Sunday Live Chat- The story of Skinny Puppy's LAST RIGHTS 8/6/23

The story of Last Rights, should be a fun one. Looking back at the albums creation at Mushroom Studios Vancouver Canada. Song writing memories equipment an so on.
hope to see you there

[@DasKreestof]

How lucky are we that he does this for us? He sat there and read and responded to 90 minutes of questions after a 90 minute presentation. This was a wonderful treat!

[@colinrussell2017]

Lucky indeed! cEvin is a generous guy! Treats his fans with such love and respect!

[@Max-wm5pq]

Dude is a class act.

[@BLACKSUNR1SE]

Knowhere and Mirror Saw go down into the soul. Very powerful.

[@CausaliDox]

Thanks so much for sharing this publicly, cEvin! Last Rights is a masterpiece. I bought it on CD around the time it came out. And I still listen to it. Skinny Puppy has inspired me so much, it felt like coming home, hearing your music as a teenager. It definitely has set me on my way for my own music production journey. I remember being that teenager, smoking so much weed with my best friends (who still are my best friends), being stoned out of our minds at sleepovers, going to sleep with Ain't It Dead Yet on repeat... The most wonderful fucked up dreams...

[@KillbotAndGorGorAttack]

Just one of the best albums ever made, period. Loved hearing about it, cEv! And thank you for the shoutout at the end!

[@jsebastian9547]

This was such an awesome 3 hours. Hearing the in depth details of all these amazing albums is so inspiring... I'm now gonna go throw together some sample collages and rip some live drums over them... the whole concept just sounds like such a good time.

[@andywillis6697]

I love you brother! Y'all changed my life. Skinny Puppy is still my favorite drug.

[@colinrussell2017]

Last Rights was the first proper Skinny Puppy album I heard after first buying Ain't it Dead Yet? and 12" Anthology I was a relative latecomer to the band in 1996 when "industrial" was at its commercial peak. The Process wasn't out yet. It was a steep learning curve to understand the sound at the time. Not exactly "accessible" music, but it grew more rewarding with each listen. Dre sold me a copy of the deluxe vinyl at Amoeba and said "no need for the secret handshake!" He said he used to be roommates with cEvin and I thought he was some rando putting me on. I asked how they met and he said cEvin was working the lights at a LPD show Story checked out! Too specfic to be made up! This is such a treat! Thank you cEvin and co.!

[@robotopsyrobotopsy6486]

Such an amazing powerful album ! Still unique and my favorite 'SP' album.

[@WyattsWildNature]

I was in high school when this came out. I think it was the first album I listened to. It was like a drug really, I was experiencing something when creating art when listening to it, I would put it on as background music as I went to sleep to access some really crazy dreams. The drone at the end would wake me up and a panic. I loved how this album made me feel, I didn't do drugs, well maybe some of the art pens I used did something lol. My best friend would stay over at my house and to this day says he can't handle this album. He still brings it up HAHA. But after this I found some catching up to with the older albums.

[@chiefchunky-muffin4708]

Just wanted to say this was great. Last Rights is an extremely poignant collection of music that is a part of me. The music you’ve created is such a huge part of my life, it’s a debt I can never repay. So if I never get to meet you or see you play live I just wanted to say it.

[@osivot]

If the Too Dark Park video had not gone public I would not have know there was a Patron and that all these videos existed. So the freebee videos probably do more than anything to promote the Patron. Maybe make all the older live chat videos public, it could help the Patron.

[@Max-wm5pq]

Same for me. I signed up for Patreon after discovering these youtube videos. His Patreon is SP heaven, so much info and videos.

[@Djkold]

Absolutely one of the most mind blowing albums, a symphony in it's own right (pun intended). I was still very new to SP when the album came out and only 16 years old. I hope you will make a stream about The Process too, although I can understand why that could be a harder one to talk about. I distinctly remember some blue tinted photographs taken around that time, with the chair in the sea (Ogre) and starry sky too (cEvin and Dwayne). Sort of a electric chair kind of motif. Those are so hard to find and I would love to have them as posters.

[@paulbisanti1535]

There's a Process one but it's only available via his Patreon at this time. There's also a series of videos from the recording...

[@NullStaticVoid]

I feel you on that Killing Game story. I remember 20 years ago I was recording a band. We had this great bass line and beat going and were starting to dub more peices when the hard drive crashed. Ever since I have used fault tolerant disk arrays for music production. HOWEVER I got into making songs on hardware like the Octatrack. Twice now I've been bopping along on that and lost a huge chunk of something I was working on by accident. Curled up on the floor and cried. Then I smoke a joint and pull it together.

[@ned_interrobang]

one of my favorite teenage memories was tripping on LSD and listening to this album

[@ned_interrobang]

this album and download's the eyes of stanley pain

[@respobabs]

Respect

[@torisefford5671]

The best album ever!!!

[@Cyborgmarsupial]

I'll have to dig in weekly. This will be a nice meal. Mist it live. The history of the sound track of my decades past to present. To hear the breakdown of the creation of the album is outrageous. Such a milkbone for us fans. Thank You. The seemingly so candid dissertation of the Art spilled Recklessly eloquent a soundscape. A view via lexicon into the minds I found so parallel my own through music. In some strange coincidence SP had played just the Night Before in Three separate Metros I moved to. I never caught you live .

[@Laternite]

V.A.S.T. Synthesis is amazing. I wish SO much Kurzweil would port it to a VST/AU…then again, now there’s Max/MSP and M4L. My first sampler was a fully loaded K2000 when I was like 17, and the ONLY reason I wanted one was because I saw Mr. Goettel use it on a bootleg VHS Last Rights tour tape. I must have watched those videos and Ain’t It Dead Yet thousands of times. Last Rights is one of those records that completely changed my life. I’m so grateful for all the people involved with SP up to that point. Rick fucking Rubin and American Records really fucked up SP for me. Now, I don’t know if it’s true but the shit I’ve read/heard him (Rubin) say about Dwayne not being that great of a musician and Rave infuriates me. Every time I see Rick Rubin I think: That’s the guy who destroyed Skinny Puppy. He wasn’t qualified at the time to work with that sort of music or band. That team at the time was special and unique, even in that “genre”.

[@heavenkey7754]

I used to take Valium and listen to this😮

[@Vincentxxx]

xD

[@bca327]

Can you do one of these for Doubting Thomas The Infidel?

[@indurolog]

Last Rights is the first work of SP I heard in 1995. For me it remains the top of their works. It still sounds brilliant.

[@deepsurface]

i can confirm that Download does something to someone on acid, on mushrooms, on cough syrup(sadly). Download completely changed my idea of music and is a template of sorts in my creative process... not to copy but to be free and open to seeing WTF is gonna happen if.... thanks for this and too dark park in 1993, when i heard them, and everything before and since!

[@DaleLindsay]

I purchased Last Rights on Friday, February 28, 1992 after getting paid that day. Came in the long box, and the defective version missing 20 seconds, and the track listing being off by 20 seconds. The cashier told me to check it as soon as I got it home because some of the cds had a Poison album printed instead of SP.

[@AliceBowie]

I always thought they did that on purpose, lol.

[@deepsurface]

i had that same disc, just found out today that it was a mistake lol, i always thought it was to just F#$k with us or to just be freeform

[@ScaryGarrySG1]

Awesome!

[@iNuchalHead]

Now with quality control?

[@bharmon1980]

hows come the process album episode has never been shared on here I don't do patron either

[@MrThebearded1]

LG73

[@humanharddrive1]

thanks for the story, it was very informative, loved the look back. what's the yellow painting at 1:18:20 called?

[@cevanfx40]

Ogre really doesnt like talking about his drug days of TDP and LR.

[@peetrwilson]

Love in Vein would make a great opener. Unless it just fucks with Ogre's vox or vibe too much.