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This is our concern, Dude

Posted: December 09, 2008
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December, 2003: My pal Ted says to me that I have ONE YEAR to produce physical evidence of my musical creations. This is because I had nothing new to show since he witnessed me and Dan jamming in December, 2002. Thus was the gauntlet thrown, and sure enough by December, 2004, I had one musical CD of brotherly compositions.

December, 2008: I’ve been sitting on a 2/3 finished follow-up. I started writing/recording new stuff as soon as I finished the first CD, so this is a lot of sitting. Sure, 2005 was off to a good start, but from 2006 on, it’s been either work, or recovering from work (i.e., sleeping all my free time away). It’s probably also a bit to do with not having a set deadline, because I wanted to “take my time” and all that bullcrap.

SO, I got an idea the other day: I need a deadline, and the threat of shame. I decided that if I wasn’t finished by December, 2009, I would have to put out whatever I had done, and I would have to call the album “Unfinished Bizznatch”. And to show myself I was serious, I told myself this would be the art:

Dear God don't let this be the art!

Dan, we got some work to do!

 

UPDATE FROM THE DISTANT FUTURE (11/2009): Yeah, so I’m chickening out a little. Going back and listening to some of these songs has filled me with self-doubt and dread. They need to go back to the drawing board, or the toilet, or something. So I’ll just be leaving certain of these turkeys off “Unfinished Bizznatch”, thankyewverymuch.

Such a thing as too successful

Posted: June 20, 2008
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I was working on my song ending from a couple days ago, thinking “this is not effed up enough”, and trying to remedy that. I wanted something painful and stressful. After an hour of testing various sounds I had a splitting headache and a bad case of nausea. I am dialing back “teh pain” on the sounds right now, but if I ever need to bust up a seige or hostage situation, out come the loudspeakers…

Better than “Kick it”

Posted: June 14, 2008
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I made some effed up sounds to put at the end of one of my songs. I had most of it in place already, but it wasn’t quite right, and I solved that today:

OUCH, MAN (New #1 Summer Jam)

The main bit was this weird “birds” preset off my sequencer (done a couple octaves lower than recommended), and the rest was just single organ notes with mega distortion and chorus added (that’s the part I was talking about earlier in this post, with the solving).