The Fix for ‘96!

1996 was a real tough year for DT... In fact, probably the worst since the singer-less days back in 1990. We spent the entire year in a holding pattern due to label changes and the inability to get any support or a greenlight from them to begin our next album.

As a result, we spent the entire year writing away in our rehearsal studio. By Christmas time, we were going stir-crazy and decided to book some local shows just to get out and reconnect with our fans. It was a way to let them know we were still alive and well and for us to test out and share some of the new music we had been writing. (Side note: the opening act for a few of these shows was none other than Jordan Rudess & Rod Morgenstein!)

These shows were very special and these recordings provide a very unique insight of the FII songs as they were before “the powers that be” got a hold of them! In addition to the 5 “new” songs, we gave most of the older songs new twists. Check out the re-arranged The Killing Hand, the new jams in Learning To Live and Metropolis and the completely reworked Caught In A Web (which was jokingly referred to as “Caught In Alice’s Nine Inch Tool Garden” for its modern industrial/grunge twist and ended up later providing some riffs for New Millennium).

After the success and fun had at these shows, we booked a similar run of shows in Europe a few months later and then were finally given the green light to begin FII in the summer of ‘97...

But that’s a story for a different CD...