ron wrote:
I can't believe I missed out on Stormbringer all this time... I probably saw 'comp' and figured I already had the songs. This thing is really good... Thanks for sending me the copy, Andy! (And, also for the PIT, which is cool.)
Hey, no problem man!! I'm always up for giving back to those who've given so much to the scene over the years....
To be honest, the Stormbringer "comp" is probably the most coherent thing in terms of us being a "band." In my opinion anyways. It's all from this middle period where we were largely collaborative (except for Caravan, which featured Eric Beaudry, original bassist) in the songwriting process. We were all on the same page, and we were also working with Justin P, who I thought did a great job with the sound and the mix.
If you can track it down, the "Suffering Is The Inheritance Of Man" split 7" with Ten Speed Warlock, despite a later release date, was really the start of that period for the band. The song we did was "Blood From The Godless Sky." I based the main riff around a drum beat that Clay was playing at practice. I wrote a shitty bridge initially, and we ended up using Gein's ideas. Justin Pizzoferratu mixed, and although my vocals weren't wonderful, he put them up in the mix. That song was recorded before most of the Stormbringer material, and released way afterwards due to various factors beyond our control, so it's a bit of an anomaly. It represents the beginning of the dynamic we had in that period though....I'm not sure where it all started to change, though that's often what happens.
I really do believe that most of those Stormbringer tracks represent the band at a high point. We were truly working off each others' ideas, and their honestly wasn't as much of that on the first or second album....