Today got me exactly what I needed it to.
First and foremost, I made it through the rest of those CDs that had piled up, unmarked, for years and years. There were a decent number of them that were either blank, or had a single track on them that was 4 seconds full of silence. Those all got their own (reject) pile as I moved on to other stuff.
There were actually a good number of discs that had demos on them, including some revisionist versions of things originally recorded almost 15 years ago. The revisionist versions were from 2010 or so. Anyone who has been following me from the beginning will recall J. (who played bass on the original recordings) hunting me down after stumbling across the original demos himself. We went back and forth for six months or so, swapping tracks over the internet in an effort to end up with something we were both proud of, but progress was slow and eventually petered out. Some of that had to do with me trying to get him to produce the old hard rock stuff I had been working on with B. when I was living in Green Bay.
One of the revisionist recordings I stumbled across tonight was an acoustic version of the main song we had worked on. Listening back to that tonight, it had a spark of something good even all these years later. Might have to send J. a note saying that I found it. Maybe let him know what I've been working on this year.
Grabbed new issues of Guitar Techniques and Acoustic Guitar today, too. All told, a solidly productive day that put a nice wrap on the weekend.
First and foremost, I made it through the rest of those CDs that had piled up, unmarked, for years and years. There were a decent number of them that were either blank, or had a single track on them that was 4 seconds full of silence. Those all got their own (reject) pile as I moved on to other stuff.
There were actually a good number of discs that had demos on them, including some revisionist versions of things originally recorded almost 15 years ago. The revisionist versions were from 2010 or so. Anyone who has been following me from the beginning will recall J. (who played bass on the original recordings) hunting me down after stumbling across the original demos himself. We went back and forth for six months or so, swapping tracks over the internet in an effort to end up with something we were both proud of, but progress was slow and eventually petered out. Some of that had to do with me trying to get him to produce the old hard rock stuff I had been working on with B. when I was living in Green Bay.
One of the revisionist recordings I stumbled across tonight was an acoustic version of the main song we had worked on. Listening back to that tonight, it had a spark of something good even all these years later. Might have to send J. a note saying that I found it. Maybe let him know what I've been working on this year.
Grabbed new issues of Guitar Techniques and Acoustic Guitar today, too. All told, a solidly productive day that put a nice wrap on the weekend.
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