Recent content by Chepney

This post may be perceived as spam, I'm not sure. If so, I apologize and offer the defense (excuse) that my intentions are good, or at least benign. Anyway, if you go to http://www.zoetrope.com and do the sign up thingy (free) and go to the "Music and Sound Building", you'll find a songwriting...

"Overcast and threatening rain," Tim the Timbuck said to Shane. "I like the rain," said Shane McGoo. Said Tim the Timbuck, "Timbuck too!"

Howdy! There's a song called "Going Back" at www.idrive.com/chepney It's sort of a home recording, but not quite. Here's what happened. . . Most of the tracks were recorded at the audio lab where a friend of mine teaches recording and radio broadcasting. He's got kind of a wonky setup there...

Hard knee/Soft knee (to the groin?). . . Say you've gotcher threshold set at -12dB and yer ratio at 4:1. If yer compressor is set to hard knee, it'll start squashing immediately at 4:1 as soon as the signal being fed into it goes over -12dB, right? But if it's set to soft knee, the ratio will...

Well I can't get along little doggie No I can't get along little doggie I can't even get a short little doggie I can't get a doggie at all

And by the way . . . Fave lyrics of my own scribbling: From "Carla" "Carla, in hands like works of art Clutches the torn and bleeding pieces of my heart" From "You Beautiful" "And if you choose to waste my time, I won't be mad I'll walk you home, I'l walk your dog, I'll meet your dad"...

Fave lyricists: . . . . Andy Partridge of XTC Witness "1000 Umbrellas" "And one million teacups I bet Couldn't hold all the wet That fell out of my eyes When you fell out with me Now I'm crawling the wallpaper That's looking more like a roadmap To misery" John Linnell of They Might Be Giants...

Almost invariably, the first verse I write is not the first verse of the song. The words that come to me initially are usually a distillation of what the song is about. The thrust of the song. I don't like to lay out all the cards in the first verse, so what I'll do is use those song-defining...

Howdy! Just found this site yesterday. My songs usually come from boredom. Qasper said -- ". . . I've written some of my best stuff while stuck as a night-watchman, under harsh neon lights and with nothing else to look at but the clock..." Exactly! I used to have this factory job where...