Found this in a subdirectory called ..shit/crap/new/

I remember doing it a few weeks ago, one live take then two additional takes to add two harmony parts to the chorus, just to kill some time.. but according to the timestamps on the file and the master tracks, I actually recorded this in Aug 2006. Where has time gone? Has it really been that long since The Detached has recorded an original track?

Uh oh. Stagnation. Maybe I'll do something about that. Maybe. *sigh* Apathy....

Anyway, here's a cover of a cover of an updated rendition/derivation:
jesus-mixdown.mp3

--VR

so in my downtime, I've tried to impersonate Peter Murphy, Gary Numan... now I try to pull off another pose, this time as Kurt Cobain.

Come As You Are

This is a first-take vocal track. After hearing it, I'm sure I could go back and do better (fake it harder) but I won't, so I'm linking it here on the off chance someone will here it and think I pulled it off. :-)

Cheers.

Bauhaus "medley"

Now, this was mainly done as a lark, and will only be listenable or at all meaningful to those who are, or were at one time, Bauhaus fans.  After my collaborator in "The Detached", Dave G, was nicely trying to tell me my vocal range had seemingly narrowed recently and that for a track still under production I should try it an octave higher than I had recorded it ("like you did in Nexus Zero", he suggested), I recorded some rough, live-production-value takes going the completely opposite direction, instead trying my hand at a Peter Murphy impersonation. Maybe I'll get at least a smile out of you from this little  Bauhaus "medley"

--VR

Having received some replies to my random generic-college-radio-sounding James cover linked in my previous blog, I thought I'd put up a link to the other "solo" tracks. Some of them I had previously put up and claimed as Detached songs, which I've later come to realize that the other .5 of The Detached doesn't really like it - maybe he doesn't like the tracks, or more probably he just doesn't like songs we didn't collaborate on being proffered as songs from our little group. So, eventually I'll migrate them off The Detached websites (unless Dave would like to re-record them with me, but he doesn't like cover songs anyway) and just link them hear, possibly claiming them under the moniker of my other going-nowhere project, "the kill signal."

So here they are, songs I perhaps wrongly once claimed as Detached songs, that Dave doesn't really like being put on the random cd-r ad hoc demo discs I will hand out here and there:

"Every Day I Die"
A "cover" I did in a seedy motel in Silcon Valley of an early Gary Numan /Tubeway Army track. I extracted the instrumental tracks from the original 1979 recording, minus the bass and vocals, recorded the vocals in the hotel and layed down the bass guitar when I got home to Texas. I re-mixed and eq'd it, and there we have it - a glorified karaoke I guess.

"Something in the Way" This is a cover/re-interpretation of Nirvana's Something in the Way; rather than the unplugged version which I was singing along with in the car on the way home from my grandfather's funeral which gave me the notion to record the song, I did a version with no acoustic instruments. Call it "Nirvana: Re-wired" if you will.

"Laid" This is a version of the song "Laid" by James, which isn't nearly as cool as the original, and as a friend said to me, this song didn't really need to be redone like this but I had it in me and wanted to get it out, lest it spill over and effect the next Detached tunes. *shrug*

"Forgotten Foam" This is an instrumental track that after recording, I laid down some  overdriven (almost everyone who heard it said it sounded like Marilyn Manson) vocals, turning this into a cover of "Mr. Crowley" because that's what the moog-lead somehow reminded me of. I horrified and appauled Dave so I removed the vocals, making it again an instrumental but added a classical-ish piano interpretation of the pipe organ (and mellotron?) intro to Ozzy's classic, again to the chagrin of my partner-in-thedetached, Dave G.
I call it Forgotten Foam, in reference to some friends of mine and because unbeknownst to them, that phrase they created also happens to be a line in an Aleister Crowley poem. In keeping with the "classical" motif, it is subtitled "Variations on themes from Ozzy Osbourne" :-)

    At times when in a creative slump, and at other times in a creative overload, I hear songs I like (or dislike) in a different way than they were originally recorded and every so often in one of those times I actually put forth some effort to put the sounds in my head into something that others can hear.. sometimes it results in a few seconds of "concept" that is often meaningful only to me and on the rare occassion, I'll actually record a completed (or at least demo-complete) song that I can share with others (or keep to myself out of shame and embarassment.)

Today is one of those times where whatever the reason and from wherever the influence, I have a finished (or at least I'm *through* with it, though it may not be "finished") a track I will share with you. It's a pretty big departure from the post-punk/numanoid sounds Dave and I create as The Detached, and it's not like any of the solo "killsignal" projects I've managed to slip under the radar and give a Detached label to it much to the chagrin of the other half of The Detached... well, how about I just shut up and present to you, my cover/re-interpretation of "Laid", originally by the band James.

ScottVR - Laid (mp3)

*edit*
I've fixed it. I like it now. If you heard it before 07/19,  grab it again; it isn't so cluttered and the vocals are audible.

--VR