Fete Fatale - Same Old Shit
This song started out being titled "Same Old Shit," which would imply that it's pretty much the exact same thing as Distracted, or any number of other songs in our arsenal. SOS stuck as a title for a long time, until we finally graduated to Fete Fatale at some point when the movie narrative was developed by K.
Makeshift Process
I think Ned had a version of Fete on four track that he was working off of - I don't remember ever playing it in our practice space before it was recorded. In fact I still have a hard time remembering how to play it! Ned played the lions share of instruments on this track. To start out he played bass, (after he had recorded the drums of course), and then preformed most of the guitars. I don't remember too much about that, except that I remember the parts being somewhat meandering and that he recorded two tracks of guitar using my blue paul, possibly with the boogie(?), and that he was in the room with the amp, cause he was going for a feedbacky feel I think.
I played many of the guitars in the B section, including a banjo line, possibly? I think ned played the banjo in the outro. Banjo was appropriately distressed and ran through an MXR distortion box (using Ned's pickup) and into some amp, the Scout would be my guess... Around this time I recorded several guitar solos over the end of the song, later deciding I hated them all, so they were mixed in very quietly. I also played some scratchy guitar parts into the scout or some other tiny amp. Those are the small-stoned sounding guitars in the intro I belive.
Tributes
The B section has the infamous Dan Martinez Memorial Guitar line - which is buried way in the background and goes chug chug chug in a nice thin tone of a strat, but it's probably Ned playing Daron's tele. It might even have gone through my awful black box, the VORTEX. I added an acoustic guitar to the b section at home @ Blue Brain Room while pre mixing. Darron brought that part out nicely when we remixed it after mastering the record and deciding the track was too weak to be the opener in the state we had it in. To be honest, I think it might have been one of the first things we ever mixed for real at Q.
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
One important component to this piece is the Steve Reich slide part which was initially three tracks of the identical slide part. These came in and out in important parts, as they still do; except that only two tracks made it to the final mix, due to 24 track limitations of the mBox. I recorded this one night alone in some frustration at our lack of progress on the record. Little did I know then that we had many more moons to go!
The Machine
Most important though are the samples. In the very first A section before the guitars really kick in you hear an organ part from some spooky movie (Attack Of The Giant Leeches?), which we cut up carefully and arranged in that space - it really makes that part, and is now a big feature in the live performance. We also have a strong female presence admonishing us that One man isn't going to change everything - which might be a good way for us to think of John Kerry.
In the very intro we thought we'd be clever and add a man who says: I thought it was the end! when in fact everyone knows they just hit play and heard the first track of the record - how smarty! That man, btw, reappears later and says "Nasal Block" (Dne Eht Saw Ti Thguoht) leaving the B section I think?
I believe that intro was a little manufactured, I think Fete had started right away with the drums and bass, but i think I flew a few guitar lines earlier to add a little width to the event.
I Thought It Was The End!
The very end has a both the Major Dillon introduction, the high hat solo, and the distorted and delayed epic banjo section. We fought with this section quite a bit in the premixing phase.
The last (but possibly most important) thing to get added, during mastering, was the Invisible Ray sound. It's taken directly from the movie of the same title and is the sound the gun made while being fired - i think in this instant it's being fired at a mountain. It's actually being used in reverse for some reason.
Makeshift Process
I think Ned had a version of Fete on four track that he was working off of - I don't remember ever playing it in our practice space before it was recorded. In fact I still have a hard time remembering how to play it! Ned played the lions share of instruments on this track. To start out he played bass, (after he had recorded the drums of course), and then preformed most of the guitars. I don't remember too much about that, except that I remember the parts being somewhat meandering and that he recorded two tracks of guitar using my blue paul, possibly with the boogie(?), and that he was in the room with the amp, cause he was going for a feedbacky feel I think.
I played many of the guitars in the B section, including a banjo line, possibly? I think ned played the banjo in the outro. Banjo was appropriately distressed and ran through an MXR distortion box (using Ned's pickup) and into some amp, the Scout would be my guess... Around this time I recorded several guitar solos over the end of the song, later deciding I hated them all, so they were mixed in very quietly. I also played some scratchy guitar parts into the scout or some other tiny amp. Those are the small-stoned sounding guitars in the intro I belive.
Tributes
The B section has the infamous Dan Martinez Memorial Guitar line - which is buried way in the background and goes chug chug chug in a nice thin tone of a strat, but it's probably Ned playing Daron's tele. It might even have gone through my awful black box, the VORTEX. I added an acoustic guitar to the b section at home @ Blue Brain Room while pre mixing. Darron brought that part out nicely when we remixed it after mastering the record and deciding the track was too weak to be the opener in the state we had it in. To be honest, I think it might have been one of the first things we ever mixed for real at Q.
Look, Fete In The Box!
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
One important component to this piece is the Steve Reich slide part which was initially three tracks of the identical slide part. These came in and out in important parts, as they still do; except that only two tracks made it to the final mix, due to 24 track limitations of the mBox. I recorded this one night alone in some frustration at our lack of progress on the record. Little did I know then that we had many more moons to go!
The Machine
Most important though are the samples. In the very first A section before the guitars really kick in you hear an organ part from some spooky movie (Attack Of The Giant Leeches?), which we cut up carefully and arranged in that space - it really makes that part, and is now a big feature in the live performance. We also have a strong female presence admonishing us that One man isn't going to change everything - which might be a good way for us to think of John Kerry.
In the very intro we thought we'd be clever and add a man who says: I thought it was the end! when in fact everyone knows they just hit play and heard the first track of the record - how smarty! That man, btw, reappears later and says "Nasal Block" (Dne Eht Saw Ti Thguoht) leaving the B section I think?
I believe that intro was a little manufactured, I think Fete had started right away with the drums and bass, but i think I flew a few guitar lines earlier to add a little width to the event.
I Thought It Was The End!
The very end has a both the Major Dillon introduction, the high hat solo, and the distorted and delayed epic banjo section. We fought with this section quite a bit in the premixing phase.
The last (but possibly most important) thing to get added, during mastering, was the Invisible Ray sound. It's taken directly from the movie of the same title and is the sound the gun made while being fired - i think in this instant it's being fired at a mountain. It's actually being used in reverse for some reason.
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