Shotgun Truth
This song was trouble from the beginning. Jason has a tendency to rest his foot on the hi-hat pedal while he plays, and his foot creates very slight variences in pressure on the pedal. This slight wobbling effect sent TONS of MIDI data into the Alesis sequencer we were using at the time, and consequently filled the machine's memory in no time. To complicate the problem further, some of the MIDI controller data being sent by the Roland drum kit was 'unknown' by the Alesis sequencer (I think the Roland was sending data that wasn't in the MIDI spec back when the Alesis was made). This resulted in a drum track that went all over the place, tempo-wise. The rest of us (foolishly) recorded our tracks to this time-shifting drum track, thus making our tracks sway above and below the desired tempo. (We should have stuck to the click..) Anyway, when we later switched to the Roland sequencer, we dumped the Alesis data over into the Roland. Through some MIDI magic (and a feature of the Roland called "Shift-clock") we were able to get the drum track back into reasonable timing. However, this made the shifts in the other instrument tracks apparent in some places, so it sound like the *rest* of us goofed up! We decided to live with it, and chalk it up to experience. Besides, we were pretty much sick of the tune by then!
| Tom | Steve | Jason | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Vocals | X | - | - |
| Backing Vocals | X | X | - |
| Guitars (electric) | - | X | - |
| Guitars (acoustic) | X | X | - |
| Drums | - | - | X |
*Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals - Mark Porter
Country-ish rock tune.. we didn't intend it to be that way, that's just the way it turned out! Who are we to try to change it?
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Shotgun Truth Copyright © 1994 Bloomquist, Campbell & Heintz / (P) 1994 Lost Frontier.
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