REVELATIONS 2000

Audio Lyrics

The first tracks recorded for this project in Dec 1997 were "The Seed of God" by the Reverend Vince Anderson and "Holy Terror" by Kathy Geary both with lyrics by Ron English. Ron said he got his ideas from the gnostic texts. Rev Vince Anderson went back to do one more track called "Prophet for Profit" and Kathy Geary also did "I Am Here".

SEED OF GOD

Music for the Seed of God was written and performed by the Reverend Vince Anderson, a man in his early 30's, an East Village icon who you can catch every Sunday night in NYC at the Ave B Social Club between 6th & 7th Sts. He's like Tom Waits and Johnny Cash with a huge dose of Jesus fervor mixed in. In the studio he stood on a wooden crate and stomped his feet for the rhythm. We had a mic in the box. He had a broom stick in one hand which he pounded on the floor for even more umph. The guitar player, Kevin Giordano, stood in the same recording room and his amp was just miked from there. We used their first take. Don Martin came in later that afternoon and laid out the bass line. Then Vince added some more percussion with a shaker he had made from parts of a box on the street below. Then we moved on to the second track.

HOLY TERROR

Music for Holy Terror was written and performed by me, Kathy Geary. I wrote the music at my home during three sessions. At first Kevin and Vince came along and their song took shape then just Ron was with me when I closed in the final version of Holy Terror at the piano. This is the first time I've played the keys with a band, although for the first 20 yrs of my life I thought of myself as a pianist and studied classical rep extensively.

Back to the studio, where Adrian Harpham came in to play drums. I had never played with him before, except in a rehearsal, but had heard him many many times in his work with Patti Rothberg on her first album for EMI "Between the One and the Nine". Don Martin was on bass, who I have worked with for over a year now and once again the first take was it. Bob Windbiel came in later and did two guitar passes and then I did the piano part. Fast work! Two basic tracks with overdubs in one day.

A couple days after that I wrote a choral piece to end the song. We originally had planned on a fade out but the ending groove was so cool that I didn't want to cut it. So, to tie into the religious theme I decided a chorus would be just the thing and envisioned a gospel type sound. However when I went to write the music that's not what came out. Instead I wrote what sounds to me like a quasi classical piece for SATB voices. Last time I heard something like this was lifetimes ago when the Stones did the chorus thing on "You Can't Only Get What You Want".