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Rolling Off The GuillotineSong Notes: The song was originally entitled "Thump" as in, "I'm going to make my bass guitar thump." I realized very quickly that the song that was coming out of the process was not about bass thumping but about heads - thumping on the ground. Every time I heard a certain segment of the song I could visually see a person dropping their basket of heads and watching them bounce down the stairs. If you have cut heads then you have to have something to cut them with so I went with the political tool of guillotine. This idea created all kinds of imagery and I remembered the recent election where our new "president" was immortalized on youtube as saying, "Thank You Satan" when played backwards. Not wanting Mr. Diebold to have all the fun I read my Ableton Live manual and discovered the reverse button myself. Nice and easy backward masking effect. I tried saying "Yes we can" on the track myself. Nothing worked. Take after take I tried and could not get it to spit out "Thank you Satan" in reverse. I came close many times and even thought that maybe the youtube video had been faked. I went online, found the clip, and snagged it. I checked it in reverse and there it was. Apparently Obama just has a way with words that I don't. This being my very first piece of music I spent some time learning how to stay in time with the beats while laying the bass tracks. That tiny bit of bass in the intro took me well over a hundred takes to get right. Reminded me of learning how to ride a bicycle. Once you get it, you got it. From that point on I got the hang of locking in the beat. Another thing that I discovered during the recording process is that it is much more fun letting the song dictate what kind of song it wants to be rather than my expectations and plans. I'm a guitarist. I like my metal. I like my shredding. Thank goodness I learned otherwise on this song. There are guitarists like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani that can play most anything and you can tell they have their sound down. You can also tell from careful listening that their guitar playing is what defines them. Not so with me. Instead of letting my playing define my song I began dialing in different guitar sounds on the GNX4. When I found a sound that reminded me of feeling and mood and decapitations then I stopped. I laid down some notes and then decided to play around with the warp markers just to see what they would do. By completely mangling the guitar and adding some noise effects I achieved some ghostly sounds that otherwise would have never happened had I gone the way of Steve or Joe, my heroes. It is good to have heroes. It is not good to try and be a carbon copy of them. Find your own bag of mojo. Reach in and pull out some originality. In addition to the backward masking I also played around with noise candy on this tune putting in little things that are sometimes ignored upon first play. Listen carefully for the violin that tries to rudely intrude upon the musical landscape or the biting bass notes achieved through reversing their sound. The ultimate goal for this song is to find the perfect animator or studio and pair it with animation. Ok, well, to be truthful the ultimate ultimate goal would be to inspire the sheeple masses to rise and get rid of all the criminal scum that have embedded themselves into American politics, that have stolen our vote, awarded pigs in the banking industry taxpayer money, and killed our people with false flag operations such as the inside job that was 911. And what better method of taking out the garbage than a guillotine! My opinion. --- Plague *** Also, the quote, "dumbass idiots" in the backward masking of the song refers to those people who are so deluded that they believe "reverse speech" has any merit or connection to truth and NOT the average listener who just wants to know the secret message in the song.
Bass Guitar: Ken D. Webber Rhythm Guitar: Ken D. Webber Lead Guitar: Ken D. Webber Drum Programming: Ken D. Webber Keys: Ken D. Webber Voices (both forward and backwards): Ken D. Webber, Barry Soetoro AKA Barrack Hussein Obama, and a crowd of happy Obamanites *** Noise Candy: Ken D. Webber Special Thanks go to: Airbase AKA Jezper Söderlund for his outstanding tutorials on Ableton Live. "005: Let's delay - SVD style!," a flanger, a cymbal, and a hundred thousand Obamanites made my song. Thanks! You can just hear the heads rolling now.
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