Ernest Buckley

A few years back I recorded some "live studio" organ tracks... I was using VSTs but I wanted to go for a live feel so I would press record and jam along to the track. I screwed up one note in the entire performance but felt it was part of the performance which was otherwise very good. My friend heard the track and wanted to fix it in the MIDI editor. It was an easy fix but I told him to keep that note in there... my attitude at the time and still is at the present, if we only had tape, we would keep more "mistakes" knowing the rest of the track was good. The surprises are lost today because its so easy to fix mistakes. My biggest issue though with DAWs is switching between right and left brain activities. I am most productive when I am only thinking about performance. So I`ve learned to set up my sessions before pressing record with the tracks and VSTs I think I will need. That way all I have to do is arm the track and go.

If a piece of music moves me, I honestly don`t care if it was lined up to the grid or not. I don`t care about the players chops, or the engineering skills, etc... if it moves me on some emotional level than I`m happy. I think we`re over thinking things...

Hey Ken, Congrats, thats awesome. I knew you were talented, now more people know. Peace, EB

Cool Lee K, Thanks for your insight.

What do you make of "Arms that can only lift a spoon" ? You lift a spoon to feed yourself. The line IMO comments on mans selfish behavior.

Seriously, these types of songs can be incredibly deep or dumb depending on how you look at it. Back in the fall of `06 I read 1984, Fahrenheit and The Celestine Prophecy back to back to back... it sort of put me in a really bad place for a while. You start writing lyrics like that...

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It's not a bad thing to spend less of course, but the point at which we should do that is not now. It's when we AREN'T in a recession that we should spend less and save more, then there very likely wouldn't be a next one. Or if there was, it would be much shorter and much less worse since we could all draw on money saved when times were up. We always do the wrong thing at the wrong time. People are selling stocks at the lowest point they are likely to ever get and completely screwing themselves, when it's one of the fundamental rules of stocks that you shouldn't, and that causes more stock panic which lowers the price even more and more people bail out and on and on. It's really kind of a wierd view of herd mentality that's pretty instructive. A person is smart, but people are stupid. Yes, agree with everything. Funny too because the stock market is built entirely on faith. We have this system set up where everyone is borrowing money from each other and paying it back on interest. The entire market is built on the idea of popeye. If you give me a dollar today, I`ll give you a dollar and a dime on Tuesday. However, to take this one step further, we have borrowed more than the system can comfortably allow and the system is starting to crack. So at this point, its not about faith anymore, its about being practical. If your output exceeds your input, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Yeah, I agree with Chippy. Also, last time I went to a major league game, it was hard to sit there and enjoy the game knowing I payed $500 for 4 people to see 9 innings of a baseball game. Of course the seats were about $90/ea. but the dogs, beer and parking were astronomical.