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Susan
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 Posted October 10th, 2007 10:52 AM IP    
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I wrote this song this morning and recorded it just now. It's a folkish little thing. I'd call this a demo, as I was recording largely just to remember the idea.
"Split a Hair."
http://www.sendspace.com/file/u25bf5
(Edited by luther)
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Wow - you just come up with ideas like this in the morning?! How cool for you!! I like this, Luther...i like the circuitous lyric, and the harmonies...
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The Grand Fromage
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Posted October 10th, 2007 11:12 AM IP
Thanks everyone, there has been a posible solution brokered, but it will mean driving in central London, and spending a sizable money as it affetcs three pieces - and all being interconnected in a kind of cycle there's no point in leaving any off. I had to impose a deadline or else I'd never get on with the rest of my life/studies etc and the project would gradually become the 'philosopher's broom' as my perfectionism got out of control needlessly (the deadline has been put back three times and the project is suffering for it).
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Susan
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Posted October 10th, 2007 11:27 AM IP
And because i am both utterly vain and completely without pride, i offer you the very first thing i ever recorded on an old Tascam 4-track porta-studio. It is flawed - bad notes, and i'm not much of a guitar player - but there are redeeming qualities, too...i just have a soft place in my heart for Surfer Girl.
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zelilgirlI1ncenu
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Posted October 10th, 2007 11:30 AM IP
I dunno I dont seem to be able to download this Susan.
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zelilgirlI1ncenu
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Posted October 10th, 2007 05:01 PM IP
I gotcha now :-).
Rock on sister, dont forget your guitar when you come to visit.
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Andy B
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Posted October 10th, 2007 07:58 PM IP
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Susan wrote:
And because i am both utterly vain and completely without pride, i offer you the very first thing i ever recorded on an old Tascam 4-track porta-studio. It is flawed - bad notes, and i'm not much of a guitar player - but there are redeeming qualities, too...i just have a soft place in my heart for Surfer Girl.
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Hey Susan. Nice one. For me, covering a Beach Boys song is like a university exam. You know, each one is so layered with harmony, that it takes a real go to recreate the song. My first and possibly last attempt was covering Airplane (i just love that song to pieces).
You voice is well suited to that slower mellow kind of thing i think. Good work!!! 
Here's one in return. Written in tribute to my friend who loves to dance in a real strange kind of way. An instrumental called "Feet".
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qt4mbe
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Susan
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Posted October 11th, 2007 12:21 AM IP
Stompin', rawkin' bass mud! Great stuff, Andy!
And i'm well aware that my SG isn't perfect...but i also don't care.
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Susan
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Posted October 11th, 2007 12:33 AM IP
Andy, covering a BB song is something i cannot do. I can re-create it...but i don't think what i do is simply covering. And naturally, this is the only BB song i've bothered to recored, so i acknowledge the difficulty!
;-)
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luther
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Posted October 11th, 2007 01:44 AM IP
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Susan wrote:
Wow - you just come up with ideas like this in the morning?! How cool for you!! I like this, Luther...i like the circuitous lyric, and the harmonies...
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Yeah, I tend to write and record really quickly. And then lose interest before ever doing finished recordings. And then revisiting old songs, but losing interest again. And so on...
Thanks for the nice words.
don't try so hard.
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Susan
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Posted October 11th, 2007 10:17 AM IP
If that's indicative of your sketches, i'm mighty impressed. I need to find time [for MANY things, right now...] to listen to more of the tracks you've posted here.
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alan
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Posted October 11th, 2007 02:00 PM IP
Actually everything I've listened to on here is very very good, from Luther, Mat and Jason - need to get to the others soon (and yours Susan!).
Its no fun being a drummer in this age of home recording.... 
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The Grand Fromage
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Posted October 11th, 2007 07:55 PM IP
Andy, I can see your friend 'Dad Dancing' -the music suits my imaginings of this perfecty, and Susan, I like your Surfer Girl (not checked anything else out yet, sorry  ).
Here's a first part of a longer piece called "arboretum" and features the church bells at Avebury (from 'Children of the Stones' fame), and 'electrical static' too. It still has to have the rustling leaves, oboe and stuff added (and be Eq'ed !!!).
'Hymn"-an excerpt from 'arboretum'
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luther
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Posted October 11th, 2007 10:13 PM IP
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Susan wrote:
If that's indicative of your sketches, i'm mighty impressed. I need to find time [for MANY things, right now...] to listen to more of the tracks you've posted here.
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Thanks again. There's a zip file with a dozen or so on here somewhere, although the link might be dead. Let me know if that's the case.
I agree with Alan that everyone posting here has cool things to say musically. And I'll say this: for all the complaining many people these days do about digital recording, it sure makes it easier to make a good-sounding recording on a budget. (Otherwise I'd still be using my old 4-track cassette Tascam, like I did in high school. Ugh.)
don't try so hard.
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The Grand Fromage
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Posted October 11th, 2007 10:18 PM IP
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... (Otherwise I'd still be using my old 4-track cassette Tascam, like I did in high school. Ugh.)
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Aside from the issue of drop outs and harmonic distortion (from flat spotted record/play heads) I much prefered the creativity that my Tascam afforded - full bounce and panning control - infinitely variable pitch control -makes my digital multitrack feel cold and inaccessable by comparison. I suppose once in my mac, then the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but I've not been happy since the days of analogue really.
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luther
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Posted October 11th, 2007 10:23 PM IP
Cold, cold, cold. Everybody talks about cold digital. But I don't have any problem. Maybe my music comes off as cold, but to me it doesn't (although that could well be because I hear it in my head, not in my ears. My perception is undoubtedly skewed from reality.). It comes off as clearer than a little cassette could sound. If clear is cold, fine. Really. I like digital. Love it, even. I'd love analogue, too, if I had good equipment and know-how. I'd love anything I had that let me make recordings whenever I wanted to.
And that is why I love digital.
(Last line added because it sounded like a grade-school essay. I thought it was a nice touch.)
don't try so hard.
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The Grand Fromage
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Posted October 11th, 2007 10:37 PM IP
No, I mean by cold, that it is unforgiving - the recording levels have to be religiously observed, any variance of signal is shown up and the final results can sound very thin if one makes the slightest of errors with the EQing. And for me, I feel under scrutiny - there's nothing to work with - just a chunk of solid state staring at me - no sense of having to build compositions on the fly -it can all be pulled together another day. Digital information is what it is and always remains -it was much more fun to be able to tweak and fiddle with stuff, and ping pong and pitch shift, add more, blip the levels way above the norm. I think it's an attitude, that I obviously don't have, as music for me shouldn't have advanced beyond the CD - iTunes and the iPod are shite (I have both BTW) - perhaps the worst thing to happen to music. Yeah, I'm in the minority, but progress doesn't always mean better.
Would we have had the Beatles had they recorded in the purely digital realm?
Would we have had Radiohead if not for the digital age?
Discuss
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luther
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Posted October 11th, 2007 11:41 PM IP
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Yeah, I'm in the minority, but progress doesn't always mean better.
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I don't know, it seems to me that many, many people agree with you. They still buy iPods, etc., but they say the same thing you're saying. So it's a pretty big minority, if it is one.
don't try so hard.
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luther
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Posted October 11th, 2007 11:44 PM IP
And now, a new recording (kind of): Valentine's Day.
Look! This is a link to "Valentine's Day"!
This one was recorded by my old band about two years ago now, but all I kept for this were the drums and bass. The guitars, piano and organ were re-recorded about six months ago. My friend Bob just sent me some pedal steel parts I was hoping he'd do, and so in the past hour or two I inserted those and re-did all the vocals. It isn't mixed well yet.
Hope you enjoy. I think this one has the distinction of being PeteS's least favorite of my songs...but I like it. Damnit.
don't try so hard.
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Susan
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Posted October 12th, 2007 02:49 AM IP
It's fun, Luther. Kind of has a Nesmith Down to Rio feel to it. Can't understand the words...but i have only listened once so far...
Mat, i can't get yours right now - "free service is at capacity" - and i have to go to bed...but i'm looking forward to hearing your piece.
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luther
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Posted October 12th, 2007 02:57 AM IP
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Susan wrote:
It's fun, Luther. Kind of has a Nesmith Down to Rio feel to it. Can't understand the words...but i have only listened once so far...
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She picked me up some flowers,
put them in a vase,
and put them on the table.
And I asked, "What is this?"
And I asked, "Who are these for?"
And she laughed at me, but not for very long:
she slammed the door.
I asked her if she'd let me in,
she laughed and asked me
what would be the point in that?
And I asked what she meant.
And I asked how come she was cryin'.
Again she laughed at me; I guessed that I guessed wrong,
but I was tryin'.
Helpless, hopeless I sat down,
I changed the channel,
hoping everything could start again.
Thought I knew better. Thought I'd done worse.
I guess I was wrong.
Valentine's Day, what a silly thing.
I can't believe I didn't know.
I don't suppose she'll stay now.
Valentine's Day.
We used to joke about these things.
I'm broken now, to look at my
undoing.
And I can hear her on her telephone
making plans for where she'll sleep.
It seems I've messed another good thing up,
there's been no other way for me.
Helpless, hopeless, I got down,
I went downtown to find someone,
to look around.
I should know better. But I'll do worse.
don't try so hard.
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luther
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Posted October 12th, 2007 11:57 PM IP
I just spent the past 20 mintues or so playing:
Bb/C ' ' ' / ' ' ' ' / D-7 ' ' ' / Bb/G ' D-7 ' / Bb/G ' D-7 ' /
on the piano at a medium tempo.
Anybody else ever do that? I felt like BW working on Ding Dang, for pete's sake. And not in a good way. Eventually I had to stand up and shake my head to snap out of it.
don't try so hard.
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John (not lennon)
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Posted October 13th, 2007 12:04 AM IP
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luther wrote:
I just spent the past 20 mintues or so playing:
Bb/C ' ' ' / ' ' ' ' / D-7 ' ' ' / Bb/G ' D-7 ' / Bb/G ' D-7 ' /
on the piano at a medium tempo.
Anybody else ever do that? I felt like BW working on Ding Dang, for pete's sake. And not in a good way. Eventually I had to stand up and shake my head to snap out of it.
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not those specific chords but yeah, been 'caught up' on many occassion
...j (",)
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luther
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Posted October 13th, 2007 12:30 AM IP
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John (not lennon) wrote:
not those specific chords but yeah, been 'caught up' on many occassion
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Funny guy. I think you know I didn't mean on those chords! (Otherwise, that would be REALLY weird.)
don't try so hard.
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John (not lennon)
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Posted October 13th, 2007 12:49 PM IP
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Funny guy. I think you know I didn't mean on those chords! (Otherwise, that would be REALLY weird.)
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LOL! Sure would!
...j (",)
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zelilgirlI1ncenu
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Posted October 13th, 2007 02:36 PM IP
Thyanks for posting youlinks John. I'l check them oit latre or are these the same as the CD you gave me?
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John (not lennon)
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Posted October 13th, 2007 03:25 PM IP
there's a Demo on the World Of Illusion Myspace that you haven't heard
and The Plastic Freebie tracks are very different from the World Of Illusion Stuff
...j (",)
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luther
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Posted October 14th, 2007 03:38 AM IP
A bit of a warning: today I began revisiting an old song of mine called "Like a Haircut," which I think of as a cross between Beefheart and Paul Simon. It's loaded with whole-tone scale riffs and general disharmony at times. And I'm trying to work out how to do a certain percussion effect...with my mouth.
So, you've all got that to look forward to. I thought I ought to let you know.
don't try so hard.
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The Grand Fromage
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Posted October 14th, 2007 12:09 PM IP
Wow, that is quite an internet trail between blogs, group histories, and various projects. quite a few 'awe' moments on your comments about your first albums, and of course a chance to listen to one of my absolute favourite songs of this year "Man of Steel'. Thanks for posting these, and I'm amazed by the professionalism too
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