After such a long time since doing any work on the album (19 days?) due to flu, work, and a stag trip to Amsterdam......I didn't think a tweet or two would really do as far as an update was concerned.
It's weird not having listened to it for all that time - the bipolar love/hate that I always feel for anything I'm working on gives way to a sinking dread that it might all be so totally awful that it's beyond rescue.......I keep wondering whether the constant little delays are actually some subconscious insecurities taking hold and putting it off for fear that, shock horror, anyone else should listen to it and realise it's all a pile of crap.
But then I load up the files, flick through, twiddle with some virtual nobs (hehe) and suddenly I start to remember why I thought it would be a good idea to record this in the first place: a riff triggers that little switch off in the back of my neck.......a refrain lodges itself in my brain........I feel my emotions swell in a way that's normally reserved for other people's music.................which makes me feel a whole lot better, if a little arrogant (I suppose Modesty isn't entirely Dead after all).
So back to that figure of 85% - I'm sure I've bandied such things around before, but I feel a lot more justified in putting that on now. I have a few overdubs to do, some vocal corrections here...a guitar improvement there....a mispronunciation to rectify, and then I really think it'll be ready. Gosh.
Just need to sort artwork and mastering, then it's onto the winding road of actually getting it released. Fun times.
Sneaky peaks? Soon, I promise.
1 comment:
as if to prove my point, 20 minutes after posting that blog I opened a track and pretty much decided it was AWFUL despite knowing for a fact I thought it was great the last time I listened.
I'm a rubbish idiot.
TO THE PUB!
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