MANY WORLDS ( June 2002 )

In my CD player
"Switched-On-Bach 2000" Wendy Carlos
Starship Titanic CD-Rom Game

Reading
Parallel Universes by Fred Alan Wolf (again)

Movies I've Seen
Sum Of All Fears
Insomnia
Star Wars
Minority Report
Ocean's Eleven

My friend Hansford Rowe came down and played some bass on a couple of songs last week. I was once again struck by his stellar musicianship. The man just whipped through the recording like it was his own music. I'm lucky because he's about to become very busy recording the next Gongzilla CD with Bon Lozaga.

Tomorrow, Carl Adami (a.k.a. Judy) will be playing bass on 3 or 4 songs. I'm excited to be working with Carl again. He's been so busy with his own Outloud Dreamer project among other things. He is the grooviest. I was also charmed with the presence of Trey Gunn and would love to get him to do more if his time permits. He is not surprisingly, very much in demand.

We haven't started the round of electric guitars yet........lots of scheduling and coordinating. That'll start up mid-July I think. I've recorded all of the acoustic guitar I'm doing. I was relieved to finish "The Chosen One" because that was the most nerve-wracking. The injury to my left hand made that one a bit difficult to execute. Not having feeling in my finger, causes all kinds of anomalous buzzes and squeaks.

One day last week, I rolled out of bed at 7:30am, turned on my computer and sang the entire lead vocal for "Charlie" before 9am............without coffee. It is the only song where the lead vocal went to digital before it went to tape. It sounds impeccable nonetheless. Prism converters are a thing to be cherished. It had to be recorded that way because some of the notes are so damned low, they can only be hit first thing in the morning, after a night of good vodka and a couple packs of smokes. Kidding about the smokes.......one pack only. With a song like this one, I had to really be in a dark, dreamy state and be really vocally "new". All of the other songs, I sang the conventional way in the studio....hanging upside-down from my
anti-gravity rig.

I can often be heard these days saying, "What the **** was I thinking , writing a vocal line THAT high?!" (or THAT low) I've been bitching about my own vocal parts. Why can't I just write a song that's easy to sing....that I don't have to stick ice cubes down my pants just to hit the high notes? Oh well, I've always needed to be challenged.

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