Post by thraxhead on Nov 12, 2010 20:31:25 GMT -5
Then, browsing Youtube late at night yet again ... I found another demo from the Inside Out days, this time "Shelter Me"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P0xWyiR858&feature=related
Obviously, another one taken from "Circles", it sounds like the chorus might be in its early stages of development, since it sounds slightly different (and again, more raw and impassioned) than what Ray ended up singing on the actual album.
The guitar solo is intact, pretty much the same as on the album.
But the most striking difference is that haunting "dirge" that happens at the end of the song, from about 4:30 until 5:30 (when the intro acoustic guitar to "Island in the Stream" kicks in).
I really wish they had used this 1-minute interlude for something as it is an outstanding piece to just listen to, replete with Ray's "ahhhhh ahhhhh ohhhh" over the top of the music (it kind of reminds me of that neat acoustic outro on Iron Maiden's "The Prophecy" as the song fades away - its melody didn't fit in with the rest of the song, but it was cool to listen to nonetheless)
Some thoughts on Inside Out in general:
This is still one of my favorite albums from the band. I read an article interviewing Jimmy when it came out in 1994, and it had mentioned that Fates had gone back to earlier song structures that they drifted away from with Parallels. Obviously not, because the song structures on Inside Out were still very much more akin to "Eye to Eye" than they were to "Epitaph".
Yet these two demos alone showcased what that interviewer was trying to convey: Fates still had that streak of creative adventure to their music, with unconventional melodies and structures, even if the temptation to "play it safe" eventually took over.
Tracks 2, 4, 6, and 10 seem to border on the safer, commercial stuff. While the odd tracks tended to have the potential to be more adventurous, especially songs like "Face the Fear" and "Island in the Stream". I think if they allowed themselves the freedom to compose items more along the structure of "Face the Fear", Inside Out may hold a different perspective in the minds of most Fates fans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P0xWyiR858&feature=related
Obviously, another one taken from "Circles", it sounds like the chorus might be in its early stages of development, since it sounds slightly different (and again, more raw and impassioned) than what Ray ended up singing on the actual album.
The guitar solo is intact, pretty much the same as on the album.
But the most striking difference is that haunting "dirge" that happens at the end of the song, from about 4:30 until 5:30 (when the intro acoustic guitar to "Island in the Stream" kicks in).
I really wish they had used this 1-minute interlude for something as it is an outstanding piece to just listen to, replete with Ray's "ahhhhh ahhhhh ohhhh" over the top of the music (it kind of reminds me of that neat acoustic outro on Iron Maiden's "The Prophecy" as the song fades away - its melody didn't fit in with the rest of the song, but it was cool to listen to nonetheless)
Some thoughts on Inside Out in general:
This is still one of my favorite albums from the band. I read an article interviewing Jimmy when it came out in 1994, and it had mentioned that Fates had gone back to earlier song structures that they drifted away from with Parallels. Obviously not, because the song structures on Inside Out were still very much more akin to "Eye to Eye" than they were to "Epitaph".
Yet these two demos alone showcased what that interviewer was trying to convey: Fates still had that streak of creative adventure to their music, with unconventional melodies and structures, even if the temptation to "play it safe" eventually took over.
Tracks 2, 4, 6, and 10 seem to border on the safer, commercial stuff. While the odd tracks tended to have the potential to be more adventurous, especially songs like "Face the Fear" and "Island in the Stream". I think if they allowed themselves the freedom to compose items more along the structure of "Face the Fear", Inside Out may hold a different perspective in the minds of most Fates fans.