Skip to main content

Day Three Hundred Six

A quick note to finish off the Dylan talk of yesterday... considering I spent a good portion of the day reading the rundown of his "70 Greatest Songs," and listening to his music, it seems appropriate. They let Bono write the essay for the #1 song ("Like A Rolling Stone"), and he wrote something that strikes me, he writes "when the desire to communicate is met with an equal and opposite urge not to compromise in order to communicate - when those two things are in perfect balance - is when everything happens with rock & roll."

I finished off (I think) the music for one of the song ideas that have popped up for the band. It will need to be laid down, at least in rough form, before anything can come of it. In a perfect world, I'd like to get that knocked out tomorrow afternoon after work, that way I could have something to send to B. tomorrow night when we Skype again. Here's hoping that I can get some work done, and that B. has gotten a chance in the last few days to lay down a few things on her end, just to see if the file transfers go both ways.

Also, I talked to my brother tonight (he's back from vacation) and, as I expected he would, he agreed to lay down some solos when we get to that point.

All in all, a good day, although I still wish I could've gotten a bit more done.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day Two Hundred Ninety Three (Year Four)

Big day today, for a few reasons... First off, it was a good night in the studio.  As opposed to the recent sessions that have had a singular focus (either theory-related, or acoustic/set list related), tonight had a little bit of both things in it.  When I hit the studio tonight, I fully expected to pick up the electric and work out a bit more theory studying, much like things have gone for the last week or so.  Knowing that, I somehow ended up with the acoustic in my hands, working through a little bit of Brandi Carlile.  More specifically, two songs of hers that I have always loved, "Wasted," and "Fall Apart Again," but until tonight, never taken the time to sit down and learn.  I have a songbook with everything from the first three records, and it took me until tonight to sit down and take a look at working through some of these things. In a related note, I really feel like the last year has been so very good for my confidence, musically.  There are some p
Post a Comment
Read more

Day One Hundred Eleven (Year Eight)

Okay, so Dave's voice was kinda shot last night and the show was still epic.  Here's what they played: Run All My Life Learn to Fly The Pretender The Sky Is a Neighborhood Rope ( with solo's ) Sunday Rain My Hero These Days Walk Under My Wheels / Jump / Another One Bites the Dust / Blitzkrieg Bop ( w/ band introductions ) Big Me Congregation Breakout Times Like These This Is a Call Under Pressure ( Queen  cover) Monkey Wrench Breakdown ( Tom Petty  cover) Best of You Dirty Water Let There Be Rock ( AC/DC  cover) Everlong   And here is a little bit of "Big Me," just for fun:    
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Three Hundred Forty (Year Six)

It's done.  Well, okay, so it's 99.5% done, but that's close enough for me. The stereo and the turntable got set up this morning, as I figured they would, and the two bags of randomness (picks, my slide, tuners, etc) and the few small piles of notebooks got dealt with tonight.  I even managed to get the iMac set up, if not fired up. And yet, the studio remains only slightly unfinished.  Somewhere in either the house or the garage, there must be a box or a bag that has a couple of studio-related items tucked into it, because there are at least two things I can't find.  As fate would have it, they're important things, too.  And something tells me that they're all in one place.  I'm missing: 1.  My looping pedal 2.  The power cable for my Marshall 3.  The foot switch for the Marshall They're all things that would have been in the same general area in the old studio, but given how much of the house we've gotten set up already, it really surpris
Post a Comment
Read more