But sometimes we didn’t have a producer there really, so no one’s driving. I was just gonna stand back and let everybody be themselves, which is great. So I really went out of my way to not dictate where the record should go in anyway. He explained: “Because of lack of regiment, whatever, which we didn’t adopt until we started the “Diamond Eyes” record, the record sounded kinda fragmented that way.
We started to repair our friendships and everybody got on the same page again.”Ĭhino would go on to say that activities like playing poker and marathon games of Risk seemed to take priority over actually working on new music. We working in Sacramento at our studio and we had finally come out of those dark times, which started with the self-titled album and went pretty much all the way through the “Saturday Night Wrist” writing and recording and a little bit of the touring. We were having a really good time when were writing that stuff. I remember when were done with writing that batch of songs I remember thinking ‘man, we can make better songs.’ There was a couple good moments, but I remember not being too enthusiastic about that batch of songs.Īnd it was actually a good time. I will say that I remember it being not that great, I will say that. It’s probably why I haven’t opened it up and listened to a lot of it. And I’m still kind of hesitant to go back and listen. And I didn’t want to listen to these songs that we had been working on for the last three… It was so fresh, we were that we were just like moving forward and making music in that moment.Īs to where if I put those on, it was gonna take me back to that time, which I didn’t want to be in. But also we were sort of, we were doing “Diamond Eyes” and we were already kind of moving forward. I’ve never opened up that hard drive to see where everything sits.Īnd in my mind back then, it was like I’m not going to… I mean obviously we hold that stuff pretty sacred, ’cause obviously it’s the last thing that Chi played on. There’s some others that were close, but honestly I’ve never opened up those files since then, since like 2008. That’s probably the only song that was finished, finished. …I just kinda leaked it out and then I think when people heard that they just assumed ‘oh, well the whole record’s finished, why can’t we hear it?’ But the truth is it’s not. Literally from my YouTube, I put it up on YouTube that’s it. I had found it on my computer maybe a couple days before that and I was like, you know what I’m just gonna, without telling the band, put it out.
But it was the year anniversary of Chi‘s death. That’s like a rough mix from when I left house that night. …So I finished that song, or finished what it is-I don’t think it ever got mixed or mastered. And it’s just a very comfortable vocal booth and it’s just a good vibe and he’s really good at… Someone who I can bounce stuff off of.” And especially I love the way he treats my vocal.
But that’s when I was still living in Burbank and Shaun was my neighbor, so I just skateboarded over to his house and was like ‘Hey, put this on.’ Because I always love the way he… I love recording vocals with him. At that point I went through so many different people that I was working on that record with. That specific song “Smile” I had finished, and I actually recorded that vocal at Shaun‘s house. I think there was probably like 12, 11 or 12 songs or something from the session. I was still working on it when Chi had his accident, and we kinda just halted everything. It’s probably more like what I was saying earlier, it has melodies and ideas, but no words yet. The rest of it is like-there’s probably vocals on it-but it’s definitely not finished. Only one finished song has ever been “released” from the project, which was the track “Smile“, released by Moreno in 2014 on the one-year anniversary of Cheng‘s death.Īccording to Chino, the album was never fully completed and still hasn’t been touched since 2008.Ĭhino says (transcribed by ): “There’s maybe like an EP’s worth of music that has vocals on it. The injuries Chi sustained from the accident left him in a waking coma and would eventually claim his life several years later in 2013.
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