Week 66: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 7

Part of me resists writing these posts, these posts about our recording project. These posts about music most of you probably won’t care to hear in its finished form, much less in the incomplete and imperfect form found in these posts. Part of me wants to wait until everything is done so I can [...]

Week 57: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 6

It’s been 17 weeks since my last post on this recording project. During these past weeks, we’ve been focusing on rehearsing the music, playing a few live shows, and vacationing, and last Sunday we officially started production of the record.

But before that, over the past few months, we played a few gigs in [...]

Week 40: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 5

If the NAP is a baby fetus in our collective uterus, then it is due this week. Though it is not uncommon for babies to be late, I say that, as much as we’d like to continue feeding this baby from our placenta forever and ever, it is time to let it start breathing [...]

Week 36: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 4

Also included NAPquisite Corpse 1.0

In a recent post DD was talking about the difficulties he was having finding a vision before starting to work on his movie. I often wish things were that simple for me – get a vision, bring it forth. For me it’s a substantially more tortuous process. I get [...]

Week 33: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 3

I continue to work on sketches and various attempts at music, while at the same time trying to come to terms with how much I like Burt Bacharach and Gerry Rafferty. Cause, what else am I to do?

Double Sunglasses Sunday*This is an arranged version. Where’s my captain’s hat?

Double Sunglasses Sunday (solo)*This is [...]

Week 32: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 2

Ok, here it goes. At the bottom of this blurb are sketches of two songs. I picked these two because they both stem from the same conceptual and harmonic root, though the second one has diverted from it quite a bit at this point. I think both songs also cover some of the range [...]

Week 31: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 1

I am trying something new. It makes me a little nervous, but what the hell, I’ve done way stupider stuff that makes me nervous too. What I’m going to do is to start using this forum to present and hopefully discuss work in progress. After 30 weeks of writing mostly about music, and getting [...]