123117 Had a good state of the union review with Michael. I need these. 122117 Had a little groove pop up in my brain. Recorded bass, drums, guitars, organ and some vocal ideas. Dave sent me a sample of factory machine noise that I had asked for. Fooled with resampling it with the SSD Trigger, which is in Dynamics, for future self., 121617 Strung up the battered Yamaha in a Nashville Tuning and aped the acoustic guitar parts in Capers. 121517 The two same-age, bass-playing Daves will be at the Rundgren show tomorrow. They have yet to meet. 121417 Rehearsal with Bryan. Working out Capers. Bryan brought his mandolin and Seagull acoustic so of course we had a Beatles sing-along after. Note to self: Listen to Spooky Tooth's version of I Am The Walrus. 121317 Finalized the arrangement for Capers (Harbor Breeze) and sent off a copy to Dave and Bryan. 120917 Still futzing with the arrangement of Capers. Need to re-cut nearly all of the parts. 120717 Rehearsal with Dave and Bryan. Dave and Bryan sang Beatles songs afterwards. Sent Dave a demo of Capers. 120617 Michael's birthday! Bryan turned me onto Nashville tuning. Ordered some strings. Gauges are 10-14-09-12-17-25. 120517 Got the new solos back from Danny Button. Way good! 120417 Smeared the Kent Americana all over Bon Voyage. Not sure if P will keep any of it. Still trying to muscle Capers into something. Getting awfully close. 120217 Going to try to put down some keeper parts for Capers today and squeeze it in for Land Ho! 113017 Good rehearsal with Bryan and Dave. Should have several contiguous sessions in before Christmas. 112917 Talked to Danny Button about getting some additional takes of the Is This Your Thing solo with more of a dirty 1960s vibe. I thought he might be annoyed but, as always, he was positive, enthusiastic and committed to coming up with the best part for the song. 112717 Spent some time arranging the different parts in Capers. Tried some different approaches to the opening line of It's Wandering. Considering resurrecting Sue's Green Dress for this album as a Her Majesty add on somewhere. It fits the theme nicely. 112617 Sent the first three songs off to Allen for drums - 20,000 Days, Land Ho! and Around The World in 20,000 Days. 112517 Shannon added vocals to 20,000 Days, Land Ho! and Around The World in 20,000 Days. 112417 Rachel tracked vocals on 20,000 Days, It's Wandering, Around The World in 20,000 Days and Land Ho! 112217 Going to start sending Allen songs this weekend. Going to try to have 6 ready by then. Added a half-dozen vocal takes to It's Wandering. 112017 Michael and I ran through some artwork options and then listened to what we have ready for Land Ho! He felt like we should include Wrong Star and Long Dry Walk. We'll at least send them to Allen and see how they feel with some marvelous drum parts. 111717 Sent Dave the last of the three songs that need bass parts. Contemplating producing a multi-band show for our first outing. 111617 First rehearsal with Bryan and Dave in 3 weeks. Bryan surprised me by playing Around The World In 20,000 Days on an acoustic guitar just days after I sent him the demo. The practice went surpisingly well. The holidays will probably slow us down but we're getting awfully close. 111517 Potentially have a flautist (Jazzy Jazz Miyagi) lined up for Nellie Ordinary. Sent off the current version of the song for consideration. Got Land Ho! pedal steel parts back from Terry Gann. Land Ho! indeed! Added shaker eggs, maraccas, tambourine and wood blocks to 20,000 Days. Added more vocal takes. 111417 Started to lather flesh on 20,000 Days. I like where it's going. Both it and the reprise are Get Happy sparse in terms of changes. Sorted through some more images looking for inspiration for Land Ho! artwork. 111317 Added a million slide parts to Around The World but they seem to clutter an already noisy song. Will let P decide. Set copies of the rough draft to Dave and Bryan so that we can pop it in the set. 111217 Fixed an error with the lyric display application. Finished AWI2KD but now am thinking about editing in a bridge. I hate editing in bridges. 111117 Got scratch vocals and guitar down for 20,000 days. It's going to go fast. Have nearly finished Around The World In 20,000 Days. Just need to comp a lead vocal. Here's the current track listing for Land Ho! in my mind. Kill Me (now Bon Voyage) Land Ho! 20,000 Days Parasol Is This Your Thing? Nellie Ordinary Glad to Pass On It's Wandering Around The World In 20,000 Days Thanks means pushing Wrong Star Long Dry Walk Boyfriend into the box where Dingus and about 30 other partially recorded songs live. Potential Bomb Pop Innuendo material. 111017 Fluffed up Around The World. 110817 Talked to P about adding accordion to Land Ho! Added SoundToys Little Plate reverb to Pro Tools. Recorded the framework for Around The World In 20,000 Days. Will do 20,000 Days tomorrow. 110417 I dreamt of some puns about biblical characters for Around The World In 20,000 Days. I was given the title too. 110217 Got guitar parts back from Danny for Is This Your Thing. Good stuff as always. 110117 Asked Patrick if he wanted the completed songs for Land Ho as they were finshed or all at once. Decided on all at once. I've traded recording for rehearsing for the last few months but need to get ready to start sending Allen songs for drums before Thanksgiving. Am committed to going through everything over the next 10 days and evaluating which songs are finished and which still need bits. Still need to write a few more too, which fortunately is happening organically. Her Bows one year-old today. 101917 Added 20,000 Days to the set. Dave brought a Shure SM58 Beta for me to try out, which I dug. 101217 Ran through the 19 song set with Bryan and Dave. Broke a string on the Ephiphone less than a week after re-stringing it. Talked with Bryan about contributing parts to "Land Ho!". 100617 Fourth rehearsal with Dave and Bryan. Should have an hour of stuff ready to go in early November. 093017 Adding Three Bells, Ordinary Guy and Girl for Samson's End of Summer to the set. 092817 Talked with Michael about a title for the 4th album and artwork. He's on board with Land Ho! for the title and my concept for the front and back covers. Third rehearsal with Bryan and Dave. Bryan is ready to add a few more songs so will learn Three Bells and something else. 092217 Second rehearsal with Bryan and Dave. Added Puff Adders and Falstaff to the set. 091817 Still rehearsing a 45 minute set instead of recording. Land Ho and Is This Your Thing are out getting guitar parts. Will probably start sending Allen songs for drums in October. 091517 Played around with a cover for the new album. Going with Land Ho until something better happens along. 091417 Dave and I ran through the set with multi-instrumentalist Bryan Mace. Very excited about the potential. 091317 Patrick Meagher signed up for mixing and mastering the 4th album. Big relief for me. 083117 Dave and I romped through the set. 082817 Chris Ruzich came by and helped flesh out a song he submitted as a bass idea earlier this year. Michael brought the congas by for our rehearsals. 082517 ReverbNation chart plummet. Held the number 5 spot for our city for about 6 weeks but have since dribbled down to number 10. I think all this means is that I need to post new content. A new picture and a blog entry would probably stave off our disappearing entirely from the front page. 082417 Dave and I ran through the set. Trying to get the science-y bits worked out so that we can get it to the place where we can drink while we play. 082317 Still trying to run through the set once or twice a day to get in playing shape Please consider this public record proof of ownership of the following band name: Touch Manly & the Bomb Pop Innuendo While I am googly-eyed by the thrilling possibilities of writing songs as TM, I am not made of wood and will consider any obscene offer for purchase. And by obscene I mean a figure high enough that my bank won't allow me to cash the check at the drive through. Like, they would need me to come in and show a bunch of credentials. Which I totally have. 082117 Filmed the changes in the sky during the eclipse for incidental footage for White Girl but there were dust spots on my sensor. Sang another dozen takes of Land Ho. 081917 Sent Dave (bass), Terry Gann (pedal steel) and Michael (piano) a demo of Land Ho! Michael and I went shopping! 081817 Ayo McPherson tracked congas on Nellie and Is This Your Thing. Worked on the B section of Land Ho. 081717 Ran through the set with Dave. John Bara sat in on congas. Yahoo suggests that, while searching for Johnny Marie & the Lonesome Petunias, you may have intended to search for: breanne marie & the front porch sinners jan marie & the mean reds donny & marie marie & the papaya girls beautiful day marie & the redcat marie & the misfits marie & the boys dance band andrea marie & the magnolia band I don't agree. I think you were spot on. Here's a whimsical look at the current "Similar Artists" list from Spotify: The Delta Riggs 888 Rann Akron/Family Revolution, I Love You Paul Weller I think Paul Weller is on the list because we both fret over gum recession and bone density. 081617 Did some base touching with the videographer. Sending Is This Your Thing off to Danny Button. Talking to conga players. Current live setlist clocking in right at 30 minutes without jibber jabber, tuning or replacing broken strings: Little Something Sultan Eyes Kitty Can/nothingood/White Girl Billy Corgan's Caddilac Ask Gardenaire My Sweet Lord/Toast & Marmalade For Tea/Trashbag Launderette Wrong Star It's Wandering 081517 Gardenaire (the song) now has over 1,000 streams on Pandora Radio. 081417 Recorded demo-y parts for Land Ho and Melody Maker. Recorded more soft lead vocals for Nellie Ordinary. Fooled around with the solos in Is This Your Thing. 081317 Added some chaotic solos to Is This Your Thing. 080917 juiceboxberries is now one year-old. 080617 Lots of stuff going on. I'm so focused on this new album that I'm startled whenever something good floats down the river from Gardenaire - which has only been out for 3 months. 080517 Michael may have scored us a conga player for recording and performance. 080417 Michael added backing vocals to Is This Your Thing. 080317 Dave and I ran through a dozen songs for our future set. Afterwards he added backing vocals to Is This Your Thing, Wrong Star and It's Wandering. 080217 The "White Girl" video project is still alive. Please not-too-long live the "While Girl" video project. Tom Bowman doing what Tom Bowman does. 080117 Official YouTube page for Johnny Marie & the Lonesome Petunias music and videos. 073117 Made some tweaks to It's Wandering. Allen Johnston is ready to start listening to songs. 073017 Thomas added bass and vocals to It's Wandering. 072917 Rachel added some vocals to Is This Your Thing? Got up at 4:30 to quietly capture the B part to It's Wandering. Got chords, melody, words - the whole pile. Thank you Giant Man. 072817 Fleshing out It's Wandering. Thought of a B part right before bed that will haunt me all night. 072617 There is a clerk at the local grocery store that I used to "know" a long time ago when he worked at a now-defunct music store. Whenever I see him he always asks after my musical pursuits. I recently answered him by giving him a copy of Gardenaire, which he immediately tried to buy. After a few weeks he asked for one of the other albums, which I delivered today, and again, he insisted on paying for it. How stand up is that shit? 072417 MTV Italy treating us better than the US. Fake news. Cregg optimistic about the new t-shirt designs. 072217 Sent a new t-shirt design to Cregg. Got the first rough cut of the video for White Girl. 072017 Dave add more takes to Parasol. I used a bass mistake from Is This Your Thing to build a loop in the outro. He had a few live runs at that. I decided to have it morph from loop to live like We Don't Do That. 071917 Talking to another artist about a video for White Girl. 071817 Finishing up a long droning ending to Is This Your Thing? 071317 Dave and Michael came over and we mostly talked, drank and sang. Ran through some stuff I imagine including in an open mic set. Song list up for consideration for number 4 thus far, or so far: Wrong Star Long Dry Walk Kill Me Glad To Pass On Is This Your Thing? Nelly Ordinary Parasol Boyfriend Old Clothes 071217 I've been posting some old CD artwork mock-ups on Instagram and Facebook. 071017 Played with Is This Your Thing? some more. 070917 Started fooling around with Is This. Your Thing? Also lathered some vocal flesh on Wrong Star. 070817 On this day last year I was listening to the juiceboxberries masters. Added piano and backing vocals to Wrong Star. Re-sang lead in Nellie Ordinary. 070617 Dave came over and tracked bass on Wrong Star. We ran through Kitty Can. 070517 Finished up the Kitty Can demo and added a million softer vocal takes to Parasol. Dashed off some guide tracks for Wrong Star. 070317 Look at how MTV is spoofing users by using a redirect for Johnny Marie on MTV.com (https://www.mtv.com/artists/johnny-marie-the-lonesome-petunias/) link to bounce to their homepage. Number 5 on Kansas City's Alterntative charts at ReverbNation just for being organized. 062917 Michael came over and listened to the mostly-finished and just-started songs. He really liked Kill Me and wants to open the album with it I forgot about Long Dry Walk and Wrong Star so suddenly we have 7 songs in the bank. I would like to develop at least another 7 before we call it soup or whatever you call a completed collection of songs. Is it soup? Smoothed out the changes in Boyfriend. Have 4 songs nearly ready to ship to Allen for drums. 062817 Played around with a live set arrangement. Doubled the length of Boyfriend and added some guitars and bass. 062617 Spent the afternoon setting up proper buses and naming tracks for the 4 songs that are nearly ready for Allen while "The Trip" from 1967 droned. I'll watch anything pre-disco era Bruce Dern picture. The wah-wahier the better. Michael brought by Gardenaire t-shirt samples. Had a meeting in the gardens about quantity, sizes etc. 062517 Rachel and Shannon added vocals to Nellie Ordinary, Parasol, Boyfriend and Glad to Pass On. Spent the early morning working up some covers to worm into a live set. Both Bee Gees-related. 062417 Tweaked Wrong Star, Parasol and Boyfriend. 062217 Dave and I put down a scratch track for Wrong Star. Talked about doing some 4-5 song set shows together. Was unfollowed by a handful of people for this tweet: "On social media, unsigned bands are as vulnerable as the sick and elderly and as invasive and toxic as Giant Hogweed." 062017 That moment when you realize you've been mixing with the isolation headphones on. That moment when you realize that there is a pair of hot headphones in the room that have been bleeding into your tracking. Number 5 on ReverbNation's Alternative charts for Kansas City. It's a tin tiera. 061917 Chris came by and recorded bass for the outro of Parasol. He also Sang harmonies for Glad To Pass On and Boyfriend. 061717 Sang more takes for Boyfriend and fooled with the arrangement. Storms overnight. Trees down. Power outages. Pro Tools computer wouldn't power up. Dig this - ends up that a single plug on the surge protector, the very plug the computer was in, was fried. Tried another plug and protector and the 4th Johnny Marie album resumes. 061617 I have musicians scheduled to come over and track over the next week so am trying to see which of the 6 half-cooked songs (Parasol, Nellie Ordinary, Glad to Pass On, Long Dry Walk, Old Clothes, Boyfriend, ) are ready. I also need to frame out a rollicking version of Wrong Star. 061217 Number 7 on ReverbNation's Alternative charts for Kansas City in mid-June when the winds are gusting from the South. 060917 juiceboxberries now available at Target.com 060817 Dave tracked bass on Nellie Ordinary and Parasol. Micahel popped by and we talked about some t-shirt designs. 060717 Worked on Boyfriend and Old Clothes. 060617 Popped Three Bells up on ReverbNation 060317 Gardenaire now playing on Pandora Radio 060217 Hung out with 5 Johnny Marie contributors sequentially. 053117 Another re-tooling of Boyfriend. Got an idea to make it less Violent Femmesy when I heard a sort of reggae song in an episode of Better Call Saul. Didn't work. 052917 Picked up a six string banjo. You're thinking "Oh, banjo and a mandolin! I know what you're up to!" No you don't. 052717 Finally got a chance to sit down and paw through Danny Button's guitar tracks for Parasol. Delightful range of tones and feels. Will be difficult settling on just one or two. Monkeying around with a mandolin. 052317 Received the approval notice from Pandora for Gardenaire. Took two weeks this time. Took 1 day for juiceboxberries and Her Bows. Should be live sometime in June. 052017 Finally picking up a banjo. Already have my eyes and ears on a song for it. 051817 Layed down a foundation for Boyfriend. 051717 Sat outside watching birds with my 1/2 classical guitar and came up with the chords for Boyfriend. 051617 Touched base with Terry Gann to make sure he was still available to contribute some lap steel/pedal steel parts. Looking forward to dreaming up something worthy of Terry's work. 051517 Sent Parasol off to Danny for some of his sweet noodling. 051217 Delighted to get Danny Button to agree to submit some guitar parts. Between he and Terry Gann I now have some shiny new tools in the box. 051117 Re-cut all of the falsettos in Nellie Ordinary. Sounds much better. 051017 Just got in a fresh batch of "Her Bows" CDs. 050917 YouTube links are now working. 050817 Physical CDs are here and should be available online in about a week. 050617 Album is finding it's way around the world. Currently up on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRADIO, Slacker Radio, Napster, Google Play and Microsoft Music. YouTube is slowly adding songs. Pandora will take a few weeks. 050317 Worked s'more on Old Clothes. 050217 Started work on Old Clothes. 043017 Sent MP3s of Glad to Pass On to Chris so that he can develop a bass part. 042617 Pre-order "Gardenaire" at Amazon.com Dig: I'm thinking about building a set comprised of a song or two from each of the three albums and doing a few open mic nights to try to "move some units." I have mentioned this to my circle of friends so many times over the last month that more than once I have heard "Yeah, you were saying something about that." in reply. 042517 Digital Distribution launched. On target for a May 5 release. 042417 Issue with the resolution of one of the images so I went back to the lot and pulled the image to re-scan it. While looking through the slides from the roll of film I found a second shot that was wonderful and I'm using it for the CD image. A Passion Play. 042217 Order placed for Gardenaire CDs. Also ordered another box of Her Bows. 042017 I have the masters, they are gorgeous and they will be submitted to be printed tomorrow. I think we are having a May baby. 041917 Allen is starting to put together something that will enable him to record drums for us from afar. 041817 Still working, very slowly, on Parasol, 123&4 and Nellie Ordinary. 041717 I get many lines for JMLP songs when I have awakened in the middle of the night and have just about drifted back to sleep. The challenge is capturing the line without waking myself back up out of the sweet, sweet woozy state. Sometimes I can memorize it and scribble it down when I awake. I gambled on that last night and failed. 040917 Michael and I fooled around with the lyrics for Nellie Ordinary. I've been hammering away on Nellie Ordinary & pining for the Gardenaire masters. Still hope to get it out in April. 040217 Worked most of the morning painting noises on the current pile of songs. Started work on a sequence of guitar chords that Michael brought a few weeks ago. 033117 Ready to track some vocals and there goes somebody's house alarm. There are a variety of incidental environmental sounds that make their way onto vocal tracks - roofers, dogs, loud cars, wrens and cardinals. 032917 Bought and installed UVI's Mello. Michael came by and listened to the latest stuff. We decided to go ahead and order more copies of "Her Bows" when we submit "Gardenaire". 032617 Still slapping it on. 032517 Ladeling flesh upon Parasol, 123&4 and Am Again. 032417 Fooled around with some mellotron bits in 123&4 and Parasol. 031917 I want an M-Tron Pro because Andy Partridge uses one. Worked s'more on 123&4. 031617 Heaped a bunch of guitars and pianos on top of one of the bits that Chris brought. Then, 3 or 4 months from now, we'll pay somebody to strip it all way. 031517 Michael dropped by to share a collection of guitar chords he has been fooling around with. I may try to use some of the parts to supplement Parasol. 031417 Worked on Parasol. Mainly trying to find the melody hidden in the naked chords. Discovered that the masters are still a few weeks away from being in my paws. Poor world. 030517 The first optimistically over-priced Johnny Marie counterfeit CD just showed up on eBay. 030417 Chris came over and tracked a fistful of grooves he had been saving up. 030317 Went out with the gang to see Dave's cover band play. Got to meet Danny Button, Tim Kelly and talk Terry Gann into doing some pedal/lap steel work for future Johnny Marie projects. 030217 Need to do something with the phrases "unlaunderable funk" and "Virginians and Mohicans". 030117 Dave recorded bass for Long Dry Walk. Hung out with Michael, Shannon and played our hits until well past my bedtime. 022717 Thomas sent me a track order. I forwarded that along with Michael's to Patrick. 022617 Made arrangements with Allen Johnston to drum on future Johnny Marie albums. Made plans with Chris Ruzich to get some bass grooves to play with later this week. Talked with Patrick about shortening the intro to Trash Bag Launderette. 022417 Taking the AIFFs to Thomas (co-produced, mixed and mastered "Her Bows") for some track order feedback. Michael came by and gave me his suggestions for track order. 022317 Got the Gardenaire mixes back from Patrick - including all of the edits and Jackson Browne. I'm still wrestling with the intro to one song before sending this thing off to print. 022017 Fluffed up Long Dry Walk with demo bass, drums, organ and backing vocals. 021917 Roughed out Long Dry Walk structure with piano chords for number 4. I've included a Johnny Marie classic along with new stuff on each album so far. Comped the drums from last night's session and am starting to zip it up for P. There are so many "OK, this is the last *" moments in completing an album. BTW, taxes were submitted within about a minute of the zip file upload completing. 021817 Chris came by and recorded several drum takes for Jackson Browne. Also added some harmonies and cow bell. A proper cow bell at that. I'm talking wooden clapper that had to be held with his left hand while he sticked with his right. Sent mixing notes to Patrick. Site player feeds are still down. 021717 Got the mixes for the first nine songs back from Paris. Stunned. So lucky to have this guy in my corner. Had a listen with Dave straight away and then later with Michael. The feeds for the MP3 players are currently unavilable. Should be back up soon. 021317 Sang a few more rounds of the bridge so Patrick has plenty to work with. Chris is coming on Saturday to add drums and then this thing is off to the doctor. (Patrick is the doctor.) Falstaff now at 300 views while We Don't Do That is threatening 600. All you can hope for these days are ears. 021017 Decided on the 7th to have Chris Ruzich have a go at the drums for Jackson Browne and sent him an .mp3 to work with. Originally I wanted Gary Boyle to play drums on the song but felt like I was running out of time. The idea of Chris drumming to his own bass tracks appeals to me too. Working with Gary will be a pleasure I'll save for the 4th album. 020717 Chris Ruzich tracked bass for Jackson Browne. 020617 Michael signed off on the Gardenaire artwork and the lastest version of Jackson Browne. 020517 Michael brought over the Mackie ProFX12 because my ONYX820i doesn't have enought XLR inputs to accomodate all of the microphones I want to use on the drums. More finishing touches on the artwork. 020417 Sent a Jackson Browne mp3 to Dave for possible Swiercinsky Sounds. 020317 Finished laying out the artwork for Gardenaire. Just need to settle on fonts and a track listing. Touched base with Gary Boyle about drumming on Jackson Browne. 020217 Jackson Browne MP3 sent to Chris so that he can develop a part. 013117 Added new takes for just about everything in Jackson Browne. Just needs bass and drums before heading to Paris. Have a bass player lined up next week. 013017 Re-sang most of Jackson Browne and worked some more on the arrangement. 012917 Made progress finishing up Jackson Browne. Worked up a bridge and a lyric and added some slide guitar and keyboard bits. Tomorrow I'll start replacing idea parts with proper parts. 012817 We Don't Do That now has over 500 views on YouTube. Added guitars and more pianos to Now Here and whisked it off to P. 012717 Lost my nerve with Jackson Browne and reverted back to the initial notion rather than trying to implement older bits into the song. This inspired me to dig up one of the earlier versions of Pool that will work better with the temporarily discarded bits. 012617 Imported Dave's stand up bass part for NowHere. 012517 Windy sent to Paris. Worked more on Jackson Browne. Thomas came by and tracked bass for Windy with the Percision fretless and the Music Man Sting Ray. 012417 Talked to Gary Boyle about drumming on Jackson Browne and he's up for it! Now I need to finish it. I found a harmony and a vocoder part that patched up the bit that was annoying me in Windy. Scheduled Thomas to come track bass. Getting close on Windy. Got NowHere Again tidied up and just waiting on a bass part. Uploading the outro for Windy. Now to finish Windy. Did another bass take with the Music Man. Things I learned about Pro Tools today: The Insertion Follows Playback button is EVIL! Make certain that it is not highlighted. Control click on a bus track will enable individual track soloing. Control = is the antidote for an indadvertant Control W. 012317 Smushed Intro into the start of Jackson Browne. May also try to wedge in Bloof, another little bit that was born in Houston. Intro and Jackson Browne sessions were set at 110 and Bloof, with a guitar track, was at 115. What to do? If I change the tempo it will screw up the audio data, right? Here's where Paris once again pays dividends. He told me once to use Elastic Audio to convert the audio data to clicks which preserved the quality of the track during the tempo change. And it did. 012217 Sang a dozen takes of the intro to Trash Bag Launderette and sent it off to Paris. 012117 Dave has started to upload takes of Trash Bag Lauderette to my DropBox. By the way, he's using Stu Cook's 1999 Modulus Genesis 5 string bass. Stu of course is the bassist for Creedence Clearwater Revival and Creedence Clearwater Revisited. 012017 I'm giving Paris Three Bells. Made some progress on Windy but still needs some love. Working today on resurrecting Windy. This was a song Jason and I fooled around with in the early days of this project and was one of the first songs we worked on for Her Bows. I'll be giving it a better piano performance today and re-cut the vocals and bass. The outro for this song is an old demo of mine called Today. I will give Paris the option of using my original stereo demo or the reworking of the song I did last year. I need to learn how to use the Solo Safe function in Pro Tools today. This will strengthen and lengthen my relationships with sound engineers who are tasked with mixing my work. 011917 Uploading Sink Down for Paris to mix. Should have Three Bells ready this weekend. 011817 Uploading White Girls, Gardenaire and Blue in the Veins for P to mix. 011717 Added some more vocal parts and bass lines to Jackson Browne. Re-sang all of the bits in Blue in the Veins. 011617 Trying to get a couple of songs to take to Paris tomorrow. I decided on Gardenaire and White Girls. Trash Bag Launderette and NowHere (again) are waiting on a bass parts from Dave, I need to add a few more vocal takes to Blue in the Veins and Three Bells and Sink Down needs some stretching. Gave back Jezebel's Rode NTK. Worked more on Michael's new song. 011517 Got down the guts of an idea Michael had. 011417 Dave had a go at the bass for Trash Bag Launderette. Latest "Similar Artists" from Pandora Radio: The Delta Riggs Akron/Family 888 Revolution, I Love You Rann 011117 Sent Dave an MP3 of NowHere Again with Allen's drum tracks so that he can build a bass part. Woke up early and put some finishing touches on Sink Down. Will run by Michael tonight before handing off to Paris. 011017 Sink Down is starting to sound like Bananarama. 010917 Worked on the outro of Sink Down and added new vocal takes to Gardenaire and White Girl. Futzed around with vocal melodies for Bloof. 010817 Have a dozen drummers to audition but ran out of songs that need drums. Allen drummed on the first 6, I did Sink Down and I am thinking of reviving Windy, which already has Allen's parts on it. That leaves a couple of songs to prepare for percussion. I think the right way to go about this is to schedule drummers in 2 hour blocks to track the 2 songs. Then we can decide who we got along with and had the best performances. 010717 Borrowed Jezebel's Rode NTK while my mic is out on loan and am determined to track vocals for all 7 songs with it. There's a time when a man has to ask: "Will more songs fall out of my bottom if I buy a 6 string banjo OR a hulusi?" Getting some great drummer responses from the ad. Also, Dave gave me the numbers of a couple of people he has worked with. 010617 Added some bass ideas to Sink Down using the Music Man. Dave came by and hung out for a bit. Now I want a Hulusi. 010417 Re-cut a sloppy acoustic in Gardenaire and the Kent Americana in Trash Bag Launderette. 010217 Got drum parts from Allen (with engineering help from Thomas Montgomer) for White Girl, Gardenaire, Three Bells, Blue in the Veins, NowWhere (again) and Trashbag Launderette. An amazing talent as you will discover once the amazingly talented Patrick Meagher has mixed and mastered our work. 010117 So excited about Allen coming am I, that I put out some feelers for drummers to contribute on a more regular basis. Tuning Drums Day. Ew.