DESTROY
raw audio recorded for the album intro. Guitar by Sean.
March 1995 - First Destroy session at Big Sound, Westbrook ME. Jon Lammie engineering. It lasted 4 days. Sean Griffin on guitar, George Tsiaras on bass.Matt - The smell coming from the paper factory down the road was heinous. We thought that someone had been murdered recently and been buried in a shallow grave next to the studio. We were honestly freaked out and out of our element. But we had lots of booze and weed and a few guys had some blow. We improvised a few songs that ended up on the record. That’s what drugs are for, …then goes back to school, Nancy seduces the couples. I finished those up at the next session, and the label hated the rough mixes. But the great Deb Klein stepped up and told Cherrydisc to let us finish.
July 1995 - Second Destroy session also at Big Sound. Colin Decker engineering. Seven days up there this time and finished the record. Sean made some amazing sketches in his journal. See above.
M- It was a lot of fun and harrowing to finish an album with only two or three songs to start out. The rest was improvised. We would just record as many riffs as I could think of, or sometimes Sean or George would come up with something. Sean Griffin came up with the riffs for Finish Me Later and Deportation Ritual. I told Colin to not let us go much over two minutes on each of our little jams, and he had to stop us a few times. So we’d record these riffs and then later go through and see which ones I could easily sing the lyrics on. The lyrics had already been written. A lot of them for a creative writing class I had taken in college.