Set up live gigs with each other, announce gigs you're playing around the country or whatever, talk about how the show went, post links to recordings, etc.
Ok, I give up on the private messages. Let's just carve some space out on the boards here.
*note to self, ask admins to add a "Reply All" function to the PMs.
Current plans: Rehearse Sunday morning. Where?
Current Set List:
- Ellis Island
- Don't think I don't miss you
- Courage
- Rhymes with Lucia
- Don't break my heart, George Lucas
- Tomorrow Never Knows (possible cover)
I'll copy paste the lyrics and chord progressions in the next post.
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[E] - [Am] - The soloing actually floats between the keys of D and G
we could've had forever but you gave it all away
you stole my piece of happiness so I sent you to your grave
you stranded me in this world so I put you in the dirt
I may have brought you down but it don't take away my hurt
don't think I don't miss you I do
don't think I don't miss you I do
I can still hear you screaming looking for mercy
but how could I spare your life you'd not have done for me
I struggle with your memory your life and your death
I just couldn't stand being alone now I'll just live with regret
don't think I don't miss you I do
Don’t Break My Heart, George Lucas
here are the words for DMYHGL - i have no idea what key it's in, but the progression seems to be verse is I and the chorus repeats the same in V (like C, and then change to F for the chorus.) We could probably sample and loop the drums from the beginning of the track for the percussion...
(being a song about using the mind-wipe company from ‘Eternal Spotlight of the Spotless Mind’ to obliterate the memory of the Star Wars prequels. Naturally.)
Don’t break my heart x3
Don’t break my …
Eternal sunshine of the childish mind
Lacuna Inc it has erased my brain
We’re going out and it’s the very first time
Ah, one more chance to put it behind you, yeah
Don’t break my heart, George Lucas x2
You pay the fare or you pay the price
Once bitten, twice is shy but what is thrice?
Our childhood dreams they are so hard to beat
But you have tried your best the challenge to meet
And I’m not a battered wife but …
Don’t let me down, again (don’t break my heart)
Don’t let me down again
Lacuna Inc is waiting x2
To erase you again x2
Ellis Island
(being a cut-up of randomly selected text from the Wikipedia page about the history of Ellis Island)
Am
Black landfill island that weighs down the water, a
Dm
Half-submerged kraken, a shadow between us, the
Em
Sea swelling, darkened with years of dead faces, the
Am
Ghosts on the gibbet, the glare of the furnace
CHORUS (repeat twice)
Am
We will prevail
Dm
if we can assail
Em
this asylum of persecuted
Am
Lovers
Anchored in harbour for now and for ever, this
Island of tears, this dead oyster coral
Black anvil body as hot as a pistol
Hope lights the way and it cries night and day
CHORUS
8 bars instrumental
Prepare for your journey to Black Ellis Island x3
Prepare for your journey – prepare! prepare!
CHORUS
Tomorrow Never Knows
C
Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
Bb F
It is not dying
C
It is not dying
C
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
Bb F
It is shining
C
It is shining
C
That you may see
The meaning of within
Bb F
It is being
C
It is being
C
That love is all
And love is everyone
Bb F
It is knowing
C
It is knowing
C
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
Bb F
It is believing
C
It is believing
C
But listen to the
color of your dreams
Bb F
It is not living
C
It is not living
C
Or play the game
existence to the end
Bb F
Of the beginning
C
Of the beginning
Bb F
Of the beginning
C
Of the beginning
Bb F
Of the beginning
C
Of the beginning
Rhymes with Lucia
Long night of drinking
Soused on Sangria
She gave up thinking
And rhymed with Lucia
Fists full of flowers
Poppies and Spirea
She wastes her hours
And rhymes with Lucia
It took a while
(Rhyme and Reasons)
But she got used to the idea
(Time and Seasons)
After falling for miles
She rhymes with Lucia
I know it's been a long time
And it's so wonderful to see you
But there is nothing so sublime
As rhymes with Lucia
Courage
everyday i pray to no one
for the courage to continue
i run endlessly in the infinite courtyard after your thoughts
and here in the dim twilight incessantly i dream
Give me the courage
To turn the tables
Overcome my conscience
Finish what you started
my heart stops beating every time your voice i hear
(he took the mirror of my trust)
my desire for your skin giving me the courage
(threw it from the 10th story window of our apartment)
Get up and get on with my prayers
(watched it fall like an angel drifting)
my prayers to no one for the courage to continue
(watched it break like a raindrop landing)
loped slowly down the stairs
(job is half-finished)
gathered all the pieces
(There's more to follow)
stared at a million refractions of my tears
(I have found courage in other's terror)
then i scarred him with the fragments of my love
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So, we need to figure the best way to do the Natlay voice because the live whisper just won't cut it. We need to do some sort of voice modification but how. I know there are devices but I don't think any of us have one.
At SFL in Atlanta Craig had his mic running into his laptop for vocal fx. I might be able to set something similar up for you... For at least one of our songs I would like some vocal fx also, let me investigate and let me know if you are interested.
Also, email has a reply-all feature
-bill
Depends on how fake you want the voice to be. I can make a mechanical, affected voice in different ways, "naturally". I just don't think it will work as a whisper. I can definitely imitate the synth-type voices I've heard people put in recordings.
HeuristicsInc wrote:At SFL in Atlanta Craig had his mic running into his laptop for vocal fx. I might be able to set something similar up for you... For at least one of our songs I would like some vocal fx also, let me investigate and let me know if you are interested.
Also, email has a reply-all feature
-bill
- Thanks for the offer. We may take you up on that.
- Yes, e-mail has Reply-all, but this allows everyone a behind the scenes. It's like "...God, the Making of".
ElaineDiMasi wrote:Depends on how fake you want the voice to be. I can make a mechanical, affected voice in different ways, "naturally". I just don't think it will work as a whisper. I can definitely imitate the synth-type voices I've heard people put in recordings.
Hmmm, we can try it. Do you have a recording of what it sounds like?
Is it truly terrible to admit that I have no idea what 'Tomorrow Never Knows' sounds like?
Still happy enough to go with it. I only had two ideas for the Talking Heads cover we were discussing - 'Don't Worry About the Government' or (preferably but all chord-changey) '(Nothing But) Flowers'. So let's go for the Beatles. I'll youtube it or something!
There's the question of where are we rehearsing this? We can do Saturday afternoon (May 16) at Casa de Niv, if everyone is willing to truck to Central Jersey. If not, then we need to find a place on Sunday.
Then there's the question of visuals. Doing this straight doesn't seem fitting with the music. I think we should, at the very least, play around with Sidewalk's on-stage video projector.
Slightly passe but 'home movie' footage (kid's birthday parties, BBQs, weddings) migt be suitably unsettling, especially if the people on-screen aren't in the band?
Tomorrow Never Knows
Here is a cover by a guy from Japan who covered the entire Revolver album, renamed Revolvah. He came to the states and performed the entire album live a couple times. Keytars were included. Anyway, his version of TNK has more guitar/bass/drums than the Beatles version, so I thought you may find it interesting.
We'll just do something like this. Then they'll get the idea.
