© 1998 Casey Sweeney and Phil Thompson, except "One of These Days," © 1971 Gilmour, Waters, Wright and Mason
© 1998 Casey Sweeney and Phil Thompson, except "One of These Days," © 1971 Gilmour, Waters, Wright and Mason
Planet HuH (1998)
September 1998.
My brother Casey is a phenomenal guitarist, and one night in September 1998 he and I, on the bass, improvised several songs into the trusty Portastudio 488.
After burning through two 90 minute tapes (22.5 minutes each on the Tascam), we switched instruments and filled up a third.
We'd not yet recorded anything together, and for some reason we decided to call ourselves HuH.
I'd later add drums and keys, releasing the album with 9 tracks.
During remixing, for this web page, I unearthed a tenth decent tune, gave it a suitably acronymous name (nowhere else will you see a better rearrangement of "ByTor and the Snow Dog"), and made it track 10.
Four songs remain unfinished.
On track 5 Casey and I covered Pink Floyd's One of These Days (I'm gonna quit smokin'), and track 2 was a song he'd previously written ('Crystal Ball').
Everything else here was improvised, on guitar & bass; obviously the drums and keys were not.
Tracks 1 through 6 and 10 feature Casey on the guitar. On tracks 7 - 9 he tends the bass, as yours, truly, mangles the wah-wah pedal.
If you can't remember that, and actually give a shit, here's an easier way - if the guitarist sounds amateurish... that's me.
But still, not bad for a night of drinking, smoking, and just making shit up, Huh?
My brother Casey is a phenomenal guitarist, and one night in September 1998 he and I, on the bass, improvised several songs into the trusty Portastudio 488.
After burning through two 90 minute tapes (22.5 minutes each on the Tascam), we switched instruments and filled up a third.
We'd not yet recorded anything together, and for some reason we decided to call ourselves HuH.
I'd later add drums and keys, releasing the album with 9 tracks.
During remixing, for this web page, I unearthed a tenth decent tune, gave it a suitably acronymous name (nowhere else will you see a better rearrangement of "ByTor and the Snow Dog"), and made it track 10.
Four songs remain unfinished.
On track 5 Casey and I covered Pink Floyd's One of These Days (I'm gonna quit smokin'), and track 2 was a song he'd previously written ('Crystal Ball').
Everything else here was improvised, on guitar & bass; obviously the drums and keys were not.
Tracks 1 through 6 and 10 feature Casey on the guitar. On tracks 7 - 9 he tends the bass, as yours, truly, mangles the wah-wah pedal.
If you can't remember that, and actually give a shit, here's an easier way - if the guitarist sounds amateurish... that's me.
But still, not bad for a night of drinking, smoking, and just making shit up, Huh?
© 1998 Casey Sweeney and Phil Thompson, except "One of These Days," © 1971 Gilmour, Waters, Wright and Mason
