Back again for more songwriting jabber. Lots of discussion of rhyming and lyrics, Leonard Cohen, getting the drums right, and Pat Pattison's lyric writing and worksheet process.
Back again to fuel our "tolerated" hobby. More songwriting discussion from Tony & Dave. Tony can't write happy songs, Dave messes with his songs too much. Visit with your online songwriting habit support group !!
Welcome to another show that is once again filled with interesting/uninteresting (depends on your point of view) chatter about home songwriting.
During today's show we talked about how common copying songs from older songs is and, totally by coincidence, while we were recording Steve "The King" Sungodv was posting in the 2090 forum about this book.
An interesting look at the phenomenon. Check out the site with some audio also at SoundsLikeTeenSpirit.com
Here's the link to Jimmy Crespo on eBay if you want to book him Crespo on eBay
Today's Songs
Summer Blues - Zoetrope Soundclick Summer - Dave Watson Soundclick Umbrella Full of Rain - Super Spud Four Albert at Soundclick Hot Summer Day - David Cooper Songplanet
Today Dave talks to Dave Chick. In addition to being a home recordist, Dave has developed a blossoming career doing movie soundtracks all out of his spare bedroom. It's a long one but well worth the listen !
Songs: Living The Dream Embarrassment of Riches Soundtrack Montage Way Too Deep Belly of the Beast - Collaboration as part of a CAPE project on mixerman.net
You've been warned so listen at your own risk. It's the return of the great Sun-Rah himself, Steve Nylander with his wild sound effects and crazy laughter.
thanks to Steve for a great show as always. You can hear his music at Soundclick
Today:
Inflatable Women by Bob Rivers A Little Bit - Gary Davies / GeeJayDee - Soundclick Girl in a Graveyard - Tony Butterworth / The Tones - Soundclick Can You Blame Me? - Maceman - Soundclick Ordinary Air - Tim DeFerrars - The Miskicks - Soundclick
Today we have a Dave produced show (with Tony stuck on some tiny island). This is a star-crossed interview with Rob Christensen, home musician and Tape Op contributor.
Rob is a singer songwriter from Washington DC who hosted a home recorded music column in Tape Op magazine for a number of years. He now hosts the Home Recording panel at the Tape Op convention (The Pot Luck Conference) every year. Dave and Rob discuss home recording and a few tid bits about Tape Op magazine. Enjoy!
Welcome once again to another fun packed, high energy, exciting show with the two best qualified people in home songwriting. This show will be anything but boring, in fact it may be the best podcast about songwriting that Dave and I host all week.
So, if you want to, get to work on the song challenge. Write and complete a song between now and August 10th, record a short or long intro or commentary, send it along and we'll play them all. The theme is "Summer"
Here we are once again. I'll start by saying thanks to Famous Patrick for his nice comments about us in his commentary. I listened earlier in the week and neglected to thank him during the show.
As usual the show is on youtube but the mid side segment really depends on stereo so I've also uploaded it to www.revver.com. The embedded link below is the Revver link.
Note that the spoken sound quality is a little lacking in places.
Thanks so much to John Poulton for putting this one together.
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The Open Mic Night takes place every other Thursday at The Black Horse on Gregson Lane. The next few Thursdays are the 15th and 29th of May and the 12th and 26th of June. It starts at 9.15 and finishes at 11.30. Other than there are no rules as such. Anyone is invited to bring along an instrument and play, solo or in small groups. If they wish to borrow a guitar there are several they can use. We set up two microphones and have a contact mic for the use of a fiddle player if required.
The age range of performers stretches from 12 to 65 (I don't ask ages!). Music ranges from metal (played) ascoustic to traditional folk. Many do covers but quite a few do their own material.
The acts with web sites either have CDs available (Trouble at Mill) or are planning to put one out (Mark Claydon) or would like to if they weren't so lazy (me). Pat (bass with Loz) is a member of band called the Rambling Riversiders and they play in the States regularly; I think Pat is playing in Nashville as I type. Rob and Susie's is done and they are awaiting delivery (exciting). Colin is in a band but I don't know much about them. These lofty ambitions do not tarnish the evening which is strictly fun, and for most rather boozy!
