Destroy Old Things (c) 2002 by Jeff King & Lewis D'Aubin PREV TRACK NEXT TRACK Destroy old things They're all used up This rusting tool That broken cup The VCR That ate my tape The comfy chair That lost its shape Destroy! Destroy old things Do it today You broke a string, throw the guitar away Buy a new one now they're all so cheap So what, who cares if it just lasts a week? Destroy it! Out of date! Outmoded! Out of vogue, you've been Outvoted! Destroy old things Buy all new gear, and Do it, do it, do it, do it several times a year Spend your cash, forget the quality Do your part for the economy! Buy cheap! Be smart! Shop at S-Mart! This brand new stuff You bought is broken But the buying public Have already spoken They purchase garbage with a smile We'll pile it high atop a stinking garbage pile! Destroy it - you no longer care Fix it so that it can't be repaired Smash that trash no hesitation! Destroy, and vent out all your animal frustration! But what to do with all this waste? To fire it into outer space Would cost too much. Instead let's act fast Destroy it with atomic blast! Turn those stinking piles of trash Into radioactive ash Outsized! Outcast! Destroyed... destroyed, destroyed at last! All your new things Will soon be broken You'll buy them over again Do you think I'm joking? We can, we should We can, we should Blow it up real good Blow it up real good! DESTROY!

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, and mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..." This song existed since early 2000 as just a bunch of lyrics until Jeff decided to parody his favorite prog metal band TOOL. (We had tried to make it a song back in 2000 right before Chris left the band, but sadly those sessions were doomed to fail.) But Jeff dove into the task at home and within a few days presented the band with a fully formed demo of the song early in 2002. I must admit it took a while for me to warm up to this song, but I finally did get the hang of it after a few practices... (it's funny to recollect that at first, I couldn't even sing this song without almost literally passing out on the first held out 'DESTROYYYYYY...' Anyway, recording-wise, this one was a little different from the rest. After performing this onstage a few times, I decided that the drums should be performed by the best drummer I could get, and so I talked to Jason Calderera, then in a band called Focus 21. Jason worked at Guitar Center, and so we made arrangements with him to meet there after hours on a Sunday night and record the drum parts there, entirely on a Roland V-Kit. This was done in just two passes, one for Jason to learn the song, and one to record it - no punch ins! Following this amazing feat, I laid down my vocals and recorded Jim's bass parts, and gave Jeff the project file to layer his guitars onto. The video for this song was shot chiefly by Jim in the photography studio behind his house in February 2003. We set up a miniature set made of old circuit boards from a Xerox Star computer I had scavenged from UNO. A clay figure was created by Michael Williams, and Jim spent a couple weeks stop motion animating the figure, shooting with his new Olympus digital camera. One practice night we went over to Jim's studio and shot the live action inserts. I then set up a little miniature set in the C.O.G. Secret Lab, including a crude miniature camera track, and did some layered tracking shots. All this footage was conformed and handed over to Jeff, who edited it all together in Adobe Premiere to look like an early TOOL video. I got the project back from him and contributed some finishing touches of my own, such as the lap dissolve treatment on the stop motion parts, the rotating S-Mart beacon, and the stock footage of the Lab. The resulting video is really an adventurous departure for the C.O.G. - but then, so is the song. At my request, the song was remixed just before the album was mastered. The CD version is thicker than the DVD mix, but consists of essentially the same tracks. Credits Drums...........Jason Calderera Guitars.........Jeff King Bass............Jim Fairchild Lead vocal......Lewis D'Aubin Backing vocals..Lewis D'Aubin Recorded and mixed 2003 at C.O.G. Secret Lab, Harahan LA (drums recorded at Guitar Center)