The Girl in Number Six
Today we’re heading into the Beat Concrete vaults thanks to a little computer serendipity. I was listening to some live tracks and when Windows Media Player was through with them it moved to the next track, which turned out to be a demo of The Girl in Number Six. I’d forgotten about it, but listening to it fresh I decided it wasn’t half bad. The guitar arrangement was definitely influenced by XTC and to reflect their Northern English roots I played the secondary guitar parts through an AC-30 emulation on my trusty little Pandora headphone amp.
If you google 'the girl in number six' you get this--awesome!
The demo started with a mono rough mix of rhythm tracks we recorded in a North Coast studio a few years ago, and then I threw that on my little portable 8-track recorder and dubbed a few guitar tracks using my Pandora to try out the guitar arrangement I’d planned in my head. The mono track had a scratch vocal I’d recorded in the studio live to guide the other band members, and I doubled it with Beki singing alongside me into my 8-track’s build in mic. Voila! Instant demo.
Good demo or POS? You be the judge.
>> The Girl in Number Six (demo)
- Note: If you’re using FireFox, you may need to right-click on the file and choose ‘Save Link As…’ to save the file to your computer. Sorry to have to say that on every audio link but our ISP doesn’t seem to like FireFox. We do, though.
Rainy Day Friday
…dream away.
Just finished playing some music with Beki. We’ve been working on my song Slipping Away for a few weeks now. It’s a slow, old school folk-blues number with a little Lindsey Buckingham influence, so I’ve been playing it on my Turner Model 1-LB geetar. The song is in drop-D and I finger pick it, including the solos.
Lindsey's Model One - mine is like this but red
Here are the lyrics for the first verse and chorus:
She waited for years and years
Like a wolf beyond the flame
Huddle close to the fire
No one dares speak her name
She ran laughing in the spring
(A) circle of flowers in her hair
When autumn came she was gone
Her scent still fills the air
You’re slipping away
Like water through my hands, like water through my hands
As you fade and fray
Like a curtain in the wind and the rain’s coming in
You’re slipping away
It’s a sad song that I wrote after the passing of a sweet friend of mine. I like playing it because it makes me sad but in a good way.
Anyway, not much else to say today except that we’re rehearsing on Sunday with the full band and we wish everyone a happy weekend despite the rain. Just remember that the rain is good for all the plants and animals and it’ll make you feel better.
Peace out.
