nine degrees - look directly at the ball

nine degrees
an unfortunate band name coincidence...we were actually at harold washington library looking up registered names through ASCAP and came across 98 degrees and thought nothing about it. this was before anyone knew of them. lesson learned.
anyway. we were all 21 or 22 at the time except chris who was 29 and balck. we tracked this on may 14th and 21st 1997. we did two takes of each song and picked the best one. all the music was tracked "live" without overdubs...(except a quick bit during one guitar solo that we cut in). the vocals were done a week later. after we got the discs (sometime in August) we started playing around chicago. the double door was our first venue (September), which is why i will always love that place. this was the band that started it for me. we changed our name and lineup a bit in August 1999.

thom - guitar
josh - drums
chris - bass
doug - guitar, vocals.

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Brennaman on guitar?

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Audio I.D.

Audio I.D.
So, Thom left 9 degrees in January of 1999. He had enough...
We continued on with another guitar player named Tim. Eventually, Tim left. Around this time, we met Jerry at what turned out to be the last 9 degrees show. I stopped singing and Jerry started. We changed the name of the band to Audio I.D. We added another guitar player named Jimmy and a percussion player named Danny from a band named Henry, that we used to play shows with. Chris left and we recruited Mike to be our new bass player.
This band got very close...about as close as you can get without actually "making" it. We opened for Taproot, Papa Roach, and a very young Linkin Park. We also shared stages with Dirty M.F. and some of the guys from Liquid Soul among many other really cool bands from that time. I was the first to leave. February of 2001. Josh followed in August. Jerry hung on for another year until October of the following year. We didn't record very much because nobody had any money. Sadly, there were quite a few good songs that are gone forever...

Jerry - vocals
Chris - bass (left in Aug. 2000)
Mike - bass
Jimmy - guitar
Josh - drums
Danny - percussion
Doug - guitar

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Yorke.

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Dolby

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That would be a button 48

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the nerve session - the contact

the nerve session Oct. 2003
So...no band. I had been married for 5 months when I left Audio I.D. in early 2001 and didn't play the guitar for a good 8 months after that. I was pissed off and had no desire to create anything. thom had been in the same boat. early in 2002 we both bought Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and a 4 input breakout box to try to record music. After Jerry left Audio I.D. we started to track some songs....very slowly.

Thom - guitars, drum programming.
Doug - guitars, bass, drum programming.
Jerry - lyrics

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the nerve session - cloak

and we continued on slowly after that with another batch of songs.
same lineup. we never played live...

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nerve session - first boot on the moon

nerve session
We dropped the "the" from nerve session because Josh came back into the fold on this one and is playing drums...I'm still playing guitar and bass. Thom is still on guitar as well and Jerry is singing. We realized that recording drums is a pain in the ass. Mixing and e.q. are a pain in the ass. But, we were learning....slowly.
"They are what they are..." was a common phrase that would be repeated. Still no live shows...and we just burned through 2005-2007.
Divorce..lots of X-Box. good times.

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nerve session - last step in space

and this was it. i was doing my best to finish this batch as we were starting passive aggressor. i like most of these songs, but the mix is all over the place. these were done in mid 2008, but it took me another year to get them finally completed. josh started playing bass on some of these songs.

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bump if you missed it.

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Awesome. I can't open the files here at work, but I'm going to check this out over the weekend.

Can't wait to see what's in here...

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here's another quick idea that Josh and I threw together earlier this year.

Lotus Society - Now

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and a couple of dubstep ideas...

Beat-Down

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http://soundcloud.com/audioidkid

I created my own soundcloud accnt to post some ideas. There are three up there right now, all in various stages of completion/demo. Some concepts...basically indicating where my head is at right now creatively.

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I really liked "Good Feel" and "Get in line".

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

sweet...thanks.

escalators, hallways, subways.

for Imu.

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The rest of my thoughts are in the Drinky Board, but the Kansas Machine had a Slipknot feel to me. Wasn't bad, not my thing, but wasn't bad.

As previously established elsewhere, I liked the industrial stuff...the dance stuff not so much.

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trick or treat...smell my feat.

this was a fun thing. my buddy Thom recorded some clean guitar and had his son Sam say the line...I added the Metalz.

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I've been archiving some things with a buddy of mine (analog to digital) for another band I was a part of named Wax Poetic. In the process, I found some old cassettes of 9 Degrees and Audio I.D. practicing. There some songs on there that were never properly recorded. It's weird listening to a cassette tape labelled "12/99 Cool Ideas" so many years later.
Also, found a cassette of 9 Degrees being played on 95.1 Will Rock back in 98.

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http://soundcloud.com/lotussociety/pleasure-pain

This one is called Pleasure and Pain. Josh and I did this one...the first post passive aggressor song we've completed.

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I liked it. Nice and mellow.

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new track...

this one is called "big shaka".
we finished tracking two weekends ago and he completed mixing this morning.
http://soundcloud.com/audioidkid/big-shaka/download


you can also download "pleasure and pain" in mp3 format if you like on my souncloud page.

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Since Panther inquired...

The first passive aggressor "album" i.i.i.

pA - i.i.i zip

Josh and Jerry wrote the basis for the majority of these songs: key of the song, note selection, arrangement. I would usually come in later and add guitar parts to the drums, bass, vocals, and keys or I would replace a rough guitar track that Jerry or Josh had already played. There are a few songs where we kept their original guitar parts and I would add overdubs. Of course, there are a few songs where I had more of a writing influence. Tom wasn't really involved except in a live setting.

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passive aggressor - the.p.

We continued writing...the pattern shifted a bit here. Jerry was so busy with school, work, etc...so Josh and I spend more time on these. Tom was starting to get more involved in the writing process as well. I think these are some of our stronger tunes (overall).
We would really only play Prowler Owl, Good Luck, and Operate...but I really love Conclusions Complex and Worth Something.
Two songs that we'd practice from time to time, but they never really jumped out live. I wish we would have played these live a few times.

One of my most favorite "sounds" i've come up with for a song is on Worth Something. The "fuzzed out organ delay" sound is all guitar....it's not a keyboard!

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pA - Volume II

We had taken quite a bit of time off from playing in a "rock band" live setting. Every "show" in 2010 was acoustic with the exception of the 1.16.10 double door show. Tom and I were writing very closely with Josh and as such these songs were easily the most guitar influenced.
There's a "looseness" to these songs that we didn't have previously that I really enjoy. You can hear our buddy OKC on "Walking."

Alibi is one of my most favorite pA songs.

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and finally..

pA - demos zip

Some songs that never were completed...there's a instrumental called Bathed in Blue...one take guitar solo thingy.
A few are better than others, various forms of completeness. But, I think it gives a good idea of how a song grows to being "finished" and "final."

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just in case nobody saw this over the weekend...or cares.

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