I'm torn tonight. What I want to talk about is:
1) Hearing the new Gaslight Anthem single.
2) Previewing a bit of Brandi Carlile's new single.
3) The new Silversun Pickups record that drops on Tuesday.
4) The Barenaked Ladies record that also comes out on Tuesday. It's demos and unreleased stuff. I'm stupidly excited about it, and I only found out about it this morning.
What I'm going to do instead is write about something else entirely. It won't be a long post, but it feels like a necessary one.
I heard from B. tonight. Late. Back in the day before the band, she was doing some music stuff with another friend of hers, who became a passing acquaintance of mine when I started producing their demos. As it happened, B. called tonight with sad news. Apparently this friend of ours has passed away. Not sure of the cause yet or anything (although we do have our suspicions). It's just very sad.
That was an interesting experience for me, producing for them, because I saw two obviously talented people, both of whom were working on the same project, but it felt to me like they weren't working on it together. There were separate agendas and separate hopes.
I played on a couple of tracks, at their request, but it felt like a series of songs more than it felt like a record. That being said, I'll drag out the masters from those sessions tomorrow sometime, just to go back and listen. I told B. that I'd send her whatever I found.
It's always sad when it takes things like this to bring people back together.
1) Hearing the new Gaslight Anthem single.
2) Previewing a bit of Brandi Carlile's new single.
3) The new Silversun Pickups record that drops on Tuesday.
4) The Barenaked Ladies record that also comes out on Tuesday. It's demos and unreleased stuff. I'm stupidly excited about it, and I only found out about it this morning.
What I'm going to do instead is write about something else entirely. It won't be a long post, but it feels like a necessary one.
I heard from B. tonight. Late. Back in the day before the band, she was doing some music stuff with another friend of hers, who became a passing acquaintance of mine when I started producing their demos. As it happened, B. called tonight with sad news. Apparently this friend of ours has passed away. Not sure of the cause yet or anything (although we do have our suspicions). It's just very sad.
That was an interesting experience for me, producing for them, because I saw two obviously talented people, both of whom were working on the same project, but it felt to me like they weren't working on it together. There were separate agendas and separate hopes.
I played on a couple of tracks, at their request, but it felt like a series of songs more than it felt like a record. That being said, I'll drag out the masters from those sessions tomorrow sometime, just to go back and listen. I told B. that I'd send her whatever I found.
It's always sad when it takes things like this to bring people back together.
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