I got some playing in tonight. I didn’t play well, but it wasn’t like gross or anything. I swapped out the clone of the racist overdrive pedal with the awful comic sans font for the Keeley Blues Driver clone that I can’t seem to connect with. Paired with the Klon KTR it sounded really good. Of course anything paired with the Klon sounds really good.
When I wrote about the lack of progress on December Music earlier today I had two little bass riffs recorded and that was it. I promised myself I’d have more before I slept tonight.
Promise kept. I’ve got four songs worth of bass and drum parts down and ready for guitar. I feel a tiny bit better.
The plan for guitars this month was going to be Les Paul into Ryra into both 15 watt amps. I think instead I’m just going to swap out the higher gain pedal on my band board for different alternatives and see if anything catches my ear. I’m kinda not happy with how things sound right now and feel like mixing things up.
Speaking of mixing things up, when COVID is over and shopping is safe again, what about trying to trade my Strat and my Bassbreaker 18/30 for a Les Paul Junior and a 68 Deluxe Reverb? I’d have to chip in some cash too, but it could happen (probably not though).
We are into the second week of December and I have done almost nothing for the December Music. I did some work on the re-recordings in the last week, but nothing new. I need to buckle down and get my shit together and get some stuff done.
I just don’t know what to do yet. Nothing is coming to me. This month is going to sound more lame and forced than usual, which is saying something as it all sounds lame and forced.
Tonight, before I sleep, I will at least come up with a riff. I promise.
Is this one any good? Probably not. Who can say? Not me.
Okay, I just finished another song. As I was listening back to the final mix I brought up the original alonetone post from 2015 to see what I wrote about it back then. I had completely forgotten about this, but back then I wrote that as I was wrapping it up I realized it was brutally ripped off of a Throwing Muses song. Argh! Now I’ve ripped them off twice and didn’t even realize it either time!
Here’s my song, the thief that I am:
And here’s the song I ripped off:
What an asshole!
Here’s a song, just for you. Did I screw up the mix? There’s a keyboard in there and it just throws off my entire world view.
I really, honestly suck at singing. The more I listen to this the worse it sounds. I like the song a lot, but I just suck at singing.
I finished the lead guitars on the third set of re-recordings tonight. I used my Les Paul. My number one proved why it’s my number one. Every dumb idea that popped into my tiny little brain came out through the guitar. It felt really good. That doesn’t happen often but it’s nice when it does.
If I had a dollar for every audio track that went into this song I’d have something like 19 bucks. My brain hurts from mixing this.
Please enjoy my suffering.
Hello and welcome to December 1, 2020. It is really hard to believe we are here, but we are. We are just a couple of weeks away from the first day of Winter. When the lock downs started back in March it was at the very end of Winter. All of Spring, locked down. All of Summer, locked down. Pretty soon all of Autumn, locked down. If you stop and think of it, it is pretty overwhelming. For that reason, I suggest you don’t stop and think about it. Just put your head down and keep moving forward.
I’ve done 10 album in a month projects over the last 10 months. Today marks the start of project #11. I think I want to restrict myself to just my Les Paul, a Klon Klone overdrive pedal, and my two 15 watt tube amps. I need to put new strings on the Les Paul, but I can do that tonight. I still have five songs left on the re-recording project too so those might be Les Paul. We’ll see.
November was noteworthy for this here little bloggie. It had the most page views in any month since I created the account. It also had the most unique visitors of any month since I created the account. How about that? The numbers are still teeny tiny in terms of most real bloggers’ goals but for me it was kinda cool. Thanks for dropping by, everyone. Ya’ll come back now, ya hear?
Today is my weigh in day. I was down a little. That’s nice. I hit a minor milestone. That’s nice too. I was paranoid that I was going to be up, and out of fear I did my entire 30 minute exercise first thing this morning. I doubt it had any effect on the scale, but it sort of made me feel almost better at the time. I find myself doing this on most Tuesdays now. Whatever works, right?
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