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  • About
  • Discography
  • Solo Projects
  • The Punk Archive
    • Negative Element
    • E.C.A./CHIP'S PATROL/HATE
    • Caustic Defiance
    • The Outbreaks
    • Regress
    • Touching Uncles
    • The Slurps
    • P.L.F.
    • Racin For Pinks
    • The Lechers-U.S.
    • The Rondos
    • KiL
    • The Lechers-DUBLIN
  • Oddities
    • Loosies
    • Before And After
    • Classic Albums Live
    • Crapshoot
    • Hungarian Disaster In Brahams
    • Sonic Experiments
    • Skate And Destroy
    • Kill City
    • Jakeleg
    • Negative Element vs WDGC
  • What's New?
  • Photography
    • N.Y.C.
    • Mermaid Parade
    • Latvia
    • Randoms
  • Contact

BEFORE AND AFTER


I can't speak for all songwriters, but when I get hit with a new song idea, it comes fast and furious.
I never spend more than maybe 20 minutes writing a song because at that point the inspiration has waned and I get lost in the technicals. Instead, I frantically figure the chord changes in my mind while simultaneously trying to jot down the lyrics before they are lost to the ether.
All the while, in my head, I can hear the arrangement as well. The drums, the  bass, the backing vocals,..  maybe horns? Maybe strings?
I can't read or write music, so when a song does come to me I have only one way to remember it. I record it as soon as I finish writing it because I'm afraid I'll forget it very quickly if I don't.
So this page is comparing the original inspiration to the final recording.
You can listen to the rough idea and then hear what I was actually visualizing in my head as I was writing it in the final recorded version.

(All of these songs are on my CHAOS IN SEASON album that you can check out on my Solo Projects page.)

BEFORE
The song recorded right after it was written.

AFTER
The final recorded version.







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