Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Uncle Fred Sent Me

I had driven through northern New Jersey and The Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York.
It was a busy day involving much handling of product onto a handcart as I would eventually empty an entire tractor trailer.
I returned home pleased with my surroundings but, tired.
So,  I picked up a guitar and turned the microphone pre-amp on and sang 'Uncle Fred'.
I didn't have any great plans for it but, I then recorded the ambient guitar track and decided to just go with it.
I was tired so, it took much more time than usual but, I did record the backing guitar track for the instremntal portion of 'Uncle Fred'; the second part.
I recorded two overlay guitar tracks and then mixed them.
I'm really quite pleased to have a recording like this, it just doesn't come about in a very conventional manor for me.
Fortunately, there never was a 'Uncle Fred' in my life or the entire family that I'm aware of.
I guess, I'm attracted to songs about pain in passing.
Also, the voice in the recording that says "Stop Uncle Fred, Stop" is myself with a pitch increase.
It is not Natalie Wood.
The song is about a character that would equate with a very bad Fred Gailey that was never scripted.
In conclusion, this would be the worst Christmas song ever recorded but, it is a type of rock song that I have been interested in producing.



 


 ‘Uncle Fred’
The Voorholes
2014

Hey kids, gather around, I got a sad song to tell.
Uncle Fred, he’s so much more than dead.
Uncle Fred was using heroin when he was loaded to the core.

On Christmas morning, Uncle Fred stole a house; he slowed down right in front of it.
And, a little girl full of delight, she said this is my plight, this will be my home.

Uncle Fred,
Uncle Fred,
Uncle Fred,
Uncle Fred,
Why did you turn out that way, Uncle Fred?

Uncle Fred, he used heroin five or six times a day;
Uncle Fred.

Stop Uncle Fred, Stop!




 Perhaps, there will be a Voorholes book in which the reader 
will have a opportunity to identify 'Uncle Fred' 
in a assortment of photographs.
Perhaps not.





Live! Just out of bed in Erie, Pennsylvania.





Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Season X: Now What?

Last year in 2013, The Voorholes debuted with four releases consisting of two albums and two EP's.
The last release was a EP titled 'Badly In and Out of Love', it was a mellow end to the year of The Voorholes.
It's now late April 2014, a project titled 'Season X' (season eX) is under way; at this time only two tracks have been recorded.
Admittedly, the project needs direction and dynamic material that these two tracks do not represent.
I am keeping this project open until I'm satisfied with the overall content.
I don't necessarily want Season X to be a extraordinarily hard rock album but, that could be the result of limitation.
I will try to compose above and beyond (It may seem weird to site Buck Owens for 'Above and Beyond' but, it really does move that way around here).

 
 ‘D Part, now, A Part’
The Voorholes
2014

(Departure, now apart)


 This is actually about 80 feet high on the side of US Highway 46 but, 
it would be more fun if it was 277,000 feet  (84,429M) tall 
and drew the Earths atmosphere into a tail 
that would eventually form a ring around the planet 
(maybe only high clouds).






 
 ‘Season X’
The Voorholes
2014