The only person playing ''live'' on all albums is Ron Jarzombek, who wrote, played and programmed everything. The other ''band members'' are actually sound modules (music programs) with false joke names.

Most of the stuff of Ron Jarzombek's solo project was too complicated to play live or out of context to be a part of his band Spastic Ink. In that same way some of the stuff that Ron Jarzombek wrote didn't fit into Watchtower, so it later became known as Spastic Ink.