Demo I

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Release Date: 2006

Label: Not On Label Self-released)

First Demo. Recorded live with vocals added afterwards.
"This 2-song demo was recorded shortly after I met Kevin, John and Mike. It was the summer of 1986 and my band had just broken up. I was not eager to attach myself to another band at the time, but I agreed to record a couple of songs for the guys to use to try and find a vocalist.
The music was recorded live through their practice P.A. straight to a cassette. After we got the music right, recorded the vocals over the music kareoke-style, using a 2nd cassette deck. Since we didn't use a multi-track recorder, I had to sing straight through the songs with no overdubbing. This was a challenge on "Frigid Bitch" due to the speed of the lyrics. After several tries with me reading the lyrics off of a piece of paper, I still could not keep up for the entire song. In the end we recorded the 1st and 2nd verses and then went back and did the 3rd verse seperately and edited the two recordings together.
This tape was played on a local metal radio show with the host interviewing the 4 of us in the studio. The guys gave a sales pitch to anyone interested in becoming the band's vocalist. When the host gave the band's lin-up, he did not mention my name or say who was playing and singing on the songs since I wasn't yet in the band or their "official" vocalist.
Before I joined them, ANACRUSIS was using standard tuning, which is what you hear on this version of these songs. It was only later, when I decided to join the band, that we switched to using a low-B tuning, which I had used in my previous band".