First off: DOWNLOAD THE SONG HERE
It's my (solo) cover of Jilted John's "Jilted John". I'd been wanting to cover it forever. At first, Jeff was supposed to be part of this, but he only knew it from my playing of it excessively during Betsyoke Night* and didn't know it that well. So I decided to do the album version (which was mostly keyboard) as opposed to the single version (which was produced by Martin Hannett, guitars, really echoy drums, the whole nine yards). I'm such a music nerd.
So I did all the parts myself. Well, except the drums, which are pretty obviously a drum machine preset (our drum machine is an Alesis SR-16 named Cookie Vecchio). I chose the drum sound because it sounded like the Casio SK1 I killed accidentally by plugging in the wrong power chord (I will never forget the smell).
Wow, that was a tangent! Anyway, uh, as may be made pretty obvious by the above recording, I love keybords but I'm not very good at them. I am pretty much capable of playing one note at a time within a single octave. As such, I ended up recording the keyboards on two seperate parts (bass and treble). The chords were done with SYNTHESIZER WIZARDRY. And it took me a bajillion takes to do without messing up majorly!
The vocals were very fun to do though! One take, because I'm punk rock and whatnot.
Hope you enjoy it!
xoxo
Shari
*Betsyoke Night: fabled series of nights when we lived in a terrible apartment on 36th Street that was mouldy, crumbly, leaky and full of bugs. Our landlady was named Betsy and she sucked and never fixed anything. So we had nights where we played music rather loudly and de-vocaled the music using a program on our computer and sang along.
Wow, that was a tangent! Anyway, uh, as may be made pretty obvious by the above recording, I love keybords but I'm not very good at them. I am pretty much capable of playing one note at a time within a single octave. As such, I ended up recording the keyboards on two seperate parts (bass and treble). The chords were done with SYNTHESIZER WIZARDRY. And it took me a bajillion takes to do without messing up majorly!
The vocals were very fun to do though! One take, because I'm punk rock and whatnot.
Hope you enjoy it!
xoxo
Shari
*Betsyoke Night: fabled series of nights when we lived in a terrible apartment on 36th Street that was mouldy, crumbly, leaky and full of bugs. Our landlady was named Betsy and she sucked and never fixed anything. So we had nights where we played music rather loudly and de-vocaled the music using a program on our computer and sang along.
