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This was one of our crowd pleasers in Delaware County, PA circa 1996.

Chip Shiavone was a monster on percussion, with Jerry Ankney playing tight and complex bass lines. Bill Blessington and I are on guitars, swapping solos. This was the first-take, basically played live in the studio to an 8 channel 1/2" tape machine. Some outboard gear embellishment was added on the mix, but we played it pretty close to what you hear live. Enjoy!

Loved it. Super tight, and great playing all around!

That is a ballsy choice for a cover tune and you guys hit it out of the park. It's a faithful reproduction, but at the same time you distinctly made it your own. I especially liked how you arranged and and harmonized the guitars to stand in for the sax parts. I appreciate all the practice that must have went into making this song come together like this and sound so effortless. And yes, your drummer was a friggin' monster.

jhull54 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:56 am Loved it. Super tight, and great playing all around!

Thanks!

toomanycats wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:30 pm That is a ballsy choice for a cover tune and you guys hit it out of the park. It's a faithful reproduction, but at the same time you distinctly made it your own. I especially liked how you arranged and and harmonized the guitars to stand in for the sax parts. I appreciate all the practice that must have went into making this song come together like this and sound so effortless. And yes, your drummer was a friggin' monster.

Thank you!

At its peak that band had <300 songs in the repertoire that if requested, we could work on one or two songs during the break that we hadn't had in rotation for a long time.

You are right - Frankenstein did take some work. It was in prep for the Halloween gig pictured which was '94 at a friend's bar, which we knew would be packed and go long (that one went from 9 PM to 3 AM). We brainstormed a list together of Halloween themed songs just after Labor Day and learned the basic songs and honed them as a band at practice. The 'synth' part is me and my talk box, the sax parts are Bill and Jerry, with me doing a harmony run amidst a rhythm part (took me forever to get it right).

That became one of our most requested, along with 'Show Me the Way,' 'Too Roling Stoned' and 'Rocky Mountain Way' (drunk people loved the talk box for some reason).

I've never heard the original but man, this is mad cool! Great stuff.