Don't Forget!

We are all still very hard at work on the third leg. The second leg is completed and awaiting approval from the production department for release. Also, it lacks funding. But the third leg is in process, nonetheless. A very tiring process... Bargaining is a very hard concept to conceptualize.

Finally, though, I have found a way. The record will be stylized with an exposing glamour (visually that is) while the prominent instrument will be… you guessed it… a tape recorder. I am finding new ways to incorporate lesser known aspects of my life and the lives around me into my recordings. I am carrying a tape recorder everywhere and taping audio journals. So far I have gathered some great stuff. I will insert this material as if it were a bit of instrumentation into the third leg. I will sugar it with nasty sounding tape noise as if tape noise were an ancient instrument sound.

And my photographer friend and I are once again partnering up. We are scouting some fancy and flattering locations (some familiar, some far away). It will be this marriage of the familiar and the alien, the poor and the rich, the static and the clarity, that will bring the record concepts to your ears and eyes instead of your reading brain.
I will fill you in more as I go along. For now, thank you so much for your support and for your diligent listening.

NOTE: I’m sorry if I offended some of you with my referring to a certain someone as “my photographer friend.” This friend has a name; his name is Caleb. And he is one of my closest friends in the world. But he is also and amazing photographer. Recently we have added more depth to our friendship by introducing our art to each other... Now you know.

I am making a remake record. It will be full of old songs that people love to hear live, but were first recorded so long ago. These old versions are hard to hear (some of them have static). Oh what a tragedy! But seriously though, it prevents people from hearing a song they might otherwise love. I know they love them because I see them love them all the time.

I’ve been opposed to doing this kind of work for so long. But, six songs in, I find the cuts to be as refreshing as when they were first recorded. Also, the project will be very beneficial for booking. And when people say, “I need a copy of your record,” And I say “which one?”, I don’t have to worry about them missing out on the greatest cuts from Records 1-7 because of sound quality. Seriously, some of the earliest material was recorded on tape! Oh, I know... tape!

It went like this: boom boxes in front of each other, to karaoke players and other dual tape decks, to PA systems blaring to get over that noise ratio the old fashioned way, to a four track tape recorder, to a digital recorder with computer software. Thankfully I can resurrect some of those beautiful, terrible songs.