This past weekend was a whirlwind of productivity! My buddy Phil Taylor (from Future Leaders of the World/Machina) was going to be around upstate NY for a few weeks. I asked if he’d be up for lending his vocals to a song for my upcoming CD. I thought he’d sound great on “Status Quo”, so I sent him the tune and he dug it. We spent the weekend recording and working on a couple new…
Got bass done on Without You last night, after much frustration with Pro Tools. To start out, I went to grab the bass track from my demo session, as I’ve been doing, to import it into the new session as a guide to play along with so I would know how I wanted the part to go. I’d changed the tempo from the demos to the final versions in most of the other songs, but…
Got bass done on “Status Quo” last night. That’s 8 bass tracks done now. With any luck I’ll get the other two done this week. I’d always “heard” and expected to have a guitar solo in this song, so I left a “space” in the song for one all along while demoing it. I spent a good 30 minutes last night trying to come up with a solo. This was always going to be 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…
