Minor edits to save time between tunes, but more or less the whole thing from the Dead Wax Records gig on August 24, 2013. Check it out. Download the MP3 if you want it, but it is not mixed and it came straight off of a video camera so be forewarned. Thanks!
-Sam

Togaz Live: Audio From Dead Wax

This tune was mixed on the fly by Brother Mattlantis while he was showing me some tricks in Reaper. He started finding all the things I was hearing in my head WAAAAYYYY quicker than me.
Gotta hand it to my brothers in the band for turning in a pretty damn killer performance too. Layton is so solid on this you'd swear it was a drum loop.
-Sam

Tri-State Crematorium

This version of Zombie Strippers from Valdese is  on the "They Came to Destroy the Carolinas" compilation disc produced by Dead Wax Records in Lenoir, NC. 
The band recorded the track in "Toagz Tavern" on a Fostex VF-16 and moved tracks in Reaper for mix down on an old XP Windows machine. 
The sound we are going for is that of the first Fastway record, early Motorhead, early Kiss and the first Motley Crue record. 

Zombie Strippers from Valdese (Comp Version)

SECOND Testing on LANDR mastering on one of the tunes we have mixed for The Togaz record.
Lesson learned.
NEVER, EVER allow looking at the visual of a waveform make you second guess your own ear.
I KNOW better and this version is way better dynamically than the first. 
Brian Beaver played the drums on this cut with four mics on the kit. He also played "band director" while we were recording. I don't think it would have turned out half as cool without his input on it.
Chris Berry has two bass lines one clean/one dirty and did a Juno synth line. He and Brian really locked in and carried the groove on this tune.
Jon Parsons did all the spacey "Floydesque" intro/outro guitars, a rhythm part and sang the choruses. All of his guitars were improvised on the spot and there are no overdubs on Jon at all. I've been playing music with him for 20 plus years and he never fails to give me a "wow moment" when we are in the middle of a project. 
I played the heavy rock rhythm guitar part, the fills, did the "Frehley rip off" solo in the middle, played the melodic keyboard parts and sang the verses.
Chris and I mixed it a couple of months back for the album we've been working on for a while and I wanted to see what the difference between a "mastered version" and our "straight up mix" version is if I'm going to start using the service. There is a lot more going on in this tune than normal Togaz fare so I thought it would be a great test. Being pretty pleased with the results at 192 bps on an MP3- I think that I will try it for a while. I imagine an uncompressed .wav file is going to be even better.


Danger (Landr version #2)

This track is from the soon to be released (in some format or another)Togaz "album".  This one is unmastered, but I dig the tune and where we went with it. It has been a long time coming, but the record is almost finished. 
Players on this song are Jon Parsons on vocals and lyrics, Chris Berry on bass, Layton Andrews on Drums and Sam Edmisten on guitars

Cocaine Breakfast

MP3 of Rise of the Monkey Men mastered in Landr as a test. 
This is Jon Parsons on Vocals and super cool "squeal guitar", Layton Andrews on the skins, Chris Berry on Bass and Sam Edmisten on guitar. 
Jon and i came up with this one right before the reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise a few years ago. 

Rise Of The MonkeyMen

Chinese Buffet

I ran across this gem of us about a month after Chris and Grayson joined us in July 2011. Blood on the Concrete Floor with a full band complement. I'm not sure I had heard it since we dumped it out of the multi-track, but it was worth sharing. All of us were playing it pretty intensely. 

Blood On The Concrete Floor (live In The Garage)

This one was a trip to run across yesterday. I think we played it exactly one time when we were rehearsing in the garage. 
We banged out the chord progressions and this is one of those prime examples of "Jonny on the Spot" with lyrics and melody. Chris locked in with Grayson on the groove and I don't think I've ever played the guitar like this track before... or since. 
It was a neat one off that we should have gone back to investigate a bit more. GOOD stuff though

So Unreal

Togaz from the gig (04-26-2013) at The Electric Funeral in Hildebran, North Carolina. 
Special thanks to Dennis Brown for hooking us up with the recording which he recorded and engineered the night of the show and later mixed. I've only done some minor editing to the tracks to get rid of wasted time between songs and the like. 

Secret Weapon Studios
https://soundcloud.com/dennis-brown-7

Blow up Girlfriend (Electric Funeral: Live)

Sabretooth Cougar (Electric Funeral: Live)

What appears to be the rock-n-roll anthem of the Togaz. A salute to both lasciviousness and undead female Waldensian erotic performance. 
This was recorded and engineered by Dennis Brown from the show at The Electric Funeral on April 26, 2013 

Zombie Strippers from Valdese (Electric Funeral: Live)

Togaz from the gig (04-26-2013) at The Electric Funeral in Hildebran, North Carolina. 
Special thanks to Dennis Brown for hooking us up with the recording which he recorded and engineered the night of the show and later mixed. I've only done some minor editing to the tracks to get rid of wasted time between songs and the like.

Secret Weapon Studios
@dennis-brown-7

Erik the Viking

Technically the Togaz formed in the summer of 2010, but spiritually they formed the spring of 1982 during the filming of a high school English project. (See Julius Caesar 1982)
Jon and Sam have been joined at the hip ever since like some perverse Jeremy Irons amalgam in projects including Hemp Rope Dream, The Plurals and Happy Valley Social Club. 
Through their veins pours a mixture of Dave Roth and Boba Fett as birthed upon the world by a coupling of Robert Smith and Linda Lovelace. 
When Grayson and Chris joined the team on drums and bass respectively in 2011 the mixture was complete to unleash upon the world a brand new batch of quadragenarian cock rock complete with firetrucks, hookers, comic books, guitar strings, used condoms and pyrotechnics. We are everything that our mothers ever feared we would be... and less.
For those with great big cocks: WE SALUTE YOU. 
ROCK ON!

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