ARTIST
Since I was very young, I have sort of channeled songs, not even knowing what I had written right after writing it. It's always been hard to keep up with the flow. It gets captured in a matter of minutes on napkins, menus etc. and I usually find them days later in my pockets. Then I stick up a mike and cut them as fast as possible and move on.
This wham bam process sometimes frustrates the truly great musicians/audiophiles who I have been blessed to have around at times to help record this stuff. (Bobby King, Gregory Ercolino, Jimmy Lange, Herman Jackson, Larry John McNally, Thomas Dawson, Monte Seward, Chris Severin, Sam Broussard, Bobby Gentile, Arnie Hayes, "the mighty Joe Adams", Clay Barse, Chuck Grossman, David Schwartz, "Bam", John Kirby, Joey Decker, Larry Turner, Mike Thomas, Jackie Jack White, and Michael Braun to name a few ).
Even though there are usually good mikes and compressors available, I just like to bang it out and if it feels good, keep it. This approach gives me a better shot at keeping up with the muse, though I'm still probably a hundred napkins behind. I hope the listener finds the over-all vibe of the recordings to be fresh as a result of spontaneous lack of worry with perfection. If the songs don't speak for themselves, that's their problem.
I recently met a really neat Dr. who has brain cancer. He told me he had gotten a lot out of some of my songs. Even though "seemingly well" people have told me basically the same thing over the years, that exchange with a person savouring his mortality prompted this website.
As my pal Larry John McNally wrote about his own efforts at making music, “if one man's load is a little bit lighter, then my work is not in vain”. If you take the time to mine this material, I hope you find something that makes the effort worthwhile and puts in perspective that "we're all waiting in the checkout line" and should embrace the best of every second on our way to the register.
Thanks and take care,
Perry
This wham bam process sometimes frustrates the truly great musicians/audiophiles who I have been blessed to have around at times to help record this stuff. (Bobby King, Gregory Ercolino, Jimmy Lange, Herman Jackson, Larry John McNally, Thomas Dawson, Monte Seward, Chris Severin, Sam Broussard, Bobby Gentile, Arnie Hayes, "the mighty Joe Adams", Clay Barse, Chuck Grossman, David Schwartz, "Bam", John Kirby, Joey Decker, Larry Turner, Mike Thomas, Jackie Jack White, and Michael Braun to name a few ).
Even though there are usually good mikes and compressors available, I just like to bang it out and if it feels good, keep it. This approach gives me a better shot at keeping up with the muse, though I'm still probably a hundred napkins behind. I hope the listener finds the over-all vibe of the recordings to be fresh as a result of spontaneous lack of worry with perfection. If the songs don't speak for themselves, that's their problem.
I recently met a really neat Dr. who has brain cancer. He told me he had gotten a lot out of some of my songs. Even though "seemingly well" people have told me basically the same thing over the years, that exchange with a person savouring his mortality prompted this website.
As my pal Larry John McNally wrote about his own efforts at making music, “if one man's load is a little bit lighter, then my work is not in vain”. If you take the time to mine this material, I hope you find something that makes the effort worthwhile and puts in perspective that "we're all waiting in the checkout line" and should embrace the best of every second on our way to the register.
Thanks and take care,
Perry
