cellar improv

[Cokecan]

Have just assembeled a very basic recording setup in the cellar room of our house. Mixer my dad made me, maplin stereo mic, straight into pooter. For the first time in about 15 years I actually have a static setup, enabling me to just sit down and record something, which is what I did tonight. Anyway, I felt like 'it' earlier, so just sat down and improvised something on the guitar. Beware - it's very loose, and VERY sketchy, but is possibly the first time I've attempted to improvise to recording in many years. I know it's a bit flaky, but I was rather chuffed that there was ANYTHING there at all. MP3 at:

ftp://86.4.16.231/

that's about it for now. Oh, and the descision to tune the g-string down to f sharp was purely on the spur of the moment, and I don't know why I did it.

[Cokecan]

hmm ftp server went wabby then. have reset. sorry. might happen again, but will fix later if it goes again.

[penciLneck]

sounds good down there in the cellar. nice cellar vibe.

[V Knid esq]

Definitely nicely Cellarian. I like it. Bit Jim O Rourkey.

[Cokecan]

Thanks folks. I'm hoping it'll be the start of a rocky road back towards actually composing stuff. From little acorns etc, blah.

Actually, listening back, it's really ropey. I reckon there's about 15 seconds I like. But it's better than nowt.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Cokecan is half of Pleated Lemon with Spandex.. in case no one else realised...

Nice one cokeycan.. I have lots of webspace you can use by the way, could give you your own plot.

[Spandex]

lush mate. all it needs is a few fart sounds and i reckon it's finished.

[Cokecan]

Cokecan is half of Pleated Lemon with Spandex.. in case no one else realised...

Nice one cokeycan.. I have lots of webspace you can use by the way, could give you your own plot.

Cheers numbnuts. Would be nice to have a wee pocket of space somewhere - me ftp server on home pooter is rather unreliable. Might even spur me on to produce stuff a little more regularly.

[Cokecan]

lush mate. all it needs is a few fart sounds and i reckon it's finished.

and so goes the Pleated Lemon creative process.

[Spandex]

Was just listening again. Do some more. In fact.. come round with yer gweet and perform for me. Dance monkey.

Should bung those bits up in Steev's webspace like he says... "Things I recorded in my cellar whilst drunk".

[Cokecan]

I'm trying to work out what constitutes good improv conditions. At the moment, all the evidence points to 'NO BOOZE'. I've found it before ... leave off the booze for a week or more, and the music starts to come. Must just be neurones creaking back into action.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

yeah actually I dunno if you realised it was me cokecan ;)

[Cokecan]

yeah actually I dunno if you realised it was me cokecan ;)

lol ... no steev, I didn't actually know it was you. Although the eye looked awfully familiar. Now there's a line. I thought you were an uncommonly generous stranger.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I'll wear a mask if it turns you on.

[decadnids]

hello cokecan nice one

[Spandex]

The Joseph Spence thing in yr FTP is fockin great. I'm just going to go ahead and make the web page.

[Cokecan]

The Joseph Spence thing in yr FTP is fockin great. I'm just going to go ahead and make the web page.

oo .. that was something I recorded when I ssaw steev logged on to msn the other night,.. sose as I could send him a pressie.

actually... bin improvising around spence's version of 'coming in on a wing and a prayer' ... his take on the bass harmonies rocks. he the boy. everyone go and listen to joseph spence. The folkways recordings are the best I've come across... most of the rest are when he was working - he was a manual labourer... so his hands got focked. I've not checked out his stuff with the pinder family though.

[content]

folkwaysd is nice