Mar 21
new york city recording update - march 8-13
hello all!
if you have a look at the wikipedia entry for the trashcans, it says “they finally returned in 2004 with weightlifting, which was warmly received by the critics (citation needed)…” made me laugh, anyway. how are you? speaking of citations, i’ve dragged myself away from the official judgement in paul and heather’s divorce hearing to write this blog. i can’t believe the judge is so, well, judgmental. is it balanced to call paul “an icon”? c’mon heather, appeal! my favourite part is where paul finally admits to being an oldies artist, saying he earned money during the marriage, but only because he sang beatles and wings songs at his gigs, new recordings being “unprofitable”. maybe he’ll turn his collar down now and quit it with the botox and chestnut brown hair dye. heather’s pretty funny, asking for 627,000 per year of paul’s (beatles and wings-generated) dosh “for charitable donations”…she wants him to give her money for her to give to charity? maybe i should hire a lawyer to read and explain this stuff to me. that’s how it works, isn’t it? i’ve read “bleak hoose”.
i’ve just returned from a week in the new york with the new record. as previously mentioned, the backing tracks (as we singers in our gasconade call them) were recorded live with all the band set up in the same room, give or take the odd baffle or glass door, but the vocals i did at that time - known as “scratch vocals” - were not really up to scratch at all, so this trip was arranged for me to finish them off. andy chase has a studio set-up in his home and it was a very relaxed situation altogether: family around, kids to talk to, jigsaws to do, two of the sweetest, fluffiest cats i’ve ever met curled up on the couch…it was like shabby road all over again, but with sunlight, a working shower and better food. (recently, i got a craving for shabby road’s most oft-served meal: tuna/pasta twists/mayonnaise with corn - and no, paul, there’s no onion in it.) Â
 so the songs were sung and now we’re all listening through and trying to come to a consensus on which melodic inflection, tiny lyrical twist, elvis-y grunt we all prefer. we’re hoping to mix in april/may time, though andy is managing to nudge the songs along as we go so it shouldn’t take forever to mix whenever we do start - we also want to try some radical (if you’re us) editing ideas.
a friend put me onto a band called the fleet foxes, from seattle - check them out, they’re great! wasn’t it south by southwest last week? man, that’s some good eatin’ down there!
pip pip,
frank xx
If this record is 20% of the quality of Weightlifting, it’ll be record of the year.
Oh i just love it, missing my TCS as much as i do,I can hardly stand the wait until we meet, and we will. Frank i LOVE this blog, please send more, let me know about your gift and how it fits, ETERNAL LOVE ALWAYS XOXO
Thanks for the update, and the pictures. That second shot looks like a still from some Truffaut film: “L’histoire de Francois…”
Can’t wait for the new music.
Hi Frank, how are you?! Nice to hear from you, thanks for the update! Nice photos, you’re looking good, as usual!
Back on December 9, 1980, I awoke crying, with the darkest of sorrow deep inside…scared me. While I was getting ready for work, the radio station I was listening to at that time, (WBCN/Boston), announced John’s death. They also said they were trying to get Paul McCartney on the line. Sure enough, a short while later, there he was. Paul on the airwaves!!! A few questions were asked, and before you knew it, Paul was informing everyone how John stole money from him and the Beatles, this information was never in the open, nobody knew…blah, blah, blah. I remember thinking, John Lennon was just ASSASSINATED, and all this man can say, is how John stole money from him?! And, NOW? that he’s no longer here to DEFEND HIMSELF?! How UGLY! Needless to say, I LOST RESPECT for this Beatle! I really appreciate your comment on the botox and brown hair dye…a very hearty laugh! THANK YOU!
Looking forward to hearing the new material. From what I can remember in my dream, it sounds MAGICAL!
Hoping to have some home made Greek cookies for you guys to send you off on your American journey. This is the tour that’s going to matter…Life is about to change…make WISE choices guys! And GOOD LUCK! Take care of yourselves.
Love,
Pamela
Frank, thanks for the “Fleet Foxes, Ruiner of Worlds” recommendation. Really good stuff.
Ok…. Fleet Foxes I can understand. Listen to Glen Hansard (The Frames) and tell me I’m wrong if you don’t agree.
Why is it snowing when it’s April?
Hi Lads, a little off topic here, but realised today (4 May ‘08) is the 15th anniversary of the release of a little album called “I’ve Seen Everything”. I remembered that fact this afternoon and threw the album on and sat back and enjoyed (and no, I don’t have a zany recollection of dates, I remembered because it’s also my birthday). Those times 15 years ago were some of the best I remember and ISE was the soundtrack to the love, loss, hope, regret, sorrow and joy I experienced that spring/summer, when in many ways I felt so young, alive and, yes, immortal. Congratulations and thanks for the wonderful music. Good luck with the new album, I’m looking forward to it. Marco.
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