Senior night, Class of 81, Watterson High Auditorium.  The Delirium Tremens make their final stand.

High school was supposed to be fun, right?  Well this part sure was.  Joe (guitar) and I (drums) met Freshman year and by Senior year we had already established a regular rock band.  Oh but this was something different.

The DT's were an idea to goof on the B-52's and Devo who were popular at the time.  It wouldn't be fun without adding in some friends who, while maybe not thinking of music as a life-long obsession were sure to bring their best game including Doug, Patrick and Kevin on vocals.   It wasn't goodbye but certainly a send off (send up?) from 4 years together.

My interest in playing drums has always been both to be a part of the music but also to fuel my desire to create and engineer recordings.  This I recorded live to a Technics M-6 cassette deck first through a dbx 118 compressor at 1.4:1 linear ratio then dubbed to a TEAC 1230 reel to reel using the 118 in peak limiting mode to tame the vocals.  You are hearing that 40ish year old recording played last week and transferred using a Focusrite USB interface.  I used an analog SAE 180 parametric equalizer at transfer to revive some life in the aged recording.

Your Love Is Like A Wormy Apple

DeliriumT