Friday, April 15, 2005
Inlay cards
For the Müf CD, Mike suggested we put the lyrics to the songs, which I thought had already been done before by others, and wanted to take a different tack. Besides, we could drive the punters in droves of 3 or 4 towards the website if they sought lyrical enlightenment. For me, this was a chance to be creative, individual, unique and possibly even cleverly amusing - I thought maybe we could have some cartoon "annual" style games and puzzles on there for our listeners/fan* to enjoy while on long car journeys (although not whilst driving, natch).
Other bands have featured ways to build a nuclear bomb on their inlay sleeves, I was hoping perhaps to use pop-up technology to create a 3-D version of the band rocking out, or a cut-out-and-keep Mikey face mask or something (we could do four differrent runs of inlay cards, and people could collect them all! I like the idea of kids doing "swapsies" in playgrounds.. "got, got, got, need!"). Mike pissed all over this particular bonfire though by pointing out that it was only our first demo CD, and not our second "developmental and experimental" CD on EMI. He's no fun. I think we'll be using the photos taken by long-time friend, confidante and co-collaborator Tokius Munkian on the sleeve instead.
Drummer auditions continue apace - we've met some cool guys, had fun jamming, etc. and hope to see many more before we make a decision. Mike had a great idea, one of the guys we've seen - Sheets - busted out some rhymes at the end of his audition, including flow about binary numbers. Mike said I should drum and Sheets should rap for us - now THAT sounds good to me, as long as every song we play sounds like "Walk this Way" or that J5 track that goes on about compounds and elements (my two token hip-hop drum beats).
Speaking of J5, I pick up my new guitar tuner tomorrow. I am christening it "Charlie". "The aristocrat, ghetto diplomat, and he's blessed with the gift of rap, it's like that! - They call him Mr. Antagonistic, drastic, coming from a place where the cops get their ass KICKED!"
Playing at the Madjeski stadium next Sat, wonder if John Madjeski will be there with his lovely female companion Cilla? Might have to learn "Step inside, love", just in case she fancies getting up and doing a number?
*We have one. www.grassrootsx.com says so.
Other bands have featured ways to build a nuclear bomb on their inlay sleeves, I was hoping perhaps to use pop-up technology to create a 3-D version of the band rocking out, or a cut-out-and-keep Mikey face mask or something (we could do four differrent runs of inlay cards, and people could collect them all! I like the idea of kids doing "swapsies" in playgrounds.. "got, got, got, need!"). Mike pissed all over this particular bonfire though by pointing out that it was only our first demo CD, and not our second "developmental and experimental" CD on EMI. He's no fun. I think we'll be using the photos taken by long-time friend, confidante and co-collaborator Tokius Munkian on the sleeve instead.
Drummer auditions continue apace - we've met some cool guys, had fun jamming, etc. and hope to see many more before we make a decision. Mike had a great idea, one of the guys we've seen - Sheets - busted out some rhymes at the end of his audition, including flow about binary numbers. Mike said I should drum and Sheets should rap for us - now THAT sounds good to me, as long as every song we play sounds like "Walk this Way" or that J5 track that goes on about compounds and elements (my two token hip-hop drum beats).
Speaking of J5, I pick up my new guitar tuner tomorrow. I am christening it "Charlie". "The aristocrat, ghetto diplomat, and he's blessed with the gift of rap, it's like that! - They call him Mr. Antagonistic, drastic, coming from a place where the cops get their ass KICKED!"
Playing at the Madjeski stadium next Sat, wonder if John Madjeski will be there with his lovely female companion Cilla? Might have to learn "Step inside, love", just in case she fancies getting up and doing a number?
*We have one. www.grassrootsx.com says so.
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