On reflection the fuzz bass solo on yesterday’s “TRTS” track didn’t quite work for me, so I went back into the mix and put down a more tradition guitar solo that I felt better suited the track. Here is the revised mix. Enjoy!
Here’s another track I recorded today from the hopefully soon to-be-becoming album. Enjoy!
Now the story of Shaun Dykes broke earlier in the week and it is a signpost, a portent even, of just how disconnected we have become from reality. The story goes like this: a depressed young man goes to the top of a car park and threatens to throw himself off. The police attempt to talk him down, but all the time a crowd jeers at him, fires off expletives and urges him to do the dreaded deed. An hour later, the young man jumps and the baying crowd rush forward to video his grisly remains with ghoulish glee. The story has been nicely summed up by the BBC.
Now I’ll be the first to raise my hand to admit I’ve made some choice comments when a suicide has delayed my tube journey. “Why don’t they ever wait till it is off-peak?” and “The service isn’t that bad…!” etc. but this is beyond me. Mr Dykes friends are saying that they believe their friend could have been talked down and that the crowd are directly responsible for his death. How did we come to behave like this? I have the theory that media such as the Internet and YouTube and whatever else has totally desensitised us (or is in the process of desensitising us all, young or old, male or female). Or perhaps collecting horrific post-suicide images has become the new Top Trumps of this digital (de)generation? I don’t know. Where’s the compassion? Where’s the empathy? Where’s the reasoning?
It scares me…and now an apt pop video…
The bombastic title comes from hearing the drumbeat and the bassline and thinking it sounded like something from “Spinal Tap”. More of the same guitar guff from yours truly. Enjoy!
And now we have an official video to accompany the remix of “Seville”. I like this “readymade art” approach to video making.
This is my latest tune. I think it is a lesser piece. Parts of it sound right, but there’s something wrong with it I can’t put my finger on (other than it is a bit undercooked). Not sure if it will make the cut. Who knows?
The great thing about the Internet is that it brings people together and it can also be a means of producing new art, new work, new music via virtual collaboration. The enigmatically titled “Piggyback Orchestra” contacted me recently with a remix they had done of my track Seville. I liked it and I present it here for your delectation. So here is “SVL”:
