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by: hhex65

Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 22:20:00 PM MST

Two months ago I had a complete A-Z rough mix of VC, every word. Then I went into each Chapter (there are 48, dividing one of the chapters into 3 parts) and worked on each individually (but not consecutively) to get them to a level that I enjoyed listening to as a self-contained piece of music. Then I put them all back in line and listened to how they worked as a whole. Then I started to make changes to each piece to reflect how they worked as part of the whole.

Then repeat the process: rewrite, record, get other hex members to contribute, take it apart, put it back together. And I'm finishing up that cycle.

Very influenced by sports radio, I'm even making some changes to reflect the ways it will all be misunderstood, that actually matters a lot in terms of $$.

Conceptually, I somehow have moved from Dark Shadows & Toto to Simon and Simon & Miami Sound Machine. I'm haunted by the melancholy image of Dick York guest starring on Simon and Simon in 1983 after battling back from his addiction to prescription pain killers. 9 years later he would be dead.

My soft deadline is late March. Once I get back to having another A-Z rough mix in the next week or so I'm going to take everything into someone else's studio for final recording or re-recording, mixing etc-- polishing, I guess...or Irishing. That's when I put the subliminal/masked stuff under it all (as required by the law...)

Also, reading this new bio of Louis Armstrong (entitled "Pops")-- just to stay in touch with reality (and out of the 80s.)

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"Pops" (3.00 / 1)

I read David Schiff's review of Terry Teachout's "Pops" in The Nation, it was really harsh. Schiff seems to be a big fan and student of Armstrong, jazz, jazz history, etc. and he goes after Teachout on a number of issues: very little original research, overly white bibliography, and he also accuses Teachout of inserting unsubstantiated embellishments and claims. When Teachout writes about Armstrong's mother "In fact she was almost certainly working as a prostitute." It sent Schiff, ". . . scurrying to the endnotes to discover the basis of this hedged claim, without success. Very often when similar hedged claims appear they are supported by a single reminiscence gleaned from a variety of sources without any evidence of further verification." The reviewer goes on to attack the book on many more levels.

Schiff also mentions that "Pops" has had many favorable reviews, and that it could be quite enjoyable. On the whole, though, quite a bashing.

Anyway, I'm curious about what the planned format is for the release of the Victory Chimp project. I don't expect it will fit on a cd, or even two, in an unabridged form. What's the run time of the complete rough mix?

by: mnstrfrc @ Sun Feb 28, 2010 at 18:39:36 PM UTC

rough mix is about 3 hours now (0.00 / 0)

will know more in a couple weeks...i think the thing will look like a CD audiobook

I remember when I read that part you cite, got a kind of weird feeling and looked up the author-- turns out he works for the WSJ and Commentary-- a "proud" conservative (snicker)

but it was an ok book; I think the source for some of his philosophising was the volume of reel-to-reel tapes that Armstrong recorded of himself, sometimes he'd just hit record when he first camped out in a hotel and leave it going even if he was entertaining some lovely ladies

by: hhex65 @ Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 05:00:47 AM UTC

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