Eric's House Of Ego

A guy I worked with put down two solos in Only Coffee House just a bit ago. The intro is great, the outro not as good, but I think I like it. He's dubious, but I took him way out of his box on this. He's used to playing classic rock in cover bands and hasn't been in a situation where he is playing something new and made up totally by him.

I think I'm going to use him on the final CD, he did some cool stuff.

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I have a rough version of WYSIWYG with all the commentary I do live (and a bunch of new stuff too)

We'll see how mix down goes tomorrow.

I'm down here working on tracks. I just laid down a guitar track for Only Coffee House In Town.

And ...

I laid down drum tracks. I may have mentioned that my friend John had brought his electronic set down to work. It's sitting right next to all my gear.

I suck as a drummer, I sucked as a drummer even when I called myself a drummer.

But the track I just laid down dosn't sound too bad.

More later

I stalled on getting the next CD done a month or so ago. It's been a rough year.

I was obsessing too much about the sound and some idea of what I wanted the CD to be. More and more I realize that I need to relax and figger what I want this CD to really be.

I have very eclectic taste in music. I'm starting to think that this CD has to reflect that. The idea of the CD being totally acoustic is getting put aside. I've given this a lot of thought the last few weeks and seeing the synth player this evening made me realize I need to get this moving. I asked the synth player this evening about playing on the CD, I'm going to ask some other folks as well.

I'm going in to re-demo the songs next weekend. We'll see what happens.

Demoes are done ... I think that there are a couple of tracks that are real good and some that are pretty good, but nothing that is terrible. I'm burning to my harddrive now so I should have some new things up on the audiostreet site this week. I need to go look at the poll again.

And that means I will be mailing out CDs to the folks who are playing on the CD as well ...

things march along.

Another few songs done.

Pine City Motel Blues, in a version I think I can stand for folks to hear
Need - in two different keys even
Wilderness of Smiles - I didnt like the middle section, but it will get worked out.

I have been sitting here at a work computer for an hour ... I need to either go home ... or go upstairs and record.

I can't get myself to do either.

I hate days like this.

It's been a lovely weekend.

Both nights of guppiecat's party were very nice. I don't get many chances to be social around here. So it was much fun. Got to play a little too (as I have already reported)

Recording went well. I don't know what I have that is usable yet, but we'll see this week.

Tonight at Boheme was fun. An old friend was there to play for the first time in ages. In the meantime she had gotten married and had a little boy. It was nice to catch up and see pictures of her new little one.

I played pretty well.

How Can I Miss You?
Jordan Cochrane GGS
Standards
Woman I Want (it may have been coincidence, but I think that a woman in the audience gave me a standing ovation for the song ... probably coincidence)

I didnt play anything too dreadfully fast. A little fast but not too fast. A good weekend.

I headed off to record just before noon. I got the remainder of the stuff set up and waited for Isaac to show up. In the meantime I ran into my friend Snow (who has posted occasionally here, he needs to get an LJ account) and J, who cleans on the weekend. Geeze, this place is CLOSED on the weekend and everyone is there.

I got thing setup and Isaac and I fiddled for awhile trying to work out why the mikes wouldn't work.

I hadn't turned on the phantom power. Yeah I'm a professional.

We headed off to the local big barn home improvement place while J finished off so I could get a small screwdriver set for my gear bag (so I can change batteries easily on the DI) and nuts and bolts and washers to put the rack gear into the rack I am getting tomorrow. FUNFUNFUN

We fiddled with mike placement. Well, Isaac fiddled with mike placement, I just made things difficult because I kept moving.

He called the song we were going to work on. He had liked Need but agreed with me that the way I was playing it was just too frantic. I had a change in my head but I hadn't worked it out yet. I played a bit and we both came up at the same time that it really needed to be fingerpicked. I'm REALLY pleased with the new version. It is very sparse, has a great deal of space in it and with the settings Isaac came up with for the midiverb it has a REALLY cool sound.

Snow came back and we chattered with him a bit. He got to hear the track and agreed that it sounded cool.

We recorded In Crosby Park. I am still uncertain on the new middle section, but I am going to work with it today.

Then I headed off to meet with some old friends

TBC

5 songs in very basic form, none of them usuable in any way whatsoever. But being able to listen to them today has really helped.

Pine City Motel Blues is WAY too fast ... as is true with a lot of the songs.

They'll get there