Stutter At 7 - Die Die Diabetic

Oh, Stutter at 7.

I'll never forget your teen-angst-fueled power.

I got a Sunn 2x15 speaker cabinet and a Kasino PA head from a girlfriend in 9th grade for $100. I got a crappy Ibanez guitar for about $170 from a Musician's friend. I bought a DOD Death Metal distortion pedal and (not on purpose) traded it for a DOD Grunge Metal distortion pedal. This was my guitar rig. I had no clue what the fuck I was doing, but it didn't matter because it was loud, it was fun, and I finally got to play some shows at places I'd been watching them for years.

The line-up was
Vocals: Ben Rush
Drums: Ben Laundry
Bass: (Oceania, Riven, Nuclear Power Pants, Dr. Fuck Yeah)
Guitar: Travis Luther

I almost cringe when listening to this recording. It was such a weird time of my life. We all were terrible at recording the way we did. My guitar was out of tune horribly, the bass lines and guitar don't even match up sometimes, the drum rhythms get out of sync with everything and the vocals are screamed and mumbled at the same time at a speed so fast as to leave everything sounding like a tire screech on hot pavement.

But there was a lot of feeling behind the lyrics, mostly written by Ben Rush and Devlin. Devlin had wicked ADD so of course there's a song about him wearing a top hat and eating the world. Superficial girls is pretty self-explanatory. Punk Cannot Be Bought is about punk being an ideal and not a product. Shitstain is about someone who stole Ben Laundry's Rancid cd (the jury was out on this one).

Controversy abound, we had a song about ending Women Suffrage. I still don't know why. I'm pretty sure it was a big joke. Also was the song about religion, which I don't remember the real name, and was pretty much about believing that any organized religion is a sham and a well-maintained lie. I Killed My Girlfriend on Valentine's Day is clearly some kind of irony, but seeing as most of us didn't have a girlfriend I have no clue what the meaning was.

I Hate Texas was the "hit" for us, especially since George W. Bush's reign of terror had recently begun. So we were in before it was hip to hate on him. Skulls is the god-awful cover of the Misfits song of the same name. I think some sort of formal apology needs to be made to Danzig and crew, but it's pretty funny to listen to reverb-soaked Devlin do his best impression. The wail at the end it pretty sick.

So there you have it. S@7 experienced a very very very brief reunion in Ken Provost's trailer around 2003-2004 with Wayne Plumador on drums. We were going to try to relearn some songs to play again, but it never panned out. Probably for the best.



Tracklist:
1. Kiss Me I Have ADD
2. Foreign Languages
3. Superficial Girls
4. Punk Cannot Be Bought
5. Religion
6. Shitstain
7. Skulls (Misfits Cover)
8. End Women Suffrage
9. I Hate Texas
10. I Shot My Girlfriend On Valentine's Day

Note: The artwork on this site was re-done, so you can save it to add to the mp3s. It's not included in the .rar file because I made it after I uploaded it.