 2 A Street  Larry Cugini Go here to check out a song by Black Box |
1991 Douglas/NML (Crashing Through The Warning Signs) On January 1st, 1990, we were officially moved into 2 A St, Apt 1. For the next few months we would be prepping the apt, cleaning up after the asshole tenants who moved in, and building a new recording facility. By the summer Nemesis Music Lab- Douglas was complete, thanks to this feller (Jim Van Wie) He was a musician friend and apprentice carpenter.  We set about recording demos and trying to figure out our next move. There was also a lot of social activity and jamming going on, with friends and former band mates. Roundabout late November 1990, Greg brought Larry Cugini by the studio. We jammed, dug it and started rehearsing. The plan was to get a singer and then start gigging. We tracked nine tunes for a demo. Due to economic issues the project dissolved.
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1991 – 1992
(Heading Toward The Cliff)
Craig Znamierowski
and I formed a William Burroughs
appreciation society. And so I went through an Agent Lee phase and recorded a bunch of experimental stuff with Greg.
We were also cutting
four track demos, for a group
we had planned to assemble called Sex Machine.
In all, between 1990
and 1993/Zen Bastards, Freak Music
and so forth, we recorded about eight to ten albums worth of material (mostly songs about self loathing, impending doom and faithlessness.*) On average, it was about a song a week, when other artists weren't in the studio.
Andrea Cifizzari was
also hanging out and recording with us.
We tracked two albums worth of stuff together. Go here *prophesy
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 Craig Znamierowski  Andrea Cifizzari |
 Console mix for Sacrifice |
1993 Part 1 (Critical Mass) Things were getting somewhat weird with Cathi. She was not coming home after work, drinking a lot. I was getting weird stories, from friends that knew us both. I was in denial as to the severity of the situation. All in all, things were getting pretty messed up. Greg and I went back to recording on eight track and I was working to try to make these recordings sound complete. Dave Smith loaned me a book, by Wayne Wadhams, on recording and it was an epiphany. There were a lot of concepts I had not grasped up until then. Two discs worth of these recordings are here I planned to make a
finished album based on my new skills.
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