Whooooooo, Hooooooo!

Three things:

1. We're leaving for tour next weekend with Art Fad and Clyde Webb. It's gonna be pretty big. Here's the details: http://www.facebook.com/events/196339637151607/
We're gonna play shows, we're gonna goof around, we're gonna sell tshirts and all the other band stuff, we're gonna get sick of each other, etc.

2. There's gonna be a tape ready for the tour with our new "Spring Break in Hell" ep on one side and some other unreleased stuff on the other side as well as the "X Mass" ep which was never physically released. Some of the songs have been gestating for almost 9 months now but it's finally coming together. Wouldn't have wanted it premature or some shit.
The ep will make it onto the internet sometime after tour and all the other stuff will make it on there eventually as well. Also, we'll have cds of the "Summer of Our Discontent" album if you want with a brand new lyric sheet!

3. 1D is coming to record today.

Potential album cover? (photo by Mark (Dad) F.)

more recording and shows

we're a couple tracks away from a tim blood ep that's been in the works forever. then we might start working on another ep or the next album but that's still a way off.

tim blood is playing this inlander fest thing in spokane on the 1st which sounds like fun: http://www.inlander.com/spokane/volume

also we got an article written about us for it: http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-17991-bands-to-watch-tim-blood-and-the-gutpanthers.html pretty weird stuff.

tim blood, christwrong and vipe all gave two songs each to an idaho bands comp that should be coming out soon. i don't have many details but our songs all turned out pretty well.

last weekend our good friend matt from came over and recorded a few tracks. can't wait to hear the finished product! also check out his music at the sun mantra link on the side.

and on the dl, ryan and i are setting up to record a secret project (as i type this) that we've been working on since the winter. spooky.

get ready ta run!

for it!

Christwrong demo recording pix

just found some recording pix of an old christwrong demo that should be out on a mysterious comp along with some unreleased vipe and tim blood songs. more info soon.

Here are some photos Liz Stunz sent me in an e-mail the other day.  She is in some of them and in some of them I am all alone.  There is a cat in one of them.  One of them might have been posted before, but its a nice photo and you see Liz in her underwear (hawt!).  Friends are so fun!

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(E)The Future of Crust(A)

Herb here, controlforce crue, aka young ian, aka dj house dj. Posting from deep in the North end of Boise, Idaho. Klick the image above to understand the future of crust.

The new EP is finally coming to a close and I am quite pleased with it. Hag and Dogboss aka young keith, aka young ryan, aka mc ramones fan, aka dj ipod shuffle are finishing up the tail end of editing and recording. It should be 5 songs of punishment pop/pop blist, I hope.

I didn't really have anything in mind when writing this EP other than intense heart ache and then intense heart warmth. At any measure, it was all from the heart y'all. If you make fun of me for it I'll egg your house, cool? Cool.

Anyway we're rounding the bend on this release so keep an eye out for it, it'll be out online for free, then released on tape. We are also getting featured on a killer ramones compilation out of Russia which we are really stoked on, hopefully we'll get a few copies or get to make a few copies.

We are doing Pet Cemetary and even though I won't be recording the bass, our kill em all kick ass Band Manager and favorite fill in bassist Ken Band aka Kentaro Murai, aka thief in the knife laid it down. The cover art is sick rad

Anyway, I've meandered enough, peace out.

Pet Cemetary Cover Recording!

Here are some pictures of recording our version of the famous Ramones with their song "Pet Cemetery." Done originally for the hit film "Pet Semetary" written by Stephen King, the song has a message that our group really much agrees with.

As for the recording, we used much vigor, setting up blankets, mics, and equipment to get the truest sounds imaginable. The drums used an SM57 & an AT4050 on the snare, SM57s on each tom, a D6 on the BD, EV N/D 357a dynamic super cardioid pattern girl's mics on overheads, and a Shure Beta 87a on hi hats.

The guitars used various fuzz and overdrive pedals on various parts of the song. And we used a 57 and AT4050 on the Peavey badass cabs. Keith played a fake telecaster. Tim played a mexican's strat. Ken played a mexican's p bass.

On bass guitar amp of fender rumble 100 with 15" speaker we used a DI box, a D6 kick mic, and a 57.

We will use the AT4050 for all vocals. We use a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 interface for AD/DA conversion.

All in all we have obtained a fast wall of sound sound with many superfluous tracks and big ideas. We are adding Yamaha synthesizer soon on chroruses. Check out: ramonetothebone.info for the Ramones compilation our Pet Cemetery will be on at the end of the month. Punkliv.

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Controlled Force

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I miss my friends :( :(

More Tim Blood Stuff...

http://controlforce.bandcamp.com/album/with-blood-and-squalor

The first Tim Blood album is back on the internet, check it out man.

Also, we've been playing a ton of festivals, well just Treefort and Goof Punx. Thanks to the Finn Riggins, especially Eric Gilbert and The Taxpayers, especially Noah. Rock on!

Ctrlforce Recording!

Recording, better than prison!
Ryan, focusing his drumset
Middle finger to windows, fuck Billy Gates.
Getting the snare mic to the sweet spot.
What we are hoping to sound like.

Ctrlforce Recording!

Setting the drums up, this is gonna sound good.
Gonna lay down those trax, getting the overheads on the right part of the x-axis.
It's gonna sound so good, just as long as we get that room mic in the right place.
The sapphire 8 tracker, keep it real.
Fuck mic clips.