Outro - Starting From Scratch - The Illestrated EP (2004)
0So, one day, I think Brandon was in the middle of recording when his phone rang and we were all like "Oh man, c'monnn" and when I played back the recording we were all laughing - and the idea hit me that we should do a bloopers track where we just include all of these mistakes, because you know, it wasn't perfect, but we had fun with it. I remember having this fun kind of beat that I could use to just close out the album and I had Shane beat box the beat a little bit as sort of a way to kind of set the goofy mood for the beat to drop.
Fun Fact:
A lot of the bloopers were actually re-enacted and re-recorded. I didn't save a lot of the mistakes, because they were mistakes, but I did save some after the idea was already in place. Back then we didn't have ample storage like we do today. So at the end, we literally sat down and said "remember when this happened or that happened" and kind of re-acted them while the mic was recording.
The album overall was literally a great learning experience. It was the first time I did anything like it. From collaborating with my friends, working with different styles, and overcoming various obstacles along the way. To designing an album cover, and burning each individual CD and printing the graphics on them (literally it took SO long. I think the cd's would burn at like 3-5x geezus). Oh and promoting and having to answer questions about lyrics and sources for inspiration. Looking back, it a surreal kind of feeling.
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Starting From Scratch - The Illest Rated EP
Released May, 2004
Exalted Entertainment
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