Tracks!!

[mdlbear]

So, at long last, I actually got off my arse and recorded a track. A scratch track, actually, for Quiet Victories. Three vocal flubs, which will be trivial to edit out, and a trainwreck at the end that I can safely ignore.

With both extra verses (and the promotion of Bev's verse to the cannonical last verse) and a couple of reps of the men's and women's endings, it comes to almost exactly 10 minutes.

  And it's Oh, No! a thousand times no
  Although it's my blood you'll be spillin'
  I shouldn't write songs more than 10 minutes long;
  I'm afraid I'm as bad as Bob Dylan.

The new equipment (Delta 1010 and a pair of CAD GXL3000 mics) sounds wonderful, to my aging ears at least.

I'm going to sing it at Kathy Mar's bash tomorrow. Probably more than once. I expect to break a few people with it.

Comments

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's great!

[mdlbear]

Thanks!

It's good to be finally getting back into recording. We'll see whether I can keep it up.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I expect to break a few people with it.

As in "cause to break into tears"?

[mdlbear]

Yes. Which I did, in fact.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

"And it's Oh, No! a thousand times no
Although it's my blood you'll be spillin'
I shouldn't write songs more than 10 minutes long;
I'm afraid I'm as bad as Bob Dylan."

with or without a Scottish version of his accent? Hee hee!

[mdlbear]

My version sounds a lot closer to Bob Dylan than to Eric Bogle.