{"id":8282,"date":"2013-10-05T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2013-10-05T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:46:20","slug":"filed-in-the-good-things-happen-department-part-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8282","title":{"rendered":"Filed in the &#8220;Good Things Happen&#8221; Department&#8230; Part 27."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Filed%20in%20the%20%22Good%20Things%20Happen%22%20Department...%20Part%2027.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I have no idea if this is the 27th time I&#8217;ve written\u00a0 a &#8220;&#8221;Good Things Happen&#8221; post. I&#8217;ve written a few. The number just popped in my head, and I ran with it.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be a fun music-filled weekend. Tonight, my band Laurel Canyon is playing its first two hour show ever at the Coffee Lounge on Gettysburg and First.<\/p>\n<p>But lets back up a few days, because that provides the root of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, a friend who owns a recording studio put out notice that he was looking for someone to lay down some vocals in the style of John Mayer for a client, probably for a commercial or something. Well, I have a little section of the guest bedroom set aside as a home recording studio that I hardly ever use, and figured I&#8217;d give it a whirl&#8230; It never hurts to try. So I got a karaoke version of &#8220;Why Georgia Why&#8221; and laid down some VOX in one take. It turned out OK. I&#8217;m not sure if my voice will fit the bill. But even if it doesn&#8217;t, this little recording session, such as it was, set off a chain of events that&#8217;s leading to this weekend..<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, I got an email from the home recording forum I belong to, telling me about a song writing contest where the prize is a nice bundle of recording software. To enter, you have to write a song using the words &#8220;sasquatch&#8221;, &#8220;kick&#8221;, and &#8220;machine&#8221;&#8230; The name of the software is Sasquatch Kick Machine of course.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m alway up to the challenge of writing a new song, though I never seem to do it. But on Thursday, something happened. After probably a year in the case, I took out my mandolin and started messing with it. I soon stumbled onto an interesting chord progression, and at the same time, these lyrics popped into my head:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tall and awkward<br \/>\nHe rarely comes around these parts no more<\/p>\n<p>If you see him<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s probably here to settle some old score<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s for sure&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instantly, I knew I had stumbled onto the root that will be &#8220;The Ballad Of Sasquatch&#8221;. Since I already had the recording gear set up from the other demo, I was already ready to plug in and record the bits that I had. God only knows how many songs I&#8217;ve lost forever because I didn&#8217;t take the time to write and record the things that pop in then out of my head! And instead of writing some little thing about how I desire the Sasquatch Kick Machine software&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my precious&#8230; I WANTS IT!!!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This thing is developing into a full song, and it&#8217;s my first to be written on mandolin.<\/p>\n<p>So, even if I don&#8217;t get the John Mayer-ish gig&#8230; Even if I don&#8217;t win the software&#8230;. I&#8217;ve reignited my desire to learn more on the mandolin, and gotten a song out of it.<\/p>\n<p>I consider that a win no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>PS. I also will finally sit down and really learn how to use the perfectly good recording software I&#8217;ve not used since I got it two years or so ago &#8211; PreSonus&#8217; Studio One. I&#8217;ve toyed with it here and there since I got it, but haven&#8217;t disciplined myself to really get into learning how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>PPS. Here&#8217;s the &#8220;Why Georgia Why&#8221; demo. I didn&#8217;t spend any time refining it, so it&#8217;s pretty raw. As I listen with fresh ears, it&#8217;s not the best I could have done. There are snips here and there that do work pretty well though. And as I said, it was worth the effort no matter what.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicfrog\/why-georgia-why-demo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicfrog\/why-georgia-why-demo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Filed%20in%20the%20%22Good%20Things%20Happen%22%20Department...%20Part%2027.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I have no idea if this is the 27th time I&#8217;ve written\u00a0 a &#8220;&#8221;Good Things Happen&#8221; post. I&#8217;ve written a few. The number just popped in my head, and I ran with it. This is going to be a fun music-filled weekend. Tonight, my band Laurel Canyon is playing its first two hour show ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,65,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}