The Bloody Hams

Sleepless North of Seattle

2005-04-25T11:03:00.001-07:00

That’s a lie, I actually did sleep, but I shouldn’t have because I ended up finishing the mix at the last moment this morning.

Done.

I had to send it in before I was happy with it, so I have a bunch of complaints about the levels / tone of the mix. Steve has already been my shoulder to cry on, so I’m done griping about it. I wish I could have added some more thingies to the mix, but it turns out that was not to be. Tom, your drums and bass were both killer. The mix sounded so good even when they were all I had. Steve, your guitars are great, and your harmonizing hummings totally made the song. Ken, way to go with the vocals, and thanks for checking your PMs and responding to my 3am musical requests. And a round of applause to Jason for writing a kickass song with an extra kickass chorus.

I’m off to brew up a gallon of coffee.

Status Report

2005-04-24T17:25:00.000-07:00

Ok, so here's where we are right now, as of about 5:30 PM PST. Leaf's drum tracks are uploading to my server right now and Adam should have the ftp info to get them, otherwise i'll post the links here. I just spoke to Ken on the phone and he is working on the vox and has a guitar track too. I gave him a copy of the mp3 that jason sings on to synch to, but it would be helpful to have one without jason's singing in it. Adam, any chance you could give us a rough mix that Ken and I can both use to sing to?

damn, these things get complicated. :)

blog rights

2005-04-24T00:29:00.000-07:00

all of you guys now have administrator rights so you should be able to edit posts, etc.

tracks

2005-04-23T14:37:00.000-07:00

i'll upload the 4 tracks i did tonight and send puce the links. also, who's singing this? bolio? ken? me? i wouldn't mind doing some harmony vocals.

Finally

2005-04-22T09:41:00.000-07:00

Updated lead sheet *new & improved with LYRICS*

http://home.comcast.net/~jbolish5565/aa.xls

And I threw a vocal 'sample' (use the term lightly) on for you. Think it flows pretty well. It's a basis anyway for your interpretation.

http://home.comcast.net/~jbolish5565/aa.mp3

Oh my...

2005-04-22T09:12:00.000-07:00

You guys aren't going to belive this, but I was looking at our blog and pressed the "next blog" link up in the right hand corner and the next blog was... http://superpornstars.blogspot.com/ !!!

Rockstars and Pornstars next to each other!

Be well,
Ken

Eine Kleine A and A

2005-04-22T01:14:00.000-07:00

Ok, so i did some recording with this tonight and posted a rough mix. here's a link to it. keep in mind that the stuff i did was intentionally mixed high to emphasize it so you could hear it easy enough.

http://www.jackshite.com/music/stash/bloodyhams/hamsroughmix.mp3

i did 4 guitar tracks.

track 1: tremelo guitar in verse panned slightly left
track 2: overdriven rhythym guitar during chorus/loud section panned slight left
track 3: overdriven lead in chorus/loud section panned slight right
track 4: acoustic guitar in verse panned slightly right

anyways, let me know what you think.

-js

Fresh Ham

2005-04-13T12:59:00.000-07:00

A new thread for a new track.

Possible New Slice

2004-11-29T13:18:00.000-08:00

there's a rumour going around that there may be another slice of bloody ham in the near future. any thoughts?

"the missing soundboards"

2004-09-14T23:57:00.000-07:00

that could be one way to describe it. so keep in mind that the guitar track i added is just for show and not really what i'd play. my thoughts would be to have leaf record his bass to the mix and get a good clean drums and bass to work with. then have puce record his guitar, and maybe even an overdub on the vox if he wants to drop another dub low in the mix. then bolio and i could add something to that, and if ken wanted to add to his drums he could too. the real challenge would be to maintain the appearance of a live board mix, a good one but not overdo the studio aspect of it. i think "so many possibilities" is an ideal candidate for the first song to try. i think gwp could also be a good one to clean up too. as well as "let it be". maybe if we can get enough cleaned up tracks, we make a CD a stick on homemade music or something. that could be fun.

anyhow, here's my rough remix:

http://www.jackshite.com/music/stash/bloodyhams/tasmpremixed.mp3

-js

Is it live or is it........

2004-09-14T22:37:00.000-07:00

a cool project idea. i'm sure you guys have heard glenn's mp3s and bless his heart for making them and recording them but they sound like ass. unadulterated ass. it's certainly not his fault at all. the mp3s are 64k mono and the mic sounds like it was sitting next to the floor monitor/drum kit and all you really hear are drums, vocals, and an occasional fill from bolio. so here's my idea. we remix some of these tracks and overdub our parts in. kens drumming is pretty spot on, as are the vox for the most part. we could all overdub our parts, drown them in reverb, and mix in with the live mix. i've been known to fake a live mix a time or 2....

as a sort of test, i took puce's "so many possibilities" and added a new guitar track (as mine is nonexistent on the mix) for kicks to see what it might sound like. anyone want to here my remix?

-js

The Bloody Hams conquer Seattle & Songfight!

2004-09-14T11:19:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to say it was a complete and utter blast to hang out with you guys this weekend. Great job on winning this week's fight too, i mean really, we did have the BEST FUCKING SONG THIS WEEK ANYWAYS!

So i hope that we can continue to do more Bloody Hams collabs in the future on an irregular basis, and i'm really looking forward to the next Bloody Hams reunion show....you guys absolutely rock!

-js

on the road

2004-09-10T13:03:00.000-07:00

Ken and I are getting to ready to hit the road for Seattle soon. Leaf, call me later today, anytime to chat. If my cell is out of range, i'll call you back.

-js

Woo Woo Hoo Surfin USA

2004-09-10T07:57:00.000-07:00

This is gonna be a fun one to do also. Almost belongs as the last song (encore?) where we go off at the end adding solo upon solo upon solo until they have to drag us off the stage.

Notes del bolio

2004-09-09T17:44:00.000-07:00

HEY going through stuff like crazy. GREAT selection of songs. I've never heard "Dirty Chucks" before, but it could be the best song I've heard from SF. I'm trying to learn all these songs but I keep goin' back to that one... I think I have a good grasp of all the songs, you'll have to let me know in practice exactly what you want me to play on each song. I'd love to be driving out where I could bring my keyboards & have everything programmed ahead of time. But I don't mind a challenge!

-Jason

Thoughts on setlist

2004-09-08T23:18:00.000-07:00

first thought, too many songs. I thought adam offered to drop dirty chucks, and we can ixnay one of mine if need be. but do the math, 11 songs at an average of 4 minutes per (remember, this is live.....) is 45 minutes, about 10 minutes too long. i'd say cut 3 from leafs list, 2 at the very least. and i don't mind if one is mine.

oh, and for what it's worth leaf, i've been singing "gift with purCHESS" all friggin day. bastard. don't change anything. you were right.

-js

In Summary my good sire....

2004-09-08T22:47:00.000-07:00

Ok. First off... things (as in the shit) hit the fan a bit for me this week... work feels like a lost cause, like I'm out the door soon... (a downtime in a plant always brings this feelng....) and our lead player quit the cover band, so I had to spend today and yesterday finding a replacement for the friday after Seattle... fucking pain... the new guy's a good friend, but he can be particular about silly shit like "your bass tone on this section of this tune is...." waste of a pub band's time stuff... I hope it works out... now I'm listening to our tunes, and I thought I 'd post a summary set list... clarify if you would...

Little Pig
Third String
Gift With PurCHESS (seriously, if it's retarded... I'll change it... or not.. I dunno talkstamongstyerselfs.....

Talk About Your Feelings
Let It Be

Dirty Chucks
I want To Get Better
There are So Many Possibilities

Foam Rubber Girl
Unless I Change My Mind
Gonna Be Your Man

This looks good to me.... comments....

Spud

2004-09-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

so i finally caught up with our man spud in the IRC earlier today and he informed me that he will be sending everyone an email concerning directions to barn, contact info, etc. this way we can all coordinate a time and place to meet, such as the studio on saturday night. jason, you'll probably be there before any of the rest of us. i talked to spud about a 7:30pm start time on saturday, we can all meet there.

i also mentioned the idea that if someone comes up with an arrangement and lyrics before saturday, we could always record a live 2 track bloody hams songfight for this week. or not. it's certainly not and shouldn't be a priority. but it could be fun if there's time.

-js

wah's up?

2004-09-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.jackshite.com/music/stash/bloodyhams/libmix.mp3

TIMES ETC

2004-09-08T07:08:00.000-07:00

Since I'm going to Seattle to also do other things, it would help to know exactly when practice is, to schedule my time accordingly.

Thanks
-Jason

Talk about your feelings....

2004-09-07T21:08:00.000-07:00

or at the very least, post the changes here so i don't have to waste too much time trying to figure it out, or like i was doing with "let it be" playing it wrong. i've pretty much got let it be nailed at this point. started working on third string and tasmp.

adam: the riff you are interested in me playing is the one over the chorus? if not, let me know.

oh, and on my songs, if you guys want to harmonize high over some of my tunes, that would be great. especially, the beach boy chorus on GBYM.

great tune this week too guys. don't feel bad voting for each other. i won't.

-js

Blogs are Fun

2004-09-07T16:22:00.001-07:00

How do I log in as myself in this Blog? Or do you Blog in? I am very computer literate, but I'm equally lost here.

ANYWAY as I mentioned in another post somewhere, I would suggest replacing my 2nd song 'Spirit World' with the song I covered for the coverfight 'Talk About Your Feelings.' It would be more stage friendlier fun & it's courtesy of Ken anyway.

Loyalty Day:

Bolio Version:

Let it be tab updates

2004-09-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks Jason. very helpful.

-js

Mistaken 3rdstring tab

2004-09-07T11:13:00.000-07:00

Whoops. That fourth chord, in the first tab for the intro, should just be a dm7, no open high e string!!!! worry...

hey Jack, can Bolio's other picture be easily inserted in the header? Just a thought....

The lead player of our pub band opted out... gave me a week's notice... what a tit.... so now I gotta find a lead player for friday the 17th... fucker... could have given me some time, and he knew I was getting ready for this show...

anyway... having fun learning all the tunes... I got most dialed in except Jason's but that should come by tonight.. still haven't gotten my octorthorpe tunes 100% though... awell... onwards....

Sorry Ken, I didn't get my shit together on the collab until Sat. night, then I flat out forgot to pm you in case you wanted to add on to it... I had this intention of trying to write something for this week's fight tonight... we'll see if I do, and if I do if anyone wants in on it... or if someone else wants to start something tonight, say so, I'd love to play bass on it!!! It' d be cool to get a tune with each of us playing a part akin to our show... whatever whatever...

later...

Bolio - Let it Be arrangement

2004-09-07T01:43:00.000-07:00

Jason: I've been working on this a bit and had some ideas and questions. One idea I have is to play this wah riff over the verse (c and i think b flat?). i've been playing it over your mix and it sounds pretty good. the other stuff i can play pretty cleanly. one question i have is on the next riff, the progression is b/c#/d/c#/b/c# then ? what does it resolve on? the chorus (g/d/bm/a) is killer. i'm really liking this tune and looking forward to practicing it saturday. it has a great steely dan/phish feel to it.

leaf: i've also been working on third string a bit too. i'm guessing the verses are the reggae riff over a dmin7 and a gmaj7? or is that wrong? and i've been playing around with this little lick to play during the chorus, where you play that looping bass line. oh, and whats the changes during the chorused/andy summers guitar part? i guess i could go look on your blog...

puce: i've listened to tasmp a number of times but i haven't had a chance to tune one of my guitars to drop d yet so i haven't worked on it much. but i will. leaf mentioned you might have wanted me to play some riff so that it would be easier for you to sing...

-js