July 21sts

January 21sts

2 studios, 26 years apart:

7/21/1969

(Beatles Studio Diary)

John hadn’t offered a new song since April and did vocal takes on Come Together. John sings while clapping his hands with tape echo, and immediately after each time he sang the line “shoot me”. On the finished record you only hear the word “shoot” because the bass covers “me”. 

7/21/1995

(Brian Eno Diary)

Uninspired day in studio. Beautiful weather, and the last thing I want to do is make a piece of music for the Swarowski museum. 

7/21/2015

Moonlight Cafe

 

7/21/2022

It is true that jazz is more “intellectual” as much as I want to avoid making it pejorative. But like the “Mozart Effect” it won’t make you smarter just by listening to it as a form of hypnosis. Perhaps there is something in the harmonic density that makes it sound smarter than other things. But it’s just plain old harmony. Culture has a way of over-complicating things that are otherwise prosaic. 

7/21/2024

When I sit down to write a piece of music usually I’m using a guitar or some kind of a keyboard, and I sketch it out as one would sketch out a new painting. In the next phase, you have to produce it, which is a different animal–an un-caged animal–in the sense that it’s hard to control. It starts to go down its own paths, and once you’re far along the path, you have to continue on with it, or abandon it, and return to square one. I’m beginning to hate music production because once you’ve caged the un-caged animal, you might not like the cage that it’s in, and you’re in that cage as well.