6 posts tagged “indie music”
Lee.
Yes it's incomplete and probably not a lot of fun to listen to yet. I'll be setting this to music and reposting it soonish, I hope.
Lee.
Gary started a blog here some time ago, but of course he never updates, because he'd rather dick around on Facebook. He posted a track or two over there, as I recall, but he just kind of left it at that and said no more.
Then I'm scanning the internet to see if I can start a new all-encompassing blogsite under my own name, and come across this: http://www.reverbnation.com/thesisetc
At first I thought, alright, who's been stealing our tracks and passing them off as theirs. then I read the band description and realized it was Gary.
Anyway, I read the song list, but couldn't play any of the tracks because I guess that site's functionality isn't all there. However, I COULD download tracks. I have most of Gary's solo stuff on my hard drive already, but there was one recording I'd forgotten:
Now this was recorded at Karaoke one night, by burning a disk directly though the sound board equipment. I'm pretty sure I never recorded any material this way. However, Gary had been working to master this very operatic track (from Phantom of the Opera, one of his ex-fiancée's favourites), and bravely took a swing at it. And now you kind folks get to reap the rewards. :)
Sine we're here, I might as well play you a couple of his demos, one of an unfinished tune he never (to the best of my knowledge) bothered to copy the lyrics down for, and the other a piece of music we've been planning on putting on a new album for the last while. The unfinished number ('I Can See Why', which I titled for him, since he hadn't done so yet) was written and recorded entirely by Gary, and the latter (originally titles The Downside, but these called The Dark Age) was first composed by Gary, who then asked me to write the lyrics (which I sang a melody for as we worked it out) as an ode to the survivors of 9/11. Then he and his ex-fiancée rewrote and finished up the lyrics behind my back, and I've been bitter and defeated ever since.
But at least you folks can enjoy the music. Here. See if I care. Go on. Turn him into a superstar! Leave me in the dirt! With the worms and the grubs and shit! I don't care! I really don't!
Lee.
Okay, so it's my birthday, and I'm in an immense amount of pain. My wife, who is sick as heck today, has nevertheless slavishly made for me a very decadent chocolate cake. Christmas was swell, despite our infirmities, and I received some very nice gifts, including that great new Genesis biography, which I tore into right away.
Now, to celebrate my birthday, I've decided to release Time Passes By in its current semi-demo form, even though it's intended for Project Download. The impression I've gotten is that the ladies are not going to use it, so I figure there's no point in waiting. I would like to direct folks to the Project Download LJ Community, which I think is still an excellent charity for a very worthy cause, despite the troubles they've had in recent days. Please visit their blog and download the simple, safe text file, which will help go towards getting Erin the neurosurgery she needs.
Without further ado, here's the song:
I wrote a new song for Erin at Project Download; a bratty little punk pop number called You're Right. Dawn says I was too wordy. She's right as usual. Anyway, I uploaded the vocal demo, so here it is:
Okay, enough. Good night, and in case I don't return before then, Merry Christmas.
Lee.
Do I need to mention that the sound quality is not particularly good?
I plan on making some changes to the melody in order to make it a little less obvious and derivative of the Gabriel stuff, but not so much that you can't tell what influenced what. It was meant as a homage, even if the lyric content is tongue in cheek about the fact that no one knew my music (for reasons entirely my own).
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And as an added bonus, I give you pictures of the home studio, which my wife has very sweetly obliged me in photographing, on this snowy and blustery day:
