A couple months ago, Valerie Webb (from the band Venomentality) contacted us (The Velmas) with an idea. She’s putting together a portfolio for college (she’s only 16!) next year, and in general is trying new things and experimenting with her music. She had this song called “All While Laughing” that she had recorded a quick acoustic demo for, and she wanted us to arrange it as we saw fit. Then we’d record it in the…
On vacation (“holiday” for you crazy Brits and Canadians out there) 2 weeks ago out in Chautauqua, I was able to write 4 new songs. Just the music, no lyrics just yet, though I’ve at least got vocal melodies figured out for most of them. That’s easily one of my favorite things to do in the world… Just to sit on a bench in Bestor Plaza there with my acoustic and see what comes to…
For those keeping track (i.e. me), I’ve now rehearsed with four drummers for my new CD. The newest addition is the multi-talented Melanie Krahmer from Sirsy. She’s helping me out with drums on the song “Florida”. You might recall that as one of the tracks on my second acoustic demo CD “Wrote Myself“. Now I’m finally going to give that song its proper dues. (If you haven’t heard the acoustic version before, it’s up on…
I played a duet last night with my favorite musician: me! 🙂 I’ve been listening to a lot of Sublime lately, and so decided to learn this song. Then I thought this would be a good tune to try this “self-accompanying” video idea out on (that I’ve been meaning to do for some time now). As evidenced by the mic stands and pop filters in the video, I had big plans to record each…
