The year was 2004 & times were tough, working for peanuts & shit on the daily. Back then all I had was a week of vacation a year. I always did the same thing. It was me, inspiration, & a home studio. Somewhere in between finishing our album & the last gig, we, (T.E.B.), were presented with a contract that would essentially mean that the label would own All of our music not just this album, but past & future compositions as well. The one perk we had going for us was the “Jam Pad”. The label rented out a very spacious room in a downtown building. It was pretty much the whole floor. It was transformed into a Recording studio, as well as a practice room. I originally wanted to borrow the studio microphone & just do the album at home, but was denied. So I gave Juce $20 to let me do it at the jam pad. The interesting thing about this album was that I created most of the drum tracks on my PS2 via Music Maker. The rest was done on the ol” trusty ALESIS SR 16. There were a lot of” firsts “ on this album. It was the first time anyone was present during the recording, as I did everything alone in a room. Laying down the music was easy & smooth, the intimidating aspect was the vocal tracks. The guy sitting in the control room hitting F12 was the singer of the band, & was incredibly talented both vocally & musically. Even though this was supposed to be another solo album, he persistently kept doing impromptu back up tracks. That was another, through out our musical journey the formula was most often me coming up with the riffs & he would do his thing on the mic. We called it Electric Buffalo. Towards the end, I had a couple of tracks without lyrics. It took little convincing as he already had a pen & what ever was laying around to write on. The last track was something I had intended to sing, instead he gave me his interpretation. One of the first times he used my lyrics. I was happy with outcome, even though this would be the last album we would work together on, for change was just around the corner.

1. Rivas_Drums,Bass, Engineer,Vocals R.Madrigal_Guitars, Vocs, & Masterminding