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Remember when Henning was relating how he wanted to rerecord all his old songs since the original performances and productions were inferior to the way they could sound? My question to Henning, or I guess, the thing that would bother me about the whole idea of revisiting old songs of my own would also lie in wanting to rewrite parts of the songs. Revise lyrics, smooth out awkward melodies, etc. I find it hard to believe that Henning has issues with simply the recordings of songs dating to over five years ago but finds that the songs as compositions still stand up perfectly well to his critical viewpoint nowadays. Especially ones that were finished within hours. I could be wrong, but then again, I am a writer who didn't feel like "Mallcop!", a song that lasts less than a minute long was really finished and right until four years had pased since it was first conceived. In other words, Henning may well just be a bash-bash go-with the initial inspiration and it's done writer. I don't function this way.
How's that for self-abosorbed, Mr. & Mrs. America?
Henning also recently regaled us with some raves about the Humbert "Lunchroom" CD, then dug out the article link, plus Brian told me this evening he'd just taken a listen to some of the unreleased Humbert 3rd album recordings. So maybe I'll jump in and revisit this stuff myself tomorrow, see where it takes me. It's been a while...
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