What I learnt....ramblings on music
Hello - not written anything for a long time as life has intervened in varous ways, mainly in the form of my MA essay! I will start spouting Foucault soon and that would be very sad.....!
What I learnt from our non-fruitful recording studio experience was - trust what we have already. Our own gear, Steve's honed skills as an engineer, and the space and time to set up properly, according to our needs so we capture both the live feel whilst being able to play in separate rooms, properly headphoned,i.e. in a professional manner. I'm disappointed, I must admit, as I was hoping that doing it somewhere else might reveal a different approach or take on our sound, which is always interesting to me as an eternal experimenter, but we got nowhere fast. I think we have to notch this one up to experience and do it again! Whilst I think we are essentially the combined efforts of four people, four musicians (if I include myself, as the singer!!) which makes us a good live experience, we are also more than the sum of our parts in tems of our sound, and recording should capture that, not just replicate our live sound. We should be able to experiment with different processes, sounds, ideas - it should be creative, not boxed in - that is what music and its creation is about to me. As Ruth says, working to a click track is how to kill anything creative fast - it's anti-life!! And now I will shut up and go back to my essay and other philosophical ponderings.......
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Foucault
It's not like you to have Foucault to say!
Pete.
How very dare you!
I laughed out loud at this one! I'm sure Foucault would approve!
Sadder still ....
...is singing 'Daddy Cool' after a gig. Much to the boys' horror, we (Sharon - the secret disco queen, and I) were experimenting tonight with different sounds and ideas on the song, utilising our creativity to the full. I think the look of total dispair on Steve's and David's faces will ensure we don't ask them to include Daddy Cool in our future set lists. 'What a waste' ....... now there's an idea!
PS Wonder what Foucault's take on all this would be?
Steve's secret...
....it was he who suggested Hot Stuff! So I think that makes him a secret disco fan too. Ha ha!
I think we should do Spacer by Sheila B Devotion - Pete would approve and I imagine Foucault would say this was our way of re-appropriating the power of disco music!!!
It was seriously fun last night - I think I'll go and dig the garden now and plant some Brassicas to calm me down...........
Spacer
Definitely - and 'Lost in Music' !
Have you heard the version of 'Falling in love again' that Christina Aguilera did for 'Spirit' - it's here. Sounds very 'French Disco' to me; an interesting interpretation that she does as victim rather than controller, or at least that's what you think until you hear the playful laugh at the end...
Pete.
Disco
What about Supernature by Cerrone? or Dan Hartman with Instant Replay?
I love DISCO and i am not gay.
Roddas
D I S C O :-)
It's vaguely annoying that some styles have become 'gay icons' (whatever that means) and it's consequently suspicious to like them
What did you think of the Cristina Aguilera version of FILA ?
Meanwhile, here's a disco-related bit of Photoshopping that I liked :-
Interesting...
Her version is plaintive, it's true. Very French disco! I agree, and a bit Goldfrappy. Quite like it.
Loved the Blame it on the Boogie sign! I want one!!
My personal favourites include Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton and the dance remix of Sun is Shining by Bob Marley which is a much more recent mix and utterly brilliant for dancing to!
Now off to Oz - so all quiet on the website front whislt musical reconnoitring occurs down under!
S
I HAVE FOUCAULT TO SAY AS WELL
I would like to quote philosophers too but for me Lemmy said it all years ago - 'everything needs to be louder than everything else'. The competition implied creates a dynamic uneaqualled in the rock music creative process; the team approach resolves the potential conflict also implied and creates a cohesive whole where what appears to be ten is actually eleven. And there you go - Amplifires philosophy in a nutshell. Watch out for some dangerous happenings, we will go underground to record (David's garage and my attic space) and emerge with a new album and, in the words of a singer from a band I can't recall "Don't ever f*****g forget us". Or was it "You'll never f*****g forget us".
Watch this space,
Steve
Danger in David's garage
Wasn't that quote from the lips of the lovely Liam Gallagher? Or perhaps Frank Gallagher, philosopher extraordinaire?
Anyway, Lemmy rules!
Looking forward to recording and being a cohesive whole.....
S
Garages & Gardening
So to a garage and attic we go with our high tech black boxes, buttons and flashing lights. Will we be tracked to these darkened places, being visible to the world watching our every move? Through this visibility, will we be subject to the controlling systems of power of modern society. Only Foucault knows the answer ...or would it be Liam Gallagher?
Enough philosophical meanderings - I should spend my time doing something more productive - perhaps even a spot of gardening. That way, I should increase my chances of being able to communicate successfully with selected clientele of The Boat in Cromford. That's it - I'm off to hunt down some Brassicas!
Brassicas
I dunno; they're just not rock 'n roll somehow.
Not even when they're in the back of a Greyhound bus.
Pete.
Cabbages?!
Hello Pete - are you saying the people on Greyhound buses are cabbages? Surely not!
I prefer broccoli myself - they are more interesting and diverse, especially the purple flowering ones.....
I wil stop now. This is beginning to sound like a surreal version of Gardeners Question Time!
S
Pardon me boy, is that the Chatanooga Chou Chou
Its your own fault for "sprouting Foucault"
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PS. Never trust a gardener - particularly one that lives on a hill!
OOOHHHHH!
That's so French of you, smarty pants! I like the 'chou chou'!
This is what going to Paris does to you!
S
French
See my post above ('Spacer')...
Pete.