Archival footage!
It's after 10 on Sunday, and my tracks are pretty shaky. Looks like it's lame excuse time.
Captain Ambivalent was in town last weekend to mix his upcoming album. We managed to get through 22 songs in a chock-full weekend, but as you might imagine that left me a bit burnt out and behind on things.
I gamely tried to get it together for tonight's posting anyways, and made it halfway through three different songs. Sadly, each turned out to be the kind of thing you can't rush. Ack!
So, today y'all get one from the vaults. This is a song I recorded with Two-Fisted Frogkicker (a.k.a. Implied Trampoline, a.k.a. Tim and Billy and Demus and Mark) back when I was living in Buffalo. A few folks heard an early mix of it at a friend's art-in-progress party a while back, but I never put it up on the site. Until now!
It's kind of instructive, actually--the mix was done in 2003, with a tiny bit of pseudomastering slapped on it tonight. As I listen to it, I'm struck by how much I've learned about recording and mixing since then. I think it's a fun tune (which might profit from one more edit pass on the lyrics), but it's definitely got a lo-fi vibe. Luckily, Tim and Billy and Demus are awesome players, so the groove comes through regardless.
I may be able to squeeze out some brand-new acoustic sketch or something later this week-we'll see. In the meantime:
Lyrics (c) 2000 Mark Frey, Music (c) 2000 Mark Frey, Tim O'Connell, Bill Bosinski, and Demus.
3 Comments:
You rhymed "Unconcious" and "pull the punches"? :-)
Dave M.
It's worse than that. The line is "pull a Pontius." As in, Pontius Pilate, implying a betrayal by turning my back on a problem. I know, I know, I'm about the last songwriter you'd expect a Biblical reference from. The world may now end.
I DID say the words needed another editing pass. :)
What's wrong with Biblical references? As Anne Rice once said in her newsletter (Commotion Strange #3 to be precise), "I read the Bible all the time. I have never read a stranger book in my life. I mean it is too weird!"
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