We are all vulnerable to sickness, please do not alienate those who are sick. Extend your support to others in need of help through sickness and health.

Lockdown Session 5

Here is a tribute to all friendships, Touch Me I’m Sick by Mudhoney. Our project continues to be driven by our desire to always find a way to do what makes us happy. Right now, it is recording tributes to the songs we have carried through life and suddenly provides clearer meaning to us. We are on track for 9 tributes, please stay tuned….

Touch Me I'm Sick
 
One, two
Oh
Wow
Oh
I feel bad
and I've felt worse
I'm a creep, yeah
I'm a jerk
Come on
Touch me, I'm sick

Wow

I won't live long
and I'm full of rot
Gonna give you girl 
everything I got
Touch me, I'm sick
yeah
Touch me, I'm sick

Come on baby, now come with me
If you don't come
If you don't come
If you don't come
You'll die alone

Wow

Oh

I'm diseased
I don't mind
I'll make you love me 
'till the day you die
Come on
Touch me, I'm sick
(Ah)  I'm sick

Come on baby, now come with me
If you don't come
If you don't come
If you don't come
You'll die alone

Our work is usually conducted in the same room, but with the lockdown we have been deprived this luxury. However, we are playing the hand we have been dealt. Each member is leveraging our personal studio to record our tracks remotely and pass them on to yield these finished recordings of Songs For Lockdown. I hope you enjoy them.

Stay well

Tom

Recording sequence for Touch Me I’m Sick:
– AJ recorded drums on an iPhone 8 Plus situated in the rear waste band of athletic shorts using Voice Memos app and texts track to Truk
– Truk slams the drum track onto 8-track digital recording console and records his two guitar tracks
– Truk dumps drum and guitar tracks to DAT and Tom picks up DAT tape
– Tom loads drum and guitar tracks to digital recording console and records his bass track
– Tom records shrieking vocal tracks through vintage Shure CX80G crystal microphone (see image below)
– Tom dumps drum, guitar, bass and vocal tracks to DAT and drops tape on Truk’s front porch
– Truk mixes the track

Signage for the single designed by the Thee Jim Cook

Yuckman of York mask by Karen and Chase
Photo by Karen