Franklin’s second 7″ was called, They Said It With Fireworks. It was released in 1993 on Slug Sounds Records, the label that released our first 7″, Something Blue, Automotive. At the time, we were spread out as a band. I was living in Baltimore, Maryland attending school while Roy was studying at Tyler School of Art and Greg was at Haverford College. Ralph was working of course and being Ralph.
I would travel back from school as often as possible so that we could practice. However, it was pretty rare. One thing about Franklin, was that when we practiced, we never sang. Our practices were strictly instrumental and often, lyrics and melodies would only be added when we played live or when we recorded. This was of particular interest when it came time to record and none of us really had any idea what the vocal melody would even be. I guess you could call it, “surprise singing”.
After the positive recording experience we had had at Hound Sound in Baltimore, we decided to continue on with it and make it a tradition. However, Tony French, the fella who had recorded our first 7″ was now working out of a new studio. An as yet to be built studio called Big Heifer. We would end up being the first band to record in this studio with Tony and upon arrival on a Friday night, the studio was still unfinished. Literally, drywall was still going up when we got there. This of course made us a bit concerned but we made the best of it. We would sleep in the studio while recording, practicing the two songs that would make up this 7″.
The songs themselves, Sliding and Sprinkler would go on to be two of my most favorite Franklin songs. Sliding would indeed become a favorite of the folks that liked us and would be a heckle that would continue until our final show. “PLAY SLIDING” someone would yell at almost every one of our shows. I never knew whether they were being sarcastic or not, but I’ll leave it to them to decide.
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There’s something about the manic nature of the song Sprinkler that still gets my blood going. While only being 3 minutes or so in length, it was the first time I felt we had written a song with varying chapters. It seemed as if it went somewhere from chaos to mania to resolution.
During the mix down of Sliding, Greg would suggest tossing distortion onto the drums at the beginning of the song. A sweet little effect that we would use again when recording Sliding for our first LP. However, on that recording, we put the distortion at the end of the song. Numerous reviewers would confuse the intentional addition of distortion as surface noise when they heard it…ah well. The best laid plans, ya know?
we weren’t sarcastic.