Beside the Lies
1.Beside the Lies
[verse]
Feeling terrified
No more walls to hide behind
Fearless rejection
All the hope slowly passing by
[chorus]
For all the effort immortalized
Support gives way to hidden guise
Pass the buck and close your eyes
Its livin’ Beside the Lies
[verse]
Frightened emotion
Steps along a wounded ID
[bridge]
Pressure builds in intensity
Do your homework
And you will see
There is another reality
[chorus]
For all the effort immortalized
Support gives way to hidden guise
Pass the buck and close your eyes
Its livin’ Beside the Lies
[instrumental]
[verse]
Tragic reaction
Withdraw behind a new line
Re-route objective
Falls on toward a side light
[chorus]
For all the effort immortalized
Support gives way to hidden guise
Pass the buck and close your eyes
Its livin’ Beside the Lies
[bridge]
Stand fast holding dignity
Do your homework
And you will see
There is another reality
[chorus]
For all the effort immortalized
Support gives way to hidden guise
Pass the buck and close your eyes
Its livin’ Beside the Lies
[chorus]
For all the effort immortalized
Support gives way to hidden guise
Pass the buck and close your eyes
Its livin’ Beside the Lies
Song Length: 3:44
Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music
Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars
Jeff Scott Soto: Backing Vocals
Andy Miller: Drums, Backing Vocals
T.B. Player: Bass
Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 1998: Brian Fedirko of One on One
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides
El Padden Studio: All the guitars, bass and vocals were recorded here. The guitar room happened to be a small den room in the house Jeff and I were living in. The control room was a converted garage.
Blue Forrest Studio: The drums were recorded here.
Format: ADAT, the original black ones.
Console: Mackie 32 x 8 with the Mackie AutoMix system on a Mac. (for 1998 release).
Tracking Monitors: KRK.
2025:
Remixed at: Snow Park Studio in Park City UT
Mixed in LUNA
Mastered in LUNA
Guitar(s): 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.
Fender Guitar: my first guitar, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. Had a DiMarzio at the time the PAF pro. Standard bridge, one Humbucker. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.
The Amp Setup:
MesaBoogie TriAxis
Hush IIcx
Ensoniq DP2 for creating the effects
Alesis MEQ230
BBE Sonic Maximizer
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs – two of ’em for stereo tracking
I had a cross section of GrooveTubes 12AX7’s & 12AT7’s & ECC83 pre-amp tubes for the TriAxis
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side
The guitar cabinets were turned back to back, for the stereo effect
Bass(s): Honer V: This is the bass that was used on this song. A 5 string bass that was relatively quite cheap but records very very well. At the time of this recording it was strung with GHS Boomers as I couldn’t afford the Blue Steels at the time.
The Amp Setup: The bass was recorded direct. Unfortunately you live and learn.
Drums: Tama – The exact model is something I don’t know. But Andy played the shit out of them and it was his kit
Cymbals – Combination of Zilidian, and Sabian. Two of the crashes where borrowed from Jamie Borger from Talisman. Andy ended up beating the shit out of them too
Snare – this snare was borrowed from Jack White. Not the guy from the White Stripes, but the original drummer for Rick Springfield. Jack let us borrow a couple of great snares
Remo drum heads – I bought them for Andy. I wanted to have fresh heads and the drum guy from Guitar Center and Andy both recommended that these were the ones to use
Mics: Sennheisers for drum overheads & hihats
Sure SM57’s on snare and toms
Mic Pres: API
Vocal: All vocals in this were recorded using a GrooveTubes MD1a.
Song Story:
Ah, one of my favorite intros I’ve ever done. All those crazy sounds were captured on a micro cassette recorder. I was recording various noises and sounds. Then I caught Jeff Soto screaming at his Nintendo game. He used to get so caught up in it, it was comical, screaming and yelling at the screen. Ah the good old times. Anyway as I recorded each noise into a micro-cassette recorder, then dumped all those bits into the ADATs and played it back it was really neat to hear the micro-cassette turn on on each bit. I got really lucky with the one with guitar riff lining up in time with the actual song.
What’s really scary about this song is the guitar riff for the verse. It doesn’t start on the “one”, it’s totally offbeat. Even freakier is if you listen to track 14 of Satriani’s album that came out a few months after Delicate Stretch of the Seems. Go find it, I think it’s called Crystal Planet and the song is Time. I heard that and finally said I had to stop thinking like Satriani when I write.
Anyway, the concept is how people can sometimes be two-faced and you eventually find out that there are some you cannot trust.
Factoids:
1. Opening segment has a lot of samples recorded on a micro-cassette.
2. Sonically backwards between verses being heavy and choruses being clean.
Copyright: 2007/02/01
ISRC: USONR0301014
ISRC: USONR2400634
ISRC: USONR2400614
ISWC: T0709688163
SESAC Song ID: 594744
Harry Fox ID: B96874
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q
UPC: 654433000122
UPC: 656465335715
UPC: 656465335722