Elusive Harmonies...
J- Whut?!? Man, what an exhausting evening! We decided that we were getting fried so we took the afternoon off; some much needed rest. Time has been flying by, as we decided to remove all clocks and watches from the Great Room, and, consequently, we never know what the hell time it is until some asks, "Hey, what time is it?" Or we go until someone says, "Hey, I'm tired as hell!" Or we go until someone says, "Uh...I've...uh...been playing in the wrong key and that's why it sounds like crap. Sorry." Yeah, then we know it's time to call it a day.
Funny I should mention the above example, because I ended up recording 3 backbone-guitar parts for Slow Stride in the wrong key and it wasn't until Laura went to lay some vocals on it that I realized that we...I, screwed up. Back to square zero and begin again. So we did it and Slow Stride (title track!) sounds nice! It reiterated to me that this whole shebang is a slow stride. Serendipitous, no?
Later in the night we worked on a blues jam Hell Don't Want Us Anymore, which is as straight-forward blues-rock as it gets. The song's about two people who are convinced that they have found heaven in each other, because they are convinced that hell won't have the other person for being such SOB's. Bluesy, right? Yes. Simple, right? NO!! For some reason, the harmony part at the end of the song escaped me, FOR OVER AN HOUR. Laura had to walk away and go snap pictures of the sunset. I was inside, fuming. It wasn't until I relaxed and did what I should have done in the first place, pick up a guitar and write out the damn harmony, that we finally got it. That has happened to me before, and I was waiting for it. Sometime
s after singing for days on end, the ear gets fatigued and something simple, something that you've done literally 50 times before, becomes impossible. Gotta fight through that lull. Stupid harmonies...sound actually pretty nice together. So it was worth all the trouble, or at least we keep telling ourselves that...Tomorrow, we take on some more songs and start overdubs and intricacies. We're for that!
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L did J get as mad as he did when you went to the wrong airport?
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