The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Better late than never.

I'm spending the day with my best friend and confidant, my sister in law Melody. It's her birthday and we've spent a fun day playing the Wii, eating at Charlie Browns, Playing football, Flying kites and enjoying the day with the whole fam. It's a good Saturday.

I'm also psyching myself up for starting work on a new album. It's been about 2 years since the last Niveous album release. I've been my own worst enemy in this respect. I've been so concerned about doing music with a full band, I've let the solo stuff fall by the wayside. That's gotta be remedied. I do wish I could get the hang of percussion and drum loops because I think they would add something to my music. But right now, I think I just really need to get back to my roots and do some simple song making. Wish me luck. I hope to have "The Crime of the Scene" done by the end of 2007.

Do you guys have any projects in the queue?

Good luck, Niveous!

Projects in the queue: Finish covering last years Total Requests list. I've got 4 or 5 to go. Just in time for this year. GOM is lining up and I'd like to get in some regular fights as well. Re-dos, new ideas, archives...it could go on and on, but SF! stuff is rounding out the year.

Phil is away doing 24 hour comic day on 3 hours of sleep. He's crazy. So, once again, I'm home alone another weekend with the kids.

Today we drew on Spencer's new Color Explosion Glow Board, played Hungry Hungry Hippos and picked up all the toys that have been strewn all over the floor for a week.

Projects in queue, in theory: GOM, Beatles covers, some more weekly fights, figure out the interior design program that Phil got me, design our house for fun, other stuff.

QOTD: Yes. Stay tuned. Hint: studio recently re-assembled almost two years after decommissioning. I have at least three albums in my head by this point. Time to start getting them out of there. And a one, and a two, and a...

Spud wrote:QOTD: Yes.

Cool.

I also have an album in progress, and I've got a fair few songs complete. I really need to rewrite some lyrics though.

There is this reserve across the road from where I live, and every second Sunday they have this big market where smelly, flannelette clad strangers hock junk to each other.

This has been going for 25 years, apparently, as today is the 25th Anniversery of the markets. So, to celebrate, so idiot has decided to park their gigantically huge camper van across out drive way. The upshot is, our car is still at the repairers, so its not like they are blocking us in.

QOTD: I sound kind of like I am jumping on the bandwagon, but I too am gearing up to start working on another album. It's been almost two years since the last one... I think. One and a half, maybe. And they are never so technically brilliant that I need all that time to recuperate.

Heather. Redmon. wrote:Phil is away doing 24 hour comic day on 3 hours of sleep. He's crazy.

Oh, gawd, Cartoonmonkey has done the 24-hour comic thing in the past. It is completely insane. Phil, you'll have to post your results!

CM did a very excellent 24-hr comic about growing up in Mormon country...I don't think it's still up anywhere on teh internets, though. Perhaps I'll post 'em somewhere.

Good luck to all working on new projects.

I too have been planing on re-recording songs that I have entered in the weekly fights that really didn't get the time needed to make them better. Some just suck and I won't go back to them EVER. But some have been pretty good and have potential to be awesome. Now that I have made some interweb friends here at SF, I'd love to re-record my songs with guys and girls here, doing what everyone does best, so that I can just play rhythm guitar/vox, record, mix and produce the songs. Bottom line, I'd like every part, including back up vox, to be one person each as if it were being done live. right now it's just talk, but I'd love a full album of Song fight member collabs with tons of artists from right here in our little community. I know I'm still too new to include myself in the "our community" comment, but it will be a year next month.

Jeez, same projects as I was supposed to have done last time a question like this came around. Stupid schedule.
-bill

Headed up to the mountains today in preparation for tomorrow's Premier [see Monkey Business thread]

QOTD: It has been heavily on my mind to complete and EP I thought I was recording 2 yrs ago.

Maybe this week.

QOTD: Nothing in the queue - but one project finished, thank God. Last night was the last show of the production of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore that I have been performing in. Sure glad that's over. It was fun to do a stage musical - it was something I always wanted to have a crack at, but now I know it really isn't my cup of tea. Performing the same thing over and over again, night after night is murder for me.

Caravan Ray wrote:QOTD: Nothing in the queue - but one project finished, thank God. Last night was the last show of the production of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore that I have been performing in. Sure glad that's over. It was fun to do a stage musical - it was something I always wanted to have a crack at, but now I know it really isn't my cup of tea. Performing the same thing over and over again, night after night is murder for me.

I'm guessing that you didn't make your final appearance without trousers?

QotD: I have a bad habit of having too mnay projects and then losing interest in them, but as mentioned in the AAD thread, I am about to start re-mastering the first two Tiny Paws Of Fury albums, as well as piecing together some bits and pieces to make another. Some other stuff on the way as well, possibly a Giuseppe Bancomatti AAD, as reading Julain Cope's japrocksampler has given me lots of experimental music ideas to try, and I have a week off at the beginning of November ...

QotD: yeah, lots of projects in the queue (didn't we do this question a month or so ago?). There's that "Broken Monster" collab I need to get working on, gotta get back to that

In my database system I use for tracking my songs, I have a bunch of projects with a completion date of 2099, which means they're still in progress... a second CD of contemporary versions of hymns by P.P. Bliss (1838-1876), guy and guitar versions of all the songs our contemporary band does, a "Wobble" album (that's the name I use for my religious stuff that is not "congregation-sung worship songs"), King Arthur volume 8 ("Crazy"), a collection of worship songs that I'm writing according to a fairly specific process ("New Dogs vol. 4"), some fake-live versions of KA songs ("Merlin's Picks, vol. 1"), more songfight covers ("Non-April Hxaros"), an "Obscurities" CD (basically, going back and finding old unused lyrics from many years ago and turning them into songs), and "The Psongs" - basically an attempt to put together a full "psalmody" - musical settings of all 150 chapters from the Biblical book of Psalms. And then a few other projects that are just places to collect odd stuff.

I've found that my database system makes it really easy to invent a new "project" and then really tough to say, "no, I'm never going to get to that, forget it." So the projects pile up, but in general I jump back and forth between projects and I like having appropriate places to put things when they're done...

I got to sing four of my KA songs last night at our church spaghetti dinner / talent show, but they put me on first, and I realized even before I'd started singing "Toronto Star" that people were still in "saying hi to each other" mode - they overlapped the dinner and the entertainment, so I just did the songs and was done with it. I guess I'd rather be playing with people talking than be the guy who goes last and most of the people have gone home because the event is running late and they have to get the kids home to bed... my mom was there, so I dedicated "Put Cindy Back on the Bus" to her...

Charles (KA)