Originally 'Superbag' and quickly shortened, Bag was another Amherstburg export. This is Bag's second record 'Barf'. It's a doozy. A pummeling amalgamation of rock, metal, and grunge. I hear Tad, Jesus Lizard, some 'Bleach'. From the desk bassist of Andrew Buckie:
"Barf was our second album, it was recorded in Dan Iovino’s basement. We setup a makeshift 8’ x 8’ room with chipboard, we were experimenting with having a really live room sound and I think it gave the album a distinctive sound, you can notice the early reflections in the guitar sound. We recorded it straight up analog on to 1/2" Ampex 456 with a TEAC 80-8 reel to reel 8-track and then mixed it down to VCR tape. I made some notes below on what I can remember about some of the songs:
Bag- The vocals sound really crunchy because the song was sung through a Boss “Heavy Metal” HM-2 distortion pedal. If you listen closely at the very end after the sample you can hear us laughing our asses of because we hadn't heard the sample before, only Dan had.
Hitting a Cow in the Head with a Sledgehammer Until it's Dead- Apparently this song is about a traumatic experience Dan had while he was a kid.
The Last Song Ever- We had a mix-down party and invited a bunch of friends over. We hid a mic in the room where everyone was partying and that is where we got the sample at the beginning. For the end of that song when we were mixing it down we had a mic recording us smashing beer bottles, I think we broke about 2 cases. When we went back to listen to the results we realized that hadn’t pressed record and had to smash another 2 cases of bottles.
Sloth- This song was never released because we did some crazy mix down of it with laser and space ship sound effects or something like that and weren't happy with it. I dug the reel out a year or two later and mixed it down so we could have a decent copy of it."
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