when i was in high school,  i used to buy lots of guitar magazines. one issue of ‘guitar world’ (er… probably) had a lengthy interview with megadeth’s dave mustaine. the interviewer was asking him about their new album, and dave explained that the recording process was a bit like “cleaning every hair on your nut sack, one at a time”.

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i actually went looking for the exact quote, but googling for “dave mustaine megadeth nut sack recording” didn’t work out all that well and i gave up pretty quickly. but you get the general idea.

in closely related news, we got some more overdubs in (more keys and the electronic percussion). the tracks are starting to sound like this:

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( http://remaincalm.org/mp3/blog3.mp3 )

…so, yeah. all we have left at this point is steve’s vocals and guitar, and then some sort of maniac percussion marathon. we’re still looking for a suitable venue for that. it needs to be a room that can withstand the power of every cowbell in the world being hit at once. by giants.

i just got this stupid website working again (the admin pages were broken). now i have 2,246 comments waiting for approval (of which 2,216 are probably spam).

so, yeah. i might get onto that now.