BLOGLINE ENDEAVOR... Footstep Paranoia

Footstep Paranoia (Original)


"Footstep paranoia, a man who could fit through a pipe..."

The best way to describe this song, Footstep Paranoia, would be to show the lyrics. WARNING: Viewer Discretion is advised...

He slit my throat when I saw him there
I knew he was part of my fears
I envisioned him in a green hobble suit
As if a trip was for years

Flashback magic hit me again
I envisioned him two feet tall
Crawling from an empty room across the way
He threw me into the wall

It brought out my nightmares of youth
It made me very scared
With this dwarf morphing inside my mind
It turned me very weird

Ahhh, Footstep Paranoia
A man who could fit through a pipe
Crawling through a window without a sound
Bringing on a sudden fright

Ahhh, All in a two second vision quest
It's as if it was more than real
There he was running into my room
I don't think that I could deal

I don't think that I could deal
I don't think that I could deal

He fondled me tearing my genitals
He raped me with circus toys
My deepest thoughts were of his feelings
Of anger, fear and joy

Of anger, fear and joy

I don't think that I could deal

Now some of you may be asking... Mr. Prismatic, what is wrong with your brain? Or you might be asking... Ummm, did you eat paint chips when you were a kid? Or maybe you just want to know what kind of drugs I'm doing and if I have any more? ...well...

This song was revamped as a SUB ONE track for the CD release, IYUS AAS MEMSMIS but originally appeared on the Prismatic release.

From the Prismatic / SUB ONE archive... 'Footstep Paranoia'

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BLOGLINE ENDEAVOR... Crawl (You and Me)

Crawl (You and Me)


"Lightning strikes the rain must fall, ripples form upon the ground..."

My musical tastes were changing, my creative landscape was changing, times were changing and so my songwriting was changing.

'Crawl (You and Me)' is an upbeat, eclectic tune with a very distinct disco rhythm. I belt out the phrase "TALK ABOUT SOMEONE WHO ANALYZED" at the beginning of the song. The story behind this phrase comes from a conversation I had with a friend (who shall remain nameless) where I was discussing a class I had at school. In this class, our professor was discussing certain songs track by track and what type of effects were being used, how the audio field was processed through panning each track in the mix, so on and so forth. Upon explaining this to my friend, he says "**tsk** Gee!! Talk about someone who analyzes WAY too much!" So I figured on taking that much of the conversation and running with it.

This was another song written for the Prismatic cassette and was also re-recorded later as 'Face' as the B-side for the SUB ONE - Inner Nine single release.

From the Prismatic archives... 'Crawl (You and Me)'

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BLOGLINE ENDEAVOR... Bossa Me Lost Ya

Bossa Me Lost Ya


"When the music starts, when the lights go down..."

Let's just say I had one too many during this particular recording. There's a first for everything. In any normal situation when I'm recording a song I won't engage in any type of illicit activities. However, if my memory serves me correctly I decided to record after a visit from the Veritas boys. During the winter months of 1993, Veritas was using my apartment as a practice spot and they had left their equipment with me on several occassions which gave me free reign to do what I wanted. The bass player at the time, Matt Skirpan left me with an ART effects processor that I put to good use. Most of the vocal material that was recorded for Prismatic was mixed using this processor.

During one practice, I drank myself stupid and after the band left for Allentown I was left to my own devices and a case of beer. I really didn't have anywhere to go so I decided to record a few songs that I had been working on. One was 'Footstep Paranoia' and the other was 'Bossa Me Lost Ya'.

The context of this song is very confusing. At one moment it's as if you're listening to Wayne Newton meets Ween with lyrics courtesy of Barry White. The next moment, you hear a very haphazard acoustic guitar solo as I am whispering "I like the sound of the acoustic guitar." The song reaches it's climax as the words "Baby, Baby, Baby" are uttered very enthusiastically and repeatedly. This ends up morphing into a repetitious chanting of the name "Dannay BON-AH-DOO-CHAY"!! Yet we are left muttering "Baby, Baby, maybe" once again as the song ends in a flutter of squeaks, and coughs and belches!

THE END... HA HA!

So without further a-doo... 'Bossa Me Lost Ya' from the Prismatic archive.

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BLOGLINE ENDEAVOR... Prismatic (You Feel Space)

Prismatic (You Feel Space)


"With a fire in your head, you feel space, with that look in your eye, you feel space..."

'Prismatic (You Feel Space)' takes the record in the SUB ONE/Prismatic archives as the recording with the most takes. After digging through my library I found 4 different cassettes with different instrumental takes, vocal takes, vocal overdubs and even an acoustic guitar overdub version.

Even though a lot of work was put into making this song happen, it still remains "unfinished and dissatisfied" to this day. The version I have included on the SUB ONE blog is the best mix I could find out of the batch and it still has a lot to be desired (at least in my opinion). The instrumental track is overcompressed due to the rather inferior equipment used in the recording process. Other reasons for my dissatisfaction would include the overpowered mix in the vocals and there is also a small reference to a Pete Shelley song, "Homosapien" that I find rather weak and mundane. Listen for that and my cheesy laugh towards the end of the keyboard/guitar solo.

However, I did feel that this song was adequate enough to include on the Prismatic cassette release. One thing that I find interesting after listening to this song so many years later is the be-bop/avante-garde jazz element within the instrumentation. So there is a silver lining of sorts to this song.

Here it is, from the Prismatic archive... 'Prismatic (You Feel Space)' by Prismatic

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