About Race Ya

recorded mid-August 2010

My friend Shawn at some point many years ago lent me an old drum set.
It's gold, very sparkly. Very old. He says something about it belonging
to a Navy jazz band long ago. His dad somehow wound up with it. And Shawn
found it in his attic. It was in bad shape, so he passed it my way
to fix up. It has skin drumheads. And is awesome. I took a couple of my
old beat-up cymbals and combined them with its old-ness to make a good
contrasting drumset to my other modern behemoth.

So in a fit of fun, I decided to use this set finally for something.

Beat inspired by A Little Less Conversation.

Built the song from there. Instrument by instrument.

The tempo of it made me call the session "running", which lent to a 
"race" kind of lyrics. The particular meaning of the words is somewhat
inspired by the competition and pace of modern capitalism, in a very
simplified sense.

Oo. And I used the didgeridoo I got for christmas for the first time!
It doesn't cut through perfectly, but it's there during the "chorus".

There is video of the recording process on this one. I'm trying out the
"lets make videos of me recording, because why not". We'll see how that
continues...

It's on the shorter-side of songs. Mainly due to it not being written 
beforehand. Not my favorite, but not bad.

I've also decided that the songs are all roughly demo-tape quality.
Since my recording skills are not at a professional-level (nor are
my performances, necessarily), these are rough cuts. In case you were
wondering them or being overly critical...