New directions, trying to find the sound.  Three guitars here, and days away delay- all looped live.

Snow day- a perfect time to hang out with your looper.

I have to be done with this now.  I am walking away.  I have to let this be what it is. The corporate blood money that made my last record so hi-fi is long gone. For better or worse, I was going to record this thing myself.  Dozens (27 actually!) of songs were written, re-written and then tossed.  Hours of recordings were worried over and then abandoned.  There are at least two fully completed and totally different versions of this record that will never be heard.  In the end, I scrapped it all and made a live solo acoustic record.  All of the odd noises, technical flubs and other happy accidents are in there.  I am trying not to be obsessed with everything this record is not, but what it IS is a real thing made by a real person.  It is imperfect and flawed, glorious and hopeless, tangled up in itself, and indelibly true. It is the product of giant leaps, giant setbacks, too much time spent in bars, open mic nights, rock shows, books, a million daydreams and about that same number of veggie melts from The Crescent Moon.  A limited number of physical copies will be available at shows and whatnot, but you can download it for free at http://lincolndickison.bandcamp.com.  It’s all yours now. Thanks. 

Almost done.  Final mixing processing as we “speak”.

I think today marks the end of “recording” for the new album.  I did everything myself for better or worse, but I think it turned out ok.  Possible kind descriptors would be “quaint”, “honest”, “raw”, “unpretentious”.  I feel like there is creative growth of some kind, if not the financial means to make it fully realized. One guitar, two SM57s, no effects or overdubs (or safety net!).  I have 12 songs, about 8 of which I think will make the cut.  Gotta mix it and then I think I will just post it on bandcamp for anyone to download.  Why make CDs any more?  I am not going to tour all over or market myself heavily.  I do this because I HAVE to :)

Here’s a little teaser for the show at O’leaver’s tonight.  Chromafrost is John, Julie, and Lincoln.  We recorded this in the basement, ya know?

MP3 of me from an embarrassing old cassette release, recorded somehow using a tape deck with a mono mic input, a PA head and a 2 track reel to reel.  JOE SCHAEFER stars on the drums. I thought I was so smart back then!

I would give my right arm to be in this band.

New demo……..Poorly recorded…… Par for the course.  I make no apologies, only disclaimers.  Clunky vocal line is still being perfected, but I can’t get it out of my head.

This tune combines two things I am struggling to improve at- singing and playing slowly.  Talk about playing to your strengths! (Har!) 

I do make one apology- to Edward Estlin C for lifting the gestalt from one of his rhymes.

I made a music page for facebook since myspace is now beyond useless.  F-book is a little better….. well it is a LOT better.

Looking at boxes and boxes of CD’s you know you’ll never sell and fruitless job searching is not a good way to start the day.  +++++++ Onward and upward!