Skip to main content

Day Ninety Seven (Year Two)

That didn't take long.  Got a response from J. in regards to the tracks I sent out yesterday.  It was as follows:  Excellent.  Still trying to figure out the verses?

To a certain extent, yeah, I am still trying to figure out the verses.  One part of me thinks they should just be acoustic, but that same part of me thinks that, if this is the case, the acoustic part that's there is wrong.  The other part of me sees clean electric verses as an option.  This may be the more practical part of me, as I can see a situation where, live, we'd need to do the clean electric thing to make it work.  I'll try it with the clean electric in the next couple of days and send him the results.  See if that might allow us to pull the acoustic part all together.  If we're not careful here, we might just be able to work on a different song sometime soon.

The other news of the day:  All my stuff finally came in at work!  Well, okay, not the Miles Zuniga record, but I just ordered that yesterday.  So.  On some level, it killed me to drop $78 this close to rent being due, but considering what I added to my collection, I got a pretty sweet deal, here (again) is the list:

Mike Doughty
- Skittish/Rockity Roll
- Haughty Melodic
- Golden Delicious
- Sad Man, Happy Man
- Yes & Also Yes

Also picked up were:

1) Eddie & The Cruisers (novel) by P.F. Kluge
2) Eddie & The Cruisers/Eddie & The Cruisers II (DVD)

All music related, and a pretty good haul for $78 bucks if you ask me.

I'm listening to some of the Mike Doughty as I import it into itunes.  And I was right.  It's really cool.  Music does this thing where it lifts me up when it grabs my soul, and just hearing new stuff that's interesting and acoustic is doing that to me.  It's as if my other side (the non-loud rock band side) is being served.  That's the side of me that likes quirky acoustic music with pop-ish leanings, just in case you were curious.

It's why, somewhere inside of me, is a solo acoustic record.

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