I'm on the tail-end of getting my demos done. I only have a couple more things to put together before I can take it to my cousin for mastering. Here are the couple of the remaining tasks:
That's about it. Then I can do my best to mix it before I take it to Kelly for mastering. However, it doesn't look like I'm going to get to turn it into a CD any time soon. The strike took a good chunk out of my regular income and recent car trouble took a further chunk out of any selfish endeavors for a few months. In the meantime, I've been uploading all of Once and Over Again to BandCamp. I also sang a few songs at the open mic night at Tractorgrease Cafe a few weeks ago. The originals were well-received, so that's encouraging.
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Later in the song, when the big lead guitar returns over the final repetition of the chorus, I didn't need to splice this in; in that section, the slide was dirty enough. But for the solo proper, the bits of lo-fi distortion seemed necessary.
I know it's not healthy to compare your own music to other music, but how can I not feel a little out of date? I even tried to make this music sound more modern than my first album, but it still seems to come out entrenched so deeply in the rock tradition that I don't think I can find my way out. Perhaps I need to admit to myself that I play rock and roll, that rock is my genre. But it's a frightening thing to admit. It's scary to admit that I'm old hat when I haven't even started. *sigh* I started thinking in this direction, by the way, partly from hearing this wonderful ditty... on the same online post where I saw this one: By the way, I'm in Victoria. I'm taking courses at UVic, but I hope to finish a bit of recording at the end of August. I have to record Kate, Monte, Rachelann, and Briellen before I head back to the Mainland to get a couple more voices and a piano. And then I'll be finished! Weird, eh?
Last night I played a live show at Echo Island Pub in Harrison Hot Springs. I didn't get any photos taken, which is a shame because it was my first full-length solo show since 2010 or so. It generally went well. Wanna' hear part of it? Yeah, it's pretty rough around the edges, and perhaps deep into the image. However, I think it happens to sound pretty good for someone who's pretty severely out of practice.
Here's the only photo I got, which I took not long after I'd started packing up.
Above I've posted a mix of "This is the Time." I hope to get my wife to join Nicola's voice, but I bet the song's pretty-much done.
It sounds rough. I don't really know what to do to fix it. The bass doesn't cut through; the guitars sound kind-of dead; the vocals seem distant. It could rock, but it's missing some essential ingredients. And I'm not talking about the drum machine; the drum machine can rock pretty hard. I'm talking about everything else. |
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