Crash course

March 1st, 2007

Hey there, right now I am suffering from a bad flu plus of a some kind of ear infection so I don’t know how the gig on Saturday will play out, hopefully I’ll be able to get up on the stage. Well, that’s life. But let’s get to the point, here’s a little something about the songs on ”Through My Eyes” as I promised. I’ll begin with Crash, and will try to post the “behind the scenes” about the other two songs soon.

This chorus actually came to my mind when I was taking a shower. After that I just quickly composed the intro and the verses and recorded it. Originally the first verse was longer and the song was played in a lower key at a slower tempo, thus the overall feeling being much heavier than now. And the original demo ended to the solo, and needless to say, the solo was really crappy ‘cause I ain’t exactly the fastest or most imaginative soloist on the planet. We played “Crash” with the cover band me and Johannes played in before ESTD. We had to transpose the song to a higher key for our singer to be able to sing it. And it was a really good decision, the original vocal melody was too low. If I remember correctly, the part after the solo was born at rehearsals. First we went straight to the last chorus after the solo, but it didn’t work that well, so I just kinda doodled with my guitar for a minute and the clean part was born. Or actually just the chord progressions, and then the bass line. The distorted guitar is based on the solo, just a harmony line following the solo. The solo is courtesy of Johannes, so I can’t tell you the story behind that.

I actually dug up the first demo of Crash, from year 2004 I believe. Back in the days when I didn’t even know I would be playing in a band. Really heavy guitars and some cool backing vocals that didn’t end up to the present version. If it’s up to me, you will never ever hear this demo…

-Kari