THE FOREST (1989-90), by Rick White Archive

THE FOREST (1989-90)

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	1.	BROKEN 02:05
	2.	MUST BE SOME WAY 02:31
	3.	I'M A TREE 02:20
	4.	SCREAMING 02:20
	5.	TURN THE RADIO OFF 01:33
	6.	CAN'T STOP IT 02:38
	7.	I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT 03:35
	8.	DOWN THE LINE 02:48
	9.	JUST OUT OF REACH 02:15
	10.	THE ONE I LOVE 02:55
	11.	THE ONLY 02:09
	12.	JUST LIKE HEAVEN 02:27

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By summer 1989, i was 18 years old and the hardcore band I was playing bass in "The Underdogs" had broken up. The surfy punk band "Clarence" that Chris Thompson played drums in was also falling apart. Chris and I had gotten closer through skateboarding and similar music loves. Ken LeBlanc was the singer in "Clarence" and a like-minded close friend of both of ours, we decided we wanted to make a new band together. A three piece loud guitar band in the style of those first two Dinosaur albums we'd been digging so much.

I had played guitar before but it was my first time singing in a band. We rehearsed a bunch that autumn, wrote some tunes and were sounding pretty good. We did an 8 song mostly live to cassette recording session in November 89, and in March 1990 we recorded 5 more songs to a friends 4track. We later compiled a demo tape from these 2 sessions that we never really made available besides to some friends. We played a few parties and recorded one more song in June 1990, but by the end of the summer we were pretty done. Ken went off to university and Chris and I formed a new band called "Eric's Trip".

The first 7 recordings in this Bandcamp collection come from another session that i forgot all about. One afternoon in December 1990 while Ken was home visiting from university, we were jamming together for fun and decided to record some of our tunes live to 4track. I think the vocals were done right after on the same day with Chris singing some back up into the same mic, and even a bit of acoustic guitar played along on "Can't stop it". Nothing more was ever done with the recording though as we were broken up and Eric's Trip was my main focus now. So the unmixed tape was just put in a box. THE ACTUAL UNMIXED 4TRACK TAPE that i just recently re-discovered while digging at my folks house to my happy surprise and shock! Ha.

I copied the 4 seperate tracks into protools and was able to get quite a bit of clarity out of the old session. The drums and bass were bleeding into each others tracks a bunch but overall it's pretty clean for 1990. Way more fidelity than the earlier sessions we did. For a session seeming not so important at the time, i'm so glad i have these 7 songs now as a quality document of "The Forest" playing together.

Tracks 1-7 is the new found December 1990 recording. Track 8 is that one off song i mentioned from June 1990. Tracks 9+10 are from the March 1990 session. THE ONE I LOVE is an REM cover. Tracks 11+12 are from the rougher sounding, sort of out of tune November 89 session and includes our Dinosaur inspired cover of JUST LIKE HEAVEN by the Cure. I tried to get it all sounding as good as possible, hope you dig it.

RICK WHITE - Guitar + voice + songwriting except 10 and 12.
CHRIS THOMPSON - Drums + back up vocals.
KEN LEBLANC - Bass.

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released November 3, 2019

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