[progressive rock] Total Title (mp3)

[uncloned]

From 1976 - we were 16 to perhaps 18 and I had left the heavy metal guys and was trying progressive rock....

Total Title
Music - Chris and Mike
Lyrics- Chris
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Mosan - drums
Mike  - keys, vocals
Evan  - 2nd guitar
Chris - Lead, 1st guitar, vocals
<singer + composer of part>
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<Chris>
Caution he cried
As a man stepped to the front
And he stopped
A gun, he died
As a man fell to the ground
And he stopped
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<Chris>
Growing slowly with fear
Darkness is coming near
Trying to see the past
The future has gone too fast

Spinning inside a glass
Fiction and diction ran past
Trying to see the past
I'm aware at last
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<Chris>
Confusion,
Collide with reality
and it takes your breath
brings you death
to stay, to stay
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<Chris>
Slowly, quietly I see
A spark of humanity
Colors are rushing past me
In a cold vast sea
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<Chris>
Disillusion,
want to be free
and it makes you cry,
want to die
Oh why? Oh why?
Oooo
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<Mike>
Society's mark is carved on your sweaty forehead
As you try to run away from what you dread
You've got to know, know who you are
Pay for your crime, arrested you in a local gay bar
You've run out of time,
You've run out of time!
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<Mike>
Officer Olsen,
The prisoner's been arraigned
The law he couldn't escape
The psychiatrist
Said this man's deranged

To society he couldn't relate
Oh what a fate
He couldn't relate
Couldn't relate
Oh what a fate
Couldn't relate
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<Chris>
Courtroom silence
Jury casts fear
As the hanging man
Steps too near
A mercy to the boy
It appears
Death is laughing,
Laughing here
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<Mike>
Is it a dream?
Will someone say it is?
I don't understand,
It wasn't me
It wasn't me x9

Touch my hand,
Am I alive or dead?
I don't believe it all
I pray I'm laying in bed x2
In bed
I pray I'm laying in bed
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<Chris>
I don't
Want your ooo society!
You said I wan't in it anyway!
I don't
Want your ooo reality!
I said it wasn't me,
me that day!
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<Chris>
Where were you?
Aloft in a cloud
How dared you?
It wasn't too loud
My eyes close now
My body hangs free
But I am somehow
With no life, life, life, life
life to see
But I am!
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<Mike>
Another world,
Another life
Had a baby
Didn't need a wife

Patterns repeat
Life's no thrill
As we walk a military drill

Sidewalks sparkle with glittering stones
Causing life to find some other home

(sorry can't make it out,
but I think you get the picture)

Suicide jackels laughing at me
My only love is the devil's putrid kiss!
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<Chris>
Transposed to a different key!
And I see a gun,
Pointing at me,
Oh No! Oh No!
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<Chris>
Caution!
He cried
As a man stepped to the front
He stopped...
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This is one of (the?) first performances - in Mike's basement - this is NOT on traxinspace and is stereo

http://clones.soonlabel.com/mp3/total-title-cd-n-pop.mp3

This is a performance a while later in Evan's basement - this is the stereo version of what is on traxinspace

http://clones.soonlabel.com/mp3/totaltitle-16s.mp3

[Sam_Zen]

Before reviewing the content, I want to comment about the properties of these files.
It's ok to have such recordings in an archive, but if one is going to publish the tracks on the inet, it demands more.
At least to have removed some background-noise. And there's nothing nostalgic about a 50 Hz hum.

[uncloned]

To be honest I did noise filter this recording. it was made on crappy tape on a crappy cassette recorder with two $5 crappy microphones laying on the basement floor.


There is difficulty in filtering the hum in that the speed of the recorder and the playback device are in no way at the same speed

Therefore the (60 hz in the states) hum is.... who knows what frequency now.  (In the first recording it seems to be coming from Mike's keyboard amp - we had crappy equipment - we were kids - and put up with that sort of thing.... so you know - it was reality - this was the way it sounded.)

To think there would be a pristine recording to come out of this I think is not very likely and not worth the effort.

I removed the majority of the hiss and numerous pops (which I can't explain the existence of - it sounded like a record!) Cool Edit worked really hard on the 213 MB file removing as much as it did.

I can upload the original if you'd like to compare the improvement I've made to it.....

[Sam_Zen]

You're explanation is quite sufficient afaik. You did your best and that's it.