red frog heaven revisited
October 21, 2009
so i used to have some mp3s of me singing up in a gallery that i since got rid of, and for a long time this wasn’t an issue. lately i’ve been thinking that maybe i should try to maintain some record of me singing. i don’t have any samples of the church stuff or any of the jamming from Firefly this year, but back in 2003 or so Liu Xing and i sat around at his computer and made some terrible recordings of us via his computer.
I mean, it was a basic basic mic, so there’s only so much you can do with the sound, especially from a room that was essentially a concrete box. Also… we were mostly acoustic and didn’t have a drummer… i remember laughing a lot over rigging up a sandal to a sang egg… so guitar playing on top of half stomping with this thing held on by a nail… it was precious.
You’ll have to pardon the butchered lyrics and particularly butchered Portuguese. Bossa nova was all the rage so we had a whole Jobim songbook set.