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* mctc three *
Mary Carves The Chicken
MCTC Three
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Liner Notes
Mary Carves the Chicken Three is an
experimental outing by the prolific, if not
sometimes fiscally challenged, band. The
album was recorded as a three-piece in
three separate cities. Page Jackson laid
scratch tracks in Oakland, California. He
forwarded the tracks to then drummer, Ron
Butler, who tracked all the drums in stereo
onto digital audio tape (DAT) in Marin City,
California. Butler used V-drums, and live
Mary Carves the Chicken Three is an
experimental outing by the prolific, if not
sometimes fiscally challenged, band. The
album was recorded as a three-piece in
three separate cities. Page Jackson laid
scratch tracks in Oakland, California. He
forwarded the tracks to then drummer, Ron
Butler, who tracked all the drums in stereo
onto digital audio tape (DAT) in Marin City,
California. Butler used V-drums, and live
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cymbals to complete his parts. After Butler finished drums, Jackson
dumped the stereo drum tracks into ADAT, and added bass, lead and
backing vocals. He then forwarded the ADAT, machine and all, to
guitarist/vocalist, Bob Sherden, living in Simi Valley, California. There,
Bob added guitar tracks (and drums on Treat Your Woman Right), and
mixed the record himself. On an interesting note, guitarist, Bob Sherden
and drummer, Ron Butler, recorded two records together before ever
meeting! They literally met for the very first time at a live show, to support
the records, which they played, unrehearsed, at least together.
While the songs have great merit and are, in fact, some of the fans'
favorites, the band felt that the album came across as largely "demo"
quality. Mastered later by Justin Weiss at Trakworx, in San Francisco,
California, the album reached a far better level of fidelity. However, we
want to tell you up front that the record was tracked by working men, on a
shoestring budget, with less than ideal recording and mixing
scenarios...then mastered by a master.
Still, the voices of poets and proletarian rockers cannot and should not be
silenced. Lyrically, the record addresses consumerism, the search for
meaning in America, sexual abuse, police corruption, sobriety (and the
lack of sobriety), institutional racism...and, of course, it would scarcely be
a Chicken record without at least one tune about God. The crowd favorite,
"Guru," addresses trying to sort one's way through the filters of religion to
find a meaningful, universal truth.
The Chickens seldom make a disclaimer. However, on the song, "Treat
Your Woman Right," Jackson and Sherden lampoon the
machismo/sexist idea that women should be manhandled--that they
should know their place. The tune is so over-the-top that its meaning can
scarcely be missed. Yet, it is one of the more misunderstood Chicken
songs. Often cheered on by drunken misogynists and angering the
feminists in the crowd, neither of whom would sit still for an explanation,
the song was reluctantly dropped from the band's live repertoire out of
fear that people simply would never get it. Sadly, they still don't get it.
Despite the guerilla recording circumstances, the Chickens stand by
"Three" as a relevant and meaningful contribution to their catalog.
Mary Carves the Chicken is:
Page Jackson: bass guitar, lead and backing vocals
Bob Sherden: lead and rhythm guitars, vocals, and drums on Treat Your
Woman Right
Ron Butler: Drums
All Songs Copyright, Mary Carves the Chicken 2008.
dumped the stereo drum tracks into ADAT, and added bass, lead and
backing vocals. He then forwarded the ADAT, machine and all, to
guitarist/vocalist, Bob Sherden, living in Simi Valley, California. There,
Bob added guitar tracks (and drums on Treat Your Woman Right), and
mixed the record himself. On an interesting note, guitarist, Bob Sherden
and drummer, Ron Butler, recorded two records together before ever
meeting! They literally met for the very first time at a live show, to support
the records, which they played, unrehearsed, at least together.
While the songs have great merit and are, in fact, some of the fans'
favorites, the band felt that the album came across as largely "demo"
quality. Mastered later by Justin Weiss at Trakworx, in San Francisco,
California, the album reached a far better level of fidelity. However, we
want to tell you up front that the record was tracked by working men, on a
shoestring budget, with less than ideal recording and mixing
scenarios...then mastered by a master.
Still, the voices of poets and proletarian rockers cannot and should not be
silenced. Lyrically, the record addresses consumerism, the search for
meaning in America, sexual abuse, police corruption, sobriety (and the
lack of sobriety), institutional racism...and, of course, it would scarcely be
a Chicken record without at least one tune about God. The crowd favorite,
"Guru," addresses trying to sort one's way through the filters of religion to
find a meaningful, universal truth.
The Chickens seldom make a disclaimer. However, on the song, "Treat
Your Woman Right," Jackson and Sherden lampoon the
machismo/sexist idea that women should be manhandled--that they
should know their place. The tune is so over-the-top that its meaning can
scarcely be missed. Yet, it is one of the more misunderstood Chicken
songs. Often cheered on by drunken misogynists and angering the
feminists in the crowd, neither of whom would sit still for an explanation,
the song was reluctantly dropped from the band's live repertoire out of
fear that people simply would never get it. Sadly, they still don't get it.
Despite the guerilla recording circumstances, the Chickens stand by
"Three" as a relevant and meaningful contribution to their catalog.
Mary Carves the Chicken is:
Page Jackson: bass guitar, lead and backing vocals
Bob Sherden: lead and rhythm guitars, vocals, and drums on Treat Your
Woman Right
Ron Butler: Drums
All Songs Copyright, Mary Carves the Chicken 2008.
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