Sunday, August 19, 2007
Basement Tapes, Butterflies, Your Opinion, Please
Couldn't resist posting another shot or two of the recording session. Love this one because Deni let me touch it. Helen is looking very absorbed giving me good tracks. Here is a rare one of me actually working on this CD.
When Cathy and I were teaching elementary school she made it a yearly ritual to hatch a big jar full of monarch butterflies. So she couldn't resist the urge a week or two ago when she discovered some caterpillars on her parsley. She managed to hatch two chrysalis into Baird's Swallowtail Butterflies.
As long as I've known Cathy, butterflies have perched on her finger. In the wild! It's like being married to the female version of Uncle Remus. Zippy Friggin' Doo Da! So she paraded into my studio with one of these creatures sitting on her finger like a trained parakeet. I was terrified that it would take off and we'd wind up killing it while trying to free it. Of course that didn't happen. I'm married to an enchanted princess. She showed off in this way for our dinner party last night and we let it go this morning. It went skyward immediately upon leaving Cathy's finger and took off to find some nectar and a mate.Your Opinion, Please
Been working on solo versions of my songs from the new CD. Not easy. When I start selling this thing at gigs, I may use tracks from the CD in the background and just sing and play over them. What would be your reaction to that? Be honest. I take criticism well. The CD is busier than I can do live with one guitar and I want people to get an idea what they're buying. They don't get that with just me and one guitar.Finally, I'll let you have a listen to a newer pro version of Let Me Go if you'll endure just a bit more explanation and a link to MySpace. Our routine was for Helen and me to work on songs in her basement studio for a day before we took it to NRS for the real production. This way we let Scott hear what we were doing so he could set up a drum loop instead of a click track. It also let him see what audio holes he could fill with his bass and other instruments, like Deni Bonet, for instance. We love the production version of this song with Deni and Chris Carey on drums and some bass and guitar by Scott Petito. But Terry Champlin, Helen's composer husband and classical guitar standout, pointed out that this basement tape was exceptional and that we should find a way to use it. So here's a basement tape version of Let Me Go. Click this link and click the first song when you get to the horror that is MySpace. Actually, it may play automatically. Beats me. I really have to kick somebody's ass over there for putting up some hip hop dude named Bud on my page with his friggin songs. I hate MySpace, I truly do. But...
Labels: basement tapes, Bud Buckley, Cathy the enchanted princess, Deni let me touch it, Helen Avakian, Let Me Go, Scott Petito, Terry Champlin
posted by Bud @ 12:41 PM
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Ok, went to your Myspace, it's not so bad...myspace I mean. How about changing Jacob to Dean's Hurricane?
Song of the South is one of my all-time favorites! Zippity Doo Dah, indeed! I heart you Bud Buckley!
- the rascal
- the rascal
That song is sounding freakin' awesome! Can't wait till it's on the market.
Try the backing tape. If the reaction is bad, try something else the next time.
Try the backing tape. If the reaction is bad, try something else the next time.
Bud: We are taking a lunch break and this computer won't allow me to hear. But I love the pictures of You and Deni and Helen. Cathy is a great photographer because she has a way of making people relax as she clicks away! I'll be back. Can't wait to hear this!
nice redesign, bud! I know what you mean about the guitars. sometimes I wish I had another guitar playing in the background, but I'd really rather not get a 2nd guitar player either. when you play the CD in the background, is it possible to play just the track with the 2nd guitar on it?
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