I partied non stop, played bars, drank drugs, working but wearing myself out and doing all that I felt my life stand still. I don't party so much now. I've done so much partying till the sun came up, I can stay in doors with my sweetheart and baby knowing that whatever party is going on out there I've been to one just as good!
For relaxation I love to play football, kick around a ball, I don't enjoy watching it on TV though. I enjoy a game of tennis, I'm crap at it though. I'll like to talk about tools, kids, wood and craft, building, relationships, Love, farming, and fishing planting food, politics anything. I love swapping jokes and laughing till the tears roll down our faces.
I'm self financed so as money doesn't grow on trees, (I've looked everywhere for those trees) It's all what I can afford to spend to do what I do. There's the amount of risk involved, how weird can I get and still make a living. I like to experiment with longer story songs, things I happen to like best are things that people in "The market place" would find uninteresting. A lot of peoples favorite song might be 'Love like a Rock' or My Mums song, Shirley. But they might have little concept of what some of the more adventurous things would have been. i.e. "TV Melodrama or Stranger God." I don't want music to be reduced to wallpaper, repeated over and over again. Each recording is
an experiment for me with my intuitive arrangements, some songs succeed, some, I know, failed, but I can never afford to re- record them, they're all demos in a way, my albums, learning in public all the way.
I don't assume people will like my records, but I try to capture a moment, even if I have lost my voice, as on Travelling home, tried to do everything, produce, write extra parts for people, no sleep, organize rehearsals, keep everyone happy, feed them etc I have hit chairs in he studio, bits of rubbish, hub caps. Cheese graters. I always prefer the early takes. And the "Live" vocal more than the "soulless" overdub. I don't want to overwhelm a song, overproduce it A song might get put down in 10 minutes but I might have had 10 months to think about it. On a bus ticket, napkin, my hand. I try to keep the life, and the rough and tumble in when I record a song. The breathing, a dog barking. People, producers, engineers, try to keep sounds out of a studio. I'm happy to let them in, my surroundings, weave them allow them to become part of the tune, a squeaky chair whatever. I've a gentle babies lullaby cradle song where I use the squeaking of a rocking chair as the rhythm. etc. I've always ended up with too much, and have too many songs recorded for the next album, so there's always old songs mixed with newer songs on my albums, it's never chronological at all. To me songs are timeless, the good ones, there's some I make that I never recorded and they will be out of date now. I might reissue my next album before it comes out for the first time! (joke)
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