Recorded in living room @ 44.1kHz/24bit using Echo AudioFire 12 to Logic Pro.

Kick: SM57 and EV ND868 on beater side to ART Pro MPA and JoeMeek Pre, respectively
Snare: Oktava MK012 to ART Pro MPA Pre
Drum over: Earthworks SR77 pair to Aphex 207 Pre
Bass: GK400 direct out to JoeMeek TwinQCS
Guitars: Shure Beta57A close front to GoldenAge Pre73
Violin: Shure Beta 57A front + Countryman DI before pedalboard to Aphex 107
Vocal overdubs:
Lead: Baby Bottle to JoeMeek
Backing 1: SM58 to ART Pro MPA
Backing 2: AKG C414 in bathroom to Aphex 207


Nothing Hard Wasted

Alone

You Send Me

Razor




Toadmortons is a Northern California indie rock band, named after an inbred cannibal in Nick Cave’s novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel.

Steve Bryant and Greg Hain formed the Toadmortons after their band Chance the Gardener ("The Day the Dogs Took Over", Warner Brothers Records 1996) ended. Their first effort, "Beware Morton’s Murder Mile" was released on San Francisco's Future Farmer Records in 1999, and was number three most added to college radio in the U.S. in the first week of its radio release.

 Toadmortons’ second record (The Toadmorton’s Collection, Long Live Crime Records, 2004) was a double C.D. containing songs from Beware Morton’s Murder Mile, a previously unreleased album, Shaking the Ghost, and a batch of new songs). The drummer during this period was Jimmy Brasier (who had been the drummer for Sweet Children which later became Green Day).

Bryant put Toadmortons on hiatus in 2004 in order to record and release two records under the name The Universal Steve, "E Pluribus Esteban", Long Live Crime Records, 2004, and "Ryer Island", Broken Halo Records, 2010).

Bryant, Hain, and Edberg reformed Toadmortons in 2012 with Roger Kunkel (Thin White Rope), and John Cypher (Grey Bouquet) and are currently at work on a new recording.

Steve Bryant – songwriter, vocals, guitar
John Cypher – violin, sitar, guitar
Steve Edberg – drums, percussion
Greg Hain – bass, vocals
Roger Kunkel – guitar, mandolin, vocals


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