??? My Favourite song by ME ???
. .. ... You Shine ... .. .
. .. ... You Shine ... .. .((( click image to play song )))
READ SONG DETAILS HERE
. .. ... The Story ... .. .
Saturday morning, 7am, walking home from a very heavy night of Alcohol, NOT drugs, sl1200s, guitars n gossip...
For some weird reason i always wake up early after a binge, although it has to be said the throat does suffer some as a consequence...
Anyway, thru the back gate, console the dog that its me, open the back door straight into heaven, my recording studio...
First things first, get the F* kettle on, and power up the studio. (1 switch at the top of the cabinet an pow, its ALL on and ready to go)
OK, the tea's made and boy does it taste good, but my bloody throats reminding me that i really am getting too old for superstrength largers. (i do miss them tho)
PC pentium 200mmx (yaawwwnnnn) took its time, but its up n ready, headphones on with 5metre extension to reach into the garden. You see, on friday i had come up with another new idea on the tanglewood acoustic guitar, and can vaguely remember editing the loops ready for auditioning and jamming to.
akg300 plugged in and on extension too, and we can F* the pop filter right off, the way im feeling, im surprised i found the house, never mind anything else.
Anyway, double click the shortcut on desktop to the loop i made the day before, headphones on and loud, mike in 1 hand, tea in the other, straight into the back garden to watch the squirrels and pigeons fighting over the seeds put out by my dear Dad.
After a couple of mins, the teas done, the mood has definately set in, and its time to let the loop do the talking and i just, well, follow with whatever comes into my head, quite literally...
(( as an old skoll hip hop freak, as well as the weird beat box sounds i used to make in my younger days, i also became quite profficient at free-style rapping, ie...making it up as you go along ))
Phew! It must have been about half an hour now, i cant do anymore, my throats F sore, i badly need some more tea, Im badly losing concentration, and nothing feels like its goin good at all.
Enough, back, inside, stop the Phillips Audio CD-recorder!
Bath, tea, BED!!!
Later that evening, really awake now, and in a serious work mode.(for some reason after a binge recovery, i become very capable of achieving the more mundane tasks with regarding my music)
While working, I rip the CD into the desktop, and run my usual batch file processing's before i start the personal touches, ALL with CePro...
Eventually, i get to yesterdays loops and todays jamming session in the back garden... (its about midnight now!)
And while i sit there listening, for probably the first time EVER! I listen and wonder where the F* this came from.
Its then, i realise, that in all my years of very clever Organic Audio programming, arranging, ((blah blah blah....)) there are some things that I just cannot predict or presume, programm or project.
I cannot logically approach all my music with regiment and linear lines. Now this is a very hard concept for me to deal with. Im much more comfortable with the scenareo of 'Odds Against' as apposed to the 'If when, maybe never' scenareo, but you know, im a very liberally minded person and i'll get over it. Life is a learning curve so they say.
And to this day, (two years or so on now) when i listen to this, i can taste the tea, i can smell the breeze, im there outside now jamming this once again, and the squirrels and birds fight in the garden, but theres only 1 thing thats missing from all this supposed scenareo, then, and now.
...just who helped me write this, and where is she (well i hope its a she LoL). Wow, i really wish i could sit and talk with the person on the other side of this song. Maybe one day eh, maybe one day...
READ SONG DETAILS HERE. .. ... You Shine ... .. .
. .. ... You Shine ... .. .((( click image to play song )))
