27 days later, i'm writing again. This will probably be a short catch up on what's gone down (yes, i'm talking gangsta, deal with it).
The drums got tracked, 1.5 agonizing agonizing weeks in between with 2-3 days of delay as well. We tracked bass, guitar (with my bad-ass set-up that i envisioned, probably the only really bad-ass thing i did envision successfully), and keyboards, trekking all across the city as usual. As I had mentioned before, this co-producer role was pretty heavy, and yet, during bass parts, pretty much took it on with full responsibility and worked pretty well with Kenny , engineering as well since we were using his set-up and he was playing. The words Pilot-ra, courtesy the great Kishan Balaji kept us in splits, and probably will for the next 10 years.
Amongst some major aural fatigue, good food, exercise, push coming to shove, we got through some good bass playing and then some relatively potty(yours truly) guitar playing which didn't really end up half bad. The tones were good, the ladies (read as Grungy Sue and Black Pearl) behaved themselves reasonably well, as did the pedal set up after the initial 3 hours of trouble it gave us. 9 songs; some good bass parts down with some overlays as well, guitar parts inclusive of basic rhythm, some lines and textures played, and 2 solos, and a power through 1.5 day session of keyboard work from the Great Gandhi we managed to knock off. And we still felt we could plod on. Kenny then headed back to Bangalore for owing to some family commitments and a Moon-Arre gig.
I also finally wrote Anis an email, explaining the premise, meaning and reason behind each one of the 9 songs, and what they mean to me, and why. It was interesting, opened my mind, brought back so many memories etc. not all good. It just told me a lot about the songs, a lot that I had forgotten, or maybe just shut out, or then simply not paid attention to.
1 extremely patience trying week and a half, throw in 2 days of high fever, and another 2 days of impatience, and we've got your quintessential dose of break time between 2 stages of recording.
This wonderful time was also filled and made exciting by one of the banes of my existence - The aviation industry. 3 job opportunities came my way, 1 in Indonesia and 2 in the Philippines. Predictably enough though, all 3 went silent the moment i started asking pertinent, logical , credibility based and intelligent questions based on quality of investment return. shocking (makes wily e.coyote face (if you don't know who that is, you clearly had a very very empty childhood))
On another note, the lovely ladies of Wishberry helped us get our (Spook) crowd-funding campaign going through their portals. 6 very courageous and supportive people have already pledged their support to the upcoming album http://www.wishberry.in/Get-Spook-ed-by-the-Lyrical-Cynic-14318
The great weekenders were announced, as well as the Live from the Console Goa fest. No surprises there (hah, again the wily e. coyote face). Though BIG BIG shout out to Slowdown Clown, Adam and the Fish-eyed poets and Thermal and a quarter who will be playing the fest this year!!! Great going guys, knock their socks off!!!
Positives to look forward to -
Spook Vocals, acoustic guitar this week in the studio. Followed by bringing Michael Lee in on the Great White Tele to add his touch and garnish to the music. Getting some guest musicians to lay down some parts on songs of interest.
Hellwind going into recording our first 3 tracks, with some big plans for releasing them!!! I love that band btw, as much as we all refer to it amongst us as a side project, its bad-ass, its crazy, its fun!!! and I can't deny how much i love tearing up the stage with those guys, writing music with them, and creating some fine mental , metal (JYYEAAAAHHH) material!!! looking forward to writing, playing and gigging so much more!!!
The Ashwood guitar starts being carved tmrw. The body blank arrived, looks neat, and is just waiting for me to start some amount of work(however little) on it.
More crowd-funding and making this album bigger and more mature and standing out as compared to all these bullshit trends that the trend loving asswipe wimps who claim to be music lovers propagate .
Sailing season starts on the 14th of October!!!! WOOOOOOHHHHHHOOO!!!!!! MORE ADRENALINE RUSHES!!!!!!! YEEEHHAAAAA!!!!!
A cruise (touchwood) on Kishore Mariwala's new Leopard cat 44.5 foot boat from Mumbai to Goa. 10th November. All downwind.
And still more dgca letdowns and scams which are too frikking disturbing, lengthy and painful to discuss.
Well, i guess on some level, there are a load of positives. heh....who would've thought so.
aah well, ours not to reason why... valley of death... you know the drill .
I'm somewhere between sleep, singing and guitar practice, and a truckload of energy. As contrasting and opposing ends as it may seem, what can I say, its me.
Until the next time, I hope I've kept you folks interested (if you're still reading, heh)
Beast.
The drums got tracked, 1.5 agonizing agonizing weeks in between with 2-3 days of delay as well. We tracked bass, guitar (with my bad-ass set-up that i envisioned, probably the only really bad-ass thing i did envision successfully), and keyboards, trekking all across the city as usual. As I had mentioned before, this co-producer role was pretty heavy, and yet, during bass parts, pretty much took it on with full responsibility and worked pretty well with Kenny , engineering as well since we were using his set-up and he was playing. The words Pilot-ra, courtesy the great Kishan Balaji kept us in splits, and probably will for the next 10 years.
Amongst some major aural fatigue, good food, exercise, push coming to shove, we got through some good bass playing and then some relatively potty(yours truly) guitar playing which didn't really end up half bad. The tones were good, the ladies (read as Grungy Sue and Black Pearl) behaved themselves reasonably well, as did the pedal set up after the initial 3 hours of trouble it gave us. 9 songs; some good bass parts down with some overlays as well, guitar parts inclusive of basic rhythm, some lines and textures played, and 2 solos, and a power through 1.5 day session of keyboard work from the Great Gandhi we managed to knock off. And we still felt we could plod on. Kenny then headed back to Bangalore for owing to some family commitments and a Moon-Arre gig.
I also finally wrote Anis an email, explaining the premise, meaning and reason behind each one of the 9 songs, and what they mean to me, and why. It was interesting, opened my mind, brought back so many memories etc. not all good. It just told me a lot about the songs, a lot that I had forgotten, or maybe just shut out, or then simply not paid attention to.
1 extremely patience trying week and a half, throw in 2 days of high fever, and another 2 days of impatience, and we've got your quintessential dose of break time between 2 stages of recording.
This wonderful time was also filled and made exciting by one of the banes of my existence - The aviation industry. 3 job opportunities came my way, 1 in Indonesia and 2 in the Philippines. Predictably enough though, all 3 went silent the moment i started asking pertinent, logical , credibility based and intelligent questions based on quality of investment return. shocking (makes wily e.coyote face (if you don't know who that is, you clearly had a very very empty childhood))
On another note, the lovely ladies of Wishberry helped us get our (Spook) crowd-funding campaign going through their portals. 6 very courageous and supportive people have already pledged their support to the upcoming album http://www.wishberry.in/Get-Spook-ed-by-the-Lyrical-Cynic-14318
The great weekenders were announced, as well as the Live from the Console Goa fest. No surprises there (hah, again the wily e. coyote face). Though BIG BIG shout out to Slowdown Clown, Adam and the Fish-eyed poets and Thermal and a quarter who will be playing the fest this year!!! Great going guys, knock their socks off!!!
Positives to look forward to -
Spook Vocals, acoustic guitar this week in the studio. Followed by bringing Michael Lee in on the Great White Tele to add his touch and garnish to the music. Getting some guest musicians to lay down some parts on songs of interest.
Hellwind going into recording our first 3 tracks, with some big plans for releasing them!!! I love that band btw, as much as we all refer to it amongst us as a side project, its bad-ass, its crazy, its fun!!! and I can't deny how much i love tearing up the stage with those guys, writing music with them, and creating some fine mental , metal (JYYEAAAAHHH) material!!! looking forward to writing, playing and gigging so much more!!!
The Ashwood guitar starts being carved tmrw. The body blank arrived, looks neat, and is just waiting for me to start some amount of work(however little) on it.
More crowd-funding and making this album bigger and more mature and standing out as compared to all these bullshit trends that the trend loving asswipe wimps who claim to be music lovers propagate .
Sailing season starts on the 14th of October!!!! WOOOOOOHHHHHHOOO!!!!!! MORE ADRENALINE RUSHES!!!!!!! YEEEHHAAAAA!!!!!
A cruise (touchwood) on Kishore Mariwala's new Leopard cat 44.5 foot boat from Mumbai to Goa. 10th November. All downwind.
And still more dgca letdowns and scams which are too frikking disturbing, lengthy and painful to discuss.
Well, i guess on some level, there are a load of positives. heh....who would've thought so.
aah well, ours not to reason why... valley of death... you know the drill .
I'm somewhere between sleep, singing and guitar practice, and a truckload of energy. As contrasting and opposing ends as it may seem, what can I say, its me.
Until the next time, I hope I've kept you folks interested (if you're still reading, heh)
Beast.
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