Jamie and TJ from the Does This Hold Up podcast asked me if I could get them a holiday-flavored version of the theme song that Jay Goodman and I recently wrote for their highly entertaining show. I was happy to oblige! I retooled some of the tracks and swapped in some new instrumentation (sleigh bells, bells, strings and […]
Category: Songwriting
Judicious Stutter
I’ve been digging a new Izotope plug-in I got for Pro Tools called Stutter Edit. In the simplest terms, it lets you assemble a group of effects into what they call a “gesture”, and then you can play these gestures via MIDI. It’s almost something that you have to play around with to grok the […]
I’m totally serious
I’ve been working on a new set of songs. A number of them have been around in one form or another for a very long time, and others are more recent. I’m starting to feel a little bit of momentum to get them finished up and out of my head once and for all so […]
Discography is live
Well I guess I have been busy all these years. The new discography page is posted. It was quite a trip down memory lane as I tried to assemble details about the albums I’ve participated in making over the last 15 years or so. I was surprised at the final tally – I’m glad that […]
Burned out, but better now
2012 was a busy year for making music here at Snoozeking. In addition to the annual production of a DD69 album (this year’s effort: Get Up), I spent a great deal of time working on the first new Foonspeeders album in over a decade. Despite the fact that there’s no serious deadline for these projects, […]
In loving memory
I was very close with my maternal grandparents. They were a big part of inspiring and enabling my love of art and music, as briefly described here. My grandmother was an artist: a painter, penciler, seamstress, creative cook. I spent my summers with she and my grandfather, and she and I often went to the […]
Lubricating lyrical gears (part 2)
After coming up with the lyrics for the chorus of an upcoming song, I brought it up on studio night. Mike, Kenny, Jeff and I all suggested ideas for words, phrasing and melody. I had old lyrics from another song that were unused and seemed to fit the concept of minute by minute change, so […]
Lubricating lyrical gears (part 1)
Hard to believe that we’re already into the second month of 2011. January went by in a snowy blur here on the north coast, but it wasn’t without some musical progress. As mentioned previously, the second Thomas Reed Smith album is finished, and should be back from manufacturing in a matter of weeks. Tom and […]