everything is fragile
7 September 2005, 5:37 pmI wrote a song walking up to my mailbox today and recorded a demo of it as soon as I got home. Without the benefit of, y’know, learning to play it first or anything.
This is a bit of an experiment. Usually, I do these things and bury them somewhere. In this case, if you feel like listening to something really one-cheeked, feel free. In fact, feel free to do anything with it, except charge other people money for any aspect of it. Fair warning: F-word. Twice.
everything is fragile (demo) 1:48, 1.7MB mp3 recorded 7 sep 2005
Bravo… has kind of an Elliott Smith vibe to it…
aw shucks. {blush} Editrix said something similar.
Nice; it picks up much toward the end. Are there multiple guitar tracks or is that all at once?
three, actually, although one is mixed so low it’s probably inaudible. but the double of the melody in the chorus and the “solo” are certainly on another track from the main rhythm part. thanks for lisn’n.
Ezra played this for me and stole my comment (that it picks up at the end)! Though I might say that it comes together, for me, rather than picks up, exactly. It’s especially nice considering how completely new it was for you even as you recorded it–sometimes it’s good to just get things down when they are fresh and present them that way–pure.
Terri — yeah, that’s the reasoning behind the whole ’speriment — I’ve noticed that I often (though not always) prefer a rushed demo to a later recording of the same song that’s “better” in every technical respect. And the flipside is I never actually finish/release anything coz it never gets up to my technical standards.