Last Sons of Krypton - BULGE EP 7"

I sent local punk rock legend Rev. Norb a cassette of my band back in early 1996.  At the time I was not quite 18 and still lived with my mother and attended high school.  One day when I got home there was a message on the answering machine.  Norb wanted to put out our record!  I was real excited and he offered to pay for us to go to the studio and hammer out some polished up recordings. 

We were not used to the recording process, and the studio being in the dude's basement didn't make us feel any more comfortable.  Early in the day, it was snowing outside, our singer had a cold and was a chainsmoker so every time he needed a smoke he had to go out and it made his voice that much worse.  Producer's wife and screaming baby had to be encountered whenever someone had to use the toilet.  Not a great way to set a bunch of punks at ease. 

We were the type of band that normally hung a shitty radio shack mic over the drums and figured it was good enough.  Apparently our snare drum sound was not good enough for the producer, and he spent several hours tuning the drum, placing mics and never being satisfied.  Eventually we went and rented a snare drum, and after all that bullshit he spent about 5 minutes setting all the levels for the rest of the drums.

I put some effort into and am proud of my guitar sound and the overdubs we did, but the bass was sporadic and the vocals were weak.  I did my best to make up for it in the mixing process, but again the producer was really not getting it.  Again and again he would mix, and the guitars were lacking high end and volume, the drums overpowering everything and vocals way too loud.  It was like he was accenting everything bad about us and neutering everything good.

Finally after 3 days in the studio I was allowed to set the EQ's myself on the guitars and we got out of there with 5 or 6 songs.  I thought they sucked and tried for a month to call Norb and tell him to put out the 4 track versions instead, but he was out of town or something and when the pink vinyl arrived it was the studio versions on the record.  Our drummer and rhythm guitar player were listed on the sleeve as "Black Girl" and "Banana Ass" a detail they were not aware of until the records arrived. 

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