On “The Hand That Feeds You”, what is that synthetic crash sound at the beginning of the song?
It isn’t synthetic. I hit the inside of a grand piano with a drum mallet. I was looking for an ominous kind of sound to set the mood in the introduction. I played percussion and piano on that song. I used the piano as a drum and we put a lot of reverb on it. It was a grand piano with the lid up and I hit the strings and the music stand with a drum mallet. You don’t usually play bass chords, but in the song “Family” you did. I have done it before, but on that song I do it a lot.
