ZiggaDigga

I obviously have not been doing anything with this site. Been way too busy with school but I’m going to try to keep something going here as time allows.

I’ll dig out some more old tunes for you to listen to over the next week or 2….

Another old track from Resinhead, notice the date on the picture of the flyer, this song was written for that show…

This was recorded at the same time as the previous track I posted and if I remember right, Bob from Sunnyvale actually wrote the lyrics when he was a member of the band.

Anyway, another blast from the past as I sort through transcripts getting ready to register for school….

That’s where I’m at.

I’ve decided to go back to school(again) for a new career, so I’ve been tied up trying to figure out where to go and how to go about doing it. This is also going to obviously slow down any progress with my music and may completely halt progress if I continue to work full time while in school.

I wish I had just finished it off the first…or second time….But I’d still be stuck here now trying to get out of the Information Technology field…

Yes, Genesis…

I got the Genesis 1976-1982 Box Set for my birthday and have been listening to it constantly since then. I do prefer the Peter Gabriel era more but the first few albums with Phil Collins on vocals are just as good as the earlier work.

The remixes of these albums are great, true to the to original for the most part with everything just being a little more clear in the mix. The mastering suffers from the modern day loudness wars, but it could have been worse. The surround mixes are not over the top and really just add more space to the music and avoids typical surround mix tricks. This is a great package if you are into the symphonic prog-rock of Genesis’s early days…I can’t wait for the Gabriel era box set to be released…

I think I’ve come to the realization that I’m taking on too much with this. Drums are definitely not my forte and it shows in the tracks I’ve tried to record. I know I can do it, it’s just that my goal is to create an entire album before the end of the year and I believe doing the drum tracks myself is going to take too long to accomplish this.

In the past I always used a drum machine or sequencer for my drum tracks or had an actual drummer. Programming drum tracks takes a lot of time to get them so they don’t sound like a machine, but once they are done they are always there and easy to edit. Working with a drummer is even faster and takes a lot of pressure off of me.

For now I think I’m going to be using programmed drums during my writing/demo phase and continue to work on getting my drum skills up to par in hopes that I’ll be able to do at least some of the tracks. I may also enlist the help of others to lay down some tracks. This goes against my entire DIY goal, but I think I’d rather have some help and get stuff done than do it all myself and still be working on songs this time next year….