Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Humpty Hump is prolly my fave rapper.
Still no text from Sir Clive. I'm getting nervous now cos they fly out soon and I need to arrange a dep to play the White Sunday gigs this weekend.. *drums fingers on table*.
Top rehearsal last night - didn’t work as closely on the vocal harmonies as I wanted to, but they all sounded fine during the set runs we did. Got a new tune nailed last night as well, should be debuting it on Sat at the Face Bar - it's a mish-mash of sounds based around Jimmy G's vocal "I caught a cab on the road to nowhere", and I can pick out bits that remind me of Smashing Pumpkins, others that sound like Dinosaur Jr, Dan's drumming is full of the funk so it kind of steers well clear of any of the usual suspects that we get tagged with. Mike came up with a great melody line which I ended up playing - it lifts the song to another level, which is clearly where it's at. Having played with All Wrapped Up for a couple of years now I've got an over-developed sense of disregard for any song that just sounds like all the others songs that have gone before it. I can't stand writing original music that isn’t that original, I need to feel that we're doing something different, worthwhile, and Mike's got a sense of melody that is so different to my own that I really feed off the stuff he plays. We've definitely got that Zen-like telepathy thing going on (what Tim from Off The Radar called "Voodoo" in a recent interview), and I suspect that we both want to be able to play like each other! He does that J Mascis/Thurston Moore psychadelic/intuitive style where the sounds just come out, and I'm still trying to break free from the pentatonic box (half the time at least).
I'm happy to be directed by Mike, musically speaking, and I don’t think I've ever really had that before. The Heff has always been able to say what he thinks (another luxury - there's few things worse than someone who is too shy to say that they think what I'm playing sucks) but sometimes you just need someone to point you in the right direction and give you a kick up the arse to get you going. Making music isn’t rocket science, but it does seem to stagger awkwardly between being the easiest thing in the world and the hardest, most infuriating thing ever. I knew a girl like that once.. Or, to be more accurate, I once knew a girl who WASN'T like that..
Top rehearsal last night - didn’t work as closely on the vocal harmonies as I wanted to, but they all sounded fine during the set runs we did. Got a new tune nailed last night as well, should be debuting it on Sat at the Face Bar - it's a mish-mash of sounds based around Jimmy G's vocal "I caught a cab on the road to nowhere", and I can pick out bits that remind me of Smashing Pumpkins, others that sound like Dinosaur Jr, Dan's drumming is full of the funk so it kind of steers well clear of any of the usual suspects that we get tagged with. Mike came up with a great melody line which I ended up playing - it lifts the song to another level, which is clearly where it's at. Having played with All Wrapped Up for a couple of years now I've got an over-developed sense of disregard for any song that just sounds like all the others songs that have gone before it. I can't stand writing original music that isn’t that original, I need to feel that we're doing something different, worthwhile, and Mike's got a sense of melody that is so different to my own that I really feed off the stuff he plays. We've definitely got that Zen-like telepathy thing going on (what Tim from Off The Radar called "Voodoo" in a recent interview), and I suspect that we both want to be able to play like each other! He does that J Mascis/Thurston Moore psychadelic/intuitive style where the sounds just come out, and I'm still trying to break free from the pentatonic box (half the time at least).
I'm happy to be directed by Mike, musically speaking, and I don’t think I've ever really had that before. The Heff has always been able to say what he thinks (another luxury - there's few things worse than someone who is too shy to say that they think what I'm playing sucks) but sometimes you just need someone to point you in the right direction and give you a kick up the arse to get you going. Making music isn’t rocket science, but it does seem to stagger awkwardly between being the easiest thing in the world and the hardest, most infuriating thing ever. I knew a girl like that once.. Or, to be more accurate, I once knew a girl who WASN'T like that..
# posted by AK @ 12:05 
