Brooklyn's Burning
By NWSPR on September 4, 2022 9:30 pm
This song is a combination of a lot of things. It started with some leftover impressions from last week's Peter Hook show in that had me wanting to do a song where the bass guitar takes the melody. The song title and refrain is a play on The Clash's London's Burning - that came about because when trying to come up with a vocal melody, I found that Lost in the Super Market fit perfectly as a scratch vocal, which in itself has nothing to do with London's Burning. But it's been super hot this summer... and parts of Brooklyn will be under water soon due to rising sea levels. So full circle. A song about Brooklyn falling into the sea.
I was mainly playing with vocal layering and arrangement this week. Sometimes I can't hit the notes, but you know what I was going for I think 
Bass = Fender Precision
Guitar = Reverend Guitar
Arp Bass - Moog Grandmother
Drums - Roland TR-626 Rhythm Composer (hardware drum machine)
Percussion - Logic Bluebird Kit Plugin
Piano - Logic Plugin
The music was rough tracked in its entirety with the Moog sequence, drum machine, and bass guitar played straight through so if I messed up, I had to start over (many times!). Because the drum machine was using its internal clock, it wanders a bit and made it nearly impossible to go back and edit the arrangement or I would have shortened the final song. Of course I could do lots of overdubs, but I rarely track a full song like the old days in a studio. And now I remember why I don't do that any more!
Enjoy your last weekend of summer!
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