Inspected By 7 1993
incomplete at this time!
Rick sez: My previous comments really start applying immediately after t15MA. While there are some good tunes on here, there are some really dumb ones. Part of being a teenager that you don't realize until you are older is that you have no life experience at all, and really aren't in the position to say a whole lot about anything. So when we decided to start writing "serious" tunes (this was my suggestion and fault, and I apologize) things like "Shattered Faith" and "Autumn Dream" happened. They are comical in retrospect. I can sum it up with a line from AD: "I remember... when I was a lonely man..." Remembering what? Jr. High?
But this album is historic for Nispy as it was the first album to officially include interludes. While it could be argued that "Just Don't Eat Bacon" from t15MA was an interlude, as well as some of the spoken parts after some tunes, they are considered by us to be full tracks. A few of the interludes are long, painful, and barely funny, they did do one thing well: establish the formula for "That's not a ____! (cue goofy music)" which was a staple for Nispy on most albums after.
IB7 was also the first album to include me singing, me on guitar as well as Yosh on Bass. It was still not recorded on a four track, but on a tape recorder. We created more tracks by running the tape recorder through a mixer and into a second tape recorder. This is why we are all high-pitched (yes, we had hit puberty). It is for the best though, "People Get Killed By Dogs" would be about 30 minutes long otherwise. Plus it makes us sound better because we weren't very tight as a band at this point and at normal speed it is plodding and slow.
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I don't think there was a tape cover, so this will have to do.