Only Human
Only Human
[verse]
Take a break from the tube today
Come back some weeks away
Notice the imperfections on you startin to grow
And the television wants us to know
[chorus]
We should
Pop another pill lets hide that problem with a gel
Headaches hairloss goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
Cover ugly stains and all your aches ‘n’ pains
Armpits crotch rot goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
[verse]
For all the gripes and all the cries
Our nearest market has the answers why
Everything we’re taught to believe
Is everything we gotta buy or receive
[chorus]
Pop another pill lets hide that problem with a gel
Headaches hairloss goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
Cover ugly stains and all your aches ‘n’ pains
Armpits crotch rot goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
[bridge]
Wake up from this numbing pain make a choice and start again
With this token you’ll be complete companies don’t forget your feet
Bring in the pain we’ll go insane the money ‘s spent can’t pay the rent
Communication calls again but I forget what’s been said and I
[chorus]
Pop another pill lets hide that problem with a gel
Headaches hairloss goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
Cover ugly stains and all your aches ‘n’ pains
Armpits crotch rot goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
[chorus]
Pop another pill lets hide that problem with a gel
Headaches hairloss goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
Cover ugly stains and all your aches ‘n’ pains
Armpits crotch rot goddamn body’s lost
We’re Only Human
We’re Only Human
Song Length: 2:59
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:
Ah the wonders of modern marketing. Companies spend amazing amounts of money to make sure that you will buy their product that solves some problem of the human body. The crazy thing is that most of the products are used to hide smells and skin problems.
I mean think about it. Why would you want to smell like a rose when you can smell like a human? I find that most perfumes are just downright annoying. This extends to other things like heartburn medicine. So few people actually get heartburn but some many people take that stuff anyway. Why? I don’t get it.
Anyway, this is my ode to the human condition of being human.
Factoids:
1. I sweat big time playing this live.
2. I’ve never had crotch rot.
The fun thing about this song is that it’s just fun to play. I felt it was cool to actually open a song featuring just the bass. You really don’t hear that done much.
Copyright: 2001/03/05
ISRC: USONR0102001
ISRC: USONR2400211
ISRC: USONR2400201
ISRC: USONR2400221
ISWC: T9055765258
SESAC Song ID: 594701
Harry Fox ID: O5006U
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q
UPC: 654433000429
UPC: 656465063342
UPC: 656465068675
UPC: 656465068620
UPC: 656465068866