So there's a category on this blog where musicians can write about recordings from their projects that were published, one release per paper. And for now I am the only one writing in it. OK. Today it's about a 2009 release from a band that is called Gorbie's Stuff, in which I was playing bass and doing the lead vox thing on some songs and the backing vox thing on some other ones.
Are you in a hurry ? For now I cannot help much. This release used to be available for free download, but at the time this post is being written, the next platform or mean to have it so is still to be found. For updates on this case, you may refer to the actual band's label, Slcnc Music, there's a blog with news posted,
I said 'lead vox', previously. Since, on the vocal side, the band has a lead vocalist+main backing vocalist+backing vocalist configuration. At least, on what was was recorded, since on rehearsal we were mainly using a two backing vocalists set-up.
This, when we were four members in the band. When we were three ones, it was lead vocalist+main backing vocalist configuration that got recorded.
The history of this record, shortly : at a show, which would be the last one before one of the two guitarists announces he no longer wanted to be in the band and wouldn't be so any more - but at the time of the show, we weren't, or to be accurate I wasn't and probably wasn't the only one, aware of a possibility for such a thing to happen, our whole set got recorded on a cheap digital recorder in a very poor quality, that kind of recorder meant primarily if not exclusively to record voice in a hardly better than 20th century's telephony quality. This recording had been made due to a band's initiative.
A few time after our fourth member being no longer in the band, we still had his digital recorder - because it was his piece of hardware - because he's a kind guy and took care of having the band with a mean to record available and, at this time, the only copy from the recording of the show. Then, at a rehearsal at the very last stage of the band's activity period before it imploded, we recorded a few more songs using the same stuff.
A long time after the split... I'm gonna check my email... Almost three years after... I plugged the jack audio cable between my computer and the recorder, and made files out of the recording sessions. I cut it into complete songs, and sent them to the band's former members. We had recorded an handful of songs before these ones, but weren't satisfied of the result. But with this new tracks, we started to think about an issuing. Then, in fall 2008, we open-licensed two tracks and put them on a peer-to-peer network. And, in August 2009, we published a whole album made of the recordings from these two sessions, and it's called 'Almost Complete'.
There's ten tracks on this album. Six of them comes from the live show, with four musicians, and the other four are "studio" recording from our rehearsal room, with three musicians.
There were the drums/main backing vocals guy, the guitar guy, the bass/lead vocals on some tracks/Backing vocals on other tracks guy (me ! ), and, on the first 6 tracks, the live ones, there was also the guitar/lead vocal (on some track)/backing vocals (on other tracks) guy.
On one of the studio tracks, I sing the lead vocals on a song that our former member wrote and used to sing when we were four members in the band. This track is also among the live ones, with him singing then.
I don't know if the recorded show is our best show, but I have the memory of a very good set, a thing that can be heard on the record. The band, as it used to be, is energetic, noisy, melodic, and the music is to be true really interesting to listen to. All of this can also be applied to the studio tracks, with the extra feeling of a band that wouldn't be still here for long.
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