The Song: Hex. 23
Hex. 23 completes the album Lustre of Denim. Kind-of. The full tracklist and order is what you see in bandcamp. But, weirdo revisionist that I am, I will be making a final version of the song Son of Tampa. Son of Tampa does not work. (Though its ending passage was a motivating factor in the creation of the last couple of songs.) Nevertheless, I want to salvage it. So the old Son is still represented online until I rework it and I can’t say the album is done yet. The next album will be called Sharkskin Music and there’s a couple of song ideas in early stages for it right now. I’m also going to do a painting for the cover of this one to try to recover some visual art skills. I’m getting very rusty and want to reconnect with 2D art. I miss it and life seems to allow for this now.
As for the recording of Hex. 23, it went very smoothly. Though I took more time on it than most songs. It was built very deliberately with beats and acoustic guitar. The whole structure was designed before I laid anything down and I did not have to rebuild the bones. So it was worth the time. In my usual fashion the vocals came late and I used a new piece of gear, the TC-Helicon Duplicator. This is the first vocal processor I’ve owned and I purchased it mostly for future live performances. What it does is slap on some compression/make up gain, and does automatic double tracking. The guitar solo and heavy guitar ending portion were the last tracks to be laid down and I had to try different treatments to get takes that worked-- I listened to a lot of thrash metal at this time. But the important thing here was that everything underneath was structured and sound. This allowed me to make the tonal adjustments on those final tracks with a minimum of frustration.
Here are the lyrics to the song
This game is called Frenzy
Frenzy is the name, of the game
And if you refuse, well...
That’s a choice play, a choice play
We trend and trade in rage
Wild eyes and frenzied
We trend and trade in rage
Wild eyes and frenzied
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Hex. - 23
Things fall apart
Hexagram 23
Things fall apart
Things fall apart
Time ghost in the telephone booth
Searching
Searching for a scrap of paper
Something to write on
The message is grim,
You know the words
Don’t try to claim surprise
We trend and trade in rage
Wild eyes and frenzied
We trend and trade in rage
Wild eyes and frenzied
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Hex. - 23
Things fall apart
Hexagram 23
Things fall apart
Things fall apart
David Lee Roth threw a party
For your sins
He tasted the vinegar and smiled
For your sins
David Lee Roth set up that party
All you gotta do is show up
David Lee Roth knows how to have fun
All you gotta do is show up