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Sick Ship – Songwriting – November 20 2008
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- November 20th, 2008
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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.
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Sick Ship – Songwriting – November 11 2008
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- November 11th, 2008
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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….
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Sunday Song Part One
I wanted to prove to myself that I could write a generic rock song and I think I did. I want to do more, I want to figure out how to make it sound better than Garage Band’s generic sounds, I want to figure out how to make it more interesting than generic pop chord progressions. To teach and motivate myself I’m going to keep working on this song and post the newest version every Sunday, hence the name “Sunday Song”.
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MIDI & Electronic Drum Experiment #1
I plugged my electronic drums into my computer with a MIDI – USB cable, picked a punchy grand piano sound in Garage Band and started playing piano on the drums. I duplicated that track twice, once using drum sounds and once using bass sounds. When it was all done I had created 1 minutes and 20 seconds of some sort of weird tech rock. I like it.
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Because it’s business not people….
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- September 28th, 2008
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The lyrics to one of my favourite Hot Water Music songs seem very relevant to me right now. Everyone should step back and think about others before they act.
Hot Water Music – At The End Of A Gun
We can waste we can come and go
We can act like we don’t know about suffering and pain
We can live our lives in shame for never helping anyone we know, or don’t
But we need to recognize that we are dying if we live alone
Let’s send our energy out with what we know and unify today
Because our freedom sits at the end of a gun
We’re all here getting beat up and held back
We’re all here digging knives from our backs
We’ve all been betrayed
Because it’s business not people
It’s always take and it is never give and that’s not the way I want to live
Because that’s nothing but dying and we’re nothing if we sell ourselves
Close your eyes never hear never cry for living an empty life
Sick Ship – Songwriting – July 31 2008
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- July 31st, 2008
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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
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The Original Sick Ship
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- July 23rd, 2008
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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!
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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.
I wrote about Moneen for Much Music
I wrote a about a NXNE show featuring Moneen, Casey Baker & The Buffalo Sinners and Songs From A Room for the Much Music blog, check it out. NXNE: Moneen @ El Mocambo – Much Music.com Blog
Who Cares What Old Joke Bands Have To Say?
I just read a Punknews.org article that contains this quote from Gene Simmons:
“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
For the love of God I hope the music industry doesn’t “pop its head up”. The last thing we need is another album full of joke songs by a bunch of assholes that think they were anything but a joke band. Kiss were worse than Britney Spears or NKOTB ever were because they disguised their shit pop as rock and roll, dicks. This quote just proves Kiss was never in it for the music, they’ll just wait until they can cash in again, why would they play music otherwise?
I just thought you dudes should know about this, that’s all.
I Wrote About My Morning Jacket For Much Music
I wrote a blog post about My Morning Jacket’s new single, album, Saturday Night Live appearance and Toronto show for the Much Music blog. Check it out: New Music From My Morning Jacket
I borrowed the photo from Brandon Hirsch, check out his photos on Flickr.
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