Stormcellar at the Town Hall Hotel with Isaiah B Brunt, Friday 5th Dec late
This Friday night, at the Townie with Isaiah B Brunt.
From 10-2am.
This Friday night, at the Townie with Isaiah B Brunt.
From 10-2am.
Howdy Folks.
I was setting out to do a nice tidy last blog of the tour when I noticed a dearth of vidoe fooatge from the last part of the tour.
True, for our last show in Iowa we were pressed for time and I didn't video much, but the following day as we did some touristy stuff with Jo, things went badly for my camera..phone...thing.
(sigh).
I had saved the data and restored it to another phone but it looks like there are some pics and vids missing...
Might take some digging through the data dump to get the rest of the pics out.
Howdy folks.
Recording for The Flood and the 'other' song continues today. This simple stuff is hard. Especially when it's instrumental. Nowhere to hide.
What normally gets done in a flash took me an hour yesterday at the end of which i still wasn't happy with it. 4 notes. WTF.
I mental blocked on one part of the phrase, stuck the reed constantly on another, eventually having to break out the tool kit to mess with the harp. Not a good sign. Blaming the instrument or Actual problem. Hmm. 50/50 chance methinks.
Fortunately Ben has an hour for me to have another shot. Yay.
I have to get in the zone.
Breathe in, breathe out. Repeat. Now put Harmonica in Mouth. Yeah, that's the way!
Also file down that flamin' reed.
Right.
This is the 2nd vid I have posted of this track. the first was recorded during sound check at the Garlic Festival in Bloomington and it looks like the name has stuck.
Perhaps it'll be a little like "Sweet Misery' - slghtly different each time it's played.
This track is on schedule for a 'proper' recording soon, but the shaky cam version here is decent sound but great performance.
Every now and again you get your ducks in order and you have a profoundly good day. I reckon that ought to be celebrated.
For those of you who aren't me (turns out that's quite a few), here's some of my good day.
We're in a purple patch of songwriting. Our preproduction process is highly effective. Communication is excellent. Willingness to accept criticism and to modify parts and ideas is trending up.
The sports psychology term for this is 'in the zone', or in the vernacular, 'f--k yeah'.
Jo joined us in the studio as we recorded 'The flood' but that's only a Mid Level Score.
Bonus points came for Cello inclusion, courtesy of the out-freaking-standingly tonal Geoff Gartner. Mr Wizard just shook his head and said 'man, listen to that intonation'.
PLUS double bass courtesy of BillWill, bowing, harmonies, bongos. Better yet, I get to listen to the guide track. Soz guys you know the rules, they wont let me share until mastering...
But I got some footage of our String Section in action.
How good is this eh? Geoff is one serious Jedi Level cat.
Out fricking standing.
Mixing and fixing underway. More songs to record.
A good day.
Cheers Ben. Thanks Geoff.