This is the only recording of “Doubt”, the last official Violet June song recorded by Luis and David (Jeff wasn’t around that day). In my mind, this song was never fully completed, although it seems fairly well fleshed-out listening back to it now. Luis and I have both remained extremely fond of this song over the years, and we agreed that it marked an interesting direction to take our future music.
Vile Lynn
This is another recording of “Vile Lynn”. It should probably be stated that this song ultimately resulted in the band breaking up. After months of practicing this song and performing it live at several gigs, I, David, decided that I was now offended by some of the lyrics. Luis didn’t like the idea of changing his lyrics, and thus a conflict was born. Its difficult to see now what was so offensive about these lyrics as to merit breaking up the band. I mean, yes, they were intentionally shocking, but so was much of our other material. What was I even doing in an aggressive, industrial band if my delicate sensibilities were so easily challenged? At any rate, its all water under the bridge at this point. I quite like the song!
Violet June – “Tape 2”
This tape contains a variety of material, including solo music by Luis and early versions of Violet June songs. Some of these may not have names at all, or at least I never knew them, while others I have simply forgotten the names.
Another experimental technique we employed a few times was to play the sequence for one song, but with an entirely different set of samples loaded into our keyboards. I know we recorded at least one of these experiments, and that may be on this tape too… I’m just not sure.
Violet June – “Tape 1”
This is a tape descriptively labeled “Violet June”. No date was indicated, but based on the inclusion of “Vile Lynn”, this had to have been from the first half of 1991.
Violet June – Entire Live Set
This tape, dated June 1991, represents the entire live set list for Violet June. Missing from this set is the interstitial Bob Dylan tape that was played in between songs. Because it could take a full minute to load all the samples and sequences required for the next song, we had to fill that time with some kind of noise… so why not Bob Dylan? Uh, yeah.
I can’t remember the title of track 10. Jeff or Luis, do you remember?
Black Day – To Relieve the Pain
“To Relieve the Pain” is the one and only album recorded by Black Day. Released on cassette tape, circa 1987.