what is going on in your musical life

That sounds awesome! Will there be a recording up anywhere?

I will be able to get a CD at some point which may or may not get magically ripped and posted someplace discreet

I made a remix:

https://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/work-drugs-digital-girl

Concert went mostly well! There were some intonation/flatting issues and one almost total trainwreck but:

- the audience loved it
- my solo went well
- my wife's solo went well

our new album got reviewed on pfork today. sort of a surprise

haha

i got the google alert while i was peeing this morning and thought for sure it was someone putting the record on an illegal DL site

#tmi

i bet bryce would be happy for you

weird thing to say

sorry just referring to the classic knoxville thread

Nothing is awesomer than completely using your already-sketchy voice in between rehearsal and the service

Or losing, rather

Fucking autocorrect

just bought a fuzz pedal

what kind?

are you going to use it?

electro harmonix "Sastisfaction" fuzz. it was 50$

yea im gonna use it for solos in the band i play guitar in, also might put some vocals through it for my solo/recording project

Spent all last night with the house to myself standing and practicing singing the band's songs (memorising all the words, phrasing etc). It occurred to me I dont actually "practice" singing all that often. Its an instrument like any other and I really should. Wondering if I should get some lessons to refresh my technique and not kill my throat too.

If you feel like you might not have good vocal technique (in terms of keeping your voice healthy) -- then working with someone would be a good idea if you are going to sing regularly and potentially do damage to your voice. It's like other physical exercise: sports, weightlifting -- you don't want to fuck yourself up so you have to quit.

Yeah for sure. I dont feel strained at all, but I am finding transitioning from - whats the proper term for it? Belly singing v throat singing? - anyway that, I tend to wobble on a bit.

And, smoking doesnt help with the sustaining of notes and whatnot ugh. haha.

chest voice vs. head voice?

no, smoking definitely doesn't help :/ - learning/knowing ways to catch breaths during long phrases helps though

unless you are singing tuvan style

head voice, thats the phrase i couldnt remember :)

Well, the album I played on last year just came out..
http://www.reverbnation.com/virtualtrio/album/43256

Took a tour of Tiny Telephone studios yesterday. I am such a DAW-bro, I feel like it's hard for me to wrap my head around making a totally analog record. I want to follow up with him, but unless I misunderstood it seemed like JV said he's never heard a record there that had compression and EQ engaged during mixdown that sounded good, like that stuff should be used for tracking. That seems wild to me, but maybe I didn't get what he meant. Tiny Telephone seems like an awesome place to work though.

is there a statue of stephan jenkins on his motorcycle outside of the studio?

got together with two other drummers (who both do arranging or multi-instrumental solo projects) yesterday to plan a new thing, the idea is to make dance music composed entirely of weird percussion parts that we'll record over a weekend. i'm guessing most of the editing will fall to me afterward but i'm hoping this will be a fun + relatively quick thing to make.

That sounds super cool! Can't wait to hear it!!

Really crap jam tonight,first time we've ever not gelled playing, it was mega weird. I think our drummer sucks,is one reason why - we'd played without him for 3 sessions and he threw everyone off with his ridiculous speeding up bashy shit. Pity, cos we had some new songs I really wanted to work on but it wasnt that easy. I'm tired and irritated now.

released an album on saturday w/ a show, it was really great. famed ilxor crut1s was there. nothing else to report.

finished a bunch of songs that i dont hate now i have to figure out what to do with them

https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1478932_569945176428337_348850186_n.jpg

Made a demo video for a synth I'm selling right now only to find out that I have no good video codec so I can export it to a good video file. Fuck me, day wasted and ruined. Back to writing lyrics.

can NOT, that is

quit 1 band due to being too busy, then joined another.

electro funk morphed into minimal synth so subtly i almost didn't notice

Would it be band mutiny if I got R to have a crack at drumming in my band because the other guy is kind of sh1t?

TBF he's not dreadful, but he wouldnt know subtle if it hit him in the groin and we need someone who can drum Talk Talk styles.

It kind of depends on what your band dynamic is - if the drummer came with the band then you might be causing ructions, if he's just been playing along with you guys for a couple of times then it'd almost certainly be fine.

Yeah hes a later addition, and the other 3 of us are really the core of things, and we've all ummed and erred over his over-enhtusiastic style of playing. But he's a mate of the bass player's as well so, I don't know. Personally I'd be just as happy with a drum machine but I'm the singer, what do I know ;)

Nearly every drummer I've ever worked with does not know the meaning of subtle.

does he know that you'd like him to play more subtly

do you want him to play like a drum machine

This might be unfair but I think there's such a thing as 'drummer complex for some players where because they're generally stuck at the back and given a functional, anchoring role in the band with maybe a few backing vocals, they sometimes feel the need to overcompensate by showboating and smacking the shit out their drumset.

keithmoon.jpg

drummers are musicians too y/n?

dl, that's something bad musicians do tbh!

Buncha Neil Youngs in this thread

u goddamn right

may u find your crazy horse