I’ve been staying in Minneapolis for the last couple of weeks and luckily got the chance to record some awesome music yesterday for a secret project with my friends @ Robot Panic
We went into the session with two lines of a song and a rough idea of where we wanted to go, nothing musically just a slight concept. What followed was frankly the easiest and most fun songwriting session that I’ve ever had the pleasure of being at. Mostly, we’d drink spout some crazy crap, giggling would ensue and more lyrics would get written down.
Once lyrics got written we’d start discussing over a few pints how the drums and bass should sound and jam around a few ideas until we had a decent song structure that fit the lyrics.
So after laying down the drums and bass we had more discussion about how the rest of the song could sound, ideas on guitars, keyboards, vocals, harmony… interesting uses of instruments. Anything was free to discuss and believe me we had some awesome and entirely crazy ideas. From here Hilden started playing with keyboards.
From here it was time to record the main vocals and believe me when I say that we couldn’t help but burst into fits of laughter with each and every line recorded. It’s one thing to write some lyrics that are funny but it’s quite another to actually hear them out loud!
From here out we started playing with different guitar sounds and added several tracks of rhythm and some solo sections. The highlight for me though was getting to jam with Moe on the Sax… his solo Sax background pieces were… inspiring… but for me the real fun was at the end of the first track that we recorded where we both just let rip and duel solo’d untl the end. Seriously I can’t wait to hear the final mixed result of this!
Overall I’m more than happy with the recorded results of the two tracks that we did yesterday. I seriously can’t wait for you guys to hear the final results in the near future. I think it’s safe to say already that for fans of the last Shmopera in March will love what we’ve done here. Personally I think we blew that last effort out of the water!
This was easily the most fun and the easiest songwriting session I’ve ever done, a complete pleasure. No ego, no need for ‘band meetings’, just lots of fun and an awesome end product! All being well I’ll be contributing to the next couple of tracks once I get home as I did previously in the Shmopera.
