Froggy B-sides and besides: Tomorrow Never Knows (2003)

Broswing through my computer files the other day I found a few interesting songs we recorded at some time or another which have never been used/surfaced/are too silly to release. It's quite a few, so what better time to start dusting them off than right now, huh?
Here's the first of them, Tomorrow Never Knows, a Beatles cover from the Revolver album and one of my favourite songs of them.




Way back in May 2003, after we had finished tracking the drums and bass parts for Allergic at Jürgen Block's TB Sound Studio, and being still rather early in the afternoon, I asked Tyronne (our drummer back then), to play a double-bass straight groove for a couple of minutes, and I would tell him when to stop.
'What is it we're playing then?' he kept asking.
'Just track it, get that double-bass going like a true metalhead, dude' I kept telling him.
I had only told Jürgen I'd love to record a cover of Tomorrow Never Knows, frogstyle, Timo didn't know it neither, but as it is in the same key all through the song, he'd get it quicker than usual.
And so for the next three minutes, Ringotyronne beat the shit out of his drumkit without a clue of it all. And finished it was.
'Hey, Stone, what song was that, pretty heavy, man!'
'Just wait and see, hehe'

A few days later, Timo and I got back to the studio one afternoon to finish the song. He tracked his bass in the blink of an eye, and then it was time for guitar mayhem. I had just bought my first Les Paul (Paulina) and used it here for the very first time. After rather straight-metal rhythm guitar and its obvious oberdub, Timo got hold of a Guild SG-style guitar lying around and I went down to the floor to tweak all possible pedals at once in order to get that very freaky "solo" in the middle. It's just Timo playing the chords and me fucking around with the effects. Meanwhile, Jürgen was having the time of his life (give the man some gadgets and he'll be pleased for a loooong while).

And the result... well, you can hear it. I bet Lennon would love its freakiness for sure. This one's for you, mate.