At 10:46 AM, Monday, March 31, 2003 Star Drifter posted the following:
I went gold of my own volition.

Just having some fun with the title. I signed up for mp3.com's "Gold" service finally, so I can show more than three songs. Yay. That's yet another phase of my plan completed.

Bad Take On Fire
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I was just what amounts to a very, very rough outline of the song. The guitar has been written for years (and yes, there is more than that), and I wanted to try out some different bass ideas. In this case, I'm staying pretty simple. This take was so awful, though. So very very awful, that I had to document it. I will not be documenting it at mp3.com. Now that I'm paying for it, I feel like I should get my money's worth.

I'll be the first to admit that my sound needs a lot of polishing. In light of that, I'd have probably burned the master of this song if it wasn' t on the same tape as a few others.

The final song will include some of the story between Craven and Annie, actual lyrics, and other guitar parts. On that note, I think I'm going to do something risky when recording this.

Line 1: Drums. Line 2: Main guitar. Line 3: Rhythm Guitar. Line 4: Bass. Then, I'll mix it all down to one track, record that to line one on a different part of the tape, and do vocals. From here I can go two ways to do the same thing: ultimately, I want to apply effects to the vocals (additional reverb, cleanup, and pitch correction if I can find any) without applying them to the music itself.