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Father Time
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4/19/2016 5:47:29 PM
Dare to be creative
about everything you can. Push the envelope. Seriously, creativity is more than playing a D chord instead of a C, it's about figuring out if you're in the right room to even pick up your guitar, it's about words you're going to speak out loud tomorrow. It's about what you can do to shock the world and take no prisoners. It's about something you never thought that way about until today.
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Psyche's Muse
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4/19/2016 6:18:08 PM
...yes! ...Yes!! ...YES!!!
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Larree
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4/19/2016 7:11:51 PM
FU, my brothaman!
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Stoneman
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4/19/2016 7:59:34 PM
I Concur! The creative mind is constantly searching for new and innovative things to try. That is why it is impossible for me to stay in one genre. It is all music for me and the thrill is always in trying something new. Something difficult to play but fun to learn. Something I have never tried before. If I fail, oh well, it was so much fun trying.........
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Hop On Pop
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4/20/2016 5:24:46 AM
Like... electronic drums, synths, and a 9-part guitar harmony on a fingerpicked acoustic folk song?
"Spinning, Standing Still"
Actually, I had an insane thought for how to track the vocals—something akin to how photographers make a whole new face out of superimposing images of different faces on top of one another. But it just didn't work out. Too hard to get it all to match up. Just sounded like a chorus of voices, instead of like the singular, alien-type voice that I was hoping for.
Still, everything else worked out pretty cool. Especially that 9-part guitar harmony!
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4/20/2016 5:50:12 AM
and... G chord instead of a C gives you a major ninth....
it's an inner faucet, creativity....
it sounds deceptively simple just to say 'just turn the bloody thing on',
but just turn the bloody thing on.
there is another rule of thumb, which I work with...
these days, I try to give the song exactly what it needs,
no more no less... John .... and Buddy as well are already arguing
with me that such an approach can be anti-creative...
and perhaps you're right... Buddy had added clickety clacks
to the one Father Time and us just did, which Time ended up not liking,
so we scrapped the clickety clack, after Buddy had me
hunting through the house for just the right apparatus to make the
clicky in the first place. (turns out it was a couple of wood handled
forks, that we held by the fork end,
and I wore me solid body bass (the one I usually use is a semi hollow,
Hoffner type of thing) and wore it strings against me body,
so that we could tappa tappa on the back of it
with the wooden handles of the forks...
made just the right clickey clack song..
but then Father Time says to me,
"there's something about this that's bothering me
and I won't know till I hear it on the big monitors"
"Oh, well you'd better hear it on the big monitors then"
so he did.
Comes back with,
"What's with the clicking?"
I said "OH The Clicking! Yeah, Buddy was real into that, it was his idea.
Well so it turns out, Father Time just proved me point,
you add exactly what the song needs.
It's usually all there....
But anyway, now we have this new instrument,
and sooner or later,
we'll find a song that does call for the clicky clack sound in it.
It just wasn't this one. This one was better off without it.
Oh I'm speaking of "Lottery Of Love" the one we just made....
Okay, I have a busy couple days ahead of me, wish me luck, Boys & Girls...
Gotta check these numbers.... not gettin' me hopes up, but Holy Bananas.
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4/20/2016 5:52:01 AM
Stoneman, a PS to you:
You are like me.
You can do ANYTHING. Definitely impressive.
Never doubt it.
Trust me. Never, ever, doubt it.
You can do anything and then its sister without stopping for air.
Takes one to know one.
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Stoneman
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4/20/2016 8:05:54 AM
ALJ, Amen brother! Or, as they tend to say around here FU? Haven't quite figured that one out but it seems to be a positive thing here so I'll go with it. :)
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4/20/2016 12:20:09 PM
I'll take the Amen, Brother, Brother.
I'm pretty sure "FU" around here means, you know, 'F*** You',
and okay maybe that does it for some folks, but I'll pass, I done had all of mine.
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Father Time
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4/20/2016 12:22:22 PM
FU is the initials for artist rights group Future Unity. It's a rallying call for indies to stay together.
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4/20/2016 12:23:38 PM
I think "FU" means that anywhere.
Can't imagine what else it'd mean.
Oh, and another thing I wanted to say.
I know I said my rule of thumb is 'only what it needs'
and more often than not, that is how I go about it...
but now and then, I throw something in, that I wasn't sure
needed to be in, even, was pretty sure didn't need to go in,
and throw it in, just to be that much more unpredictable.
Hmmm
Fordham University?
Nahhhh.
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Bob Elliott
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4/20/2016 3:40:15 PM
Artistically creative people usually seem short on time and space to do their thing. Given time and space, most just go. It's what they want to do. You can encourage or discourage them, but mostly they want to do their thing either way, and they usually face real life obstacles taking their time.
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Stoneman
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4/20/2016 8:12:29 PM
ALJ, I feel you on that. it's sort of like some women around here in Cali that like to call themselves and each other bitches. I just don't get how that is a positive or endearing thing. But they seem to think it is. The world is always turning Topsy turvy and the elders keep trying to figure out how it happened. Maybe I should continue my rebellious nature and stick with Amen. Sometimes assimilation is surrender. Surrender is a word that I was taught to never say. I may not be in the Mekong anymore but the bombs of changing societal norms continue to fall. Resistance may be futile but it is what I was trained to do.
By the way, in regards to creativity, I have never heard a man with more creativity than you. You have the ability to make a song out of anything. It is a gift that is seldom seen or witnessed.
Much Respect,
Stoneman
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4/21/2016 5:56:00 AM
Well, now I know, "FU" is a rallying cry for Indie Musicians: Future Unity.
A way of saying,
We're Coming, And You WILL Know As We Arrive.
That said,
about the business of trying to 'fit in with new expressions',
there is only but so far I will 'go there'.
Expressions are funny. Some stick. Some don't.
I tend towards expressions which I like, am comfortable with,
I think it's more important to be true to one's own vision of oneself,
than trying to be a product of someone else's mind.
Is that "Dope" enough? Do I give a flying blue rat's ass? heh.
FU then, Everyone. FFFFFFFFFFFUTURE UUUUUUUNITY.
~L
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Father Time
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4/21/2016 6:11:01 AM
well that was the snag we ran into with FU. Getting the whole world of indie artists together on anything, hell, even 3 artists together on anything is next to impossible. heh
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4/21/2016 8:32:45 AM
Oh it's not that bad....
Father Time and BEATLESEX is already, what, five guys.
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