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New song.
First time playing it.
And also:
New vocal amp from garage sale.
Great Price.

Bad purchase.

[Good thing Danny works on electronics in his spare time.]




So far, this is what I'm singing. This may change.

When I was a kid
I always thought that I'd be someone big
Always dreamed that I'd be important
Someone more than this...

Now I'm 26
My songs have never been radio hits
Albums never make the years best list
Some kind of artist that I turned out to be...

But dreams
Like memories
They only
Last as long
As you hold on to them
Then they're gone...


Thanks for watching/listening.

Pulling Thread

So, as promised, here is the cover song that just sort of happened.

This is how it sort of just happened:
I was in the middle of setting up my guitar levels and Danny was just warming up on a few things. All of the sudden he played an intro that I've heard hundreds of times and I just jumped in. You can see him hesitate after he plays the intro because he didn't think that I was going to jump in, and you can hear me really fuddle the first few bars for the above mentioned reasons.

Wrapped up in all of it's flaws, here it is.





More to come soon.

Good grief...

Last week Danny and I played through and video recorded about 6 songs.

-Black and Yellow Shirt
-Memorial Day Dream
-Cough Drop
-I went too
-[untitled B.S.S. sounding song]
-Secret cover song that just kind of happened

We also did quite a bit of noodling around with new ideas as well as just plain noodling.


We worked on "Black and Yellow Shirt" for about a half hour.
The video below is probably our best run through.
The ending is too long and we will shorten it, but we were both just trying to get a feeling for what to do with the last part.


Oh. And just to warn you. Audio/Video Lag City.






Commentary now available in the form of cheesy video text.

Maybe I'll post the cover song tomorrow.

Here's a hint:
"It's been a while man. Life's so rad..."

and

Lots of dogs.



Know it?

I went too, too, too. [echo]

Another video from the 5th of May.

I know in the last video post I said I'd upload another video "tomorrow" - And then that never happened, and the first 5th of May video went away.

There were some technical issues with the new video editing/hosting site.
Everything seems to be ironed out now.
Just know, I've tried to upload this video everyday since the 6th.

Only a week late.



The song above is a newer song we're still working on. I wrote it sometime last year, and it has yet to have a decent recording made of it, or does it show up on any album.
Right now it's called "I went too."


The video has our first attempt with us pixelated out.
[don't know if pixelated is a real word]
Then our first and only start to finish run through.
You may have noticed some edits in the middle of the video also... It's because we played some things for just much too long. Both of us were just trying to get a feeling for what should be going on in the song.

But on the bright side:
We do have a vision in mind for how this song will be eventually:

Start with this bouncy/upbeat thing, throw a few verses in.
Hit the pre-chorus, which is kind of punk/dance rock for like 3 bars.
Back to bouncy/up-beat thing, but have some strange improv over top that kind of deconstructs the song.
Back to pre-chorus, then real chorus, and some noodling then done.


Have the day off today, so I might work on it a bit more.


Maybe one more video from the May 5th to come in the near future.
Maybe not.

Not making anymore promises.

Cough Drop pt 1

Danny and I sat down and ironed out a couple of songs today...
Thinking I'll upload just one for today, and then maybe one tomorrow, and one the day after.
[If I remember]

Here is an oldie called "Cough Drop" - I think this is our 2nd, or 3rd run through. First time we made it to the end of the song with out totally stopping.





[NOTE: Just noticed on Danny's computer that his browser shows only half the video. If you're having this issue and you use a PC you can right click the video and full screen it. If you're using a mac, you're on your own.]


Videos will look like this now, which (if you even care) is different from the previous videos.

I had to get some new webcam software and a new video editing program. I kind of like this new was better.
Just copy and paste the embed and I'm done.
No more waiting for blogger to upload shit.

And, if you watched the video til the end you may have noticed there are cool effects and transition and cuts we can use now.
(Get ready for some sweet/awful videos!)

Anyway.
Keep your eyes and ears to the internet this week.
More neat stuff is coming.

--S

Broken Social Scene Presents...

Broken Social Scene Presents ... Matilda and Friends!

Today's installment has us blatantly ripping off Broken Social Scene.

We're thinking about sending these videos over to the guys [and gals] and maybe they'd let us tour with them, or even join the ever-changing band.

In all honesty, we were just playing around with different chord changes, and drum lines, and these ended up sounding a lot like BSS. The odd cuts in video [starting and stopping] is because there were multiple variations of these "songs" [like nearly 20 minutes of each].

Anyhow, thanks to Kevin Drew for inspiration.


Part one



Part Two



Regardless of inspiration, and the final output [if there is one] of these songs, I like them a lot. They make me kind of want to dance. And write cool lyrics about mundane things. And get like 12 other people to play them with us. And on, and on...


Good fun.


Soon, we'll start to upload some more serious things.


Maybe...


I promise.

Glitch / Rock [Trials and tribulations of band-dom]

First up:
One of our finer moments captured on webcam.

It's hard to hear the keyboard part that I'm playing because my laptop microphone doesn't pick up tones that low, but as you'll see from the video, it was pretty loud.

Vibration City.


"Uh-oh."
"What happened?"
"Ummm. Where's my laptop?"
"Did it fall back there?"
"[Laughs]"
"Whoa. Is it broken?"
"No."



For our next trick:

Danny and I had been playing for a while, and I decided to break out a slide-tuning and try and write something on the fly. At one point near the end of the video, you see Julie standing at the door with a slipper in her hand. Earlier that day before she went to work she had asked me to, "make sure the dog doesn't eat my slipper."
Needless to say, I did not make sure that the dog didn't get the slipper and she wasn't too happy with me when she got home.

Zepper.



"Can I use that?"
"Sure."
"I need to pay some bills."
"[Silence]"
"And if you see her with my slippers..."
"No, that's why I closed the bedroom door. I didn't think she had it out there."





This is the life musicians dream of.


Dream on, young-ins.