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Tao Jones
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10/7/2009 12:29:30 AM
---- Updated 10/7/2009 12:37:26 AM
I Love My New Song
I finally decided to let myself work on my music again. Apparently this stupid demo of my cover show is gonna take me 'til the end of time, so I was just starving from not doing my own music. Decided to just make myself work on the demo an hour a day and then I can do what I want musically. Feel free,
I love my new song. It's been growing in me all summer, I never forced the lines, I never questioned them. I just waited and wrote them down. The song trips me out. I did a first rough pass recording on acoustic.
So fun to be creating again...
The feeling of creating makes the world a trippy place again...
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Hop On Pop
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10/7/2009 9:05:00 AM
So... when are we gonna hear it?
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Tao Jones
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10/7/2009 9:52:07 PM
So much of life can seem so anxious or sad or mundane so many ways it can feel dusty, and then you get to write a new song and record it and everything seems to feel so purposeful and trippy. Between that and sex, life becomes vibrant.
I do such dumb things. I make obsessive deals with myself that don't always work, but I do them anyway. In some ways they work, but I go too far. (Like I just got off 100 days of running injury or no. I got stronger, but my toe's kinda fucked up right now. Jury's out on how well that deal went).
In music, I wasn't allowing myself to do anything but that demo, and I felt claustrophobic and pointless. Finally decided to limit the time on it and the colors came back.
That and the sex.
I'll try a pass at an acoustic run through to try to get a rough of this song tonight.
I don't know how life would look without song writing...I'm glad I get to do it is all...
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10/8/2009 1:11:27 AM
Don't be so full of yourself, Taos. :D
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Tao Jones
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10/8/2009 1:29:20 AM
Good point.
I just did a run through of my ridiculous song, it was almost seven minutes of basically the same melody, so don't all rush out to buy a copy.
But I still love it.
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Tao Jones
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10/8/2009 5:12:47 PM
My first draft rough of the song is so long I can't even put it up on the site, it says it's too big. Yikes. I don't usually write long songs. This one had the words just pouring out, and I just wrote them down. I didn't work at all, just sort of let the words go where they were going and wrote them down.
The funny thing is I already cut off three full verses to make it shorter. I guess it would have been 9 minutes? Never did that before. Never even close. I tend to go for unde four minutes, and under three is even better.
So if I don't shorten it, I won't be able to post it, but I go to shorten it, and I don't want to cut any of those verses. I never have been in this situation before. Usually I don't have enough verses, not way too many. Hell, there's something about this melody that my brain wants to write to. I still have new verses coming in.
I remember someone asking Dylan why one of his songs was so long, I think the Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands song, it takes up one whole side, and he replied that he had many more verses for it. I thought he was just saying that to be Dylan, but maybe this sort of thing happens to him a lot: verses just keep coming.
Is that full enough for you, Bluto?
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Jeff Allen Myers
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10/8/2009 7:14:45 PM
Bob,
You had a thread "Songs don't have to be essays", well they don't need to be novels or short stories either...trim the fat if you can :)
As for your new alter ego??? Cool.... I think I will become "Bone Jones" :)
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Bob Elliott
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10/8/2009 7:40:22 PM
Ha! just like me to follow a thread like that with a song this long.
So here is a rough of this new song on just acoustic. It's clearly got performance problems, and as a song it's easy to ridicule, feel free. I love it anyway.
It's too long, yet there are no verses I want to get rid of, so I don't know what I'll do about it. I never wrote over six minutes before.
What to cut...?
Some will say cut the whole thing...
Here's the link where song and lyrics are posted:
http://iacmusic.com/songs.aspx?SongID=79280&ArtistID=8956
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weAponX
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10/8/2009 10:52:37 PM
Well, if you like it, I like it too!
You sat down and played it in one take? One Take Frank?
I like it a lot!
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weAponX
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10/8/2009 10:59:11 PM
---- Updated 10/8/2009 11:01:05 PM
I can see why it was almost too big... It's a kind of epic song.
I like the way it moves around. It reminds me of a lotta things, but also, of nothing (Meaning I can't quite put a finger on how it makes me feel) It's pretty unique!
Makes me feel good. That the effect you wanted?
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Jeff Allen Myers
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10/9/2009 3:24:40 AM
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Hey it worked for McLeans' "American Pie" So keep it as is...this is more of an Album Track, it flows well, you can find yourself doing other things while it plays...and that is a good thing. Don't cut a damn thing, its your song and You Love it :)
I like the guitar doubling the melody in the chorus. Amazing how descending progressions always have legs and can carry a tune.
Nice artistic track, I think you carry it well as the artist makes the song here.
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Tom O'Brien
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10/9/2009 11:50:20 AM
It's a shame you can't include all the verses here. It's like if you bought Michelangelo's David and you couldn't fit it in the room, so you cut off its head. I hope you have the entire song on your next album.
I think it's a great song - "epic," I think someone said. It's a song that takes you all over with dream-like lyrics and imagery. "You can teach a monkey manners/But you cannot make him care" is one of my favorite lines. I also like the doubling of the melody on guitar, though I think the descending guitar thing feels a little borrowed from too many other songs. Maybe the actual bass wouldn't simply follow the chords.
I can feel how this song just burst out from you like an orgasm after a long abstinance. Can't wait to hear the finished version.
I'm glad you got smart about that demo thing. It was weighing you down. An hour a day sounds like a good plan. Bet you finish it faster if you give yourself a deadline. Sometimes you're too hard on yourself (like your toe), but you know that. You expect a lot from yourself. But you give a lot already. How many hundreds of songs have you written?
Anyway, this is a great one, and you're right to be proud of it. I always find that the song I'm working on is usually the song I love the most.
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