TRACK LISTING:
1 DREAM LOGIC :16
2 I HAD A DREAM 3:26
3 ELIZABETH 2:58
4 I SEE 3:40
5 WORLD LOGIC :20
6 HAVING FUN WATCHING THE WORLD GO CRAZY 3:18
7 WORLD WAR III 2:20
8 SPOILED ONIONS 3:14
9 SYSTEM LOGIC :20
10 THE MASTER SYSTEM 4:54
11 DON'T KILL THE HIPPY CHIMPS 3:49
12 B WHAT U B 7:22
13 I'VE GOT MY FRIENDS 4:10
14 I'M HERE TO SEE YOUR COMPUTER 4:15
15 TESTOSTERONE CENTRAL 3:51
16 LOVE LOGIC :25
17 MY HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER 6:02
18 WILD BRUNETTE 3:11
19 L.A. LOGIC :26
20 THE COLD N LONELY STREETS OF L.A. 4:20
21 TOO MANY STARVING 2:22
22 GHOST ROAD 4:27
23 STREET FIGHT 4:05
24 BEAUTY 2:27
25 FIX IT WITH A PILL 5:29
26 DESTRUCTIVE LOGIC :37
27 EVEL KNIEVEL 5:22
28 THE CONVERSATION 6:05
Below are the original liner notes although I have yet to release a CD version of this, it would actually be a 2-cd version, maybe some day...for now, enjoy the 7daylink.
Below are the original liner notes although I have yet to release a CD version of this, it would actually be a 2-cd version, maybe some day...for now, enjoy the 7daylink.
Everything in life flows in ebbs and cycles. In 2005 after a long battle with breast cancer, my mom passed away. A few months after her passing and basically five years into a lengthy dormant period musically, I emerged from my cocoon with a new musical vision. Building a 24-track studio and leaning heavily on the new groovebox electonics at the time, I purposed to create a new sound mixing sophisticated beats and patterns with a traditional core rock sound.
Eventually I would wind up making my home (and studio) in Palm Springs, but I recorded the first song ("The Conversation") in Santa Barbara and then embarked on several months of wandering and travelling, first to Palm Springs, then to New Mexico, then back to Palm Springs. I kept writing and tracking every place I would land up, sometimes even in hotel rooms or vacation rentals. I met James DiBari a local Palm Springs drummer and we tracked him on "World War III" and "Too Many Starving." The idea was to use him on the whole album but the very next day he had a horrific accident on his bicycle causing damage to his shoulder which would take years to heal.
While in a hotel room in New Mexico one night I was watching the movie Strange Days with Ralph Fiennes and there's a scene where he says "sounds like fairly twisted logic to me." The second I heard it I knew I wanted that to be the name of this album I was working on.
Many months later back in Palm Springs I finally settled down and bought a house and kept working and tracking songs and eventually wound up with 22 songs total. At least half of them had a final mix, lots of the songs had mutilple rough mixes and some had multiple finals as well. Eights months since leaving Santa Barbara I finally reached that point every artist finds themselves at with a creation where you say that's it, it's done, time to pull into the station.
I honestly can't remember what ryme or reason I had in selecting the 11 songs that would make the 2005 release. I do remember that after looking at the list I knew I had to further conceptualize the set as I wanted a concept album of sorts so at the last minute I recorded 6 "segways" to insert here and there. These segways basically consisted of me reading out of an old book of philosophical quotes and then using some real tripped out effects on the voice and occasionally adding a beat or pattern in the background.
Within days of the album's independent release I received a phone call from a indie record company in Huntington Beach that wanted to re-release it and distribute. The following week another call came from a label in Arizona wanting to do the same thing. It was reviewed by several indie music websites and one review called it "a techno rock masterpiece." We put it up on CD Baby, Amazon , ITunes, etc and the digital mp3 version is still available at most of those sites. The CD versions are long sold out.
As for the other 11 songs that didn't make the album, some of them have been released here and there on later repackaging efforts and some are just seeing the light of day with this new edition. I am happy to say you have here the full representation of Fairly Twisted Logic with all 22 songs and 6 segways compiled in an order which I probably would have intended originally while still keeping the original order of the original release. I hope you enjoy it, I certainly had a lot of fun making it! - Tommy Ross 2012
The Horror!!
