Earwigs! (Patreon)

Here's something from the vault that's suitable for Halloween time!

Back in 1998 (or was it 99?) I did a tape-swap with a fella who called his act "Earwig Spectre".  This is a parody/tribute I did on one of my early albums which is pretty close to his style:  The piano, the hard pan with piano on left & vocal on right, the demented cackling, the demonic pitch shift, and the gore/horror themes are all inspired by the original.  I sent him a copy of the album (complete with me and Philo commenting over the music) and he wrote back that he really liked it.

The track starts with a weird burst of music which was the tail-end of the previous song.  I mixed the album radio dj style with songs slightly overlapping each other.  No, I don't have that previous song.  Only a few of them survived the transition from tape to digital.

Any contact info I had for Earwig Spectre would be 20 years out-of-date, even if I could find it.  "Mr. Boyden in Indiana" is definitely a reference to him.  Maybe he's still around on the internet.  I'm sort of afraid to look...