Release The Sanity

Monday, January 09, 2006

The last three hours were pretty cool for me. I don't know what got into B but he spent the last three hours going over all his songs he's recorded and explained them to me lyric by lyric. Then having me listen to each song in full and wanting me to tell him what I thought about each one. Now that last part is amazing because he's pretty funny about me throwing my opinion in things.

I am so proud of him. All his songs have personal meaning. Each lyric represents a person, a feeling or an moment he has experienced. You can tell he's put a great amount of time into these lyrics.

I found out the song I thought was about me is about me, the ex-girlfriend and a girl he knows at the clinic. Sorta weird but he said he started writing it about one then experienced something with the others and it all tied into one song. ( Sounds like my mind, I'll have one topic and that brings me to all these others things and I tie them all together) He wrote the chorus after we left on Christmas Day. It is a bit unnerving sometimes to have someone write songs about you. Makes you want to make sure not to get on their bad side. LOL

All in all, I really appreciated that time with him. I was feeling pretty useless since he's only come up for air a few minutes a day from the basement. Today we spent a lot of time together. We both spoke to David today and got a few "rule" issues cleared up.

Matt, a drummer we know from a local band came over today and helped the boys with a few ways to record. He was here for a drum lesson but when he heard a few of the songs he ditched the lesson and helped wire a few things up to make the instruments sound better.

A new addition to the studio today, a recording vocal mic. It's mighty fine. I'm looking forward to hearing how it sounds. Maybe if I bring that mic out with me I can use that to power up courage to sing karaoke. We had some problems hooking it up to the mixing board. A few funny pictures of B trying to mic, calling the music store, trying something else... he went back and forth for quite awhile before realizing there's a little button on the back of the mixer to power up a mic of this fine quality. hehehe

I'm tired as can be. I got two hours of sleep last night. I'm going to go lay on the couch, relax and watch some tv.

Posted by FieldsOfJoy :: 7:17 PM :: 0 comments