The game changes. Sometimes you’re in the middle of the game and there’s been some instructions on how to play and suddenly the rules change. Or rather the method of how it’s played changes. It’s enough to make you feel like someone has lied, and you’re Beside the Lies.
My week is off to a racing start. I’ve brainstormed out the cover art ideas for all the songs on the next round of releases that will start in January. Can’t let out a sigh of relief just yet. See, my distributor’s system was taking all of the files for the current release’s special version, then balked at 5 of them.
Here’s where the rules changed. Now I have to un-distribute something that was already planned because the way they now want that version delivered suddenly changed. After careful consideration I have to let out a giant ARGH! It also means that some of what had previously been distributed to a particular service, suddenly changes going forward.
In the meantime, this week will be a release of the song Beside the Lies. Kind of apropos for the snit I find myself in for the next 48 hours with fixing the full album release.
One thing about the release of Beside the Lies, the newer technology I’m now afforded allows me to tweak the timing of all the crazy sounds that open the song. Originally it was quite the task to get it relatively close to correct via hitting play & record on an ADAT machine to line it up as best as possible.
To get an inkling of all the things going on in the intro, I suggest hitting the song title to see the song notes. Hell, any song that has the song title allows not only for the actual lyrics but also a plethora of nerd information about any song and their IDs.
This is one of my favorite songs to play as it has a very tight groove and deceptive “1”. Andy and I had a lot of fun playing it in practice. If memory serves me, Andy nailed this in one take, the first take – but we did take two other takes for safety’s sake.
Next week we’ve got the complete picture and then some.