Reunions
Reunions
[verse]
It’s funny how friends crawl into the woodwork
It’s funny how friends never get back out
Once in a while life throws you familiar
And in that face it feels like home
[chorus]
From the small towns to big city lights
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
From the rural routes to global party lines
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
[verse]
It’s crazy to think new thoughts with old people
It’s crazy to share bold secrets from the heart
Maybe we need to feed curiosity
And in that place what might have been
[chorus]
From the small towns to big city lights
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
From the rural routes to global party lines
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
[verse]
It’s funny how friends crawl out of the woodwork
It’s funny how friends always come back out
Once in a while life throws you familiar
And in that space you feel like home
[chorus]
From the small towns to big city lights
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
From the rural routes to global party lines
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
[chorus]
From the small towns to big city lights
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
From the rural routes to global party lines
You’ll never know where our next Reunion lies
Song Length: 3:17
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): Washburn 12 string. This was my first 12 string guitar that I subsequently sold shortly after this album was finished. I ended up getting an endorsement with Taylor guitars. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge.
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.
Synths: Orchestrations using Miroslav Orchestral samples in the EXS sampler.
Song Story:
I had recently visited my home of Park City Utah. It was like around my birthday or something and one afternoon I walked up main street to the main street deli (don’t look for it, it no longer exists) to get some lunch. I had bumped into an old friend from high school whom I hadn’t seen since we had graduated. We ate lunch together. I found out he had gone on to work for TSR games creating stuff for role playing games – think Dungeons and Dragons, and more. What’s wild about that is that I used to play dungeons and dragons with this cat when we were in grade school.
Anyway, it got me to thinking about how people sort of fade in and out of life. I graduated in a very small class of people in high school; I’m pretty sure it was 97 people. Anyway, you hear things through the grape vine. So far only a few of us seem to have really gone on to do what we were dreaming of doing.
In that sense I’m always interested in what my old friends are up to, but since they’re generally terrible with updating me on their where-a-bouts I can only wonder. It will be interesting to see who comes out of the woodwork when I break nationally.
Factoids:
1. I went to a small high school.
2. One of my school friends is a major creator of role playing games.
First off, I like the song. However I’m really disappointed I stuck with the 12 string guitar that I used on it. I really should have gone and borrowed my buddy’s Taylor. But I wasn’t thinking this would end up as the final recording. My Bad. I really have to commend Paul on the drums here. He didn’t get this song before he came in for the session. Instead we blew through all the other songs so quick that I played this once for him and then he played along to it. This is the first and only drum take.
Copyright: 2001/03/05
ISRC: USONR0102009
ISRC: USONR2400219
ISRC: USONR2400209
ISRC: USONR2400229
ISWC: T9055765338
SESAC Song ID: 594711
Harry Fox ID: R5589O
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q
UPC: 654433000429
UPC: 656465068590
UPC: 656465068842
UPC: 656465068620
UPC: 656465068866