G.o.D. grows in mysterious ways
The last week or so has been a rather big one in G.o.D.’s short existence; of that there is no doubt. First of all, we have finished with the first three demo tracks we are doing for a record company. One of which was used to see if I am suitable to fill-in for another band on the label. It turns out my range didn’t mess with their music. I wish the band the best of luck in finding a new singer soonest. On Saturday, Wednesday evening, and Thursday morning John and I put in a great deal of work finishing off the tracks. As some time had elapsed since I first laid down my vocals on Soft Side it was determined that I should re-record the verses. As with any other instrument, the more it is used the better it sounds. We have found a way to get my vocals recorded most efficiently as well. John does a guide track for the verse(s) or chorus for me to sing and I repeat about 10 times into the mic as practice (so I can hear myself). John comes back and I don’t have to think about the lyrics when I am recording. They are stuck firmly in my RAM. Hrm, sounds so bloody obvious, yet we didn’t think of it until just over a week ago.
Due to real life consideration we were unable to finish the mixing of the second two tracks until yesterday evening. Because of the intesity of our work on Wed/Thurs John took Sat. “off” from the band. I didn’t do much Saturday, but I did have the pleasure of attending an interesting luncheon in Chiswick with an eclectic bunch of people. Amongst the guests was a member of the cast (until his 400th performance and his last) of Jerry Springer, Wills Morgan, who regaled us with both tales and the music from Opera. Also included was an actress called Frika and various other industry types, including a movie composer, several fellow musicians, and an anti-American/globo/you- name-it bigot. This miserable little woman had a good go at me merely for being American. (You know the one who thinks a clever retort is “you would say that you are an American.” And yes, Israel did come up as well as various veiled references to the Jews.) Of course, this might have been after I slapped her down verbally for calling my iPod an example of “consumerist rubbish.” I explained to her that it was a tool for me to both review and learn music. Her various rants were particularily amusing, as the house was filled up to the gunnels with technology, whether it be decent sized/well equipped studio (John would drool) or the massive entertainment system upstairs. It will surprise no one to hear that when the musicians/singer types began to have a sing-song, she did not join in, and I believe she left not soon thereafter. The sing-song was really good fun and ranged from negro spirituals/rugby songs to Beatles tracks (which I didn’t participate in).
After this interesting afternoon, and to be fair it was, despite Ms. anti-everything (Would it be churlish of me to say she wasn’t very attractive either especially not when compared to the other stunning women there?), I headed off to see Shrek II with a band member and a few friends. Shrek II is all it’s cracked up to be and so much more. It is as good as the first one with much better animation and a stellar cast. There are so many in-jokes flying about that it is necessary to see if twice to get them all. Over port there was some discussion over which gag refered to what movie/event etc. It is well worth seeing, at least once.
What happens next? Well, this is the hard bit. We will be sending a CD of the finished demos to the record company tomorrow or the next day after John mixes them for CD. Then we get to sit around and hope, pray, sacrifice virgins (in Wimbledon?), chickens, goats, or hippies… Actually, that’s not quite true, as we won’t be sitting around. John and I plan to crack on and record the song written by Tom, Movin’ In, maybe even tomorrow.
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Damian has details on the Islamic conference that “our” Ken will open. One if its speakers supports the death penalty for homosexuals and has called upon God to “destroy the usurper Jews”.
We got Jewish centres being torched in Hendon, but Ken still feels the need to covort with people who call for this sort of behaviour. Would anyone get away with behaving like this besides Ken? I rather doubt it.
Update: Pollard has more on the subject, as does Melanie.
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Good thing cars aren’t steered with cursor keys (spacebar for brake).
Drive (Pun not intended [Pun actually was intended, but blogiquette requires plausible deniability of such intent.].) yourself nuts with this.
Then you can try the same thing, but with a trailer.
If worst comes to worst and you find yourself dangling over a cliff, here’s what to do.
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