I worked on some November music today. I started a new song, which is just rhythm guitars and a drum loop so far, added rhythm guitar to one song and leads to two. There’s one semi-proggie song in the pipeline that I am hoping will come out okay when it’s done. Fingers crossed, right?
I mixed two songs tonight. I was only planning on doing one. I had a song from the November list that was ready to finish off so I was going to take care of it, upload it to alonetone, maybe add it to a post here, and then go to bed.
Unfortunately it is the worst dog shit of a song that has ever come out of my untalented brain. It just sucked so bad. What was I thinking? What is wrong with me?
So rather than go to bed with that awful taste in my ears, and also with that song at the top of my alonetone queue, I decided to finish off a song for the new round or re-recordings. The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project and all that.
I feel a smidge better about my place in the universe after working on this one. Consider my ears’ palette cleansed.
Bang your head, kids.
Yesterday I posted a new recording of a song from this past summer. Tonight I post a brand new song for the November National Solo Album Month project. Caution: This one has keyboards. I buried them in the mix to be safe though so I think we’re okay.
I spent about 45-50 minutes in the movie theater parking lot recording vocals for November tunes. I had four songs ready to do and I only got to two of them. That’s okay. There is still a lot of November left.
There were a lot of cars around and people out for walks (at least until it started raining). It wasn’t quite as private as I like and I was distracted. Oh well. Maybe more over the weekend.
Pics!
I left a lot of stuff unfinished when I ended this morning’s car music. Enough that I’ve sort of been planning on another go tomorrow too.
Tonight I added two songs to the ready-to-sing list. I’ve got the two re-recordings I didn’t get to today, and now I have two November songs too.
I think a Friday morning session is sort of a must, don’t you?
I was going to save up all of the re-recordings I’ve been working on and share them all at once rather than piecemeal as I finish them, but screw it here’s the first new mix. It’s a tad faster than the original from July, and it’s got a key change at the end now.
Here’s what I did on my day off:
This list is accurate but it fails to emphasize just how much Futurama was watched.
I mean… I watched a shit-load of Futurama today.
I had a little window of time in between Jen’s scheduled meetings so I snuck in some guitar tracking for the November tunes. I put rhythm on song number five and leads on songs one and two.
I am still sticking to the plan to use my little Vox MV50 Clean amp for all of November, even though it’s sitting on top of a Fender Bassbreaker 15 which at it’s worst sounds about 10000000000 times better than the little Vox dude. Still, Nutubes… The MV50’s preamp section runs on a Nutube and Nutubes totally are not a gimmick. Right? Right? I mean there are only two (maybe three, but I’m pretty sure it’s down to two) factories on Earth that still make actual vacuum tubes and if the guitar community wants to continue having that glorious tube amp sound we have to prepare ourselves for the day that we can’t get the real thing anymore… and Nutubes are as close as we can get at the moment, assuming they are not a total gimmick that is just a façade in front of a regular plain old solid state amp. So many questions… so very many questions.
Anyway, the little MV50’s are at least cute to look at, and the Nutubes give off a warm glowing blue warming glow…
Also, playing anything gives me an excuse for lame, faux artsy guitar pics. Today we made use of the iPhone’s portrait mode. Like a telephone photography boss.
I spent about an hour and a half on car music this morning. I had three new songs and three redone old songs queued up and ready to sing. I did the three new songs and one of the oldies. I think I might have been able to get to one more but my bladder had other ideas. I made it home with a little time to spare. Ahhhh.
Judging by this photograph, my car has the dirtiest windows in the known universe.
More music to come later today, methinks.
Tomorrow is Veterans Day and I have the day off. How should I spend the day?
Car music in the morning is a must. I have three November songs ready and three re-recordings ready too. There is zero chance I’ll get to them all, but I should be able to make a dent at least.
There are guitar parts to record too. Jen is working so I’ll try to work around her meetings schedule, but I’ll get some stuff down, definitely.
What else? Should I spontaneously drive to Vermont and take the kids to lunch again? No, but I wish!
I’ll think of some more stuff too, but this makes a decent start.
Rock on.
Inside the Red Head's Head 