Another new song lyric: "Grey Roots"

FinsburyParkCarrots

I'll do a home demo in a minute:

Hair greyer last year, and face shaved to tatters,
A corset on the midriff, foundation near the eye.
Your new song’s The World’s Wrongs. Each theme is Big. It Matters.
You think you’ll be half relevant once more, before you die?

You think you’re D.H. Lawrence now? Or maybe Willy Gladstone?
You like those crude prescriptions for the fallen, lost and wan?
You work on your appearance. Will it help to set your touchstone:
The wheyfaced life-surviving, passive-angry, young old man?

Your allegories damn you though. Of course, the cold-enraged,
Teacher who moves in to break apart the playground fight
Is your symbol of the wise old coloniser, who though aged,
Must rise once more, reforming roguish states “in plight“.

moreandmore

awesome, fins

i can't believe how much you're writing!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Thanks! I was just playing around with the free audacity program I downloaded, and I've discovered all sorts of effects here, to play with. I might take a while trying out something different, for this demo...

mpgervace

not sure what you're doing, but if you have a drag & drop program, like Roxio, that has a sound editor on it... works great.
good luck.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Thanks! Well, I'm just doing some home demos for a bit of fun. I'm trying out some echo, delay and reverb effects here, and messing about with harmonies. The knack is, doing it without it feeding back too much. I might just do a straightforward acoustic demo for now, anyway.

I've also got a four track recording machine, which one of these days I'll rig up to the pc. At the moment, I'm using audacity, a mic, my guitar, and a voice. But I should really get a digital eight-track sooner rather than later.

I just use the demos as reference, and when I get a chance to go into a studio, I have an idea about what I like to do. I wrote a song a few weeks ago called "Wear a Medal Like Montaigne", I played with some harmonies on the home demo, and afterwards, I was pleased enough with how it turned out to do the same sort of thing when I got into a studio, the following week. Sometimes lo-fi demos, with hiss and parps and farts, can be as much fun to do and hear as professional, clean studio jobs!

Thanks for the Roxio tip, though. I'll check it out!

justam

I think I've bumped into characters like this guy.

kdpjam

awesome fins! .....what will u do for an encore ;] ???

FinsburyParkCarrots

Okay, I put a little demo up on the demos page ...