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Toilet Water From Hell

It lives again!

Tempest Fero’s instrumental magnum opus, Toilet Water From Hell!

If I remember correctly, this one dates back to 1987 and it was the second song we wrote. I thought about making the keyboard solos guitar solos today but that just seemed wrong. Somehow my awful keyboard playing just seems to enhance the cheese factor here. Also note that I managed to fudge with Garageband enough to allow the occasional bars of 5/4 time into the 4/4 project. Yeah, I am pleased by that.

100 bonus points if you can name the Blue Oyster Cult song that we “borrowed” (read, stole) liberally from. Bass solo and everything.

Rob’s blog, where the 80’s live forever!

(note: more 80’s Tempest Fero songs to come. At least one more, maybe as soon as tomorrow.)

Lizardfish

Last night Jen and I traveled North to Seabrook, NH to see a couple of friends’ band, Lizardfish. Included in the line up is the legendary co-founder of both the mighty Prime Meridian and Tempest Fero, better known in these pages as Mike the Bass Player.

We stayed for two of the three sets. After two I was just too beat to stay any longer and I was getting worried about falling asleep in the car driving home.

Jen and I had a blast. The band sounded great. Much, much better than they did with their old guitar player. I was very impressed. It was a really good time.

Me being me, I took some video, took some pictures, and basically bootlegged a whole set. Here are a couple of pictures. Imagine the bass player as a 17 year old and you have a start to witnessing the brilliant, mighty, powerhouse that was Tempest Fero.

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Why the Tempest Fero references? Well, I recently made new recordings of two Tempest Fero songs using Garageband. I felt seriously goofy doing it, and yet it was still fun for weird ol’ me. Well, if you look at the post I made prior to this one you will see that I bought a cassette player today. I made that purchase because I found a tape with two more Tempest Fero songs, and they will be re-recorded very soon.