Oh man, I bet Tai is going to be kind of pissed at me for this. But I’ll try to make the best argument possible as to why I wanted to get this out there.
Ok: as quick as possible, that’s the goal.
At some point, Tai approached me with a cool idea that he and I write a series of songs that we would eventually bundle into an album that we’d polish until it shone. Then, I would fly out to Los Angeles, we’d hold auditions for singers (one male, one female) and have them come in an re-record all the vocals with, you know, people who could actually sing.
download link “Keep On (Demo)”
The idea being that Tai and I both had grander visions for our music than either of us were able to accomplish on our own and it has been something like 5 years since Serious Bob was doing loads of songwriting as a team.
I sent him a track I did called “Keep On.” He enjoyed it enough to send me his instrumental track called “Doorknobs and Keyholes.” With some auto-tuning fantasticness, and a trip out to Colorado to get Jess to lay down rough female vocals, I managed to turn “Doorknobs and Keyholes” into the kind of pop music Tai and I used to make together all the time.
I still miss doing hard-core poppy stuff.
Anyway, why am I posting about The Bright Side Of Death Now, after months (years?) of referring to it as the Mystery Project or just BSOD? Because Tai can’t overload his computer with Pro-Tools recordings and I’ve started to render a bunch of instrumentals to run by Laine in hopes that I can put out a CD sometime in 2009 with her silky-sweet vocals on it.
I’m not going to turn over BSOD stuff to this new project I’m thinking about, since it’s distinctly a Tai/Da7e project, but I thought I’d at least let you guys hear two of the songs just so maybe you can bother Tai of TYHART.COM about it.
Tell him to update his computer.
download link “Doorknobs and Keyholes (Demo)”
