End of a day's work (more like 2 hours of work)

Well, here goes round 2 of my involvement in Record Time. I have been an avid listener of Record Time since it's third incarnation and participated in one (you might know me better as the front man of the gayest duo in town, Lake Euclid). Record Time always seems to happen during the craziest times of my life and this is no exception. Full time job, part time job, renovating a house, moving into said house, being on call at said full time job.....all of that is happening this week, but I was dedicated this time to participating again.  I still don't have any recording equipment so my soul mate, David French, will be supplying those sweet, sweet mp3's of my submission.

The reason I am so dedicated this year is simply because I no longer have a band to play with :( My band has dissipated to various cities around the Midwest and so I have been NEEEEDING some musical release. It just so happens that Jimmy Zenger (my former guitarist and the front man from the critically acclaimed Oberon submission from last Record Time) is living with me for a semester. So we both have full time things going on and other craziness, but we will being blessing your ears with half thought out melodies and less thought out lyrics.

We have done a whole 2 hours of work tonight after being at our separate places of work all day (11 hours for me) and already have 5 songs all between 1/8ths and 4/8ths (1/2 for all you reductionists out there) done.

There is no concept. There is no specific style. There is no inspiration. There is only....music.

Happy Working!

Day One Recap

Howdy, fellas.

It has been a long day!  Allow me to inform you of my Record Time advances:

First of all, I picked an album title!  I would tell you, but I'm keeping it a surprise.  I think I might do my own album art this time also, but I can't yet decide.

Secondly, I have outlined some pretty specific goals.  7 songs & 20 minutes.  This is as opposed to last time - 5 songs & 13 minutes.  I would also like to be more musicky & less lyricky.  Finally, more instruments!  Today I picked up my trumpet & my alto sax, so we'll see how those guys work out.

Thirdly, I have written the first 3 or so minutes.  Maybe more.  Who knows.  I also have the lyrics written to another song but no music.  All in all, it's fairly folky, as is expected.

This is all going fairly well so far.  I'm sure that recording will be difficult.  It always is when you have no idea what you're doing & when you're using Garage Band... thankfully, I have another few days to worry about that.

Everyone blog!  I want to hear how things are going!



xoxo,

Marta

GO GO GO!!!

This year's record time is going to my best so far. It's going to continuation of our story line from Record Time VII. The album was called "A Boy and his Demon." The story apparently didn't end by setting fire to the home of his foster parents.

Expect a little bit of metal. You really can't make an album about an evil/crazy arsonist kid without a little bit of metal. My personal goal is to add more electronic elements. Also, the production value of this album is going WAY up. I now have access to basically any gear I want. It's time to make a great sounding album.

We've got the space cleaned up.

It's RECORD TIME!



helping this time: Eric Cripe, Brad Shearer, Chris Schneider, and myself (Mike Godlove.) Possibly some guest appearances as well.

A Nu Breed

RTIX, my...7th record time. Yeesh. My RTVIII started with two frustrating, wasted days followed by 5 manic, insane days that resulted in 22 tracks of madness. The title track, "Hamburgers and Hotdogs", may be one of the dumbest things I've ever written. For RTIX every track will be the dumbest thing I've ever written. I have a feeling that this record is going to really bum me out, and then it will make me laugh every time I hit play. So...please don't expect anything "good" from me this time, because I'm shooting for shit. The true measure of my success will be just how pure that shit is.

And by writing this post I'm committing to this...ugh...

WHY??

Well, this happened during Record Time VII, and now it's happening again. I'm getting sick, I have a sore throat, and I'm not sure if I can pull off the vocals I want for this album. This is mainly upsetting due to the fact that this was supposed to be my first Record Time with complete vocals, from clean to harsh, from high to low. I'm just going to wait it out till the end of the week and hope I can knock this cold mostly out by then.

On the bright side, I have one song done (except the vocals) and plan to get fairly far ahead on another before I have to leave for work in 3 hours. No work tomorrow night, though, so by Wednesday morning, I'm hoping to be up at the 12-13 minute mark. I think I'm finally going to make 30 minutes with this one!

Is anybody else working with a cool story or concept? I want to hear people's inspiration and ideas for their albums. It helps put the proper spin on the final project.

Day 2 = Day 1

Hello fellow RTers. I'm really excited about RT IX. My last submission was way too ambitious, and made me physically ill immediately following it's release. One would think I'd have learned my lesson but one would be wrong.

I'll be attempting another concept album in the genre of indie/country/folk (either because that's the best kind of music, or because that's all I'm capable of writing). Although this time I'm going to forego the terrible narration, adopting a more traditional rock opera form.

Compounding the difficulty of this task is my current hungoverness, resulting from a drunken weekend with friends and family, topped off by seeing a 3-hour set by The Avett Brothers last night. Needless to say, I haven't gotten any work done in this haze. But we only get so many days, now I have one less. But I'll do my best.

See you all at the end, or a day after.

Also...

Does anybody have any specific songs they would like to see us cover?

Not promising we will, but we are open to ideas.