Zodiak Killer
Zodiak Killer
[veser]
Though unfortunate I’ll say it’s true
In a dif’rent time and place it seems
Life may have been more int’resting
Had I left you here too
[chorus]
Star-crossed twist of fate
Give in to the Zodiak Killer’s hate
I want your tell tale sign
The world ends on Zodiak Killer time
[verse]
Let me guess the month your color ‘s not blue
It’s written all over the face I see
A little less painful with the pestering
Had ya been read through
[chorus]
Star-crossed twist of fate
Give in to the Zodiak Killer’s hate
I want your tell tale sign
The world ends on Zodiak Killer time
Now it comes to prime time to
Let’s see what the Zodiak Killer ‘ll do
Pressing nerves ‘n’ tortured screws
Our world ends when the Zodiak Killer is through
[instrumental]
[chorus]
Star-crossed twist of fate
Give in to the Zodiak Killer’s hate
I want your tell tale sign
The world ends on Zodiak Killer time
Now it comes to prime time to
Let’s see what the Zodiak Killer ‘ll do
Pressing nerves ‘n’ tortured screws
Our world ends when the Zodiak Killer is through
[chorus]
Star-crossed twist of fate
Give in to the Zodiak Killer’s hate
I want your tell tale sign
The world ends on Zodiak Killer time
Song Length: 2:38
Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music
Paul Kaiser: Drums
Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass
Recording Info:
Notes 2026:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Atmos Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Atmos Mastering Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides
Remixed at: Snow Park Studio in Park City UT
Mixed in LUNA with Apollo interfaces
Mastered in LUNA with Apollo interfaces
Atmos Mix in LUNA with Apollo interfaces
Atmos Mastering in Dolby Album Assembler
Monitor Speakers: KRK V4 mkII
Original CD Version released in 2001 info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides
Recorded & mixed at: Dancin Deer Studio in Reseda CA
The Setup: Mac G4
Logic Audio Platinum
MOTU 828 mkII
Avalon 737sp
Neumann U87a modified.
GrooveTubes MD1a
GrooveTubes Vipre
Shure SM57beta
Mastered at: Utopia Parkway Music
Guitar(s): Fender Guitar with desert paint job: my first guitar that I subsequently torn apart changed parts, repainted and rebuilt. Up from the ashes came a guitar that has since been on numerous recordings and records, more than me. It sounds great. I stocked it with a single Seymour Duncan Custom Humbucker. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.
Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This is the guitar used on the guitar solo.
Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a Bocate fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.
The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Trio: GrooveTubes Soul-O 150. GrooveTubes Dual 75 loaded with KT88’s. GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs. Mic’d using the GrooveTubes MD1a. Mic’d using a Shure SM-57Beta.
Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V: Recorded direct then re-amp’d by mic’ing the signal through a peavey backstage plus twice. One time run clean, the second time with distortion via a Tube Screamer pedal.
Drums: Live drums were tracked as MIDI via the Roland TD-10 (with expansion kit) into Logic as MIDI (with a very complex environment page that allowed for all the TD-10 kit parts to be separated and associated with their control data) and audio sounds.
Re-release drum sounds are samples from Logic Pro kits assembled and tuned then using the original MIDI tracks.
Vocal: mic’d with a modified Neumann U87a.
Song Story:
D’oh another song based on the crazy imagination of a madman musician. No I’m not interested in really being a serial killer. Again, I like to think that I’m fairly well educated on things. However here I am writing a song that I got the influence from Imperial Drag. I find out later that there really was someone running around killing people based on the signs of the Zodiak! How fucking nuts. So, while I didn’t know, I’m changing my answer to… Of Course I knew about him.
Musically speaking I think I got some of the production ideas from the No Doubt album Return to Saturn which I felt was their best disc they’d done. I still listen to it. It’s very crafty.
Factoids:
1. There really was a killer that dealt with Zodiac signs and yes I spelled it incorrectly on purpose for the song.
2. The rolling drum part in the bridge took a few takes to get right.
The snare drum run in the middle was probably the coolest thing I had Paul do that day. It’s amazing the control Paul has with his drumming ability. Especially to make this work the way he did on an electronic kit. As far as the song is concerned there really is no solo. I didn’t feel it needed it.
Copyright: 2001/03/05
ISRC: USONR0102010
ISRC: USONR2400220
ISRC: USONR2400210
ISRC: USONR2400230
ISWC: T9055765349
SESAC Song ID: 594712
Harry Fox ID: Z0739B
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q
UPC: 654433000429
UPC: 656465068606
UPC: 656465068859
UPC: 656465068620
UPC: 656465068866