Recollection

Recollection
Written and Recorded 2004

Now presenting Nathan Honoré as BUSH!!! Yeah, I went through grunge phase (about 10 years too late.) This song was one of the two that I had written for my high school rock band. I mostly just played bass and did backing vocals with them. We were together for about 3 years and probably played a handful of gigs, but it was incredibly helpful in my development. My bass playing moved up by leaps and bounds, and I also learned how to play in a band, how my part fit, etc.

It's fun to look back now and see how badly I wanted to be Gavin Rossdale. And this song is pretty fun too, teen angst running rampant, calling people "fake." It should be noted that this recording is actually of that band, then known as Plow. We recorded in some guy's pseudo-studio in Port Washington in my senior year of high school. We felt pretty damn cool "heading to the studio."

• The opening riff is probably a blatant ripoff of something on "Sixteen Stone," and my performance of it is pretty messy. Even Zach's lead guitar part sounds like Bush.
• "Life ain't no gravy train." This line came about because of a book a idioms I found while working my summer job as a janitor at St. Matthias. Just another thing I was doing other than actually working.
• As a whole, this song flows pretty well. The structure is solid and keeps moving. Even the bridge builds into the final chorus in a powerful way.
• Many of the backing vocal parts were done at the suggestion of the "Engineer." He was really into the echo thing. But the double tracking on the lead vocals does add some weight to those lines. Though I was trying to emulate a metalcore band called Poison the Well. Here's a link to the specific song that has some nice vocal around 38 seconds...beware, the rest of this song is not for the weak of heart.
• Needless to say that I was trying really hard to be a lot different things. A great time for experimentation!