Red Delta Orchestra would like to thank:
The following artists, in no particular order, that had some significant influence on our music and lyrics: Stabbing Westward, Nine Inch Nails, Filter, System of a Down, Deftones, Rammstein, Linkin Park, Baroness, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Ghost, Nothing More, Michael Jackson, Refused, Architects, Static-X, Tremonti, Gojira, Opeth, Gunship, Chris Cornell, Glassjaw, Bring me the Horizon, Mad Season, I Mother Earth, Masters In France, Finger Eleven, A Perfect Circle, Frank Herbert, The Dreaming, Doomtree, The Police, Danzig, Wu-Tang, The Second Coming, Dr. Dre, Vic Flick, David Bowie, Type O Negative, Snoop, Rush, NWA, Disturbed, Prince, Korn, Front 242, 30 Seconds to Mars, The KLF, The Crystal Method, VAST, St. Vincent, Buckethead, Slipknot, Beastie Boys, White Zombie, Christopher Gunning, Toadies, Frank Zappa, Soft Cell, Queen, Daft Punk, Marilyn Manson, Hans Zimmer, Orgy, Muse, Casiokids, Ministry, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, The Smashing Pumpkins, INXS, Steve Vai, Coheed & Cambria, Queen, Ween, The Edge (U2), KMFDM, Butthole Surfers, Corrosion of Conformity… and probably everyone else we’ve listened to or read over the years…
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...OURSELVES, for working our way through these projects after years of dreaming...
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...and, especially, all our family, friends, and listeners.
Brandon would like to thank:
Sarah Boucher. My wife and best friend, my support and universe entire. Not a single note was played without you being the focus and the only person I was trying to impress. Thank you for your patience and determination. The pep talks and the hard choices. I am forever in your debt.
Wulf Downard. Thank you for building a Taj Mahal on my silly little foundations. We didn’t plan where we would end up, but I’m glad you're my partner on the journey.
Craig Boucher. My father was really the only person before my wife that ever really understood what music meant for me. I’m sad you’re not here to listen now, but you heard me then, and that’s all that really matters.
And the rest. Everyone I’ve come into contact with below, helped me somehow make this record. Maybe through old bands, or just talking about what we liked, helped me get where I am:
Ken Kenetix, Matt Becker, Greg Martinez, Shawn Staples, Danny, Cooper, Mike, the guys in Pull, Krome, Amber Turrill, Tony Bowman, Gary LeClaire, Lee Sheehan, Jay DeShetler, The Parishes, Distorted Penguins and Magic Dave and Pickles, Engine, Gunner, Buzz Poets, Wallace the Band, Schooners, Dionysus, Ellsworth the Band, Sleeping Sea Kings, Dirtstar, Karma to Burn, Amplifiers and Si Lewis, Jake Morley, Jack Wolfe, Evan Kendall, Justin, Matt Freund, Nick Matako, Josh Redding, Stevie Trapero, Sean Earll, Pedro World Citizen, Jenn Russell, Eleanor Fontaine Music, Eddie Angel Monroy, Barney Gamble, Damian Bean, The Schwartzes, the Bouchers, The Liest Family, the Jamars, The Campbells East and West, The Troths, The Adlers, The Fernholzes, and everyone else I may have forgotten this day.
All the bands not mentioned above that I shared a stage with, thank you for the house.
Cooper, West Virginia University Mountaineer Football Program, Big Nose Kate, Foxxy Lucille, Hurricane Charlemagne.
Rocktobertron…
Wulf would like to thank:
Valdrusya, my best friend and co-conspirator in just about everything. Your eyes, ears, and ideas inform pretty much everything I do. You've stood by me through every bit of my brightness, darkness, and ugliness. You have included and inspired me in your creativity, and you have enhanced my own. I'm still flummoxed by the inexplicable good fortune that made you a part of my life.
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Vlad and Ro. Best kids a guy could ever have; I have kept doing whatever the hell I want in the hope that I can inspire you to do the same with your lives and try to make yourselves happy with the things you love instead of resigning yourselves to being sad drones in someone else's machine. I love you both forever.
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Brandon, you really helped to wake a sleeping dragon and get my mind and hands back to doing what they should always have been. Your ear, generosity, and compositions have been invaluable; your advice gold; and your willingness to compromise and build this thing together can't be undervalued.
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Mom, Dad, my sister Sally, and all of the rest of the Downard family. My music may not be your cup of tea, but you've all supported my crazy ambitions and kept me going. Aunt Laurie for giving me your old Silvertone when I was a kid so I could get my first index finger blister playing "Iron Man." Bill and Jeremy Seal, Marisa Roman, Reese Gallagher, the Henteleffs, and all of my extended family.
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Thank you, Lillian Swift. R.I.P.
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Greg Martinez-- the best damned percussionist I've ever known, a stalwart friend, and the only amazing drummer I've ever played with who was also sober-minded and mentally stable.
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Shawn Staples, my former mentor and maestro who helped me learn to play and sing as myself, rather than just imitating others.
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Eric Cicolani, Tony Chavatzas, Tricia Gallagher, Wizzo, Ramon Ramirez, and many others along the way--thank you for helping me learn how to better play and compose.
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Dweezil Zappa, Jon Crosby, Brian May, Fieldy, Steve Vai, Jared Leto, and many others for being welcoming and friendly when meeting yet another young wannabe.
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All of my past and present coworkers, friends, and associates for listening, befriending, and being more patient than I probably was.
Thank you,
Velecia Cockrell, for allowing us the use of your brilliant artwork!
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