Eulogy - Regina (Sugarcubes cover) field recording, 1998

Eulogy was Philadelphia based band that began as a group of friends making field recordings in the hollow guts of giant building sized oil drums in an abandoned oil refinery in the winter of 1998.

This footage is a document of those times - the audio is from another night when we brought along a portable 8-track recorder, since the audio on the video camera was not optimum.

Me and my friend Butch (we're the ones in the jumpsuits) had just returned from working on fishing boats in the Bering Sea - if you look closely you can see the slogan "American Seafoods: Pride Of The Sea" on my jumpsuit.

What we doing at this time could be comparable to things like Test Dept., Crash Worship or Missing Foundation, although we had our take on this type of thing.

We went through many line-up changes and were really more like a loose "collective", with the core being Joe Lotito (in black leather jacket here), Butch and myself.

The "core" members are joined by Seph138 (the E. Tiner Boys) here as well as Camille and the drummer from "Brutal Truth" - he's the one who throws the firecrackers in the video.

This song is very loosely inspired the Sugarcubes song of the same title.

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[mirannda]

Do correct me if I didn't get all of the lyrics correct but this excerpt,

"Various barricades in the mind and body have prevented us from becoming the ideal creature, so if you went to continue to live on you must fight and die! You cannot escape the reality which you have become no one move what the hell you are but you're gonna be going further and further than the furthest stars!"

was amazing. Is that part of the original song or was it something you wrote?

[WhollyGhost]

@mirannda No, that's not in the original, just something I made up at the time. The rhythms and sounds suggested the words to me, in that they're pretty fierce sounding so I figured there should be some 'die to survive' lines in there. The original song is about an airplane, I think, but in our cover version it sort of became about some kind of ferocious fire goddess or something.

[Traductus5972]

do you have the audio from the same night or is it lost

[WhollyGhost]

@Traductus5972

If you read a few comments below yours, you'll see me saying I can send a CD-R of the audio to anyone who would like one. This was the first "album" by my old band Eulogy, self-released in 1998, called "Resurrect Dead." I'm going to put up zip-files of a lot of my music soon, so I could also send you a link to this one if and when I got it uploaded as a zip!

[Traductus5972]

@WhollyGhost wow i really need to stop skimming through stuff and actually take time to read each comment but ya let me know when you have the zipfiles up cuz that be great to listen to your other stuff with this band and others

[WhollyGhost]

@Traductus5972

Zip file is uploaded.... Eulogy - Resurrect Dead, recorded live 1998, Philly.

I'll send you the zip file link in a message since youtube prohibits posting url addresses in comments. Anyone else who wants this, ask!

[Staplesz]

this shit is so fuckin badass

[nightmaresindarkness]

@WhollyGhost

could you send me the link as well?

[ooJDMoo]

dude that's the drummer from brutal truth? Nice, I love them man, fucking griiiiind.

[topiz]

Beautiful song D: