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Basically this short little song is a "spoof" or something of that
nature, of the James Bond Theme. It is featured on the DVD YOU ONLY
DIE ONCE (A LOW BUDGET JAMES BOND SPOOF). John Wardlaw used a Fender
Strat played through a MORLEY JD10 to emulate that 1960`s Bond theme
sound. Written by John Wardlaw.
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Songs 2-4 are additional songs from the soundtrack of the film YOU
ONLY DIE ONCE.
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A somewhat complex yet short song. This is
the Instrumental version (Vocal version is featured on the anti-m
album POSITIVELY NEGATIVE). When the song was nearly completed it was
entirely electronic (Keyboards and drum machines) but the final touch
was still needed, the guitar. This is where Ronnie Montrose enters
the picture. Ronnie came in a played a wonderful set of guitar lines
throughout the entire song. Playing a bit of point / counterpoint
with the keyboard lines. Ronnie played a Fender strat with a Mesa
Boogie amp that was recorded directly (no mics) to 16 track analog
tape. Upon completion of one of the greatest takes I have ever heard
Ronnie said "What did you think?" and we replied "it was perfect" to
which Ronnie replied "good, let`s do it again". Written by Ruston
Slager.
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The last song Montrose recorded in his 4 song session.
This short popish tune (again, vocal version featured on Positively
Negative) has a completely different life as an instrumental. Ronnies
guitar is more up front, recorded clean without any distortion on a
Fender Strat. It`s just a happy little tune. John Wardlaw also plays
guitar using single whole notes with a lot of effects to fill in the
ambience of the song. Written by Ruston Slager.
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A pop tune with a slightly jazzy ending. John
Wardlaw plays a Fender strat while Ronnie Montrose plays slide on a
Fender telecaster (I think, it has been a long time). Scott Wardlaw
plays Bass in a most Chris Squire like fashion. Vocal version
appears on Positively Negative. Written by Ruston Slager.
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The instrumental version of this song lets you pick out
some of the guitar effects that are not as easily heard on the Vocal
version. John Wardlaw took the 16 track tapes of the song, flipped
them around and played the song backwards to record the guitar work.
The guitar was played through a BOSS DM-2, turning the repeat rate
knob while holding notes, for added effect. The tapes were then
played forward and mixed using cascading delays on the guitar from a
Digitech DSP256. Written by John Wardlaw.
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A vocal remix from one of the demo sessions
just after Steve Weber recorded his guitar solos. This song is
featured in the Surf Film TANKER RE-EVOLUTION. The solo is raw and
kind of eastern sounding. Written by Ruston Slager.
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A song that is hard to describe. The beat and
background are basically, by todays standards, a loop. But in 1995 it
wasn`t a loop. The song has fills of slide guitar by John Wardlaw
played on a Telecaster and a solo called the Chaos solo at the end.
There are some vocals left in on this semi instrumental as the voice
of Barbara Moseley breaks of the repetition of the loop. One of three
versions of the song, the original vocal mix and the Video Remix for
the upcoming ANTI-M THE COMPLETE MUSIC VIDEOS are the other two. The
video remix will have additional guitarwork on the song. Written by
Ruston Slager.
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A song inspired by the devastating hurricane by the same
name that hit Kauai in 1992. The song starts out with the ambience of
a brewing storm with Ronnie Montrose coming in on guitar. As the song
builds like a Hurricane the tension builds. Then the break in the
song featuring both Ronnie and Steve Weber on Guitar. Ronnie plays
slide and lead on this song. Ronnie really gives the mid section
both the feeling of gloom in the eye of this hurricane yet he also
gives the song its "Hawaiian" sound. Ronnie closes the song with
power chords and solos as the hurricane finished the island off. John
Wardlaw plays a classic Roland Jupiter 8 in the closing section to
accompany Montrose. Written by John Wardlaw.
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The vocal version is a ballad, something the band
doesn`t do often. This is simply the instrumental filled with Steve
Weber on his Charvel guitar, playing clean. John Wardlaw plays a very
short little solo. Written by John Wardlaw.
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Steve Weber fills this little pop tune with come clean quick
little bits. Written by Ruston Slager.
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The title based on the joke that the vocal version was a
CRAPPY RAP song. This song has almost a SGT. PEPPER PLAYS RAP sound.
with Ruston Slager on keyboard strings and horns, Mark Rumer on
scratch (made from taking a ball point pen and sampling the sound of
it rubbing on a window screen) and Keyboard bass. John Wardlaw on Car
Crash samples and Steve Weber on distortion solos. If anything the
song is different and hard to classify. Written by Ruston Slager,
Mark Rumer and John Wardlaw.
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Simply a keyboard instrumental by John Wardlaw.
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This is the full
length version of the 15.32 minute song. The basic tracks were
recorded by John Wardlaw and Mark Rumer in, and this dates us, 1986.
In 1992 John and Mark let Steve Weber listen to the song once, then
he was told to pick up his Charvel, plug into a ZOOM 9002 fx box and
make it up as played. Steve improvised the entire 15 minutes. Since
Mark and John had recorded the backing tracks live as well this kept
the feel of the song the same. Mastering problems and disc space
issues forced the band to put a shorter version of this song on their
first ablum, NO WAVES IN HELL.
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Recorded live in the studio. John
Wardlaw on Keyboards, Mark Rumer on Bass and Steve Weber on guitar. A
pretty little song with Steve recording on overdub to complete it. It
is the only Anti-m song to be recorded live.
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