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Twilight Dementia

from Omnicore by Flatstick

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I think Twilight was the first song written. The chorus was an idea I had for Sinister Sam and it was rejected. The title of the song was taken from a guitar magazine regarding Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett's spiral into the abyss. The song is not about that though.

Still my rhythm in left speaker, Gary in right.

The metal parts were gibberish, the mic running into a distorted amp. Total Jonathan Davis rip off, but who cares? VERY FUN TO DO. It's like a drum solo for your mouth, metal scat, if you will. The last verse I do try and see how far I can get with "itty bitty teeny weeny". It fell apart pretty soon after that.

For the clean part, I was trying for Cocteau Twins, dreamy style business, but was too scared to saturate the guitar sound with too many effects. We shoulda really went for it.

Because this was the first we recorded clean vocals, I sang them in the bathroom. I did one take of the clean vocals in a French accent, Gary loved them so much he wanted to use them. I said no fucking way, because every time he played that shit back, he was laughing. No..I was adamant that I'd sing it normal and let the lyrics produce the "WTF?" factor. I think he kept the french version for himself. Ha ha, I'd love to hear that now.

"To fuck you on the beach" and those other 'response' parts were two tracks, split fairly hard left and right. I also did try pretty hard to get my voice to sound feminine as possible on those parts, especially the 'call' parts.

Lots going on during the chorus. The words sang are "dreamin' you're dead" whilst opera man goes nuts. And total aware of Layne Style meets Mike Patton vibe. I love both guys. The opera guy was copy and pasted into the second chorus. Not the third, I had to do it again. My solo could have been louder. The drum tracks roughly took 6 hours to program.

I have no idea what the song is about, except sex on a beach and feeling a strong connection with that person. And only wishing them nothing but the best, and that they have more to do on earth, like bang on the beach.

John / Doug teaches you to play Twilight Dementia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9e61a3_GXw

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It was the perfect night (to fuck you on the beach)
Ecstasy... And! We laughed until we cried (You're fucking good to me) Can't you see?

I went into the light (to see what I could see)
Ecstasy... And! That made me realize (that I have more to do) So do you.

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from Omnicore, released January 1, 2000
Music and Lyrics by John Sanders and Gary McKay.

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Flatstick Melbourne, Australia

Flatstick was originally a two man project between Melbourne musicians, John Sanders (AKA: Doug Steele) and Gary McKay (R.I.P.). The sound created by the two is best described as Faith No More meets Strapping Young Lad meets Frank Zappa meets Meshuggah meets Pantera meets Mr. Bungle meets Korn, and a dash of jazz (and a slice of electronic dance). ... more

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