Steve got a new video camera and video taped his drive to my place and and us playing a new song. Check it out:
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Songwriting – December 22 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Steve and I got together with the intention of demoing 2 new songs; one new one and one that we had recorded back when we were playing with Kristen. We worked on the new song and it sounded good so we recorded it; here it is.
The old song we were going to re-record isn’t sounding so hot. It sounds weak without the guitar and it’s super fast and doesn’t really fit in with the new stuff Steve and I have been working on. We’re also old and lazy. We recorded it but I’m not gonna post it… just kidding, here it is.
Songwriting – November 20 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Steve and I got together again and reworked a song we had written and recorded years ago. This time we used the same Micro POG octave pedal as last time but we ran the higher octave through a Little Big Muff and into it’s own channel in the mixer. The dry bass signal went through the Fulltone Bass Drive and the Sans Amp into another channel in the mixer. The high bass and low bass were panned to different sides and it was awesome and super heavy.
This song uses some weird time signatures and a lot of poly rhythms, it took me forever to figure it out, I’m an idiot.
Songwriting – November 11 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
It’s been almost three and a half months and we have another song. This time it’s just me and Steve (drums and bass) but it sounds full thanks to the Fulltone Bass drive and the Micro POG. We really like this song, it’s a slow jam….
Songwriting – July 31 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
We got together and did some more songwriting today. We talk more than we play and I’m too stupid to remember complicated parts these days so all we have to show is half a song but it has bass! Check it out, it’s the only time you’ll ever hear me play a straight up punk beat.
July 31 2008
The Original Sick Ship
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
When writing about the start of the Sick Ship songwriting project I forgot to mention that Steve and I had a very similar band about a year ago with Kristen of Wheels On The Bus. We wrote a bunch of songs at a real rehearsal space, no headphone jams, but we recorded the same way, in my apartment live off the floor into a mixer into one track in GarageBand.
Here are 3 complete songs, these ones even have bass!
As usual, Sick Ship wasn’t our real name, we didn’t have a name and that was the best we could come up with.
Songwriting – July 13 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is the start of a new project… Sick Ship.
The band consists of me, Steve Fennell (Wheels On The Bus) and Pat Kelly (Ten Speed Hero). We play in my apartment, we call it a headphone jam. We run electronic drums, bass and guitar into a mixer and out to a headphone amp, it always ends up sounding good and it doesn’t make your ears ring like a real jam, but it also doesn’t rattle your soul like standing in front of a wall of amps. We’re not really called Sick Ship, we don’t have a name yet.
We do a lot of recording direct from the extra headphone output into my Macbook Pro using Garage Band. We write songs collectively so I thought I’d start recording that process and put it up for anyone who is interested. It’s rough as we work things out and unfortunately you can’t hear us talking because that’s an important part of it.
Here’s the first in this series.
Pat brought in a riff he’d come up with earlier that day and we just jammed on it. Near the end we Started working on a riff Steve and I had messed around with a few months ago. Have a listen, there might be something good there.
July 13 2008 – #1
July 13 2008 – #2