While I am waiting to record the drums for a new song on Friday...I did this lil' ditty. I don't know what I am gonna do with it. Just felt it and recorded it.
No thinking... Just feeling...
The Black Forest
Random blaghness...
Tomorrow Never Knows...
Tomorrow Never Knows... I never know, that's for sure. I have just taken three songs off my album because they aren't playing well with the others. One step forward, two steps back...forward on! One of the hardest things to do is to take songs you write, record, mix, and to ultimately discard them. Sending them off to the Island of Misfit Songs...
A month ago my friend and drummer-percussionist extraordinaire Matt Lynott came over to the studio with his "new" 60's vintage drum set. Excited, we wanted to record...but neither of us had any new songs ready, so he said off-the-cuff "Hey...let's record "Tomorrow Never Knows"...ya know the Beatles tune!" Inside I cringed. "Ugh...a cover song?" I said deep inside my inner dialog. BUT...I have this one rule. One. All ideas are worth trying. Never say no. Try it, then decide.
"Okaaay...let's do it" Tentatively answering. Matt set up his drums and I set up my Wurlitzer electric piano and my Fender Bassman amp...set up the microphones... I hadn't heard the song in years so I barely had a clue how the song went. Matt said there were only two chords in the whole song. "Okay...let's just jam a bit on these two chords and see what comes out." I said. We did a couple of takes. We went out for some Irish bar food. I then forgot about the recording for a few weeks.
Suddenly remembering about that afternoon (I guess I am getting old...), I brought it up on my system. "Hey...this ain't bad. Maybe if I put on a bass...some more percussion..." Well...a few days later I finished it. I am really happy how it came out. Since I didn't really know the original version of the song...the structure is different...new melodies...chopping up the lyrics a bit, it feels good to me. I suppose if one does a cover song, it is important to make it your own. I cannot let you hear it until the release of the album. Why? Because of licensing. I have to pay for each time someone listens to it, even if it is just streaming. So...I am waiting to get my license to use and will have to be stingy with it and only have it available in iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and such.
Just you wait! It's a good one! Damn that John Lennon. *smile*
I am listening to Les Baxter's "Jewels Of The Sea" album right now as I type this blahg... I am smiling. I am also thinking I gotta get back to writing new songs to replace the ones I just removed. I am sighing...
Sucked by the Succubus of Sound...
Rise...
I keep thinking I am finished with my album. Maybe I am. I need a few months to save up some money before I can release it, soooo...maybe a couple new songs might nudge out ones I thought would be released. A work in progress. I am not really Kickstarter material, meaning.....I hate promoting. Case in point, my last album "Galaxies With Long Yellow Curtains", I mentioned the release once on Twitter, Facebook, et al, on the day it came out. That's it. *laughing* I figure I will be found like a bread crumb, a shiny coin, or like gum on your shoe...somehow found and either picked up and put in your pocket or scraped off on the edge of the sidewalk.
Rise
Out to the sets! Pay need heed to the warning sounds!
Ultramarine. Don't be afraid!
Seventy breaths. The plexus of Next is willingly with you now
For an instant and forever.
A raging sea, the ghost of me, so strange and sinking
Where a soul cannot hide
Plummet the depths, with no regrets
Sunsets of eye closed
Bursting up through the water to the sun.
Soon we are sleeping...
Just like we're gliding along on a lightning chrome yellow sky
to the sea again
For an instant and Forever
A raging sea, the ghost of me, so strange and sinking
Where a soul cannot hide
Plummet the depths, with no regrets
Sunsets of eye closed
Bursting up through the water to the sun.
Soon we are sleeping...
Four oceans wide...the rain and the passage will eventually rise...
Sea Horses Forever...
Having finished possibly my last song for my next album...I feel curiously unfinished and unsatiated. Perhaps this is due to my album artwork being undone from an artist I am truly excited about his involvement in my project. I plan to continue writing until he has finished the piece. This is very different for me, which I like, simply for the fact that I must give up complete control. I am really into writing on piano these days, so maybe I will continue this direction and see how deep I fall.
Songs and wrongs...
Sea Horses Forever
Day after day...
Shimmering, glimmering fathoms deep, spasms seep
Mermaid tongues in long lost Mariner's
Water-filled, water-willed lungs
Taken by storm, green light morn'
Up, Up, Up, Up under your
Blankets of night, fingers of stars, fist of light
Water everywhere, everywhere
Your Seven Sea Smile, a downward spiral
Into the water of your mouth
Day after day...
Unending, descending my life on Leviathan
Sea horses forever, I'm a mirror and you're a mirror too
So blue the oceans parts cotton candy hearts
Up, Up, Up, Up under your
Blankets of night, fingers of stars, fist of light
Water everywhere, everywhere
Your Seven Sea Smile, a downward spiral
Into the water of your mouth
Alright. Okay.
Day after day...