A couple days ago I got an email from Mark Menning, one of my bandmates in the Gassmen. He had been doing some editing of tracks from a much earlier recording session and had a new version of "Vermiana," which if you've looked at this site you know is one of the songs in the Io Cycle (song cycle and screenplay trilogy). There's never an end to the fascination of what different results can be had from the same source material. The version that you can hear on the loglines page ("Vermaina") does not have the same audio tracks, though it does have many of the same keyboard parts, played live for the 1987 Refinery takes and then played either live or in MIDI for the version that's here.
I went to SoundClick today and the song is at number 75 (out of at least several hundred). Mark has access to the statistics for number of plays, etc. and said to me that "Io Jaxx" (known here as "Koorg & Gaar") has a steady following. His joke was that he imagines an Eastern European cult whose religion is based on the exploits of Io and Dexter. It is that sense of humor that has kept our friendship fresh all these years. It is the "good doctor's" voice on the "rap" in "Forged in the Fire." There's a story behind that but it's too long for today.
Anyway, here's the link to the new & different version on SoundClick. It will take you to the Gassmen page and clicking on the "Vermiana" link will open an MP3 player.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandid=338315
Enjoy!
I went to SoundClick today and the song is at number 75 (out of at least several hundred). Mark has access to the statistics for number of plays, etc. and said to me that "Io Jaxx" (known here as "Koorg & Gaar") has a steady following. His joke was that he imagines an Eastern European cult whose religion is based on the exploits of Io and Dexter. It is that sense of humor that has kept our friendship fresh all these years. It is the "good doctor's" voice on the "rap" in "Forged in the Fire." There's a story behind that but it's too long for today.
Anyway, here's the link to the new & different version on SoundClick. It will take you to the Gassmen page and clicking on the "Vermiana" link will open an MP3 player.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandid=338315
Enjoy!
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