It’s Alive! ALIVE!
I figure it’s about time I dig back into the archives and post a little more music.
I guess it was 93? 94? when I first hooked up with guitarist Jim LeClair. Wait, actually this is easy, hold on a sec — December 5, 1993. It was the day after Frank Zappa died. Jim worked with my old friend the loungraptor at this cheesy yuppie coffee bar called the Nocturnal Cafe. Jim was looking bummed, he tells me Zappa was his hero, we get to talking, turns out he’s a guitarist & he knows some guys that want to start an industrial group. And so it went from there. Jim, myself, guitarist Pau Galgolzy, bassist/vocalist Eric “Pogo” Simons, and drummer Mark Andrew formed a band called “Acid Fist X”.
The first song we wrote was this little ditty known as “Wax”, and what I’ve got for you here is the “Sinthetic Life Mix” — so named because, well — we recorded a demo version, but the master is lost to the ether, so when I started putting together material to go online, all I had was an already too worn cassette copy. Meanwhile I’ve got a stack of video tapes of the band live. So with some intense Cakewalk surgery — and the help of some black magic, thunder, and lightning — I was able to stitch together this Frankenstein monster of a semi-live recording that actually came out better than the sum of its parts.
Enjoy!
