Missile Wings

I have a friend – Brad Cattadoris – who participates in this open mic night at the Anodyne in Minneapolis on the first Friday of each month.  I looks like fun!

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Well,  I finished my second FAWM.  I’m very happy with my songs and am still working on them – remixing, rerecording parts, etc.  I just added drums to Psychic Odyssey and like the sound of that.  Now to figure out how to perform these live……….that’s the tough part!

The Missile Wings – new and improved with the second “i” – is struggling a bit with the last 3 songs – or last 6 songs if you don’t count the Dapple Throat stuff.  With so much going on at work right now, I’m not terribly concerned with getting extra songs just to have the FAWM counter say “winner!”.  I dabbled a bit tonight and now have about 3 or 4 songs begun, but nothing was coming together.  I will have to go back to basics tomorrow and lay down a drum loop first and write around that with bass first, then guitars and vocals.  Whatever happens, I have some new songs that I really like and am looking forward to playing with the full band with people – in a pub or coffee shop or party.  Maybe we can arrange a FOP (fawm over party).  Anyway, it’s been great with lots of gear learning and I’ll be sad to see it end again.

Jake

I’m off to a bit of a slow start as far as numbers of songs, but feeling good about progress with the new gear and software.  I’m learning a lot about midi, which is really cool, though I’m finding that my guitar playing rushes a bit, so I’ll either need to correct that or learn to vary my drum tracks to accomodate that.

My new Pro Tools version 8 is working well, except I’m getting some error messages during playback – needing to adjust the buffer size.  I’ll have to go through the bio setup according the Digidesign forums to get that running.

I need to crank out some songs, so I’m going through my summer recycling bin to see what can be used there.   I’m liking the more hard rock sounds this year for some reason.  Quiet loud quiet might have to be my fawm theme.

MJ

Feel free to check out the tunes and make comments.  This site is under construction.  The old site is at http://misslewings.googlepages.com/

For songs written during  February Album Writing Month (www.fawm.org), go to the Songs of 2009 tab.