Track 2--Background Music

Now that we know (sort of) where the names came from, we must address the fact that the names are not the only part of this track. Jacob Stewart performed a wonderful line of percussion, and Eric performed a plethora of bass lines during the recitation.

The bass lines begin with a song that Eric learned in high school. It was a song performed by a Japanese a capella trio, although he can no longer remember the name of the song or the group. For the first while, Eric sang the bass line from that song. After he went through the bass line, he sang the melody (trumpet) line from the same song. When that was over, he went into our introduction and performance of Pioneer Children. After one verse of Pioneer Children, he adlibbed for a while, until he went to a song he sang in Concert Choir that year. It was a compilation of American folk tunes, starting with "I'm gonna catch a baby bumblebee," continued by the song about a sailor that the Dodo sings on Alice in Wonderland, and completed with "Polly-Wolly-Doodle."

Other interesting facts about this track:

• When the name "Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass" comes up, Jacob drops his percussion line to insert a trumpet fanfare.
• This was one of a couple tracks to be performed, not with the full quartet, but with only Eric, Peter, and Jacob Stewart.
• Chris Wilson, who was one of Jacob Broderick's roommates in 159, walked in as we were recording and suggested the Chris Wilson Fan Club. However, he was shot down, and seeing as we only had one name left on the list, we decided to not re-record the entire thing.
• At the very beginning of the track, before Peter introduces us as "some sort of a quartet" you can hear Jacob Stewart saying something. Exactly what, however, will not be released, as it probably had something to do with tae kwan do.