Catnip

Karman Line (Chicago Beat) - Demo - 2-25-13

Connor Bell played Bass
Todd Hancock played Drums
Tim Furnish played Guitar and other sounds.

More Sacks

Crain was Tony Bailey, Jon Cook, Todd Cook, Tim Furnish

Jon is delivering some very typical cringe inducing between tune banter. I could not stand that shit. Near the end of our existence. Beware. 

CRAIN - Live Oct 30th 1995 @ Cherokee Blues Club

Practice version of Resist Ants that appears on the 2016 self titled Parlour album. January 26, 2017

Rehearsals

Resist Ants-Rehearsal 170126

One of my Crain tunes during the Speed line-up that never got recorded properly. This is from a practice tape. It was played once at The Vogue Theater. 1991?

Crain - Crainstrumental

Tim Furnish, Connor Bell, Tony Bailey, Todd Cook 
Recorded in 2003 by Paul Oldham for TRL Thank You Compilation CD

Landlaked

Downsized v1.1

This is the first arrangement I've put together for this tune. The ending or last 3/4 of the tune are still not working for me.

Clot March 2020 Inthebox V1

Demos for 2019 Album

Hypnagogic Reverie Demo 3

Back in April of 2020, legendary Louisville guitarist Wink O'bannon reached out to me because he had enjoyed this "Downsized" Parlour demo I had recently posted. He said he wanted to lay down some guitar tracks on it and I was incredibly honored to have him offer this gift. Not long after he submitted this file which consists of 5 passes of the tune with different approaches each. I think it sounds great and hope to edit it together in a final form someday, but provide this as he presented it.  It may have been his last recording. I'm not sure. Sadly, he passed away on June 30, 2020 to complications of the fucker called Cancer. His curmudgeonly demeanor used to intimidate me, but I'm glad that in these past several years, we've bonded over discussions of music and idiocy sitting alone in Seidenfadens. I will miss him dearly.

“Oh, I recorded it immediately and dubbed on it without bothering to figure out the structure. Then I threw on some backwards guitars to go with the backwards bell (or was it just backwards decay?). But it wasn't violent enough. I promised aggression. So I did another pass which was marginally angrier. I'd call it "of marginal interest". It sometimes helps to know the structure.” 

“As soon as I can stop playing "Maggot Brain" over and over again, I'm on it. I've already done the dishes and watched every episode of "Time Team" five times, so here I go. More later.”

"...Nonetheless, because I have a sense of humor that involves self-deprecation, I'm hoping to attach my "sketches", in reverse chronological order, for your amusement. The early "angry" sketches veer into noise and guitar hero crap, which I think is fairly funny. I may be mistaken. I don't think any of this constitutes a worthwhile addition, though there is some potential counter-point in there somewhere, and low-end "surf guitar" is generally a nice thing if not overdone."

"It didn't really need me. Maybe the low end stuff accentuated a theme. As is usual, "Rock guitar" is if anything an annoying distraction and should be reserved for short bursts if employed at all. Sadly, I'm pretty good at that stuff. I've been off of FB for a few days. Lemme see what I can do. Other than having fun making noise, my approach is (usually): do no harm. For instance, I wanted to emulate what I call the "moaning voices", but I didn't want to bury them. and so on...."  

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Photo of Wink by Mike Bucayu outside Seidenfadens.

Demos 2020

Downsized To Death in 5 Passes with Wink O'Bannon on Guitar

Parlour is an instrumental music group from Louisville, KY. Albums available at http://temporaryresidence.com/artists/parlour

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