Two birds, one trusty old Rock
This week's recording comes to you in large part courtesy of an upcoming reunion gig I have with my old bandmates in Riley. We're doing a double show with another band that hasn't played in almost 10 years: edn, which contains Bill, Demus, and Tim, the other 75% of Two-Fisted Frogkicker aka Implied Trampoline (famed from prior appearances on this here blog).
To celebrate the upcoming show (and since relearning all my keyboard parts for the durn thing has taken up most of my free time this week), I decided to rework one of the Riley songs for a simple piano and vocal arrangement. This experiment allowed me to use my practice time as recording time, effectively getting a couple of extra evenings out of the week. Yay (no, you may NOT burst my bubble on that bit of fake math)!
Since I can't ever do anything the easy way, I chose as my target Riley's monster Prog-rock smackdown, Something Different (click for a sample, if you haven't heard it already). I, um, had to change a few things. Like take out all the awesome time signatures. And stuff. But I think it works fairly well this way, and it's interesting to see just how much you can change in a song and still have it be recognizable.
Something Different (Acoustic Version) mp3
(c) 1994 and 2008 Riley and Mark Frey
To celebrate the upcoming show (and since relearning all my keyboard parts for the durn thing has taken up most of my free time this week), I decided to rework one of the Riley songs for a simple piano and vocal arrangement. This experiment allowed me to use my practice time as recording time, effectively getting a couple of extra evenings out of the week. Yay (no, you may NOT burst my bubble on that bit of fake math)!
Since I can't ever do anything the easy way, I chose as my target Riley's monster Prog-rock smackdown, Something Different (click for a sample, if you haven't heard it already). I, um, had to change a few things. Like take out all the awesome time signatures. And stuff. But I think it works fairly well this way, and it's interesting to see just how much you can change in a song and still have it be recognizable.
Something Different (Acoustic Version) mp3
(c) 1994 and 2008 Riley and Mark Frey