so 4th (berry and wythe)

ok. week 3.
we've decide to start editing with a song called "a bus called further" it's about ken kesey and the merry pranksters. I have a more than passing interest in kesey, leary, owsley stanley. etc. one of the weird things is the song had a different subject and title until about 2 months before we started recording but the lyrics felt forced so we changed them. another heroes' heroes are the mighty, mighty steely dan. the outro of "abcf" has a similar chord progression to the outro of the dan's "kid charlemagne", so we decided to mod the outro a bit to even further homage "kc". a spirited discussion occurred at the session as to the meaning of "kid charlemagne", one wiki later we found out we were all wrong but maybe the spirits were right. that's right, it's about owsley stanley!!! spooky, right?
enough of the ghost stories. rory edited while I read magazines and listened, chirping in when necessary. i think rory got a cool feel, editing scott's live drums, almost giving them a dance feel. rory really knows what he's doing. then, we ate delish thai. sunday night, we bought a new mbox on ebay (that's essentially a way to make computers read sound files) so we should receive it end o' week and can start mixing the guitars and vocals then. It has been a real cool experience so far.
Been listening to lots of talk talk, early chicago, a bit of big pun and all those crystal bands that a the kids are talking about

in the poconos

rory and i spent a week up in the poconos at my friend don's velvet elk studios . we tracked a lot of guitars (that's rock n roll talk for recorded), some drums, some keyboards and sitars and most importantly, weird noises. if buttons and lights impress you, look at the nifty attached pic.

it's mostly just files. we'll start editing/breathing/awesoming all over those tracks and hopw the expletive out of them soon. there are still some cool backups and rae's keys to do, but we'll start editing in about a week.

also, some asked what i was listening to these days. do you like to hear stuff like that or is that just self indulgent, uhhhmmm... poop? well, for that guy; some coltrane, some beach boys, the new tv on the radio, some podcasts of thich nhat hahn speeches, frankmusic's "in step" and a lot of clash.

thanks for checking this out. talk to you soon.

brief synopsis

hey.
my name is stephe. in some circles i go by the blueeyeddevil. i've been singing, playing guitar, writing songs and djing for a long time. a year ago some friends of mine and i recorded a couple of songs and played a couple of gigs, we called it the heroes of popular wars or hopw. some blogs wrote some nice things (which is nice of them). one of my partners, rachel (the elle-oner was her tag growing up in brooklyn, that seems cool to me) still wanted to make some music and make some cool art (rae is a grad student at pratt). so, an old friend scott and i made some beats. i wrote some songs for those beats, another scott played some drums (which we recorded at the seaside lounge in brooklyn). now, a dear friend rory has been contributing invaluable creative inspiration: making beats, engineering, playing tons of instruments, whatever it takes. i've decided to sort of keep a diary of the last weeks/months and hopefully it will come out cool.