during first year university jordan, neil and myself jammed and recorded some tunes. at this time jordan was in possesion of an electronic drum kit (vdrums... classic), so we (jordan) put everything on that so we could record onto his computer. i think neil came up with the name empire. we ended up doing 3 songs. im not sure if neil played bass on all the songs, i can't remember. the songs were: Portia, To the Moon, and Princess Sputnick.
Portia i guess was the first attempt at a post-rock genre sound. at the time we thought it was pretty sweet, while everyone else thought it was boring (which led to an internet fight with some shitty band that started with K). turns out it is pretty boring. parts of it i like, but as a whole... no. To the Moon turned out pretty good, but really needs vocals. the end guitar part is pretty boss sounding. Princess Sputnick is your basic rock song. i dont even know if jordan is aware of that song title haha. i think this was the only one neil played bass on. i can remember it took him forever to record his basslines, while i sat on the floor drinking beer, that my cousin trent dropped off for me, and laughing my ass off.
we also jammed some covers because we had this idea in our heads that we could play bar shows at school hahaha. i think we jammed:
mogwai - xmas steps
smashing pumpkins - the end is the beginning is the end
the clash - guns of brixton
bush - history
black halos - ? dont know the name
murder city devils - ? dont know the name
i'm pretty happy how these songs turned out. especially considering i was writing shitty acousitc songs prior to this.
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