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| | Now we're getting warm. In the spring of 1992, we take 7½ songs to Windy City Recording Co. in Chicago, with our buddy Dave Lulek, and lay down what would later be released as The '92 Demos by G&P Records. But back then, it's released on cassette, and simply known as Is. Perhaps we gave it that title because we finally feel that we had recorded something that represented us fairly. It's still pretty rudimentary, but all the seeds are there. Pummeling drums, heavier guitars, more screaming – and more feedback. Highlights include the Metallica rip, Bigger, and the classic rock swagger of Congressman (a song that Scott and Joe would later record as a two piece). But the best example of the chemistry we had as a three piece is displayed on this early version of User. The band plays together but rarely in unison, making for a spikier kind of heaviness. It's a formula that Matt and Scott had messed with in 1987 with their high school band, Rude Awakening, but it comes to fruition on User which segues nicely into the instrumental, and live show closer, Heavy Machinery. The real action, however, takes place on the flip side of the cassette, a recording of a live all-ages show from a couple of months earlier at a VFW hall in Gurnee with Lunkhead and Bruce Lamont's old band, Dyslexic Apaches. The energy of that performance exposes the weakness of the recordings on side A. Mainly we just weren't that comfortable in the studio yet. But put us in front of an audience, especially one as batshit crazy awesome as the one at that VFW show, and you could see that something was happening. To this day, the energy and chaos of that one show would forever cement the idea of what kind of band we wanted to be. Or maybe you just had to be there. |
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