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Motico Outtakes #2
Posted by karges on July 25, 2009 ---> Comments (0)
Motico in the Studio
Motico (my band) has gone back in the studio after a long recording hiatus. For the last few years we've been writing new songs and recording them as live demos. The experience of playing stuff "for the record" is very foreign but I feel like we nailed most of our 15 songs. We're finished with tracking (the instrumental parts) and will have to record the vocals some time soon. Happily,
Justin from The Austerity Program, our engineer, has been extremely generous with his time and expertise (not to mention all his gear) and I think we're going to come out with a final product that sounds better by leaps and bounds than anything else we've ever recorded. Then of course there's the matter of how we're going to get the thing out to listeners. Please write me if you have any brilliant ideas.
Posted by karges on June 26, 2009 ---> Comments (0)
Old News is News to Me
My own musical tastes remain a mystery to me. I have a habit of reacting with distaste or outright revulsion to new music that a few years later I end up loving and wanting to spread the gospel about. Part of the reason may be that I like to reserve judgment on bands who attract a lot of 20-something Kool-Aid drinkers who's own tastes change with the tide. By the time I get around to loving a given band, in this case the defunct California group Grandaddy, they're already a thing of the past and nobody talks about them any more. Maybe this is a good thing.
I remember hearing Grandaddy preached about about 5-6 years ago, and I remember listening to a few mp3's and being turned off and even a little irritated. Why I can listen to the same songs now and have the opposite reaction, I don't know. There's a lot of music I haven't changed my opinion about one way or the other. But most of the bands I really love I hated at first encounter. Weird, ain't it?
I recommend Grandaddy's first studio album, "Under The Western Freeway." Their two subsequent records "The Sophtware Slump" and "Sumday" got a lot more attention, but I like this first one the best. These guys were together from around 1992 to 2006. Front man Jason Lytle released a solo album called "Yours Truly, the Commuter" this year that I'm checking out as we speak. It's good.
Posted by karges on December 25, 2009 ---> Comments (0)