Sandbox
Sandbox
[verse]
Do you wanna do you wanna play
Can you dig with without hate
Got grains of all colors
Got grains of all colors
[chorus]
Wet sand dry sand your sand my sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
Soft sand hard sand light sand dark sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
[verse]
Would you help me build a a castle to the sky
Would you like a a large pail
Take a team to fortify
Take a team to fortify it
[chorus]
Wet sand dry sand your sand my sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
Soft sand hard sand light sand dark sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
[bridge]
And like life the tide will slowly hide
What we do and make until we die
[chorus]
Wet sand dry sand your sand my sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
Soft sand hard sand light sand dark sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
[chorus]
Wet sand dry sand your sand my sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
Soft sand hard sand light sand dark sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
[chorus]
Wet sand dry sand your sand my sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
Soft sand hard sand light sand dark sand
It’s all in the Sandbox
The Sandbox
Song Length: 2:24
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:
I’ll admit it. This song was originally conceived during my stint of being a metal head. Lyrically speaking anyway. I’d be willing to bet that I was listening to the likes of Extreme the day I wrote the words. It smacks so much of their tongue-in-cheek type of writing that it’s silly.
Even better is that there is that “deep” underlying meaning of “down with racism!” I’m sure you caught that. If you didn’t well… now you know.
Factoids:
1. I’ve had best friends from all races.
2. I did have a sandbox on a farm that my parents had for a couple of years.
The song was actually a pain in the ass. The clean guitar riff that opens the song was not done in an alternate tuning so there’s some big stretches while holding that chord shape. Major pain in the butt (or rather fingers). It’s also moving at a pretty good clip and since I was all into perfection of playing rather than feel. I let timing dictate it and it sounds a tad stale.
Copyright: 2001/03/05
ISRC: USONR0102004
ISRC: USONR2400214
ISRC: USONR2400204
ISRC: USONR2400224
ISWC: T9055765281
SESAC Song ID: 594705
Harry Fox ID: X82704
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q
UPC: 654433000429
UPC: 656465063380
UPC: 656465068712
UPC: 656465068620
UPC: 656465068866