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12/4/2015 8:35:04 AM
Hello, this is Lesley Picard of BEATLESEX.
Yes Commander John Riker you can take a fiver, I'll say a word.
Well we went, see, and had a go at listening to this bit... Cordial Melody
you call it?
Sounds like you still need the cordial melody part.
Nice chords, almost clearly sketched with the instruments,
but really what it sounds like most is an idea you've jotted down,
probably rather loosely, but we do what we can, I realize.
Alright, so I'm just going to be so bold as to bloody ask, because
that's the kind of crazy girl I am.
Do you want help finishing this piece? Because I myself consider
this an unfinished piece. You may absolutely tell me,
"Lesley you are up a bat's ass playing poker with monkeys"
and I will then ask you, have you yourself ever been stuffed up
a bat's ass, because it's really not as roomy as it sounds....
Anyway, the boys and I were imagining how it goes, you know,
the cordial melody part which seems yet to exist.
I suppose that's terribly rude, 'nice unfinished song, want us to finish it for ya?'
I suppose that must be rude, though I did not mean it that way at all.
It would be a bunch of work wouldn't it.
And honestly, the thing lost me two minutes into it....
So I could not even listen to it anymore.
Well 'cause it's so sloppily recorded, Mate.
I mean, I do this shit way often more often than not drunk as bloody shite
to where other blokes or lasses or whatevers couldn't even stand,
and I manage, and we manage, actually pretty succinct and rockin' recordings,
and you say you want feedback,
and the kindest thing I can say, is I hear or think I hear,
we think we hear sort of where you're pointed towards with all this.
But unless some really incredible shit happens AFTER two minutes
into it, we tend towards calling this cordial melody thing an unfinished work.
And mind you, if you're stumped,
we're the big brash assholes on the block who actually
had the nerve to ask if you want it finished.
I realize, I'm one of these boys now...
Even being the only girl in the group.
You sort of can't not be you, once you're this, eh John?
"Now you get it you fucking cunt."
That's just rude, John.
"Okay, it is. Sorry Captain Cunt."
Nevermind.
Can't win with his sort, can I.
Please let me know, since I, Lesley Jane, Actual Leader of the Group BEATLESEX
did ask, was the one who did ask,
if you'd like us to basically take whatever you've got here,
and of course that would mean I have to listen to all nine minutes of it,
so I'm already wondering if I should even post this,
but you so humbly ask for listeners, I had to listen,
and since you said whatever about say what you think about it...
and what we thought was, 'sounds good' 'we hear where's he's going',
and 'he never does quite get there though'...
which again, correct me if I'm wrong, Dos Silos,
but does it actually involve a melody coming into the song
after two minutes in?
Or is it nine minutes of sketch of a chord structure loosely nailed?
In entire need of at the very onset a melody, and then we have to
think about how we're putting it together, but we're very good at that.
You want us to make a fucking BEATLESEX record out of it?
We'd split the writer's credit with you. You know, you came up
with whatever all that is... by now she's out of things to say,
and it's again Commander John doing the bloody talking.
But look, she summed it up, I don't need to add much.
It's a thing, we can hear that. It's a very undefined thing,
and we think we hear, what it is you felt 'out there' but didn't
manage to call into the corral at sundown.
It's an experiment, we could call it that.
And we couldn't do it bloody overnight.
Generally speaking, we do make records like that, and often drunk
as sods too, but we're so accurate that even fuckin' bloody soaked,
we pull it out, we throw it down, there it is, wearing a crown.
We don't know how we do it at this point.
We'll all wake up the next day, no one will remember how it even goes.
Then we'll listen to it. "Shite, this is GOOD, do you remember making this?"
"Barely"
Okay, so now it's John speaking, 'cause Lesley sort of felt insignificant
and that's on you Lesley, don't just think because I'm here that you
don't matter.
"who do I matter to John? You? You got your wife, you're welcome."
She means Mistress Of Sound, Vanessa.
The "Female John Lennon" as Pete Shotton called her.
Yeah, we eloped. And we don't talk about it much. Check, and check.
Whatever...
we're a complicated bunch, I get it. You can tell us to fuck off,
or just be cordial like you say, and go 'no thank you'....
Nice bunch of sketch, but Lesley's very fine tuned at this point,
there's shite of mine and shite of George's she won't sit still
to listen to. You got over two minutes out of her otherwise busy mind
to sit still and listen to an idea sketch, basically.
I don't know. We're not saying more till we hear what you
have to say about it. ~John
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12/5/2015 7:52:06 AM
Hey, I'm Lesley, Leader, Mother, and Jesus of the band....
I again apologize for even letting out of the bag that I couldn't sit past
a couple minutes of this, it sounded nice...
just so sloppily performed I would have beat myself physically had I done it.
Even if I'd been drunk. I can record drunk, that's no excuse,
if I waited for sobriety I'd make less records, definitely.
And actually not to worry, there is no way that my band would simply
go and make a version of your song. It's a lot of work, something like that.
More so than if we just write our own. Because we'd have to learn yours.
I was actually hoping to Dear God (My Daddy) that we would not have to.
You actually prefer we do not, heck, that's even better.
Lastly, let me say this, I put myself through more hell than anybody
wants to know about, to become me in all my impossible complexity...
so everything is 'just so' to me, or I can't even hear it... basically.
But that's me.
Everyone has their own groove, and frequency, and preferences....
May I say, in the way of encouragement towards a higher standard
of professionalism,
if you agree that something 'needs work',
might consider, um, actually doing that work before it's released.
Because it isn't very likely you'll do it afterwards, now is it?
I wish you much love and eloquent musical expression.
Good & Productive Day Ken.
God Bless, Much Love, ~Lesley
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12/5/2015 10:33:09 AM
No, indeed it is not a review forum, I'm even afraid to go there...
they must really beat the shit out of you in there, I won't walk in by mistake even.
And really, Ken, I'm sorry, it's not only bluntness that comes with me,
it's impossibility.... I'm a scientist at this whole thing by now...
It's difficult for people who are not me, sometimes to hear what I say.
I'm sorry I'm a pain in the ass in other words.
The most helpful thing I think I've managed to impart,
and now I'll try to reiterate it; is, don't so lose patience with what you
are doing that you hurry it out the door---I do that myself sometimes,
it's better that we take an extra breath, and go the extra mile,
whatever, I feel like a bit of an idiot, but I generally do for one reason
or another...
I know some people put demos out. Some actually list them as 'Demos'
even in the title... I'll almost never do that anymore.
I go for it being the definitive record of whatever it is, 'cause I don't
wanna have to do it again. But again, I'm micro-aware of just,
more stuff than anybody normally thinks of, musically speaking. So, sorry. ~L
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