RECAP!@#!@$!!@!!
well good gracious, ive been on the move pretty steadily for over a week now and have finally had more than a day or so at my crib, so i’m gettin back to updatin’ da blog.
had a big holiday season. THE BIG TRIP WENT LIKE THIS: mom and dads, grannys, jane and daves, oma/opas, anne’s. THEN, i went home for the dentist/eye doc, then back to richmond, then we went to amish country from wed.- fri. to hang for new years.
the biggest dissappointment was that this train coulda kept rockin to robs parents lake house from sat-mon but rob ate chinese food and got sick and thus we didnt go.
GOD DAMN. what a disaster. i know you can only do so much, but i am still pretty dark on this situation. the point was to record mad shit and really good some things done on songs but JUST LIKE ALWAYS WITH ANY PROJECT I DO it never goes down.
lets recap:
Clarence band - had struggles w/ ethan even around, much less w/ my time with them. obviously nothing happened.
Echo Boomers - as wack as this project actually was, i was satisfied w/ my beats and at least did alot of work. so this one was pretty straight in terms of output.
Afrobeat - Seeing as this was like the 3rd (or 43rd) generation of the band, we were probably right on track to do some recording, but it was just too disorganized for our time and didnt get anything down. we did do alot of stuff, but i would have liked a recorded ep or demo.
Marshall and Awesome Few - band was dope; productivity in recorded terms was not. its totally ridic neither afrobeat nor marshall didnt have shit to show for those lineups because THERES A DAMN STUDIO IN THE HOUSE WE PLAYED IN. the rehearsal space was also a semi limited, but still a functioning studio space. this band even went to ‘the studio’ and fucked it up. god.
Untitled FakeFleetFoxes Ripband - well, it did have shaky beginnings w/ certain singing work; but i feel like that could have possibly been overcome. we worked pretty hard for the summer/semester we were playing though. this is also very dark because me/rob laid down mad tracks over a month or so, and then karl/jonathan didnt record anything. ummmmmmm. abort mission.
Jams w/ Tyler and Songs w/ Rob - well me and tyler have had alot of sweet freakouts, and its cool that we’ve played duo gigs here for a bit, but its still not a dope functioning band. we played w/ rob a few times but i think we knew it wouldnt be the rage. Me and rob have done lots of music stuff and it will definitely be sweet to have some shit recorded but i dont know. i was having some faith about working on singsongs and having another ‘album’ buuuut its probably not gonna be what i imagined. I’m sure i’ll work on his shit and vice versa, but i guess I’M BACK TO MAKING ANOTHER SOLO PROJECT.
Weirdo guitarbro - some wacko at work has some holland based label he does rockjazz shit with and he asked about playing, but i dont have time for that and its possibly too gay, so there it is.
SO - not that i having been thinking about it or expected this or whatever, but it still seems to be the only way i can count on doing things. myself. HIYOOOO. this will be cool because it will be more collaborative; i’m enjoying recording other peeps (karl, rob, tyler, horns, etc) doing their thing on the songs, but i still gotta lay down all the rhythm parts, which i kinda like doing anyways, its just wack shit hasnt worked out smooth. maybe if i were playing in all these bands for 3 yrs then something would happen, but i dont wanna HAVE to count on that, and i like working on my stuff, so whatevs, i’m down.
hopefully though, this can been the start of being able to form a band and play songs live at some point and getting a more legit project together. obviously being able to do a live show is MAD important (which is why that maskedentransit jam was strictly a recorded effort), so it would be rad to start developing the ability or at least structures to be able to play live. i’m sure me and rob can work something out and do some shit, but i’m really glad i know i can rely on myself (at least to a certain degree) because i would lose my mind if i had no control over my musical destiny.
playing live w/ a laptop with some pedals and guitar would be cool.
or just singing and guitar. so much work to do!!
this year i’ll be learning my theory and really getting down with that shit; so i think it’ll really help me and propel me to more composing and just ideas and all that. man, so much frustration here!! but it’ll be cool, its just a trip.
3 years ago