Friday, August 16, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Out Here In The Sunshine
As of this writing, the song isn't done yet. It is Thursday night. I've still got to lay down drums and bass, and hopefully some kind of melody thing with Gibbons playing saw. I feel weird about this song. I love certain parts of it, but as it is currently written it feels like there is a better song hiding underneath what I have right now. The words may not be quite right.
It is now Late afternoon the next day. I have finished this song at the last possible minute. I am now off to play at Ouizi's closing exhibition at the Barbershop Gallery. Gibbons wasn't around so the saw became an electric guitar solo. First time for electric guitar on this project. I can definitely feel myself getting into a groove. Too much so, in fact. Maybe I am putting this stuff off so much because I'm ready for a change. I knew once I started writing commentary I would jynx the project.
Anyway, it is almost literally the last minute. Here are the links.
It is now Late afternoon the next day. I have finished this song at the last possible minute. I am now off to play at Ouizi's closing exhibition at the Barbershop Gallery. Gibbons wasn't around so the saw became an electric guitar solo. First time for electric guitar on this project. I can definitely feel myself getting into a groove. Too much so, in fact. Maybe I am putting this stuff off so much because I'm ready for a change. I knew once I started writing commentary I would jynx the project.
Anyway, it is almost literally the last minute. Here are the links.
Friday, July 26, 2013
The Same
So I guess I'm going to try and write about these songs here from now on. I wish I had been doing that all along, but hey, I didn't really know what I was getting into when I started this project. I still don't know, really. Just doing the best I can.
20 songs now. This one I am not especially proud of, to be honest. Friday morning came around I didn't have anything new to record so I pulled out this "tired old song", (that's what Gibbons called it when we were recording,) and it sounds OK but it just doesn't feel right to put something I've recorded before in the mix. This week I should able to get back to my regular writing routine, and I hope to have something to publish that I'm really proud of.
Interesting note about this song. It is a freestyle song. What that means is that I wrote it using a specific method. That method being: I pick up a guitar or something, hit record on some device, and make up a song off the top of my head. No stops, no effing around. I used to do this a LOT. Now not so much. Another song in this project, Security, is kind of a freestyle song. The first verse was made up, and I wrote the rest of it the old fashioned way.
20 songs now. This one I am not especially proud of, to be honest. Friday morning came around I didn't have anything new to record so I pulled out this "tired old song", (that's what Gibbons called it when we were recording,) and it sounds OK but it just doesn't feel right to put something I've recorded before in the mix. This week I should able to get back to my regular writing routine, and I hope to have something to publish that I'm really proud of.
Interesting note about this song. It is a freestyle song. What that means is that I wrote it using a specific method. That method being: I pick up a guitar or something, hit record on some device, and make up a song off the top of my head. No stops, no effing around. I used to do this a LOT. Now not so much. Another song in this project, Security, is kind of a freestyle song. The first verse was made up, and I wrote the rest of it the old fashioned way.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Friday, July 5, 2013
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