Ok. I know I put this one out there already, but this is the mo’ better remixed remastered “official” final version. I also needed to re-record a couple parts that sounded weird to me. When you only have about a week to write, record, mix, etc, there is always going to be something that was rushed along which can sometimes be a good thing, but more likely not.
I wrote this thinking that the girl in the song might actually possess psychic abilities to read minds, but now after hearing it about a couple hundred times, I think the guy might be just a little paranoid. So here ya go. You can listen right here and even buy it here.
She Already Knows
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One of the problems I’ve found since I haven’t been playing in a band, is that I never practice or play a song through to completion anymore. Well all that is coming to an end. I bring to you, a little side project I’m starting, where I’ll pick a song a week and do an acoustic take of it, and post it on or around Sunday evening. I know, not too exciting but it’s something to do, and since I’m always playing someone’s else s songs when I first pick up the acoustic, I might as well try recording it. What I’ll do, and I’m sure it will change, is pick a song and do a few takes of that song throughout the week, then pick the best of those takes and post it. All live with no overdubs and played straight through with no lyrics or chord sheets in front of me. I was thinking about posting the best of the takes here so you can vote for the best one, but that wouldn’t be too much fun. I’ll subjugate my wife to that task. I’m also trying to come up with a descent live sound. Any feedback would be awesome. Just send me an email with sound tips and even song suggestions. I have about the first 5 songs lined up. First song will be one of my favorite Jonathan Coulton song’s called Better. I’m also wiping out the Snozberries category (since I’ve never heard of a Snozberry) and I’ll put these under the new category called One Shot Acoustic Takes or just OSAT. This coming Sunday will have the first one.
***Changing name to “Acoustic Covers” since that explains things better. Sorry I’m late getting this started. I’m finally getting over being sick.
I entered another song into Song Fight! A lot of you have been asking me what this is all about. It’s a friendly song writing competition that’s been around for a few years. You write a song based on the song title that’s given and you have about a week to get it completed. The title this time is “She Already Knows”. Go check it out by clicking on the Song Fight logo, listen to the songs, and vote for your favorite(s).
***There will be a remixed/remastered version coming soon!
So I entered this contest…and lost…by ONE! No big deal. It was a lot of fun and congratulations to the winner Berkeley Social Scene. Song Fight has been around for a long time and this was my first entry in it. The object is to write a song with the title that’s given to you. This one was called Monkeys On My Back. It was the first time I think I ever put myself in any kind of pressure to write a song by a deadline and surprised myself that I could do it. The song was written and recorded the night before it was due and I know, it shows. You can call this a demo. A new recording of the song is in the works and will be finished if I ever get my studio painted and setup. I had a song written for the next entry but got into painting the room and didn’t get a chance to record it. Click on the links above to get to the song. I’ll put a direct link here later.
Monkeys On My Back (demo)
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Holy frijoles! It’s been a long time. Did September even happen this year? No really, did it? I did have some issues with a partially flooded basement where I had my makeshift studio setup. Luckily we were able to save the day and nothing got ruined. I needed to move out of the basement and setup the equipment in cramped quarters so right now it’s hard to get anything done until I rearrange things the way I like them. Comfort is extremely important to me. So what’s the lesson we learned here? If a sump pump has a life expectancy of 2 years, then it has a life expectancy of 2 years! Heed the warning.
I also had in issue with some corrupt tracks on this song. Every time this happened, I had to re-record the same track over again. It happened at least 3 times. My fix to the problem was to save the file to a different file name (Pro Tools). I don’t know why but that seemed to have worked.
Enough of the excuses for now. I wasn’t totally away. I managed to put up a picture of my guitar on the website header and I finally joined the Twitter parade and put that on the site as well. Also, I’m in the process of setting up the songs to appear on bandcamp.com. More to follow on that. Nothing will stop me now!
Finally to the song. Play Pretend is another song written a LONG time ago. I have a lot of these backlog songs. From what I remember, it’s about an outdoor party I attended with some friends and almost the entire song is about overheard conversations and observations. So here is song #6. At the rate I’m going I’ll be finishing off these 100 songs from beyond the grave. Enjoy!
Play Pretend
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