I recently spent time in Rome, Ga with Kelly working on some new Newsboy Legion stuff and breaking in his new studio gear. Before I left, I found these tracks which were designed to be on the second ‘Twilight of the Puppets’ concept piece.
Puppet Pieces this features various pieces and songs in on mp3.
In the early 90′s, I developed a fixation with Lee Perry’s production. His murky, weed clouded efforts were a soothing balm to my psychotic state. I unearthed this disturbing track which sums up everything that was wrong with my being during those years. A sample from a prog rock group, a sample from Jerry Butler and lots of screaming sounds like the wizard ghost being sucked into Satan’s canyon of despair. Enjoy.
I found this practice tape from around ’92-’93 of Ultraboy. The sound quality is abysmal, so be forwarned. the impression I got from this was a young and giddy Mike Coleman. I constantly laugh at every idea I have or anybody else’s for that matter. I am somewhat annoying with my wheezing guffaws, but man I sure was enthusiastic. We all were! Kelly Shane shows us some mad drumming skills. The meshing of these bizarre styles and personalities is something to behold. What that something is. We’ll never put the finger on, but it feels right! Johnny is in the ether as usual!
Bouquet of Bacon was our attempt to contextualize a story we heard from a drunken member of a local Tallahassee metal band. We wanted it to sound like Molly Hatchet and it kind of does, until the weird little jazz breaks. The short story is some guys were at a party and these two people paired off to go make sweet metal love. While the humping was going full throttle, these other guys burst into the room and started whipping them with fists full of raw bacon. Hence “Bouquet of Bacon” was born.
Star Spangled Boner had lyrics that we pieced together from a bunch of televangelist rantings that Kelly transcribed.
Baby’s on Fire is a Brian Eno cover given the Ultraboy treatment. I believe there is a studio version of this elsewhere on the site. This is the raw, beefed out version.
Chinese Steak is also somewhere else on the site in studio form. Here is a practice version in No-D.
Here’s where we discuss disturbing the audience. I am not proud of this.
A typical practice discussion involving Foghat. I talk about the incredible vocal/guitar interplay of Peverett and Co. The other guys go along with my tendencies.
Even Red Ryder is not spared.Lunatic Fringe. Oddly enough, this obsession continued like 13 years never happened into one of the new Ultraboy songs posted earlier.
Tupelo Honkey is what you get when a band has no new song ideas.