rockin’, rollin’, and learnin’
My parents gave me the TASCAM 8-track recorder for Christmas - the one on which I recorded Rearrange. Remember? My hit debut? Lately (when I get around to recording anything), I’ve been going straight into the computer, using a pirated Cool Edit Pro. I haven’t really been happy with any of those. Something about turning the knobs and having a big mixer in front of you feels more organic. At least for me, more organic leads to more creative.
So yeah. I’ve re-learned how to use a real analog recorder and have recorded the first two songs in the “sessions” for my long-awaited follow-up - as yet untitled. I need a working title.
I made some lists for the process.
Songs already written I want to record (9): Gun, Ghost Town, Letting Go, Later, Meg White, She’s Learned How to Disappear, Never Say Sorry, I Know Your Name, and Eden.
Songs that are partially written that need to be finished and recorded(3): This Town, Silver Girl, Untitled anti-protest/protest song.
Tonight I recorded Meg White and Never Say Sorry. I’ve talked about Meg before here, but NSS is a kind of Everybody Hurts meets Elvis Costello with a healthy dose of Jon B.’s overwraught guitar. I’ll post them when I get a stereo RCA-to-stereo mini plug converter.
I’m kinda excited about this. The rest of the songs are going to take a little more arranging and instrumentation than Meg and NSS, and I don’t think Letting Go (too synth-pop) or I Know Your Name (can’t find the feel) will make the final cut, but this is the most creating I’ve done in years. Probably since Short Story. I have a lot of questions and hopes about this, and I hope it turns out satisfactory.
Here I’ll log my ups & downs.
