I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I posted last. Much has happened including the birth of my twin babies. But now that they are here and things have settled down a bit, I’m ready to get back into the music. In the coming week I hope to upload some more tunes that Brian Bowe and I recorded. And if time allows (which tends to be rare with newborn babies), I hope to record at least a little something.
Checking off tracks during recording. We (the Icicles) are on Day 7 of recording. Hope to finish tracking today and dive into mixing tomorrow.
Joleen and I worked on a new song tonight. It’s brand spanking new, and the recording is just a microphone in the room so it’s pretty raw (like most of what I’ve posted to date). Maybe soon I’ll put up a more polished version, but in the meantime, check it out.
This is a song I recorded today with guitarist Brian Bowe and drummer Zane DeVault. It was just a microphone in a room so it’s pretty raw. Plus, we’d never played this song together. The three of us had a nice shoegazing jam session this afternoon! Looking forward to lots more sessions to come.
Here are the words:
Untitled
by Gretchen DeVault
copyright 2010
When all the stars have faded
and the moon ceased to exist
we’re left standing alone here
with nothing but regret
I wonder what you’ll say then
when I get up to leave the room
our secrets will be spoken
and we’ll be forced to leave this world
Within a silent language
no one will ever understand
the questions go unanswered
and the wonder never ends
So here’s a really rough cut of a song I just wrote. I wrote it the same day as I recorded it so it’s not polished by any means. I’m trying to be true to the goal in my blog of just putting the music out there once it’s created - good or bad. It’s definitely a scary feeling. So, here it is…
Listening to: Wilco, Summerteeth
I’m feeling a little discouraged tonight. I happened upon my copy of the Artist’s Way from about ten years ago. I flipped through the book and read some of my journal entries. The same themes stood out then as do today. I work too much. I do not spend enough time making music. I want to be a rock star when I grow up. Nothing has changed really. Not even my approach or priorities. I’ve known for a long time that I work too much and too hard and I neglect making music which is what I love most. Why haven’t I made music a more important part of my life? Am I destined to stay in this continuous cycle - work, work, work with a little bit of music sprinkled in? How do I change?
Before there was the Icicles, there was the Icycles. I wrote a couple of songs and recorded them in our little apartment on Portsmouth in 2000. I played the songs for my friend Korrie and we started making music together (Korrie on drums, me on guitar and vocals) and soon asked our friend Joleen to play keyboard with us. Thus the birth of the Icicles. This song is called “Stay”. It never ended up being an Icicles song, although you never know…
Thanks to Mary Graff who kept this recording alive. I lost all my computer files containing these recordings and the only cd I had ended up being defective. I thought I lost it. But while at visiting her in November, one of the songs came up on shuffle in iTunes. Perhaps fate?
