http://virb.com/themodrats Virb 2.0 (@themodrats) en http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/364419 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:25:34 -0800 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/364419 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/361025 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:59:34 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/361025 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/357734 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:01:29 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/357734 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/354789 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:48:30 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/354789 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/351589 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:37:20 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/351589 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/347926 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:15:30 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/347926 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/345453 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:36:42 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/345453 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/343471 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:33:51 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/343471 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/338753 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:37:31 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/338753 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/335385 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:15:33 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/335385 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/333074 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:54:43 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/333074 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/330517 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:09 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/audio/330517 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/917462 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:31:27 -0800 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/917462 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/898607 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:19:40 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/898607 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/882784 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:24:48 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/882784 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/871111 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:14:05 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/871111 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/853739 Kitty Litter you've already met Sophie and heard a song about her here. Well Tako is one of the other inspirations for her. Every stupid thing Sophie has ever said is pure Tako. No she's not a talking cat but ask anyone who has met her and they will tell you that she is bat shit crazy. She's acutally going nuts as I type this. She's a five year old cat who acts like a five month old kitten. And yes she likes to sit on my shoulders. Luckily she's not very big. Anyway, onto the recording process. I recorded a demo of this on my 4 track a long time ago and I gave it a real heavy 80's sound (they're coming back have you heard?) it sounded really good but I wanted to add some stuff. Unfortunately the keyboard at Lee's house is much nicer than mine and the drum tracks on it sound more like real drums than on my yamaha keyboard. Normally this would be good but not for this song. All that being said I think the drum track we did was just fine just not as fake as I wanted it to sound. I did the bass track on the same keyboard with a synth bass effect which I had to do twice and was a pain in the ass. My favorite part though is the jam section. Lee plays the first guitar solo which is awesome, he's a much better guitar soloist than I could ever be. My guitar solo is the second and is loaded with plenty of obnoxious distortion to mask the fact that I suck. This also probably has the most abstract ending out of any song we've ever recorded. Pete started messing with a soon to be burned upright piano in our studio and we were inspired to put it at the end of the song. Unfortunately we were getting crappy sound out of it so I recorded the little didy at the end with the keyboard. All in all I think this song is one of the best sounding we've ever done and I'm real happy with it. Hope you like it too. Later, Ryan H. Credits: Ryan H.-Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards Lee K.- Electric Guitar, Recording and Producing]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:40:30 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/853739 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/845977 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:48:16 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/845977 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/833363 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:42:41 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/833363 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/824257 Kitty Litter , a lot of my monster have them like the one in the story I'm doing now and thouroughly just love to draw them. Almost as much as zombies. Anyway, it's no wonder that tentacles would seep into my music. I wrote this during a period of writing a lot of water inspired music. I don't live near the water and haven't been near the ocean in a very long time but I do live close to a pretty big lake so maybe driving past it every day inspired me. That and I like pirates and tentacles. The way the song loops back to the begining at the end was a happy accident while Lee and I were mixing and adding keyboards and fillers. I love happy accidents and it's rare that we don't use them. I can't remember much else about this recording session other than I think it's one of the first songs we recorded on the computer. It's a couple years old but still holds strong I think. Later, Ryan H. Credits: Ryan H.-Vocals, Electric guitar, Keyboards Pete S.- Bass Lee K.- Drums, Recording and Producing]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:48:22 -0700 http://virb.com/themodrats/posts/text/824257