Demo and Other Useless Shit You Need in Your Life

Yup, we have a CD demo available for purchase. It has 8 songs recorded by the wonderful, yet suspiciously all-too-sober, Ben Libay in his studio down in Maple Valley, WA. After a brief argument about where Maple Valley actually is (Dan mistook it for the Seattle north-end neighborhood, Maple Leaf), the band puttered into the studio. A total of three hours was spent recording the 16 minutes worth of music. It would have been one hour if Dan knew how to play guitar and didn't have to come back and re-track half of the demo. Ben mixed it in the Colonix practice space and mastered it partially. The rest of the mastering was left to Joe Rizzy. We neglected to add any of this information in the demo itself to save Ben and Joe the embarrassment of being linked at all with Colonix.

Ben pulled out all the stops for this demo, employing techniques Steve Albini himself would give thumbs up to. He took a minimalist approach to recording us, using as few microphones as he could. He also insisted the power outage that occurred, resulting in us having to re-record a few of the songs, was probably for the best. "Computer editing software isn't that good," he lamented.

Reviews of the demo thus far have been mixed. Cely is pretty sure that "farting into a microphone" would produce better results. Our straight edge constituency, Coleen Holloway and Bobby Cata think it's about time a band returned to punk ethics found in the early 80s when people didn't know how to play their instruments. "It's painfully obvious that is the case with this CD, Dan... Way to go!" Coleen said. We have yet to hear from either of Dan's housemates who refuse to even claim ownership of the demo citing, "it's bad enough I have to hear you guys practice once a week through the floor."

Included is a lyric sheet detailing an explanation why only a few of the lyrics were written down (something about Jr. threatening to shoot Dan). The chicken scratch Dan calls "writing" is difficult to read. So, its a pretty irrelevant piece of paper. And Pete is pretty proud of making the actual CD look like a ransom note written on a bathroom floor. Anyway, if you want one, send us a message: 77colonix77@gamil.com. Or, you can come to our next show if you live in the Seattle area.

We also have buttons and some limited edition cassette demos* for sale.

*Note: see the blog titled "Your Colonic" to obtain a consumer report/warning about this product.