This tune was recorded and mixed at East Hall Studios in Fayetteville, AR. I used my Thumb Bolt-on six string and a Digitech BP8 effects unit direct into the board. The drum track was patterned after the drum loop from my Zoom drum machine that I was using for the live shows. Acid Jack did the spoken line at the beginning. That’s it. There are no other instruments. All the weird sounds you hear are bass run through some of the wacky effects I concocted with the BP8.

Mr. Skin is the name of a character from a zany little independent Canadian film called Highway 61. The film is about the journey of a barber who wants to be a trumpet player and a female roadie (yes, women can be roadies) as they travel down highway 61 from somewhere in Canada to New Orleans. Unbeknownst to the barber, the roadie is smuggling drugs in a dead body which she claims to be her brother. Mr. Skin, who is a guy that thinks he’s Satan, is pursuing the barber and roadie, because Mr. Skin believes the dead guy had sold his soul to Satan for a pair of tickets to a metal concert. Yep, it’s a comedy.

Anyway, I found the character really interesting. At times in the film you find yourself wondering if Mr. Skin is the crazy one or if it is just that the rest of the world is insane. Other parts of the movie show that some of the things we desire strongly are most often very meaningless. Mr. Skin as a character also shows that a lot of the stuff that scares the bejeebies out of us is in itself pretty dang silly. However, that fact doesn’t make the stuff that scares us any less disturbing.