INDECISION - Repent or Die cassette
Side 1-Repent or Die / Flush / Blood, Shit and Lanolin
Side 2-Cruel & Unusual Punishment / Step Into the Confessional, Johnny / Lotshark
(Lotshark was an unlisted track)
All songs arranged by Indecision
Produced by George Wheeler and Indecision
Engineered by George Wheeler
Recorded August 23-26, 1994 at Dungeon Studio, Johnson City, NY
Mixed by George with John and Jeff getting in the way on September 3/4, 1994
Indecision is:
Jeff Guinness - Vocals, kazoo
Johnny VD - Guitars
Martysaurus Rex - Guitars
Scotty Cognito - Basses
Clint Beige - Drums
Backing vocals by the Indecisive Choir: George W., John B. & Marty T.
Cover drawing by Craig Miller
Cover layout, etc. by John
recorded but not used:
Cindy
Tanglewood Nature Center
Whose Hat Is This? (no vocals)
You Suck Moose Wang (no vocals)
Security? (no vocals)
Bumperstickers (no vocals)
Treadmill (bass and drums only)
NOTES: This is the first recording we did as a group. It featured the second lineup of the band; the first of the two five-man lineups. We spent about five days recording, up in The Dungeon in Bingoland. Jamie was out of town, so we recorded this with our friend (and sound guy) George, who was living in the studio.
We did this recording at night. After work we'd all pile into a couple cars and drive on up to Binghamton. The recording bears the scars of being recorded in this manner. People were tired after working all day and then driving and tempers ran a bit short. When things didn't go right, band members would refuse to do more takes. It was the first time we'd recorded as well, so a lot of us didn't have a clue what we were doing.
On the first three nights we filled up two reels worth of backing tracks. The first reel contained takes of the six songs on the finished demo, plus "Cindy" and "Tanglewood Nature Center." The second had takes of "Bumperstickers," "You Suck Moose Wang", "Hat", "Security?" and "Treadmill." We decided, since we'd bought so much extra tape, to do a bunch of extra songs on the last night of tracking, with the intention of getting back to it and quickly turning out a second demo. Of course, we never did, and that tape has no vocals or guitar solos. In fact, "Treadmill" has no guitars at all.
The fourth and fifth nights were spent doing overdubs. Thursday, Jeff came in and did his vocals. Friday, Marty and John went in to do guitar solos, and then John, Marty and George did the backing vocals. A week later, Jeff and John went back in to do the mix. George did the actual mixing while John got in the way and Jeff slept on the couch.
The multitrack masters were mixed down to cassette (the Dungeon had no DAT at the time.) The studio deck was not working properly, so we ended up having to use John's crappy home deck instead. As we found out a bit later, the speed was off, which caused problems when we started to assemble The Ultimate Cash In. We did two dubbing runs of this tape. The first sounded terrible, so we went back and made a new dubbing master and erased the copies we still had and did them again. In all, about 100 copies of this were made.
Once the tape was completed, it took what seemed like forever to be released. We didn't order tapes until the master was done because we wanted to know the exact length. Then, the covers were made by hand with a typewriter and photocopier. By the time it was released, the lineup had changed. When we did the packing (we actually did the packing as a band for this first tape) we decided to write little notes inside the covers. As a result, several covers have Rob's writing inside, although he isn't on the tape.