Yesterday, spent the morning re-recording an old song of mine called “Gone”. Revitalised the original music tracks and remixed it, before adding a new vocal. Also, added a new vocal to “Mr Straight” where I managed to channel the spirits of Mike Reid and Ian Dury. Throat was a little hoarse after that.
Later in the evening, I sat down to re-record the drum loops for “Age of Communication”. The original loop, which you heard the other day, was actually nicked from a commercially available song and was used as a guide rhythm. And so I had to sit down and recreate the rhythm myself, which is a bit tough when you are not a drummer, but I managed to pull something out of my arse which was suitably driving and ramshackle at the same time.
I now have 44 minutes of vocal songs in the can for the third CD. The Missus recommends that I stop after the next tune – afterall, an hour of me warbling is probably torture. Thinking hard about reviving my first ever recorded song “Electric God”, but I am worried that I won’t be able to get the same drum track. Need my old Alesis HR-16B back. This is the problem with recording stuff and then moving on – you end up thinking “I really like that drum machine” and then realising it sold it over a decade ago. I am sure I can come up with something…I still need that pet drummer in a cage. That would make recording a little easier.
Here’s a clever video that is doing the viral rounds at the moment. It’s the band OK Go with “Here it Goes Again”, which is reminscent of those smart videos we used to get in the 1980s when the medium was still young and full of creative vigour:

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