In a previous post, we talked about sharing some new, unfinished and unpolished music that we’re working on. Here’s one that’s in progress. It’s called “Lose You Baby”.
We haven’t quite fleshed out all the parts yet, and if you listen closely, you can probably hear the washer and dryer all over the current vocal tracks. Can’t wait to get some Hammond going in this one.
Mike was down at the Memphis in May music festival, and he returned bearing gifts - hats and glasses!
Well, just hats, really. They all smell like incense. They could certainly smell worse. They proved inspiring enough for us to come up with a handful of new riffs during the evening. Or maybe it was the PBR that was inspiring.
Rumor has it that Mike’s bringing presents back from last week’s trip to the Memphis In May music fest. What could the ‘dudes be getting? Harmonicas? Small replicas of Sun Studios? Autographed pics of Korn?
Oh wow, too much slack around here. There have still been studio nights every Thursday, and we’ve got a bunch of cool tunes in the hopper (our goal to get songs finished by February was an impressive success: 8 songs are ready for mastering), but updating our public face has been… well, nonexistent. And sharing any of the fruits of our labor just hasn’t happened yet.
We’re busting at the seams to share some of this music with people that might dig it. We at dd69 headquarters write music that gets us off - it incorporates lots of the things we dig, and we labor over every song. Extensively. Too much, probably. I think we spend so much time obsessing over details that we sometimes lose touch with the idea of keeping thing fresh around here.
So, we’re going to try an experiment. At the risk of alienating people with what initially sounds like a craptastic song, we’re going to try following an idea from inception to final song. It might take a while, but we’ll post the first jam through various demos up until the final album version.
Just so happens that the song we have in mind is rooted in the jam mentioned in the last posting (yes, from January).
In our continuing quest to not spend, oh, I don’t know, years working on the same material, I’ve suggested a goal that we will finish the recordings we’ve got in progress by the end of February. Bad enough that we pull open a session file and see that the last time we touched it was a year ago at this time, but we’ve got new stuff that’s juicy and kind of ignored while we try to tweak out other songs.
Of course tonight Mike and I re-recorded a bass track for a song we started recording a number of years ago - the idea was to mix the song, but we realized as we pulled up the old tracks that the original bass track was all clipped. *Sigh*
The trouble with working on old sessions is that you realize that you had crappy equipment and didn’t know what you were doing several years ago. Unfortunately this seems to be a sliding scale, so what we think we know all about today will be revealed as goofy ignorance when we look at it in a few years… but I digress.
It was worth the time we spent to put another bass track down. The track has so much more body and presence than the original, and Mike remembered the parts with the tiniest of reminders. Yay us.
So the current fantasy is to finish the mix of this song and another old track by the end of next Thursday’s studio night. We have to get this stuff out of the way. There’s some crazy James-Brown-sounding stuff that we want to work on…
Of course tonight Mike and I re-recorded a bass track for a song we started recording a number of years ago - the idea was to mix the song, but we realized as we pulled up the old tracks that the original bass track was all clipped. *Sigh*