Rob Me Blind
Rob Me Blind
[verse]
It’s true it’s true that you don’t see the impression that I have of you
Brother walk that line coming home past the sleepy time
Can’t earn respect without borrowing hours
Daylight breaks and the milks gone sour
[chorus]
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind
Ignorance racial lines
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind
Confidence empty mind
[verse]
Sister sister bumps and grinds
Stays at home past the waking time
Can’t earn respect without making up hours
Nighttime falls and the grapes have soured
[chorus]
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind
Ignorance racial lines
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind
Confidence empty mind
[bridge]
Hit me kick me beat me you’ll never take on me
Hang me bang me crank me you’ll never bank on me
[chorus]
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind
Ignorance racial lines
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind
Confidence empty mind
[chorus]
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind (rob me blind)
Ignorance racial lines (rob me blind)
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind (rob me blind)
Confidence empty mind (rob me blind)
[outro]
Rob Me Blind Rob Me Blind (rob me blind)
Song Length: 3:14
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.
Ibanez Universe 7 string guitar: This is number 96 off the assembly line. I got it for $400 with the case, about 6 months before Korn hit it big time. Then the value shot up to over $2000. Seymour Duncan Custom Custom 7 string model – custom wound. Plus my middle pickup was custom wound by a guy in Canada, sounds ok, but I don’t have his name. Neck pickup wasn’t used on this disc but is the stock pickup. Tremolo was useless with strings this heavy – so I blocked it off. This guitar was strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.
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:
Oh man, can you ask for double cheese on that order for anti-racism. Again I have to say that I was under the influence of Extreme while writing these lyrics. That’s the problem with going through old notebooks looking to find words that fit music you’ve written. Especially when the words come from like 7 years earlier. He he he. I have a huge stockpile of lyrics.
Anyway, I thought the title was cool. Rob Me Blind makes for a great cliché don’cha think?
Factoids:
1. I’ve had my car broken into twice, neither time was in a bad area of town.
2. I like the driving nature of the guitar part.
I really like the orchestrated guitar parts for the verses. It took a few takes to make sure I was doing something that stacked up well and sounded cool. the guitar solo was really sort of off the cuff. I couldn’t get anything that turned me on so I started improvising solos on every take. I don’t know which take number that was, but it worked out cool so I kept that one.
Copyright: 2001/03/05
ISRC: USONR0102006
ISRC: USONR2400216
ISRC: USONR2400206
ISRC: USONR2400226
ISWC: T9055765305
SESAC Song ID: 594708
Harry Fox ID: R5589N
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q
UPC: 654433000429
UPC: 656465068569
UPC: 656465068750
UPC: 656465068620
UPC: 656465068866