Stop Yield Go Merge - from Jul 19, 2005

RE-POD from July 19, 2005: Now that I have changed the subscription feed at podcast.penmachine.com, I’ll be mixing in some older tracks with the new ones, so you can get some of the music you might have missed if you haven’t been a long-term subscriber.

This is "Stop Yield Go Merge” (2.9 MB MP3 file), which originally took eight months to record, start to finish (plus another two months for remastering). That's not because it was hard, or even because I was lazy, but because I started it in the fall of 2004 and then forgot about it. When I found the rough track on my computer, I liked the dark string section, so I got back to work on it.

It started with the bass line, played on my Fender Squier Precision Bass. That, the drums, and the strings sat through winter and spring 2005 until I added some synthesizer bleeps and my usual el-sloppo guitar (on my lovely new Godin LG) in July 2005. Then, two months after I released it, Les Thorn kindly remastered it (for free!).