happy happy happy
It's real enough to talk about now. I didn't feel like a "real" singer when I sang back-up and played on someone else's album but last night I recorded stuff that I wrote. YAY! I'm a real artist. Me, Bob, Jeff, and Chris laid down some tracks for MGP** and it was freekin awesome. Dave even came to the session which made me really happy. Chris was supposed to be doing the board and recording (whatever they do in that little room) but I'm still not good at singing and playing so I showed Chris some of my riffs and encouraged him to improvise however he wanted (I'm sure anything he did is better than what I would have done) and he showed dave how to run the mixing board. It was so fun! Towards the end was a little rough, I don't know how real singers scream all night. I could barely talk by the end. When all was done we had enough crap laid down for five or so songs. YAY HAPPY HAPPY! I wrote words and wee bit of music for all but one and we mixed in a lot of improv which made it even better. Everyone contributed a lot and it was great. I love recording on the fly and essentially making shit up on the spot. I'm excited to go over to Bob's later and see what he has left after editing out the silly stuff (like us all stopping because we're laughing so hard). I'm my own harshest critic and I have a hard time accepting compliments so it's hard to believe any of my stuff is anything but suck, but I really liked everyone else's stuff. I got a little shredded to aid with confidence (still shy after all this time) and maybe towards the end a little too shredded so I don't remember the end very well.
In other vaguely related news, I was starting to worry that I have been so black-out drunk-y lately, even if I only have two beers. I'm a yooper, I should not black out after such a small amount of alcohol. I was trying to think of when this started and it was about when I started taking wellbutrin. I did a little research online and *presto* there is a huge wellbutrin-blackout-after-small-amounts-of-alcohol connection. I'm happy it's not me. I'm still going to take it as a hint to drink less. This musician thing is killing me. haha. No playing music until homework is done or after 10pm when my brain is too full to study any more.
She said "Jeff, yooper life is killing me" as the smile went away from her face."I'll probably die of liver failure, if I don't get out of this place.." - singing along to piano man...
HAPPY HAPPY!
If we put any stuff online I'll post it.
** Mad Gazilta Pigs is a project begun in 1994 and is actually how I met the whole Bob crew in high school. It has a revolving cast of hooligans. It's usually a night of recording the results of drinking and improvisational music. Bob is really really good at it and apparently I don't suck either. Way back in the day we recorded on tapes, now we get to use a studio!
In other vaguely related news, I was starting to worry that I have been so black-out drunk-y lately, even if I only have two beers. I'm a yooper, I should not black out after such a small amount of alcohol. I was trying to think of when this started and it was about when I started taking wellbutrin. I did a little research online and *presto* there is a huge wellbutrin-blackout-after-small-amounts-of-alcohol connection. I'm happy it's not me. I'm still going to take it as a hint to drink less. This musician thing is killing me. haha. No playing music until homework is done or after 10pm when my brain is too full to study any more.
She said "Jeff, yooper life is killing me" as the smile went away from her face."I'll probably die of liver failure, if I don't get out of this place.." - singing along to piano man...
HAPPY HAPPY!
If we put any stuff online I'll post it.
** Mad Gazilta Pigs is a project begun in 1994 and is actually how I met the whole Bob crew in high school. It has a revolving cast of hooligans. It's usually a night of recording the results of drinking and improvisational music. Bob is really really good at it and apparently I don't suck either. Way back in the day we recorded on tapes, now we get to use a studio!