The melody came from my discovery that I could randomly drop blocks onto the grid in a music app, quantize it and tweak it a bit, and it wouldn’t sound half bad.
Featuring disposable drums at the mercy of a three-button mouse.
Category: Santa Cruz
For about a year I lived in Santa Cruz, and I’d brought my simple Tascam four track with me. Sometimes August, who lived in the same house, would play bass, but for the most part I was just recording things on my acoustic and playing around with rudimentary recording ideas.
Very insistent that we would see each other again. No room for debate or discussion there. Wasn’t in the mood to write a ton of lyrics, it is a song of economy.
The idea here was to base a simple song around the effect of a handheld tape recorder being paused and un-paused repeatedly, during a recording. Most of the vocal sounds were August.
It sounds strange now.
The very definition of a throwaway track.
An attempt at writing a song around a theme. Not sure how I got the vocal effect on the four track, but I suspect I panned the vocal to one side and everything else to the other, treating it as a two track and then putting the effect on one side on the computer.
One of my better attempts at four-tracking with an acoustic guitar and a simple song idea. Intended to overdub a horn section in the middle there, but much like with The Who singing “cello” on A Quick One, I just never got around to it.
An attempt at writing a love letter to a girl I’d just started dating.
The idea being that Budweiser drinkers are likely to enjoy sniffing superglue is a contentious one, and is still up for debate in some circles.
Kind of more a collection of the sounds I was making in Santa Cruz than anything else. I suspect I’d just discovered Propellerhead’s software. Something like that. But a lot of this is just me playing around with a tape recorder as well.