27th
Bedroom Experiment 2
During an interview for my on-going vintage gear project, an informant described at length how he writes a song. This excerpt captures perfectly how I (and I would venture most self-taught musicians) write music:
That is how I kind of do songwriting. I’ll haul out this old Gretsch amp and play it. Oh, there is something I never would have thought of because this sounds pretty good with this amplifier. Somehow, at least for me, I just have this inspiration to do something different because I am hearing something that is different and I come up with this riff relative to this sound. […] An outside person doesn’t know what motivates the song but I do.
In the case of this song (“Bedroom Experiment 2”…I’ll post the first one later), I just got a new guitar (a Danelectro Hodad in beige) and thought to plug it into my 1970s Fender Champ, running through an Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man. The result was pure tonal heaven and this song popped out pretty quickly. All I have right now is this so-so USB mic so excuse the levels, I haven’t bothered to find its sweet spots yet.
