I find reverse reverb (which I found later in life) to be like good gin. In the right amounts, it makes things better. But if you fall for its siren song, you get lost in the feedback.
imbecile smile
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four hours of recording and no dinner. Come upstairs to find fast cooling chinese food. Scarf down dumplings of unknown pork parts. not so bad. got that part of recording down. still got to workout in the morning. but this song is getting legs. bringing in ringers on friday.
i love protools even though it doesn’t change my ability to sing in tune.
i’ve never cut tape.
As with most songs on this album, i’ve recorded the latest at least 6 times. Luckily I seem to be learning from all of this. I gave in, used a click track and cranked out guitar, drums and vocals yesterday. The song clocks in at almost 6 minutes. Mike Hotter should be showing up next week to add guitar magic. Onward.
Living in the city allows for oddities in your daily life. This doll scares the shit out of me. But it didn’t stop me from taking her home.
Recording alone can make one paranoid.
The Sienna owners are on notice. Town and Country for life!
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Saw OK GO at the tulip affair. Pretty damn good for a pop band. Got beer thrown on me a few times, had a ball hit me in the head, am pretty sure I don’t need to see Spoon now since I’ve seen these guys, watched people buy a bunch of pot brownies next to me, saw a fight, passed a crowd surfing girl onto her glory. All in all it was a good time. Sick guitar tone.
Four hours of writing and recording. Made good writing progress on the last song that requires it (TWWE). Up to something like 5 chord progressions and 6 minutes long. So far it works. Now the tedious work of recording a drum track. Something that would take a drummer an hour will take me a week. Actually, I’m better thanks to my stint as the 9th drummer for knotworking so it should go faster.
Finally started to get the bridge to “strike up the band” closer to how it sounds in my head. And anyone who says ProTools is bad for music has obviously never recorded music. ProTools is the only reason I’m still sane and working on this record.
Small changes to Ambulance. Arrangement is pretty much done.
Pretty certain I have the 12 or 13 songs that will make the final cut. 3 of them still need to be done from scratch, the rest just need fixes, additions, horn sections, etc. This just might get done in 2010 (still find it odd writing 2010 as a reference to the present).
Going to see the Flaming Lips on Sunday.