Yesterday I ran double duty in a manner of speaking. First, I got bored here at the hostel so I started another sample splicing project that mixed elements of dub-reggae and trip-hop. As you can assume, there's a lot of spring reverb on the guitar, filter swept quarter note delay on the snare, and an over abundance of low end on the bass. When I got home, though, I began work on a stoner metal piece for which I got the idea while reading up on will-o'-wisps, which are creeping little bioluminescent swamp farts that backwoods hillbillies think are demons or some shit. This one was a royal pain in the arse as it switches from 3/4 time to 8/8 half way through the song and then it abruptly shifts to 9/4 for the coda. We're talking about it going from a slow groove to Bad Brains fast to just a Diazepam stumble/crawl from one measure to the next. For some reason, the guitar was completed in one take, but the bass required three. That and I also broke the low E on the bass, which was fun. Meant I had to go digging for the old bass strings to see if I still had an old low E string I could throw on until I got to the guitar shop. (I did.) The first bass take was a wash since the low E went out of tune (naturally) and the second one because I flubbed it, but the third one was good and required only a quick punch in.
Click on the icon with all the little record covers above at any time to see what records I've recently acquired, forgotten I had, or can't seem to get rid of. Every time I update the list, the picture automatically updates. While this is all about acquisitions, you can click here to read all about what I've been listening to lately.
'You go up to the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.' - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, p. 313.
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