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Artist: Scotch Eggs |
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Genre: Synthesized beats, sampled beats, singing, rapping. |
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Brief Description: I rap over some beats Kendall McBride made. |
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Some years ago, while living in Rochester, NY, I drove down to Boston to visit my friend Kendall McBride at his brother's place. We got appropriately enlightened and decided that I should pen and record some lyrics to his version of "Eight Days a Week". Once we finished that, we decided I should freestyle some lyrics to two more of his tracks. We were both pretty pleased with the results, which I recorded onto an analog audiotape.
Unfortunately, the next time we talked about doing something with the project, Kendall told me that he had remixed "I'm Still Holdin', Holdin' Something" which was my favorite of the tracks we had done. When I heard the remix, I didn't like it, and I couldn't find my taperecording of the original, so that pretty much killed my enthusiasm for the project as a whole (I am a bit of a perfectionist.)
Some time later, Kendall would do something totally unrelated that really pissed me off and we became estranged. It seemed nothing would ever come of Scotch Eggs (the name for our side project.)
Some time after that (Fall 2001,) I was backpacking around Europe by myself. I had rented a FIAT to get from Athens to Delphi to visit the temple of my patron Greek god (Apollo.) The crappy little car had a crappy little tape deck. I was listening to one of the handful of tapes I had brought with me. The tape came to the end of the side. I was about to hit rewind because I wasn't sure what was on the other side, but I was pretty sure it wasn't anything I liked, when all of a sudden the tape switched sides and I suddenly heard our recording of the original version of our songs. Having this experience on the road to the temple of my patron god, I knew it was my duty to reconcile with Kendall immediately upon returning home and to release our project for public consumption asap.
So, once again, as always with everything, "Live From Hyde Park" is a project whose existence is mandated by God. We hope you like the results.
All beats made by Kendall McBride using _____. All vocals recorded by Kendall McBride using _____. All lyrics written by me. Cover art by me. Mastering done by Paul Gold at his Brooklynphono studio.