Writing

During my bedbound days this past winter, I wrote several things, even one or two with lyrics. I'm usually slow with lyrics. Since my early 20s I discovered that songwriting was much more natural for me when I developed the music first and wrote lyrics afterwards. That's still how I do it, but I'm terribly lazy about it--aside from a few lines, a verse or chorus or whatever, I have to just sit down and then do it all in one shot.
That's where I'm at now, three or four new songs with little or no words. There were actually a couple songs where I wrote the music and words all at the same time, but that's rare.

Anyway, when I first started out, I tried writing lyrics before music and it definitely didn't work for me. I guess I thought I was Elvis Costello or Bernie Taupin or whoever. Actually I'm not sure which famous artists write their lyrics first. Aside from a line or two, or a song title, I definitely don't.

Then there's the long saga of the demo tape, ahh the demo tape. I discovered that the first song I had on the acoustic demo side had a fucked up mix, so I re-recorded that song as opposed to searching through my numerous other recordings. Now I think that I want to add some electric stuff on the second side. I'll figure that out in the next week. I want to send this thing to somebody--probably
Steam Powered Studios-- before my next birthday.

It takes many actors to portray Dylan...

...including females.

Looks cool.