July 6 re-cap

Hey Rock came and Hey Rock played and Hey Rock had a grand old time.



And then the band got bigger changed places and banged out some tunes...



By the end of the night i was in an underground parking lot with Hey Rock trying to record a "heavy on the reverb" version of the song "disappear". Listening back on the recording i realize that perhaps the recording device was a little far away from the point of acoustic origin as the claps and reverb registered at the same level of dominance as the main punch of the song. Live and learn, recording is a fine art and it doesn't help much that the medium and the devices keep changing. I remember recording with the old tascam 4 track machine and you could just sit in the chair (drum stool) and read the meters and have a pretty good idea of what you are about to get. Now it's all fuckery, machine levels and machines built to cater to people who have no intention of ever creating (which is fine), but there is a difference.

i loved making tapes, which reminds me... i should digitalize "8 minute man", but in all seriousness why make more plastic? But then again does digital make more plastic... it actually might, it would make sense that something that appears on first sight to make less makes more... phones are pieces of shit that need to be replaced every half year and tapes were good for decades. If i make a tape now then it's Mule, Smash and Shockk are the only people listening to it, and that's not good for the brisk sales juggernaut of the Canada Lynx Records express.  Good to note CD's are plastic as well, because the facts are good things to remember.  Sometimes convenience get's in the way when it comes to feeling good about ourselves.

Anyhoo I have to prepare for the big SRSS 6 year anniversary show blog for tomorrow.