ADAM N. COPELAND
And lo, the long work of recording an album begins. As always, it begins and ends with the beat. Here’s a bit of Lloyd laying it down as only he can.
That’s a six mic configuration, kick / snare / tom / tom / over / h-hat. It’s nice to actually take the time to do the songs in pieces because the pieces wind up sounding quite good without all the bleed. You wind up sacrificing a bit in the natural-ness of it all, but I don’t have a studio full of gobos and awesome mics, nor do I have the luxury of more than 8 channels.
Should be very interesting to see all the pieces coming together.
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Almost makes me want to watch MLS.
Almost.
We’ve been asked to play the new space in Jersey City, IM Automata Chino on Friday May 22nd. It’s Black Water’s first ever gig and we’ll be on at 9:00pm. After that, we’ll be opening up for the Frozen Gentlemen on Saturday June 20th at the venerable Clash Bar in Clifton, NJ.
Come by and say hello.
Nothing fancy, just a couple of honest rock and roll shows. As you can see from the picture above, we’ve got quite a bit of work ahead of us in the next month to make some coherent sense of the immense amount of work we’ve been up to.
This rules.
I’m sitting here at work scouring statistics for our web server, trying to hone in on some problems and I see this list of the top platforms used by people coming to our site:
That’s right, Sony PSPs are the 7th most frequently used platform for browsing our site.
An old, old song. The recording didn’t quite come out exactly as I wanted it, but we’ll be redo-ing all of these for the album proper.
Another new demo from Black Water. These things are hot like flapjacks, I tell ya.
This is - as my dear old dad would say - “angry young man music”. Then he would try to convince me to name my band SWOLLEN SCROTUM. It was originally about some particularly unsavory person I met. Then I thought it would be a lot more interesting if I made it about a girl. So, any likenesses to persons alive, dead, or imaginary are purely coincidental.
Trying to sneak this in before my battery dies.
Another Black Water tune:
No I have not forgotten about Coyote Park in the midst of all my Black Water excitement.
I still have to write a song or two for the upcoming Spring / Summer issue of Parlor. The theme is beverages, of the alcoholic type. I think I have finally (after several failed attempts) to come up with a song structure I am happy with. No crazy key changes this time, no weirdness, just a pretty straightforward 3/4 stomp in E major.
Coming soon, words and a proper recording.