Random Blog Post #3

Today is my birthday. I am celebrating it with you (if you’re swift enough to be reading this on March 19th). I can’t remember the last time I really celebrated my birthday. Usually the birthday celebration consists of eating macaroni and cheese when I get home from work. It’s not the most celebratory thing in the world. But, I feel weird about outwardly celebrating by myself, so it is what it is.

This year, I’m not celebrating any more than I have in the past, but as I was driving home from work, I felt compelled to sort of document the day, musically, of course. As I’ve been explaining in my other recent posts, I believe restricting yourself with a theme, and even more so with a deadline, hinders your output and/or creativity. That’s how it is for me at least.

I’m repeating myself, but when you listen to Heat Stroke and then listen to Punk Rebel Renegade, there’s a magic in the latter album that you won’t find in the former album, I think. And I really think it’s because with PRR, I didn’t force a deadline on myself. I didn’t even have any specific goals or guidelines except for that I wanted it to sound as real and raw as possible. Other than that, it was pretty much improvised and sort of chaotic.

So yeah, today I’m going to record a little something. It may be the first time I do something that I’ve been wanting to get into that habit of for a long time: record what will be a demo of a song that I come back to later and re-record. I’ve tried to do that so many times in the past, but it’s rare that I re-record anything. It’s usually the same ugly-sounding vocal tracks and guitar tracks. I might take the time to punch in some new drum fills or something, but the difference between the “demo version” and the final version is very minimal. I want to get away from that.

Whether it’s creating a drum loop, coming up with a guitar riff, constructing a bassline, or just writing down some lyrics, I’m going to document the day. Nothing out of the ordinary happened other than me eating some possibly-laxative-laced-pizza, but for some reason I feel the need to make a record of how I am feeling today. You be able to hear the results of that recording at some point in the future…I don’t know. Probably like next year if I had to guess.

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