The Living Rockumentary

Henning: Ken came over yesterday for a bit and we recorded him doing two mandolin and two accordian tracks for Peggy-O. He did, of course, a great job, playing along with my out of tune singing and poorly recorded acoustic guitar. Next we need to get max over to record the bass. Then it's vocal time. I was thinking of Ken on the upper and Tony on the lower harmonies.

I also recorded a reverby tremelo electric guitar for just one small part of the song but I may eventually just delete that. We'll see in the final mix.

Also, I ordered a book from Amazon.com about how to use Sonar, so, hopefully, I will become a little more adept at that.

I wrote another verse to this new song Earn Earn. I write lyrics now usually away from the guitars when I am out walking. This is what I have so far:

Earn earn you need money to burn.
If you stare at the clock you can almost see it turn.
If you want to you can leave.
If you want to you can leave and never return -
Turn you have lessons to learn.
The quieter you get the more we're concerned.
If you want to you can leave.
If you want to you can leave and never return.
Never return.
Why do I think that you'd never return?

That's it so far. I don't know it might be a toss away. Not sure if it's a good idea to do this. To write lyrics here. Sometimes when you read lyrics before hearing a song it ruins it. What do you think?

Ken and I were talking about having one song in our live set that followed the Pus / Misty Paradise approach. In both those songs the middle breakdown was a cacophony of adlibbed songs sung and played on top of each other. What if we have a song like that. But the whole song is that thing? What would happen? Could be good. Could be terrible.

I guess the idea would be to have some title or a few lines that always found their way into the song. Or maybe those lines could be dependent on where we were playing or something. Think about it.

We need to schedule some practices and start recording soon. Ken suggested I make up a recording schedule which is a good idea and I will try to work on that today.

Lastly, I just posted a notice about this Living Rockumentary on Masslive Soundboard. Here is what I wrote:

“On the website www.schoolforthedead.com there is a link to the living rocumentary. This is the link: http://schoolforthedead.blogspot.com

It is an ongoing discussion by the members of School for the Dead. Hopefully, everything that we do as a band will be documented in that Living Rockumentary. Everything. Even the stupid marketing and inside secret promotional ideas. Even the arguments and unrelated nonsense. The idea is to have an accurate and on-going documentation of a struggling indie pop band. It's just starting out (as is the band) but with time I think it will grow into something great.

If you have any suggestions please let me know what they are.”