New stuff from Evan
Evan Gross dropped in on my place Saturday night and recorded a few songs in my “little studio”. Zac Craig came by and added in a drum track, which was a very hard thing to do given the circumstances.
All songs are Evan Gross originals, except for “Church Wax America” which is his own personal mutation of Weezer’s “Surf Wax America”. (Unfortunately the vocals cut out on this track and I didn’t notice until I was mixing everything.)
My personal favorite is “Maria”. It’s incredibly catchy. Of course, so is “Each Day”, which rocks. “This is the Day” is a good start to what will be a great song. (Evan left his original lyrics at home in Seattle so he improvised these right before we recorded.) Really, they’re all pretty fun songs.
Here’s the goods:
Maria [with Drums] Maria [no Drums] Each Day This is the Day
June 28th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
My favorite is “Maria.” After listening through the two tracks with Zac on drums I could totally hear the drums going out of beat. The guitar was also weak in one of them. Cool stuff though.
June 29th, 2005 at 5:33 am
Your favorite can’t be “Maria”. I already said that was MY favorite!
Ha. ha. ha.
The drums go off beat because Evan does and then the drums are trying to figure
Evan goes off beat because nothing’s keeping him on beat. We recorded just the guitar and vocals in the first shot with Zac listening to it on headphones to add the drum track later.
If we had a metronome we wouldn’t have had that problem, but we didn’t.
We’re going to get together again this weekend when Evan’s in town and do another take - this time with a beat!