a young dan kirkhus, writing lyrics in my old dining room.
In January 1998 I sent Dan an email with the subject line “cage match”. It said:
So while mountain biking in the dark tonight, this idea occurred to me. How about we do a Dan vs. Scott album? But the kicker is this: yeah, it’s electronic, but we do it guerrilla style.
Thus Deacon Stilt was born. Dan and I got together (eventually) for a few weekends, working fast and loose. Our mission statement was something like “Kyuss meets The Prodigy”. It was a little comical because I hadn’t yet embraced DAWs, and I had a pretty clunky way of doing things. Dan was a DAW guy by then, but we were working at my place. So he’s watching me stripe timecode onto ADATs, then sync Cubase to the ADAT using a JL Cooper Midisync, and he’s like “what is wrong with this guy? will the drum loop start soon?”.
The first song we wrote was “Hovercraft”. The rest of the time it was sort of a “can you beat Hovercraft?” thing. Which, as it turned out, we couldn’t. And in the end we never finished the project.
Anyway, I found some rough mixes kicking around and figured I’d post the best few for laughs.
Thanks to Mr. Thompson for giving these tracks a little mastering love.
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