On going thru my old cassette collection and trying to weed out the wheat from the chaf (lotta chaf) I discovered a lot of old band files and practices including the Misery Makers first demo. It was recorded in my basement in Wheaton MD by some guy named Jesse and was sonically challenged to say the least. The drums were recorded too hot, the guitars sound like they're surrounded by lint, there's loads of tape hiss and it's on cassette. Unfortunately its my favorite thing I ever recorded with The Misery Makers and is the quintessence of the garage rock sound and attitude we were going for. So after much EQ, reverb and compression I've remastered the thing to a point where it's listenable! I'm putting up the remixed files along with the original cassette tape source for that raw, necro sound. It doesn't get any more lo-fi than this, yet it has its brutal charms. Download it if you like it! 

Musicians involved:
Bill McKenna(?) - vocals
Scott Albertson - guitar right channel
Bob (?) - guitar left channel
Mitch Parker - bass
Darryl Dardenne - drums, percussion

Damn, can't remember all the names, sorry.

02 Well Alright

03 Gotta Get Out

04 Skyman

01 Tight Rack - raw mix

02 Allright - raw mix

03 Gotta Get Out - raw mix

04 Skyman - raw mix

Going into the wayback machine with the cassette mining. This is a demo for Tongue And Groove recorded Nov. 1988 at Gascan Funland Studios (Bongo Pat's basement studio) by my progressive rock, for lack of a better term, band Tongue And Groove. The sound is dense, something like Rush meets U2, but with a definite pop sensibility. Most of this was recorded live with minimal overdubs: rain stick and an occasional guitar part. That was because Elvis Eno used a huge number of delays and processors in a rack that would have made The Edge jealous. Eventually this technological monstrosity would be about five feet tall, filled top to bottom with gear and would incorporate a rather large midi pedal board. But this was the behemoth's infancy and so wasn't quite as impressive yet, though Elvis was the only one who could get a sound out of it. The band would make subsequent recordings but this was the beginning. Not bad for a trio, cringe worthy mistakes and all. It was recorded in a day after all.
As for the recording, the only thing I had was a cassette source so after much EQing, and a little compression and panning fixes, I got something that is just about as good as it's gonna get. Enjoy. 
On a side note Steev was the original guitarist for the Submensas, I was second drummer and Doug was one of several bass players. This band sounds nothing like the Subs.

Elvis Eno (Steev Geest) - guitar and devices, vocals
Chairman Mao Townshend (Doug Gaerlan) - bass 
Ringo Jones (Darryl Dardenne) - drums, percussion
Bongo Pat (Pat Welsh) - recording and patience

01 Light

02 Katadn

03 Drunk

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