he

started looking for its meaning. This was years before the advent of the Internet,

so research was done at libraries and by talking to various people he knew. No

matter how hard he searched, he could find no references to Etesian Wind.

Steve, Jason's co-worker, brought a philosophy book to work on Wednesday, August

21, 1996. The name of the book was "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science."

It did not seem of much interest to Jason until Steve turned to page 27. There, in

black and white, was the answer that Jason had been searching for for years. A

reference to Etesian Wind...

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The last paragraph on the page reads:

"...if the Etesian Winds produced the effect, the other rivers which flow in a

direction opposite to those winds ought to present the same phenomenon as the

Nile, and the more so as they are all smaller streams and have a weaker current.

But those rivers, of which there are many both in Syria and Libya, are entirely

unlike the Nile in this respect."

It still wasn't real clear, but Jason finally had some idea what the Etesian Winds

were. For further reading on Etesian Winds, you can click here for a Google result

that will tell you more than you will ever want to know about the subject.

Today these photocopies of that philosophy book are locked away in the SolvedMysteries Wing of the Metal XOR Studio Museum.



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Album of the Week #13: Ideas

Project name: IsthmusAlbum name: Ideas

Release date: May 6, 1997



Tracks:

1. King of Pain

2. ? [drum.guitar]

3. Tim Song

4. Wicked Game [slow version]

5. Lithium

6. Bang a Gong

7. Free [version 1]

8. ? [bass.guitar]

9. ? [bass.guitar fast]

10. Basket Case

11. Your Jacket Is Red

12. Here Comes the Sun

13. Walrus

14. I Wanna Hold Your Hand

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15. Love Me Do [w/Lovely Rita ending]

16. We Can Work It Out

17. Dead Phone

18. ? [bass.guitar riff]

19. ? [drums.guitar]

20. ? [drums.bass.guitar]

21. [sequence]

22. Farmer's Anguish [studio version]

23. Rap

Was this really an album? Sort of. This was a collection of unused material from

the first Isthmus jam on February 5, 1995, the session that resulted in their first

album, Electric Field Donut.

This was more for Jason and Harry's enjoyment. In fact, they are the only two that

have copies of the album. Almost half the songs on this album were under one

minute long, many of the others were under two minutes. And some of the tracks

weren't even named, just listed as "?" followed by the instruments used to create

them.

The tape also had some cover songs that were not good enough to be on Electric

FieldDonut. It also had a few originals that were not included on the first album.

Next week's Album of the Week: One Wayby X-Selsior from 1990.



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This Day in Studio History

Eleven years ago...

It was November 19, 1996, when the second Isthmus album, Lambskin Temple, was

released.


Labels: This Day in History

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Project Spotlight #13: Who are the Two-Tones ?

Harry, Jason, and Brad had been playing together for a while as the band Pheonix.In early 1988, Brad (the drummer) was replaced by Harry's Casio drum machine and

Jason borrowed a friend's guitar. What resulted was Harry and Jason having their

own jam sessions, often with their friend Jeremy as their singer. They had become

the Two-Tones.

Where did the name come from? One possibility is the uniforms Jason and Jeremy

had to wear for their 1988 summer job at Dairy Queen. The pants were a dark

brown and the shirts were beige. They often made fun of their two-tone brown

uniforms so that may be what inspired the name. Another possibility is a two-tone

brown van that used to drive around their town. They made fun of it every time

they saw it.

The band consisted of Harry on keyboards and drum machine, Jason on guitar, and

Jeremy singing. On occasion their friend Darrin or Joe would join them. Their

sessions usually consisted of them sitting around a cassette recorder playing their

songs only one or two times before recording them. All three took turns at writing

lyrics, usually inspired by things or people from high school.

On May 24, 1988, the Two-Tones recorded their most popular song, "Hog". It was

inspired by their English teacher. Their frustration with her had been building up

all school year so at the end of their junior year they wrote and recorded a song

about her. They played it for many of their friends and family. People often said it

sounded like the Beastie Boys song "Fight for Your Right (to Party)", which it

unintentionally did.

For the next year they recorded many songs together. In June of 1989, Jeremy left

for West Point. It was the summer of 1989 that Jason put together the Two-Tones

album called Heimlich Maneuver, along with a lyric booklet for the album. It was

then officially released on December 5, 1989. Not many people heard that album.

Having graduated from high school, a lot of their friends were moving away or

getting jobs, the care-free high school days were gone.

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In the fall of 1989, Harry and Jason asked their friend Joe to replace Jeremy as the

third official member of the Two-Tones. They got together for a few recording

sessions over the next several months. Below are some pictures of the "new" Two-

Tones.

(above, l-r: Jason, Joe, Harry)

May 22, 1990, was their last recording session. They recorded the first take on a

song called "Midnight High" using an old mixer Jason got from work. The song

needed more work and even though suggestions were made on how to improve it,

the Two-Tones never played again.

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By now Jason was busy with his solo music career. He had been recording his own

keyboard songs for a while and in June of 1990 he would record what would

become one of the earliest Mune Mud songs, "Plutonic". Harry was busy with

another band that played at parties and clubs. And Joe gave up the band life and

became a radio DJ.

In 2000, a detailed account of the Two-Tones was written. Metal XOR Studio is

trying to acquire the rights to that story. When they do it will be updated and

published for all to read.

Next week: What is X-Selsior?



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Just For Fun #3

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

From all of us at Metal XOR Studio


Labels: Just for Fun

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Jason and Nikki have written and recorded a few songs together. A few of themwere for church. Below is the March 14, 1999, bulletin that lists Nicole Meyer

(prior to being married to Mune Mud) as singing the Message in Song.

A hand-written note by Jason says "He Lifts Me Up". That was the song Nikki sang

that day at church.

This bulletin remains in the Holy Relic Wing of the Metal XOR Studio Museum.



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Listen Online!

The seventh installment of Listen Online features Nikki singing at church.

She and Jason have written a couple of songs in the last few years that she sang at

church. This song was called "He Lifts Me Up". It was originally a song Jason had

written and recorded for Nikki called "Fallen Star Wish" which appeared on their

2001 EP Love Songs. The music remained the same but they wrote new lyrics for it.

Jason videotaped her singing it at church and pulled the audio from the tape for

the "live" version of the song.

Click here to listen to the live version of the song.


Labels: Listen Online

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Album of the Week #14: One Way

Project name: X-SelsiorAlbum name: One Way

Release date: unreleased(recorded in 1988-1989)


Studio name: none

Tracks:

1. The Fly in Your Eye

2. Summertime

3. F-14

4. Jungle Fever

5. You Are the Bread of My Bologna Sandwich

6. Any Day Now

7. Trop Tard Pour Au Revoir

8. Time

Records of Jason's solo career were not kept very well from 1987-1991. There is an

occasional date on a lyric sheet or some other document, but recordings usually

were not dated. So that makes it tough to piece together this part of the Studio's

history (before the Studio was a studio).

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Harry and Jason had finished with their earliest music career (ad-libbed singing to

instrumental music on the radio) by 1988 or so. In fact, their band Pheonix had

been put together and they were busy with that. But at home Jason continued the

radio singing. But now he was recording the music off the radio, writing lyrics to

the songs, and then recording himself singing his lyrics to the music he had

recorded off the radio. The solo career was evolving.

This was a short album compiling the songs he had recorded this way. It was

probably finished in 1988 or 1989. No one has heard this album and possib ly never

will.

The album title undoubtedly came from a road sign Jason saw somewhere. X-

Selsior, with the strange spelling (which he was prone to do in the earlier Studio

years), is the name he gave his first solo project. And this was the first time he

had compiled songs to make an "album", complete with hand-drawn album cover.

There is only one copy of this album in the world and there are no plans to re -issue

it on CD. It is just an embarrassing part of the Studio's early history.

Next week's Album of the Week: Parabolic Dish Festival Volume 1 by Isthmus from

1998.

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Lyric Booklet #5: Equation of Time

The fifth album to include lyrics was Mune Mud's 1996 album Equation of Time.The booklet was titled "A Japanese Lullaby" and was only eight pages long. It was

the first lyric booklet created on a computer.

This was the first of what was to be a new series of "mini" lyric booklets (there

ended up only two in the series). It measured 4"x5.5". The print was very small so

2-3 songs could fit on each page. There was no table of contents or epilogue to

this booklet, just lyrics to every song on the album.

This booklet was released on August 20, 1996, one week after the album was

released. After this "mini" booklet was made, the Studio went back to create

booklets for older albums, starting with NueroMud's 1994 album ...Libra 971. But

the project ended after the second booklet was released.

The title came from an anagram that was printed on the inside of the Equation of

Timetape sleeve. The phrase came from an old black & white spy movie Jason

watched at work one day. The anagram of 'Japanese Lullaby' was added to the

tape sleeve and no one was able to figure it out. Funnier yet, no one realized theanswer was right under their nose when the lyric booklet was handed out.

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This Day in Studio History

It was November 27, 1997, when Jason and Jimmy recorded themselves having anacoustic guitar jam session as the band ORC in Jason's garage. The session was

recorded on a microcasette recorder and became known as the Theater of Pain

jam session. The significance of that session was that demos for a few of the songs

that made it on their 1999 Purging the Great Abyssalbum were recorded that

night. There were many other demos recorded that have not been polished... yet.

That decade went by fast!


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Project Spotlight #14: What is X-Selsior?

Records of Jason's solo career were not kept very well from 1987-1991. There is anoccasional date on a lyric sheet or some other document, but recordings usually

were not dated. So that makes it tough to piece together this part of the Studio's

history (before the Studio was a studio).

Harry and Jason had finished with their earliest music career (ad-libbed singing to

instrumental music on the radio) by 1988 or so. In fact, their band Pheonix had

been put together and they were busy with that. But at home Jason continued the

radio singing. But now he was recording the music off the radio, writing lyrics to

the songs, and then recording himself singing his lyrics to the music he had

recorded off the radio. The solo career was evolving. He called it X-Selsior.

There was only one album released as X-Selsior. It was titled One Way. It was a

short album compiling the songs he had recorded this way on his own. It was

probably finished in 1988 or 1989. There are no plans to re-issue this album on CD.

Next week: What is Parvo?



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Blog News: 100th Post

This is post #100!!!

It is safe to say the surface has been scratched on the amount of information that

the Studio wants to share with the world. What began as an idea for a weekly post

has exploded into a flow of content much larger and faster than I ever dreamed.

Even an attempt to slow down the frequency of the posts failed. So I give up. I will

continue to post whenever I feel a post is needed, which is usually daily.

It is interesting to see how much online change there has been for the Studio since

the blog began. I have always wanted a way to organize all my Studio information,

this is it. I now have this blog site as well as four other websites:

The Metal XOR Studio Information Source

The Traveling Deengelburys website

Albino Boy website

The ORC blog (which will become more active after January 1)

Let's see how much more the Studio grows online in the coming months. See you at

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