I keep talking about the left over song from May that I was adding to the pile of June songs. Here it is. Just a dopy little 12-bar blues that was really just an excuse to write something on my new Strat. In the end, it’s kind of a fun little groove.
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Here is the iOS mix.
This song makes 10 for the month of June. I still have my one left over thing from May, and there are two more from June that still need vocals.
I kinda want to stop now though. Something about this tune is working for me. I sort of almost… like it. Part of me wants to leave this on top of my alonetone tracks list for a while.
No… I’ll mix the May song next and finish the last two June songs before 50/90 starts next week. I’ll carry on.
I’m not sure what it is about this one that I like though… something…
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I think I have posted this already, but here is the iOS mix as well.
Here’s another June song. Let’s just say that the day I recorded the lead guitar was not a particularly good day. As for the lyrics… well… it was raining that day. I don’t really know what any of the rest of it is about.
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And here is the iOS version.
Remember on Thursday when I said the little lawn mower we borrowed from my father was fixed?
It was.
I have about 3/4 of the property finished. All that’s left is the part of the back yard that you cannot possibly see from the street. The mower though, has started conking out on me. It will run for anywhere from 15-20 seconds to 5 minutes before dying. Sometimes it starts right back up, other times it takes 4-5 pulls.
I’m guessing the fuel line is clogged.
It also had a screw that holds the two pieces of the handle together shake itself loose and fall off. Fortunately we have an army of lawn mowers in the garage and I was able to replace it without going to the store.
Still though… what the hell, mower?
It pleases me to see HipstaKitty on the cat tree.
100 years ago today Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. That was the event that quickly spiraled out of control and kicked off the First World War. The war that marked the intersection between 19th century ideas of military honor and glory with 20th century destructive technological advancements.
In the past, an infantry charge into a defense equipped with early rifles and muskets was doable thanks to the short range, inaccurate, slow to reload weapons. By 1914 those crappy defenses were replaced with machine guns. The result was mass slaughter on a scale never before imagined. Throw in poison gas, tanks, submarines, and airplanes and it’s pretty easy to see how the tactics were left in the dust.
I had never heard this, but apparently Archduke Ferdinand’s murder was a bit of a farce. He came into the city on a published itinerary, and seven assassins were waiting for him. One threw a grenade which went off behind the Archduke’s car. His driver STOPPED THE CAR to help the wounded. Meanwhile the would be killers, Princip included, failed to continue the attack and Ferdinand made it safely to his destination. Later, he and his wife tried to go to the hospital to visit people hurt in the attack. Their driver took a wrong turn and stopped to back up. It just so happened by total coincidence that Mr Gavrilo Princip randomly happened to be standing right where the car stopped. He still had his gun with him and he used it, murdering Ferdinand and his wife.
That stupidity lead to millions upon millions of deaths in one of the worst cases of human butchery we as a species have ever experienced.
Did I mention that I recently had an external hard drive die on me? Did I also mention that the uncompressed versions of both the March and April music thingies were on that now deceased external hard drive?
They were.
So I decided to take a break from the bad mixing of the bad music to upload the last two music projects to bandcamp.com. I had to take mp3’s from alonetone and uncompress those, which is about as useful as… well… nothing.
Anyway, the two playlists from bandcamp.com are on my Music page with all the other home demo collections. I’ll stick ’em here too just for fun.
Do not under any circumstances pay for any of the music I’ve posted to bandcamp.com. If you need a download, it’s all on alonetone. Download it from there for nothing. Although, why on Earth anyone would want to download any of this garbage is beyond me.
I had high hopes for this goofy 12-bar. I don’t know why. It doesn’t live up to my expectations. The vocals are fuzzy again. I’m mad. It does mark the return of the wah wah pedal. I had half a mind to not use it at all after over using it in February, March, and April. Like most addicts, I just couldn’t stay away.
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Here’s the iPad mix. The drums don’t sound as good on this one, but they might be better. I can’t decide today. I might be able to decide some other day though.
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What do you think? Which version is better?
Yesterday I posted a song that was recorded entirely on my iPhone and had ugly distorted vocals that I was embarrassed to share with the interwebs. I said that there was one other song from this month that was also recorded entirely on the iPhone. This is that other song.
Vindication, or what?
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Short and sweet with atheist leaning lyrics. 1000 years ago I would have burned at the stake for this tune. I love living in the future!
The drums on the iPhone mix followed the guitar and bass much more closely, especially in the verses. I used the GarageBand Drummer again and while it lost a bit in the verses I think the groove is groovy enough to justify it. I wasn’t gonna, but I did.
This is a little better than the last one. No unwanted distortion.
I didn’t use the GarageBand drummer on this one. I kept the iPad drum part but changed the sound. Same with the vocals. The guitars are all the same between the two mixes except for the signal processing. I added a slap back delay onto the lead and toned down the reverb and delay on the two rhythm parts.
The real question though is when did everything this month turn into either 3/4 or 6/8 time? Is this what it’s like to play in a swing band?
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Here’s the iPad mix for comparison. Again, not too different.
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As far as the iOS mixes are concerned, I can call the June Music project successfully complete (under RPM Challenge rules). I have written and recorded 10 songs this month. There are two additional songs that don’t have vocals/lyrics/melodies yet. I don’t believe I will have time this weekend to finish them. I think I’ll do them next week in the first three days in July before 50/90 starts on the 4th. Then I’ll have 12 “June” songs and one left over from May, with two different mixes of each song. That will make a nice bandcamp.com playlist.
As of right now I am in for 50/90. I have not been writing at a fast enough pace to feel confident, but at least I’ve been building up to it. We’ll see how it goes.
