Day 22 - Evel
Chocolate Of The Day: Image of the day: Sound(s) of the day:
it's three chocolate skulls :
These chocolate skulls are created in a mould cast from a real human skull - cool.
It's Evel Knievel :
So a few weeks ago we played at the Junktion in Bristol, (I'll be putting up a link to the video soon) at the show I mocked Evel Knievel for not being able to spell his own name (Evel instead of Evil) a few days later he died.
To rid myself of the guilt I decided to write another song about him. As I woke up on the morning of the 22nd, I thought "ohh James II is coming over today to record, what will we do....oh yeah a song about Evel should do it...the riff could go berr-bah - followed by some harmonics, a cheap it's on rip off..." As I thought about this in my groggy sleepy state I drifted back off to sleep, I continued dreaming about the song and Evel, as the two combined I realised a great middle eight to the song would be Evel doing a jump. Somehow in my dream it made perfect sense that I would be able to incorporate a visual element like a jet bike jump in to a song. The string bend played in the middle of the song could somehow have the jump itself embedded in to it, anyone listening to the song would get to experience the jump in all it's glory.
Clearly that's insane dream talk, but I did my best to make it a reality. When you hear that bend kick in, close you eyes and visualize the man on the left taking to the skies and leaping over a thousand flaming chinook helicopters.
In respect of Evel's passing, I opted for traditional production techniques in today's song. I suspect that Evel wouldn't have cared for our abrasive distorto-drone-tone, as a result the sound is somewhat less shreddy than normal, containing less of these:
Also, when I added this to my music library, it took the song count for Sludgefeast up to 666 (@ 13.5 hours)...there is all kinds of rubbish in there though like live shows and stuff, so it means nothing, however it does prove that Evel is Evil.
