Month: October 2019

“Songs, they have to be recorded or they drive you crazy just being inside your head.”
— Graham Nash, summer 2019

What pushed Graham Nash, the quiet one, to record his solo masterpiece

Rings true to me.

Sometimes it’s not even songs; it can be synth patches, or guitar sounds, or circuit ideas. Wrestling ideas out from the imagination and into the world.

Today it’s a drum beat, and maybe some synth mods.

Who knows what it might be tomorrow.

My music library makes for some interesting bedfellows. Here are the real alphabetical neighbors for Mr. Furious artists:

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Big Star
Bike
Bilal
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Converge
Cool Drugs
Cory Kibler
Cosmic Ground
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Echo & the Bunnymen
echoes
Econoline Crush
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Gift of Gab
GiLMO
Girl Talk
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How to Destroy Angels
howie&scott
Howl
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Maroon 5
Mars Lights
The Mars Volta
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Pat Benatar
Pat Bradley
Paul and Paula
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Robin Pecknold
Robot, Creep Closer!
Robotboy
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Saint Vitus
Sally Ride
Same Old Crap
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Shabazz Palaces
Shacker
Shanice
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This is more for my reference than anything else, but I recorded drums for V for Voice at Sound + Vision / Lawrence Public Library on September 22, 2016, and March 6, 2017.

I remember both dates clearly, and it doesn’t seem like the September one could have been three years ago. At all.

I had some nerves, both about whether I’d play well and about being in a new studio. I can feel the weight of the drums as I walk up 7th street from my parking spot to the library’s front entrance. I feel as at-home on those streets now as I did on the streets of my hometown growing up.

Anyway. The recordings went pretty well those days. The tracklist was basically set already, so on the first date I played When Breathing through Beams, then the rest of the record on the second date.

Time is deeply strange.