I’ve been crazy busy with music goings on… Just finished a great tracking session with The Bodice Rippers at New Improved Recording in Oakland with the wonderful Eli Crews at the board, and I am doing some more tracking for my next instrumentals release with Wil Hendricks and Pat Spurgeon in a few hours…aaaah!
However, the thing that has been soaking up at least half of my time for the past week is finishing the score/notation for my first composition for large ensemble, Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and the Death of John Lennon - a surround sound minimalist-meets-mayhem piece to celebrate the proximity of two events that managed to wake people out of their collective stupor for a moment or two. Scored for 10 guitars, 3 bass, 2 drums, and 1 vocalist – incorporating techniques borrowed from Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Moe! Staiano and LM.
Speaking of half-time – I just got word from a friend that ‘The Who’ are the half-time entertainment for the 2010 Super Bowl. Half-time seems a perfect setting for half of The Who. I’m sure people will proclaim it as amazing. NO – The Who with Keith Moon spanning ’65-’71 was amazing.