close but no sitar
I’d like to pitch a radio show where me and a millennial play music to each other each week to try and blow the other away. Started making a pilot […]
Producing
the predictable
ghost: what did you expect? writer: this. ghost: exactly. writer: at least one can hide irrelevant comments. ghost: exactly. writer: it triggers people. ghost: […]
don’t need a producer
There was a guy who was very resentful when the band he was in hired a producer for their album. They never worked with a producer before. His position was […]
whatever you think you know
When I first heard about click tracks I immediately thought it was a contest between people and machines and just as quickly I chose people – any drummer I admired […]
no plot percussion
Was talking with someone about Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty then re-explored it online. Didn’t realize that the opening swell is a synthesizer not a guitar but more interesting was […]
the computer age
In years past, the engineers at Metalworks always knocked me out when I could afford a recording session there. Their knowledge and talent and kindness were so impressive. Once in […]
radicals
There’s this thing in music software called a plug-in. It simulates physical objects like instruments or amplifiers and all the various physical studio effects reverb, delay, distortion. When you select […]
E flat
When me and Don and Hugh and Wayne made that record with Edie Brickell in the rehearsals and writing we would make a groove and it would feel good and […]
the rejection of Sam Larkin’s grant application
Using your own definitions of your art form, your community and your artistic career, how will this project impact each? This project will impact my art form (composing/performing) by […]
next year
from time to time i return to a project – making commercial sounding demos for some of my songs. my sense is that the michael bublé’s of the world (or […]