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Where do you start on something like this? It started in Fairbanks, Alaska when a professor brought in his mandolin and played for us. It was entrancing, and then he said, "A stringed instrument is the best thing you will ever do for your life." It was almost viral in essence, and hung in my heart and soul until I moved down to Bellingham, Washington.
There, I met Dave McGraw, a drummer and strummer, who loaned me my first guitar...
So that is how it started. Then I basically holed up for many years and taught myself to play by writing overly simplistic songs...which is not much less than I currently do.
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As for purpose, I guess I need to say that writing music is basically my release. Like some people like to disappear in a book or story, I find that zone when writing.
I used to get asked who I write for, and the reality is that I am pretty much a failed poet who writes to tell other people's stories or to expose some insight in the system we live in. Who knows really. Song to song, I guess.
That said, I record on various systems...
But it works.
So people know, most releases are one-time sessions that have different feelings based on the mood I am in. I record almost exclusively this way:
Lay down a guitar track. Keep one take.
Lay down a vocal track. Keep one take (I lose the "feel" if I break it into pieces).
Add harmonies. If I have time or energy.
That is it.
For now, I keep it the way it is...and that IS just the way it is.
Peace all,
gdc
There, I met Dave McGraw, a drummer and strummer, who loaned me my first guitar...
So that is how it started. Then I basically holed up for many years and taught myself to play by writing overly simplistic songs...which is not much less than I currently do.
---
As for purpose, I guess I need to say that writing music is basically my release. Like some people like to disappear in a book or story, I find that zone when writing.
I used to get asked who I write for, and the reality is that I am pretty much a failed poet who writes to tell other people's stories or to expose some insight in the system we live in. Who knows really. Song to song, I guess.
That said, I record on various systems...
But it works.
So people know, most releases are one-time sessions that have different feelings based on the mood I am in. I record almost exclusively this way:
Lay down a guitar track. Keep one take.
Lay down a vocal track. Keep one take (I lose the "feel" if I break it into pieces).
Add harmonies. If I have time or energy.
That is it.
For now, I keep it the way it is...and that IS just the way it is.
Peace all,
gdc
Music 
Collaborations
| Title | Genre | Released | Plays |
| My Final Hours | Alternative | Feb 5, 2008 | 3240 |
