I wrote and recorded ‘Outside the War’ and ‘Run from the Races’ while I was nine months pregnant.
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It’s just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
We had a demo recorded that we made available on our MySpace site, and that was quite successful for us too, but not on the same level as ‘Beautiful Tragedy.’
The tracks on ‘Sleep’ were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that’s really it.
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility.
Something will come to me in the middle of the day, and I’ll Voice Note it so I don’t forget how I felt when the idea came about. I can hear the feeling I had when I first recorded it.
On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I’d tell my dad, ‘Dude, I want more ‘cut’ on my guitar – I want more treble.’ And he’d say, ‘Now, son, you don’t want that. It’ll hurt your ears.’ But my dad just didn’t understand.
That’s the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it’s like I haven’t written it, it’s more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, ‘Song of the Red Rock Mountain,’ is one of them. I recorded it and thought, ‘Where did that come from?’
In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.
I’ve never recorded anyone else’s songs. I’m not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I’d still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.
We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded. Our findings changed the world’s understanding of how atoms interact with high-intensity light.
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad – while he was in college – sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad’s Southern side that impacted on me musically.
When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone’s jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn’t.
T Bone is genius. The way they’ve recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
I’d love to act more. I’ve had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it’s encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I’ve been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I’ll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.
People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It’s so annoying; you got to be completely censored.
You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on… one take or two take.
I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.
Some people only work to recorded music because it’s so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don’t.
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
Every record has been very different, so I can’t really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.
Carrie Fisher was the most remarkable person I’ve ever known. I made my first three albums in her house. ‘Goodbye My Lover’ was recorded in her bathroom. My life will not be nearly as much fun now she’s gone.
After you’ve practiced for an hour or so, turn down the lights and record yourself playing. Improvise and go nuts, then playback what you’ve recorded and listen for your strengths and weaknesses.
At one point when we recorded ‘Fighting with My Family’ at the Staples Center it was an incredible feeling and I loved it but I was playing AJ Lee and I wanted it to be me.
Of the 25 songs we’ve recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn’t have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it’s recorded and everyone has access to it… so let’s stop judging people.
People who go to concerts hear Beethoven’s symphonies hundreds of times, but ‘Star Trek’ is recorded, so it’s not played all the time.
I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.
I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
To be honest, neither ‘Satta’ nor ‘Stumped’ needed songs and music. But when we recorded a good soundtrack album, everyone suggested we create credible situations for songs.
We just weren’t a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in New York or Los Angeles.
When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.
After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn’t call myself Orthodox anymore. It’s so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing ‘Disobedience’… it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.
Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.
Sometimes I play something, and I haven’t recorded it, and I don’t know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.
‘Been That Way’ is a song that Timbaland gave me. Actually, the beat is. And then he called me to come out there to Miami. I went out there to work with him, and he gave me two beats for my project. One was ‘Sorry Not Sorry,’ and the other one was ‘Been That Way,’ and I recorded both of them in my hotel.
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.
We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to ‘Lovin’ Feelin’ I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.
I joined Alcatrazz a month after I recorded ‘Steeler.’ The big difference between Steeler and Alcatrazz is that in Alcatrazz, I wrote the songs. When I went to the Alcatrazz audition, they had no songs and no direction. They also had a questionable drummer.
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is ‘Empires Made Of Sand.’
For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
I’m always happy to be a part of history. When you’re a part of history, you live forever. ‘The T.A.M.I. Show’ will live forever because now it’s brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.
And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
‘Brace the Wave’ is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.
Fortunately any of the songs we’ve recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.
There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there’s never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing ‘Tekken.’
There’s a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don’t know what the title of it is.
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
