VAMPIRE SONG [Outtake from The Great Mistake]

Music by Transcendence. Guitar: Ed Hale and Fernando Perdomo. Drums: Bill Sommer. Bass guitar: Roger Houdaille. Recorded at Dungeon Recording Studios. Miami, FL 2006. Engineered by Rudi Meeuwen and Joe Syring. Produced by Transcendence. Mixed by Fernando Perdomo.

Vampire Song is an odd one. From start to finish. We still have no idea what it is or why it is. The Great Mistake CD was meant to be a fast-paced one-off collection of simple catchy garage rockers that any of us had written those last few months. We recorded the album just for the pure fun of jamming together. More like a party rather than a recording session. Bill had flown down for Labor Day weekend to hang with us because I was in Miami finishing the All Your Heroes Become Villains album with the rest of the band. He called up and said “hey man you’re in Miami finishing the Villains album? Cool. What if I fly down and we record that garage rock album we’ve been talking about?” And that was that. We started on Friday night and finished the whole damn thing by that Tuesday four days later. Vampire Song was the first song we laid down. No one had written it and brought it in, like the other songs on that album. We were just jamming as a group while the engineers were testing mic levels and “found” the song. So we laid it down. I tried to come up with a melody and lyrics but couldn’t find anything that sparked any interest in any of us so I left it alone. We don’t dig the forcing it approach so we just left it open and instrumental. Honestly no one even remembers why it is called Vampire Song or who named it. The song just IS. What is it? We have no freaking idea. It’s just a three-minute moment. Four guys warming up.

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