Eric's Trip was a band from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, formed in June 1990, and originally active from Dec. 1990 until June, 1996. Sessionography: Eric's Trip: DATE LOCATION DETAILS December 2, and 3-10th, 1990 ("Eric's Trip" Session) - Chris Thompson's House; Bandcamp Release states Julie Doiron's Parent's House Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Disguise Lost Don't Worry About Me The Beauty WAs All Froze Sunlight Dreaming Blurred So Far Away Here I Go Again I Exist April 7th, 1991 ("Caterpillars EP" Session) - Chris Thompson's House Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Too Perfect Believe Beatings Catapillars Just One The Lonely Brave And Bland July 6-7, 1991 ("Drowning" Sessions) - Chris Thompson's House Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Drowning Close Your Eyes Bring Down The Rain Fall No One Save Me (from My Love) Byrd Song (a The Byrds cover) - LIVE October xx, 1991 ("Naked In The Marsh" Session) - The Kacho, Moncton, New Brunswick Artist Eric's Trip o Doiron, Julie (bass) o Thompson, Chris (drums) o White, Rick (guitar, vocals) Set Sickness Dec. 1991 ("Warmgirl" Sessions) - Chris Thompson's House Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Kiss Me On The Head Little Red Haired Girl Window Blinded Tangles Open Your Heart (Madonna cover) Mask For You (Leonard Cohen cover) Warm Girl Come With Me Kiss Me, Baby Blessures Gueries March 30-31, 1992 ("Belong" EP sessions) - Sound Market Recordings Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Belong Red Haired Girl What I Meant June, 1992 - Recorded at Sereo Mountain Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Wonder Fell July, 1992 Sessions (original "Listen EP" Sessions) Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Need Listen Haze Happens All The Time So Easier Last Time Wonder Smother Deeper Mirror Float Evie All I Want To Do Happens All The Time (Alt version - 1st take) Listen (alt version 1st take) July, 1992 - Outdoors, Moncton, New Brunswick Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Need (alt version - original demo) August, 1992 - Recorded at Rats In The Cellar, Moncton, New Brunswick So Easier Last Time My Chest Is Empty Part One The Future October, 1992 ("Peter EP" Sessions) - Rick White's House (info for this session comes from https://rateyourmusic.com/list/algona/the_massive_erics_trip_and_related_projects_discography/) Need Listen Haze Happens All The Time Deeper January 14-16, 1993 ("Nevermind The Molluscs" Session) - Solar Audio Recording, Halifax Smother Blue Sky For Julie January, 1993 ("Songs About Chris" EP Sessions) - Rick White's House Hurt Sloan Song Listen Dinosaurs Mirror Sand Hate Everyone [lost January 1993 outtake, possibly from this session?] April 1993 ("Julie and the Porthole to Demension" Sessions) Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Five Year Old Girlfriend Mountain Frame Muff April - June, 1993 ("Love Tara" Sessions) - Recorded at Stereo Mountain, Remixing done July 6-7, 1993 with help from Bob Weston. Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, julie Weston, Bob (producer, engineer) o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Behind The Garage Anytime You Want Stove Follow Secret For Julie Belly Sunlight June To Know Them Spring Frame May 11 My Room Blinded Allergic to Love Sick Of Hearing Me Say [Love Tara outtake] May, 1993 ("Love Tara" Sessions) - Recorded at Stereo Mountain Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Afternoon (Love Tara) [outtake] November 1993 - New York Hotel, Room 605 (7" Summershine Shine 45 Session Side A) Opening Song Trapped In New York November, 1993 - Nick Other's Apartment, Toronto, Ontario I Often Dream Of Trains November 1993 - Moncton New Brunswick, Gordon Street Apartment (Stereo Mountain) (7" Summershine Shine 45 Session Side B) Float Understand [unused outtake] February 23 - March 1, 1994 ("The Gordon Street Haunting" EP Sessions) - Stereo Mountain I'm So Near Here Lightly Feeling Nevergrow Departure Song Your Always Right May 11 - 29, 1994 ("Forever Again" Sessions) - New Love This Way Out About You Girlfriend Always There Stupidest Thing December '93 Thoroughly My Bed Is Red View Master Cloudy My Chest Is Empty Run Away Waiting All Day Let Go Hate Song Feeling Around Forever Again Autumn, 1994 If You Don't Want Me (Guess Who cover) March - May, 1995 ("The Road South EP" Sessions) - The Road South (Stereo Shoestrings cover) Smoke September 7-15, 1995 ("Purple Blue" Sessions) - Recorded at CMS Studios Introduction into the... Parts 1 to 4 Hourly Sixteen Hours Universe Eyes Shut Alone and Annoyed Lighthouse Spaceship Opening Universal Dawn One Floor Below Now a Friend Soon, Coming Closer Not Yours Sun Coming Up Beach November, 1995 ("Eric's Trip/Moviola Split 7" Session) Pillow (red) "Late 1995" ("Stupid Noise Compilation" Session) So Easier Last Time Long Ride Til Tomorrow (1997) Compilation: (https://rateyourmusic.com/list/algona/the_massive_erics_trip_and_related_projects_discography/) (9) unused song from peter e.p. June 1992 at stereo mountain. - Fell (10) (julie's song) another unused song we recorded for the Peter e.p. stereo mountain June 1992. - Wonder (11) unused song recorded in July 1992. different mix released on sonic unyon comp. cd. - Evie (13) recorded at stereo mountain in May 1993. unused track for "love tara." - Afternoon (14) recorded in gordon st. apartment in November 1993. originally done for "gordon st. haunting." later released on a 7". - Float (16) unused "gordon st. haunting" song recorded on gordon street in November 1993. - Understand (18) written for peter e.p. in Summer 1992. re-recorded in Nov 95 for split single with moviola. - Pillow (20) first version of 3 recorded entirely by mark in Aug 1995. the 3rd version was used in the introduction of "purple blue." - Purple Blue (23) recorded on 4-track live at the home of Nick Other in Toronto ont. approx 4:30 am in November 93. - I Often Dream of Trains Jan. 1996 Session (info from https://rickwhitearchive.bandcamp.com/album/moncton-compilation-94-98) Fall LISTEN EP (Removed from Bandcamp. different Liner Notes than PETER LP) - http://citizenfreak.com/titles/325037-eric-s-trip-listen-ep In the spring and summer of 1992 Eric's Trip had a new found excitement. We were getting really comfortable as a band, playing more shows, making new friends in Halifax, and writing lots of new songs. We recorded our first 7 inch in March, and while waiting for it's release, we were preparing another full length indie cassette album. Chris and Julie switched instruments somewhere during the spring, but the change over went quite smoothly. We were still recording on an old cassette 4track at Chris's folks house, and by July i had these ten songs layed out. Even this cassette cover design was ready to go when the offer came to do a CD e.p. with Sloan's new Murder Records label. With the idea of releasing our first CD now in my head, I wasn't happy with the recordings i had done here. The drums were especially not cutting through very well, the cymbal heavy one mic drum recording had very little clarity beneath the guitar and bass racket, i wanted to re-record it all again. We did more recording through the autumn, concentrating on getting a better sound, and eventually released new versions/mixes of NEED, LISTEN, HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, and HAZE along with a song from our "Warm Girl" cassette called TANGLES and an acoustic song Julie and I did called DEEPER. That release was called the "Peter e.p." named after a couple new guys in our life. Our new Moncton friend who's scratched glasses appear on the autumny cover, and Peter Rowan who was becoming our manager. People still thought it sounded "lo-fi". One thing that's always haunted me about the released "Peter" e.p. is that it plays one semitone down in pitch. It's a little slow. I think the reason was because i sent off a stereo cassette copy of the final mix to master from and there must have been a pitch difference between the tape decks used. We tuned our guitars standard to 440, and for example "Need" starts in G when played, but it's F# on the CD. Over the years i kinda forgot about it until re-listening to this tape recently and hearing the songs in the right key again for the first time in 25 years. So this "Listen" cassette album was left unreleased as a whole until now, though mixes of WONDER, EVIE and FELL (also with slowed pitch) were added to the "Long Days Ride..." compilation in 1996. EVIE's recording date was listed wrong in the album notes, saying Nov.92 instead of July. SMOTHER was re-recorded in early 1993 for the "Never Mind the Molluscs" SubPop compilation 7inch, though this earlier version did eventually appear on our "Bootleg" 12 inch in 2007. This version of SO EASIER LAST TIME in a different mix was on the "Warm Girl" 7inch released in 1993, and FLOAT was re-recorded in Nov.93 for a Summershine/Subpop 7inch. I always felt these 10 songs should have remained together as a group, and as noisy and rough as these recordings are, i thought some of you may enjoy hearing this. Bootleg (2007) realse & Liner Notes (https://www.discogs.com/release/2597148-Erics-Trip-Bootleg) Smother - "Peter cassette version" - July 1992 Need - Outdoor demo - July 1992 If You Don't Want Me (Guess Who cover) - Fall 1994 Evie - Peter Outtake - July 1992 Sick of Hearing Me Say - "Love Tara" Outtake - April 1993 So Easier Last Time - Late 1995 remake for "More Of Our Stupid Noise" Compilation Blessures Gueries - December 1991 lost track Pillow - 1995 remake for "Molivia/Eric's Trip" split 7" Hate Everyone - January 1993 lost track The Road South (Stereo Shoestrings cover) - March 1995 I Often Dream of Trains - Nov. 1993 Side Projects: Rick White (1990) March, 1990 - Rick White's Parents' House, New Brunswick Hate I'll Be Over Sunrise A Single Light Blind Where Was I Heavy Load Of Greed Presense Realize The Bad Inside My Head Can't Find My Love August, 1991 - Rick White's Parents' House, New Brunswick MYSELF - Pop Hits 91 (Aug.1991) by Rick White Archive, released 01 April 2022 I Wish I Loved You Around For You Hold Back Blue No Place To Hide Ghost Love Glow Friends I'm Walking Pennies Alone With You At Night Eric's Trip was my main focus by the summer of 1991, we were playing local shows, getting a bit of a following and had put three cassettes out since December 1990. I was in the flow of writing lots of songs and learning to really enjoy the process. One day while over at Julie's folks house, I noticed her Mom's cool 80's Yamaha PS55 keyboard and played around with it a bit. It was my first time really playing with a casio type home keyboard and I especially dug the one finger controlled rhythm section stuff. The PS55 felt kinda fancy with it's bigger scale and nice stereo sound. Her Mom got a kick out of watching me making up funny little songs on the spot and said i should take it home for a few days and write some "Pop hits". I took her up on the offer and over the next few days recorded these 12 little songs. I made this cartoon cover art for the tape back then too but never sold any copies. A few may have got around to friends but I'm not sure. I really enjoyed hearing it again recently though and thought i should add it to the archive here for safe keeping. I gave the keyboard back to her Mom after this session but borrowed it again a few times over the years. It's a fun way to write songs and helps you come up with things that you normally would never write on a guitar. Several Eric's Trip and Elevator songs were written on similar keyboards I've had since. Usually changed over to guitars after writing but sometimes appearing in their original form like "Killing Myself" from my Parts 1+2 album, "The Leaf" from Taste of Complete Perspective or my whole PERPLEXIS album from 2002 for example. Anyhow, this is where all my Portasound/Casio love started. Hope you dig it. All songs written by Rick White except Pennies which takes it's lyrics from a Mike Feuerstack demo. Elevator (To Hell)/(Through): (1994 - 1996) xx, 1993-1994? (Elevator To Hell - Demo Cassette Sessions) Her Again My Fog Long Thick Hair Mountain Tara's Song Down My Throat Rituals Of Suzanne Stuck On You Gay Soul Chemically Autumn, 1994 - Spring, 1995 ("Elevator To Hell/Parts 1+2" Sessions) Whi I Didn't Like August 93 Three More Weeks Rather Be Made For You Typical Boy Loses Girl Mr. Sun Morning Clouds Elevator To Hell My Head Mercyful Fate Let Yourself Glide And Emptily Die Physically Unaddictive Mind Change NOt The Least Surprised Train From You Killing Myself February 4-5, 1995 - Ron Bates' home ("Forward To Snow" Sessions) The Who Double Pleading Roger And The Hair Clarly, See Me Forward To Snow (full version) Mary And Death Forward To Snow (shorter take) Everything Maded More Sense April 1995 - Summer, 1996 ("Elevator to Hell: Parts 4+5" Sessions) - Elm Street & Rivercrest Avenue, Moncton/New Brunswick locations Universe The Weight Of April Snow End Empty Me Home Song For Tara's Work Getting Closer To You Fever The Man My Time Head Someday Surely New Years Revelation Mountain 2 Ode to an Attention Seeker Hourly August 1995 - March 1996 ("Part Three" Sessions) Boots 100 Miles Analysis 1313 The Climb Speeding Down A Dirt Road Sixteen Hours (Part One) Each Day For A Week Sink Into The Sea Forever A-void The Out-side September, 1995 Over and Over December, 1995 - Elm Street House Veins/Green May, 1996 ("Baackwards May" Session) Backwards May Analysis 1377 Backteeth Friday Night xx, 1996 (Elevator To Hell:Parts 6+7 Session) Mr. Sun My Realize Sense Removal As Night Descends Olive Eels Robots Marching The Search Of... Another Unclear Answer Chris Thompson (Moon Socket): xx, 1991-1992 - Moncton? Friend Highde Fifteen Laying Blame (Sloan) Not Weak? Follow (Rick&Chris) Seems Useless Big Hole Phoney Mystery Come Back To Me Triangles Don't Ask Nuisance Double Dare Barbed Wire (Sentridoh - Sentridoh originally released this in 1992) xx, 1990 - 1993? - Moncton? In A Void Warren's Guitar She Turned Me Sweaty Hand Drugged Up Love Comfort In Sleep Tonight Bolder (Lou Barlow cover, Barlow originally released this The Freed Weed CD (1990)) Fuzzy Inside xx, 1992 - Moncton? I Want Now Stupid Shyness Hard Feelings Swing 1992-1993 ("Moon Socket [1995]" 7" Release) Feeling Around More To Say Get Far Now A Friend Always There Blue Think Of Me Confused As I Am xx,xxxx ("More Of Our Stupid Noise" Compilation Session) Almost Spring February, 1996 ("What If The Sun Blew Up" Session) (https://rickwhitearchive.bandcamp.com/album/moncton-compilation-94-98) What If The Sun Blew Up Julie Doiron: December, 1991 Beautiful (1st version, prior to being re-recorded in june-sept. '93') June - September, 1993 (Dog Love Part II EP Sessions) - Recorded at Stereo Mountain Beautiful Laugh With Me Sad Song Five August, 1993 - Stereo Mountain Session August 10 November, 1994 (Nora EP Sessions) - Recorded at Stereo Mountain The Book Song His Girlfriend Dance Music November, 1994 Coming Closer (from Broken Girl) December, 1994 (Recorded at Elm Street House) Eyes Shut (original version, Eric's Trip version later released on "Purple, Blue") 10 other songs April 26-29, 1995 ("Broken Girl" Sessions) - Recorded at Little Prod Studios Dance Music Elevator Show Crumble Taller Beauty Grammy Grew Smaller Happy Lucky Girl Sorry Story So Low Waiting For Baby xx,xxxx ("More Of Our Stupid Noise" Comp. Session) So Fast Mark Gaudet: Aug. 1995 - Purple Blue [1st version] Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Disguise Lost Don't Worry About Me The Beauty WAs All Froze Sunlight Dreaming Blurred So Far Away Here I Go Again I Exist Format Audio: best available sources Source ID Qaulity Runtime Lowest Gen SBD #1 10.0 35:44 Eric's Trip (Demo CASS, 1990) SBD #2 10.0 Artist Crew Eric's trip White, Rick (producer, engineer) o Doiron, Julie o Vaughn, Ed o White, Rick Set Too Perfect Believe Beatings Catapillars Just One The Lonely Brave And Bland Format Audio: best available sources Source ID Qaulity Runtime Lowest Gen SBD #1 10.0 SBD #2 10.0 (Warm Girl 2019 Release page states: There are two songs visible in the picture of the original 4-track cassette which don't appear on the album: "My Old Girlfriend" and "Beautiful". Rick White states: They weren't Eric's Trip recordings. "My old girlfriend" is an unfinished solo demo of mine (Rick), and "beautiful" is a Julie demo of a song we later re-recorded for her 1st Broken Girl 7" "Dog love pt.2 :) SESSION HTML starts here: Maritime Music Archive - Eric's Trip | Sessions History | Studio Session | December 2, and 3-10, 1990 - Chris Thompson's house, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
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ERIC'S TRIP SESSIONS HISTORY December 2, & 3-10, 1990 - Chris Thompson's parents' Residence, Moncton, N.B., Can

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    Artist

    • "ERIC'S TRIP"
      • Doiron, Julie (guitar, voice)
      • Thompson, Chris (bass)
      • Vaughn, Ed (drums)
      • White, Rick (guitar, voice)

      Crew

      • Rick, White (producer, engineer)

      Set

      • [O] Disguise
      • [O] Lost
      • [O] Don't Worry About Me
      • [O] The Beauty Was All Froze
      • [O] Dreaming
      • [O] Blurred
      • [O] So Far Away
      • [O] Here I Go Again

        • Format

        • Audio: ¼-inch 4-track analog magnetic tape (session tape)

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        Source ID Quality Complete Runtime Lowest Gen Tracks Featured Notes
        SBD #1 10.0 0:35:54 Master DAT>FLAC (Eric's Trip 1st Cassette) • Disguise • Lost • Don't Worry About Me • The Beauty Was All Froze • Sunlight • Dreaming • Blurred • So Far Away • Here I Go Again • I Exist

        Notes

        Eric's Trip formed in early June 1990, Chris and Rick played together in a band called The Forest through 1989 and early 1990 with Chris on drums and Rick playing guitar and singing. 

        As The Forest fell apart, Rick and Julie got together and started writing new music with two guitars and harmony vocals. Chris wanted to move away from drumming and play bass so we looked for a new drummer. Our friend Ed Vaughan was always hanging around with us, so Chris taught him the basics of how to play drums and we started jamming tunes with him sitting in. 

        Before we knew it, we had a bunch of new songs sounding pretty cool with Ed and decided to stick to this lineup. We were after a thick loud noisey sound mixed with dreamy mellow vocals and the sloppy drumming seemed to blend into the racket quite nicely. We were gathering up cheap and big old used Traynor amps and practicing lots down in Chris's folks non-soundproofed basement. Eric's Trip was loud, thanks so much to his folks and all the neighbours, not sure how you could stand it, ha. 

        By December 1990 we had ten songs together and wanted to record a tape. Using a borrowed cassette 4track, a couple sm57 mics, four cheap Realistic (Radioshack) mics and a little Realistic 6 channel mixer we did just that. The two guitars, bass and drums were recorded live into the 4track with 3 mics on drums going through the little mixer into one track. We got the 10 songs recorded that day, then during the next week we worked on adding the vocals. 

        At this primitive stage in our recording career, here is how we did this. Set up at Julie's folks house, we played the recorded 4tracks back through the six channel Realistic mixer. Monitoring through her folks stereo speakers, we got a mix we liked then sung live along with the playback into a 5th channel on the mixer. Recording the result live onto a stereo cassette deck.

        This worked pretty good once we got the levels okay but there is an audible low end bleed throughout from using the speakers instead of headphones to monitor while we sang. 

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