Unfortunately there's a list of downsides still but ones for me would be:
Super creeps, creeping on my looks or commenting on my body online and at shows, like dude no
Having my musical ideas undermined or undervalued or unheard all together
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Super creeps, creeping on my looks or commenting on my body online and at shows, like dude no
Having my musical ideas undermined or undervalued or unheard all together
tonythegamer
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I remember this! Man what a scary ordeal. I'm glad you are ok. Sarge forever!
my regular email is being funky and bouncing back messages so I made an account on my other email. I'm bad at shit like this. hahaha
Gosh, me and Robert Harrison go way back. Cotton Mather was a hero band of mine at an early stage in my writing. I ended up working for the record label they were on right after they left. Turns out the guy that ran the label was a major creep. I met Robert years after that when I name checked his band in the Austin Chronicle. He came to my show. We bonded over our disdain of said creep, and the rest is history. hahaha. we have a wonderful musical friendship.
my biggest collaborators would be him, jim scalvunos, Dave Moose Sherman, and now a lot of new musical friends like Binky Griptite and Britt Daniel and Tommy Stinson and spooner oldham. it all just kinda happens outta nowhere. I'll be somewhere, meet someone and I find that just getting together and writing a song is a way better and deeper way to get to know someone than like meeting for coffee. or whatever people do to get to know someone these days. I don't know. I love collaboration tho!
@NATKINS, first off, thank you for taking time to join us in our little corner of the internet. It really means a lot when artists join us for these types of interactions.
Now that Americana Fest is over, were there any acts that you hadn't heard/seen before and were completely blown away by?
Alternately, were there any acts you had hoped to see but just weren't able to catch?
Now that Americana Fest is over, were there any acts that you hadn't heard/seen before and were completely blown away by?
Alternately, were there any acts you had hoped to see but just weren't able to catch?
Me too! The community here is my favorite part of living in Nashville. I love Erin Rae, Phillip Creamer, Pat Sansone, Carl Broehmal, Lilly Hiatt, Thayer Serrano, Justin Collins, Phosperesent, Josh Hedley, Ruby Boots, Eva Lin, Indianola, there are just so many its tough to name them all.
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Thanks! That's a pretty great list of collaborators. Looking forward to your next projects!
I always want the album art to reflect what the album sounds like. for example, "slow Phaser" was more of a desert disco prog record, so the 3 orbs with the eyeballs in the dusky color pallete, reflected what that sound would look like.
I had this insane fantasy in which I would hunt down the organ Spooner played on I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. Lol. That clearly has not and will never occur.
Lilly Hiatt's most recent album was one I kicked around as a possible pick for this month. I just really dig her style. Everything I Had guts me.
You recorded GNRL in 5 days. Is there any part of the album you would tweak if you had had a few more days?
I'm really inspired by the songwriting and arrangements of new bands like the Lemon Twigs, Weyes Blood, and Broncho. Also of the showbiz aspects of David Byrne and the Hives live shows. The more theatrical the better!
I wonder if that's the wurli Spooner played on my record?
For Rhonda Lee, I wouldn't change a thing on it. I just remember how much fun I had making it and after I approved the masters, I don't think I've listened to it ever again. I'm really happy with it.
For Rhonda Lee, I wouldn't change a thing on it. I just remember how much fun I had making it and after I approved the masters, I don't think I've listened to it ever again. I'm really happy with it.
Three songs that stick out to me of times where I was immediately inspired to write after hearing them are: The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin, Last Goodbye from Jeff Buckley, and Guided by Voices "Cut Out Witch." Each of those songs when I was young I remember being immediately inspired to make something whether it was a video treatment for the Rain Song, a poem after hearing Jeff Buckley, and then driving and listening to Cut Out Witch and driving really fast and getting this enormous feeling of excitement like my heart telling my brain that I was a musician.
RowBearToe
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I've always wondered how much artists listen to their own stuff. I'm honestly surprised you haven't listened to it since then though, but I guess you also are playing those songs every night so it makes sense. Speaking of playing songs every night, do you ever get sick of the repetition or decide you don't want to play a certain song live anymore?
Yes, it is a great album! You should be sooooo happy with it. I hesitate to call any active artist's album a masterpiece because it implies there is no way to top it, but it really is (so far) your masterpiece. And it has been really well received here.
gosh Tony, I dunno. I'm numerically dislexic. it's very frustrating. I just go with whatever I hear in my head and if it sounds good, I record it into my phone and then figure out what the chords are. I'm a big fan of time changes within a song tho. not many people do that anymore. the velvet underground did that a lot and it was exciting. maybe doing something different from what you normally do is gonna open up a whole new can of worms for ya. awesome fun dayglo worms. just go for it and if it sounds good then yay! if it doesn't at least you tried. it's all good and fun.
I always wanted to write my own songs but I had no idea how to start with lyrics so I played cover song shows and played rhythm guitar and sang in other peoples bands. when I graduated college I asked this club in Asbury Park called the Saint if I could do a gig and he said I could so long as I had original songs. I lied to him and told him I did. I wrote 8 songs in two weeks and then just kept doing it.
I thought it was really cool! I used to be a part of a vinyl listening club back when I lived in Brooklyn. so I'm honored that my album ended up here. you people are my people. hahah
one band that is a constant inspiration that people may find surprising is the Beta Band from Scotland. They have a playfulness and immediacy with their sounds and melodies and also use a lot of monotone melodies that I find very soothing in the same way I find krautrock really soothing.
oh awesome
the beta band were really good... i'm thinking about picking up the 3 EPs in a little while