Saturday… Early Morning… Studio… Alone…

February 14, 2009

While this appears like a simple bit of self-deprecation, it’s actually one of the deeper DaydreamTV submissions I’ve made. I very literally live for early morning on Saturday in my studio. This is when I am happiest. I have no worries, no cares, no pretensions. This is me recording a lyric for a new song. To be fair, it sounds much, much better with the massive reverb I’m hearing during the recording… and these are the bad takes. It took an hour to get this one transition and it got more and more difficult as I went on and stressed my vocal cords. And, while I’m doing this and making these pained faces to hit notes, I’m laughing to myself, thinking how it must look to other people. And, then I begin reflecting on how fake and guarded I am around other people. So, I got the camera attached to the microphone boom and continued. While I cringe watching it and wonder what people must think and how they laugh, this is me. (And, yes, that is Iron Butterfly “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” in vinyl hanging in the studio and I also love Iron Maiden.)

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