2010 blog
tuesday, may 25th - arlington, ma
another new tune for you... "bubbles".
we finished it up, giving it the final mix this evening. another xylophone part for
chris... it's all over the kids record. that's him whistling too!
tuesday, may 4th - arlington, ma
we finally mixed "isn't she ecstasy".
this song has been a work in progress for a
few years and most of that time we simply sat on it and did nothing. it started out
amongst the clutter in jay's basement and moved over to chris' basement where we had
gordon come in and record his violin part (and all of chris' parts).
we don't want to bash cakewalk/sonar,
but it gave us a lot of grief tonight... constantly crashing. we simply saved a lot
and got better at dealing with the crashes. it also kept peaking on us to add to
our troubles. so it's doubtful that there will be any remixes of this.
to make ourselves feel better, we also mixed down
"too young" from the upcoming kids record.
thursday, april 22nd - arlington, ma
"little bee" was inspired by a trip to the park...
my son mo got stung by a bee and
this song fell out of me. after i biked like a madman home and made sure he was
alright, of course. one of the coolest things about this recording for me (jay) was
that i used my grandfather's upright bass that he bought new in something like 1937.
he previous instrument, the tuba was becoming old school and getting phased out, as
he put it. the bass still has a crack in it from when it fell out of his frozen
hand on the way home from a gig... they didn't have room for it in the car, so he
held it up on the roof... i guess it was winter and you can only hold on for so
long.
saturday, april 17th - arlington, ma
sometime around 6,000 years ago in second grade, jay learned the song "don gato".
it's been with him ever since. tonight we finished
recording it. here it is... "don gato"
thursday, march 25th at the burren - somerville, ma
we got together with frank to have a few brews and to come up with goh and goh labs
ideas. out of this, we may build a robot... it's certainly on our to do list now.
a few random things we need to get out of the way, like actually releasing our
iphone app first. after that, we're building a robot! (or at least we'll drink and
talk about it some more)
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