Sunday, November 26, 2006
And That Concluuuuudes Another Holiday
Well, that holiday is over with. I apologize if my indifference toward these things is offensive to anybody. I'm glad if you had a nice time. I'm sorry if you didn't. I never felt the need to go on and on about it in either case. I look at the holiday thing as just another commercial opportunity and possibly a day off and possibly an excuse to meet with people you love. I know it doesn't always turn out that way. I don't care to write much about it. I wrote a couple of songs about it and dumped them.I've always had an aversion to things repeated and cliche's. It's very hard to recognize your own cliche'. I depend on others to tell me when I do it in lyrics. I know, I know, one person's bright idea is another person's cliche' but it never hurts to have a trusted crap detector at your side.
Consequently my lyrics and even musical phrases tend to change a lot. Both out of boredom and an eventual realization that it may be cliche'.
So in light of that, I'm posting first-take work tapes of some songs. This is how they were at the time I recorded them, rushing to get done late at night before I collapsed into unconsciousness. They will most certainly evolve. I wish I could separate them into separate posts but the geekiness of all this software and upload/download nonsense has just worn me out completely. This is all I have the energy for now.
I'd like to suggest that today you just listen to the cut called The Silence There. And perhaps comment on that. It's the one I posted about a short while ago that came to me out of the blue, both words and music together. This method running counter to my old way of lyrics first then music much later. It seems to be about my recent interest in some ideas regarding quantum mechanics. I was energized by the film "What the Bleep Do We Know?" A nuclear engineer friend of mine swears the ideas in there are mostly crap. I certainly don't know what to believe. But I don't actually believe in anything so what's the difference? There's surely a song coming about the belief/non belief thing but I don't believe I'll set a deadline for it.
So on to The Silence There if you'd like to listen. I'm sure it'll sound much better with drums and base and an untired voice. I used two guitars and a tiny bit of reverb on one of the vocals. Then I went to bed. Just click the first song today, please. I'll tell you abut the others later.
posted by Bud @ 8:49 PM
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