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cos ([personal profile] cos) wrote2009-10-25 09:09 pm
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Trillian Blonde

I found an old cardboard box of CDs that I hadn't gone through since several moves ago, that contained mostly CD-R's, demos, show recordings, pre-release albums from friends' bands, and the like, from the mid/late 90s. Unfortunately some of them were damaged - I think this box was in my trunk on a road trip a long time ago and soaked up some automotive liquid (antifreeze? wiper fluid?) from a leaky container. I've been able to restore some of them by washing them, though even most of those have some damaged tracks.

One that seems to have survived completely* (after washing) is "Bad Release: The Dead Opossum Sessions" by Oxytocin High. Which was their performance at WBRS that I recorded, and they possibly re-mixed then burned onto CD with track names and titles, and a nice printed label. Someone even entered all the track info into CDDB.

So I'm sitting here listening to [livejournal.com profile] lyonesse and [livejournal.com profile] ceelove singing songs they wrote, with instrumental accompaniment by [livejournal.com profile] coraline, [livejournal.com profile] nacht_musik, and a few of their friends. I can hear [livejournal.com profile] chaiya in the audience, and I know [livejournal.com profile] iabervon and [livejournal.com profile] veek are there.

I haven't listened to this in probably nearly a decade. But I used to sit in on some of their living room practices, and it's surprising how completely familiar every single song is. I didn't think I remembered their songs, and if you'd asked me yesterday I probably wouldn't have been able to recall any of them except maybe a title or two.

* One small skip in track 4, Ashes and Sighs.


[ Some of the other finds in this box: An early 4-track demo from January, and an early 4-track demo from Fluttr (before they became Fluttr Effect) which has some damage causing pops and hiss in the first ~10 seconds of each track ]
coraline: (jareth/sarah)

[personal profile] coraline 2009-10-26 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
actually, i'm fairly sure i wasn't in that version of the band, and was not in BRS that day.
(i was there for the CD-tracks we recorded at the WBRS studio later, but the dead possum sessions were on a weekday afternoon and i remember being miffed i couldn't get the live streaming to work from my office...)

[identity profile] ceelove.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
*ahem!* Nobody ever gave me one of those! Nor do I remember anything about opossums, dead or otherwise...

[identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
that's the clockwork elf, my very long-time collaborator. your cd probably includes both the actual dead opossum session (thus called b/c i had a head-cold that felt like an opossum had died in my sinuses) and some later takes we recorded in the same room a few days later with [livejournal.com profile] coraline.

i guess we were, umm, catchy :)

[identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
yup, i think i do have a copy; the producer would have sent me whatever he had. i have a bunch of later recordings (some on cd, some mp's) as well, some with the same lineup, some not at yr studio, &c. what's yr interest?

[identity profile] ceelove.livejournal.com 2009-10-27 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing that would be Aslan.
coraline: (silver&indigo)

[personal profile] coraline 2009-10-26 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
i have the MP3s if you want 'em :)

[identity profile] gravitrue.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Ditto!
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[personal profile] ceo 2009-10-26 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope that's a general "you". :-)

[identity profile] ceelove.livejournal.com 2009-10-27 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, please.

[identity profile] chaiya.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
My copy of Ashes & Sighs also has a skip. Which makes me really sad, since it's about my Gram.

[identity profile] gravitrue.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
During the broadcast, you accidentally momentarily cut the sound. I don't remember for sure that it was that song, but seems likely.

[identity profile] ceelove.livejournal.com 2009-10-27 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have a copy of the recording (not broadcast)? I can get you one, if not.

[identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com 2009-10-26 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, and it's "trillian" -- a reference to the band trillian green.

And on a completely unrelated note...

[identity profile] weegoddess.livejournal.com 2009-11-25 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
::dons a festive hat and dances around you::

Have a wonderful, wonderful day, hon!!!