Dr. Strange on Vestee's Pant Leg -- Notes 9/11/00
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Dr. Strange is a character in the Marvel Comics   
universe.  In the original series he is a surgeon
who loses his wife, his daughter, and the dexterity 
of his hands through a car accident.  He nearly loses 
all hope until he finally finds the Ancient One.  To 
find the Ancient One, he needed to climb one of the 
sheerest mountains ever.

Except that Vestee's pant leg is more sheer.

Vestee is a ghost of my past.

I wrote the lyrics for this song when I was in college.
They sat in my bass case for 8 to 10 years.

15 feb 2001
I re-recorded the song, starting from the ground up and
doing it all digitally.  I needed to buy a cheesy $20 sound
card to go into this Dell Dimension because the card they 
had wouldn't do full duplex.  What a piece of shit.  The
$20 card had a single chip, half a dozen capacitors, a
transistor and nothing else.

Since I did the song digitally, I was able to add a bunch
extra tracks and had more ability to clean out noisy sections
through wav editing.

I also thought that my voice on the original sucked royally.

27 apr 2001
I did the song again.  This is incarnation number three.
I had listened to version 2 several times while on the 
ski-machine in the work-out room.  Finally I realized that
I hated it and it was time to do it again.

Wedge gave me the idea to record the tracks in mono rather
than stereo.  This saves a lot of space and makes the 
software work faster.

I added a bunch of guitar stuff to the beginning of the
song (right after the first improv section).  I am really
quite pleased with it.

Version 3 is a little longer than version 2, even though
the last quatrain of lyrics was eliminated.