Fall-in-Love-to-Song (v2)
April 24th, 2007
A considerable upgrade to the original, done entirely by Mike on live guitar and drums. I had always been quite satisfied with the original guitar lead, which tickled my one-take-takes-all, leave-in-the-dropped-wine-glass, GBV mentality. But Mike apparently had bigger and better ideas, which have since left said mentality under the bookcase with the old Tascam.
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It Begins Well
January 30th, 2007
The Loop Station is a great tool for making a Get Help song, which features layers and layers of sound, like so much paint on a 50 year-old building in the East Village…say, mine. Paint so thick that you know the building will never fall.
Starting with a harmonic track that you can kinda hear in the back of the left side of your head, I built all these sounds rather quickly and then set to give them a decent recording. When I was most of the way through, I realize why it came so easily; it was very closely based on another song, a song whose name I won’t mention, so you can guess if you like. It’s kinda obscure, but I realize I’d heard it within the week, and that took a little joy out of piecing it together so quickly. So I guess this is from our Subconscious Cover Song files.
The line ‘missing man formation’ was the basis for the song; I think that’s something they fly at the end of Iron Eagle. Remember when hating Middle Eastern despots was easy?
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Get Help’s First Live Show
November 18th, 2006
In preparation for our first gig ever, Get Help performs our first gig ever. Out of the approximately 36 hours Mike and I spent in Boston this weekend, I would say 28 of them were probably spent either rehearsing or performing one of the six songs we ultimately recorded live at Andy and Jen’s Flophouse. Mike also got to meet Bill for the first time, which I think is very important: Get Help members should have a vague idea who other Get Help members are. The setlist: Traveler’s Shaving Kit, End of the New Country, Carne Asada, Temporary Speed Zone, Town Fires, and All Else Fails. All six tracks are available in the podcast on the Band in Boston site, but we knifed out two mp3s for ourselves.
Temporary Speed Zone (live) [3:50m]: Play Now | Download All Else Fails [5:14m]: Play Now | DownloadA random selection of other posts: