I too have not had much to show for my month of July…so the story goes. But I’ve certainly been stockpiling and tossing around some ideas for a few months. One such tune is this first attempt at recording a REALLY rough version of The Imitators. No words to speak of yet, but as you will hear by the occassional vocal utterance, I have snippets of a melody in mind. Its just a matter of writing some lyrics.
Pretty much everything you hear will need to be retracked, mixed etc but I just needed to get something down before I forgot. Hopefully Greg or Aryn can play some bass and drums or both on this to fill it out (and so I can do away with that horrible click track).
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_mike/TheImitators_v1.mp3]As a bonus, I decided to release that painful writer’s block by clearing my head a bit and just slamming out a pretty terrible rendition of Brian Eno’s classic ‘Needle In The Camel’s Eye.’ This is one of my favourite songs and despite being written in 1974, sounds like it could have been done in the last few years.
If I were to finish this up, I would definitely lay some real drums, some bass, retrack a bit of the vocals to sound tighter and do a fancy studio fade out instead of the ending I have here. One thing I do like here is the sound of that biting bright guitar.
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_mike/NeedleCamel_v1.mp3]So, one original song for you two to play with or make suggestions…thoughts?
UPDATE 7\22: Did some retracking and some cleaning up of The Imitators today and began work on the lyrics for this number. This version is sans any vocals, but I think its starting to come together a bit better… certainly less sloppy.
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_mike/TheImitators_v2.mp3]