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World Denomination

by Cain is Abel

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Oh to be 20 again...no thanks...Cain is Abel was the first "real band" (read: original tunes) I played in. The band was active in the St. Louis music scene from '89-'91.

We were very young, 20-21, except for our vocalist, Clyde, who was *gasp*, 29. Clyde was a very charismatic guy and a brilliant fashion photographer. His younger brother (Cain/Abel, get it?), Randy played bass and his high-school buddy Dale Hutton played guitar. I haven't seen or heard from any of these guys since about 1992.

Listening back on this EP, I am actually kind of impressed at how cohesive it is. Engineer Jamie Welky did a pretty damn good job with that Tascam 388 ¼ 8-track machine. The EP was recorded at our practice space, which was also Clyde's photography studio/loft—a nice high-ceilinged warehouse on Locust Ave.

While they have that obligatory, pre-Grunge-era, "throw in a nod to different genres" which makes some of them sound dated, the songs do have pretty good hooks.

Clyde was responsible for the titles and lyrics and the songwriting was innocent, simple, and largely done by committee. It was my first opportunity to write songs and I was always proud that one of those songs, "Confusion", was usually our closer and a real house-wrecker (inasmuch as we wrecked houses). That song does not appear on this EP however.

I always felt we were very spotty live. We were either pretty good or awful. We did not have the polish of the Pale Divine or the Unconscious, who were the "big" bands of the day, nor did it look like we ever would, but we were scrappy and temperamental which always made it exciting...for me anyway.

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released September 1, 1990

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A. Michael Collins Los Angeles, California

LA-based Drummer, Guitarist, Singer-Songwriter.

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