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negative tendencies
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5/29/2021 11:15:36 AM
Pleased to bring yas our new ambitious single
Okay, lemme tell you a little bit about this song.
I bought my first multitrack cassette (Tascam) back in 1983. From that point on I wrote a tremendous amount of songs, some of them really good, especially in the years 2005-2009 when my spouse worked and I just stayed home, got high and worked on music. She like I thought I'd 'make it' in music. I knew at the time I didn't have any producer skills to speak of. I saved about 15 of the best tunes, put them away til I could afford studio time from my music 'career'. The years went by. Then I hooked up with a couple guys, Dave and Jonny, who I knew well from other online stuff - who are seriously up there with the greatest players you ever gonna find. Dave was a great producer too, so I eventually brought some of those saved songs to the band and they nailed every one of them. So as you know, in the past few years I developed some pretty serious health issues. A couple of the very best songs I had I was still holding out on, just felt very gingerly about recording them. Then I started to think about what if I die before my best songs ever see the light of day. My health got somewhat better, actually right now minus the fact I have to go to dialysis 3 times a week I feel as good as I've felt since the turn of the century. I decided that the one thing I had to take care of to feel at ease about the future was to finish what I considered my 2 very best songs. One I released a little while back called Wild Tomorrow. The one we're releasing today is the other. I suppose now I can die peacefully though I intend to live til I'm 88 which means I got 25 more years on this earth. so this is monumental for me in that respect.
re: the song. I expect most of you won't like it much. It's a combination of 2 songs and there is a lot going on, it's not easy listening, it's very unaccessible imo. Does have its hooks though but ya probably won't get them the first time around. I do ask though that you don't quit before the 2:30 mark or so because that's when the main song begins. Is it progressive rock? hell I don't know but that's the genre I'm listing it as cause it's epic and has lyrics that go a little deeper than my basic pop/rock songs.
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Mike Lance
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5/29/2021 1:23:11 PM
I'm floored, Scott, Holy shit. This is now my favourite NT / FT song. Still love Feuilles and Wild Tomorrow , but this is mindblowing.
Do you have more in the vault yet? Are these going to be compiled onto an album?
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negative tendencies
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5/29/2021 4:39:30 PM
glad you liked it, thanks.
yeah I will never run out of songs. it's already been added to our first record.
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Larree
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5/30/2021 12:23:49 AM
Dude. Bro. Fuckin' homie. Just... wow. I think I need to listen to this on a loop.
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negative tendencies
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5/30/2021 6:19:20 AM
Thanks bro, it is the kind of song that it almost takes a bunch of listens for it to properly kick in.
hey Mike, our full length records are laid out here, I don't think I ever posted the link.
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negative tendencies
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5/30/2021 6:29:39 AM
Here's something else I forgot to mention about our new song. For the main song, starting at around 2:40, the entire lyrics were written to the verses using automatic writing. If you don't know what that is, well, you make your mind go blank and just write down the first phrases that come into your head. In this case I kind of felt like another force was at work there.
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Mike Lance
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5/30/2021 8:16:34 AM
Honestly, I loved it on first listen, even during the first section. There is a really cool (albeit subtle) hook in "surfacing in the real wilderness" that held my attention. I actually kept expecting it to be reprised in grandiose fashion towards the end of the songs. I like the video a lot, too. It serves the music perfectly.
That's an interesting way to put out albums. Kind of like playlists. Glad to see "Year of the Snake" as a closer, that is kind of how I thought about it when I first heard. One of my favourite things about making and digesting albums is the sequencing. I suppose I'm a tracklist enthusiast. Even when a band / artist I listen to announces an album, I have an obsession with poring over the tracklist, seeing which titles catch my eye, and subsequently trying to wonder how they might sound. This process has inspired my own creativity on a number of occasions.
Automatic writing sounds like an interesting process. I am doing sonething vaguely similar. I am currently working on an album, and am building up the instrument tracks right now, but have no finished lyrics aside from any I have released and may re-record (The Passerby is likely to be get the new and improved treatment.) I have uploaded the instrumentals onto an mp3 player so I can immerse myself in them and let my mind wander. I'll sing improvised nonsense lines to them and in doing this often land upon some interesting verses that complement the music well. This helps me get the ball rolling lyrically. Sometimes a song's atmosphere will conjure up imagery that can be mined for material as well. I'm hoping that conceptualizing these songs together will help to develop a cohesive narrative, lyrically and musically.
I am very excited about how these the project is shaping up.
Anyway, sorry to hijack this thread. Back to Neg Ten.
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negative tendencies
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5/30/2021 11:51:41 AM
hell no, that was not a hijack. Raising the topic of song sequencing is somewhere few listeners have ever gone and I love to hear about that, could probably talk all day on this.
yeah we knew we had songs coming to finish and I wanted to try to line the first self-titled record with the original vision since I wrote many of those songs in one batch. I have songlists from 40 years ago, believe it or not, which contain Missing Link, Ego Draino, Nothing to Fear, Wild Tomorrow which at the time was called Red Letter Day. The one decision that is still lingering is that in some ways Feuilles should've been on that one too but it just fit so well with the kind of Nirvana like hooks on a number of the songs on the Hooks record so that is where it ended up.
What you're doing by letting songs gestate in your head is really the ultimate step which will pack uniqueness into your tune. Songs can take a lot of formative turns as they grow up and it takes a special sense to both be able to realize that a song might not quite be there yet and to have either the patience to wait for the tune's maturity or just have enough projects around that you don't have to force it til the poptart is ready to pop.
it takes a special kind of looseness to do the automatic writing thing but i recommend anybody with something going on in their head light a candle and see what transpires.
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Paul groover
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5/30/2021 5:39:48 PM
This has to be one of my favs by Neg ten. And it was recorded on a Tascam 4 track which makes it even more cool no click tracks no help at all press record and let's go. People don't know the pain of having crap gear nowadays with computers able to do about anything but talent
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negative tendencies
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5/30/2021 7:52:28 PM
well the demo was but not this version. I'll have you know though I loved my Tascam 4 track so much when it died I literally buried it at sea. in the Atlantic Ocean,
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Paul groover
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5/30/2021 8:07:24 PM
Cool song all the same no matter how it was made. It,s got depth i like it you are right about thinking about things. . There is a saying i made up time takes time if you want to have a good time in the future. It,s the time you do learning about timing and music. That gives you that future time
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Bob Elliott
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6/9/2021 8:48:19 PM
Nice work, Neg Ten.
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Richard Scotti
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6/10/2021 10:45:34 AM
@Scott - Your dedication to your craft and your obvious love of music are always evident in everything you write and record regardless of what methods you use to do that. You certainly have established yourself as a guardian of the 60's music tradition and all the trippy elements of that era.
I was also was "born" when I bought my first Tascam Portastudio. It created an explosion in my creativity and productivity. It had a warm punchy analog sound that was mind blowing and it was so easy to use I could concentrate solely on the music and not worry about the tech hassles. Anyway, sorry for going off on that tangent but your post triggered some nice memories.
Your song is you and you are a trip! Thank you for taking us on your magical mystery tour of psychedelic, classic rock, and certainly many original hybrids of iconic styles filled with musical and lyrical flights of fiction and truth, authenticity, rebellion, loss, love and joy. You have found the missing link that joins the elements of your work together and I'm always eager to see what you come up with next. Long may you run.
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negative tendencies
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6/11/2021 12:51:57 AM
thanks Paul, and Bob, and especially Richard, that was so nice.
I loved my first portastudio so much it is a totally cherished memory when I went to music row in NYC having some funds for the first time in my life. I bought my Tascam 144, my EMU Drumulator, my Korg Poly 800 synthesizer and a nice mic. That was an enchanted time for me, always will be.
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