About Escalate This

Written/recorded august/september 2010

I did a fair amount of stereo micing for single instruments on this track,
testing out how that makes it sound a bit more full...

instrument list:

on the verse-
strummed guitar
bass
bassdrum/snaredrum-hihat hits
cymbals
tambourine


on chorus - 
full reverb organ with fast leslie twice, one on both sides
bass drum
toms
weird yellow straw shaker, maracas
rim clicks on the toms

on melody thingy -
muted guitar
viola (at times)
bass
old snare drum, slightly muted
cymbal dings in a couple places

on bridge bit -
guitar with amplitube for distortion
bass
violas twice, recorded in stereo but slightly panned to each side
cymbals

and of course, vocals in all sorts of places

This song will have a video with it as well at some point.

The lyrics were born during a walk around my neighborhood when I felt a
rock in my shoe, and thought it would be an interesting image and choice
to add MORE rocks. (I didn't, but it gave me some verse lyrics.)
In general, I get pissed off at egos that don't know how to stand down
when they confront each other.

I like the instrumentation and arrangement in this song a lot. Not fully
satisfied with the flow in a couple places. And not a perfect performance 
everywhere.

Points to my sister Anna for playing viola! I used to play, but my abilities
are still at an unpracticed eighth grade level and I didn't have time to get any
kind of chops up to some sort of snuff. She hadn't played in a bit either and
we only took a few takes but whatever. These are all demo-quality anyways.