[LAU] Paul Hindemith says hello

[frank pirrone]

shane richards wrote:
> <snip<
> Started this time last year with 8 songs.
> Cut back to 4.
> Wrote another 12.
> Cut back to 9.
> Sent demos of 9 songs to musos/engineers whose opinions matter to me.
> Cut down to 3 songs. (Which have all been re-recorded/arranged)
> Recorded another 10 songs.
> Keeping critiques of aforementioned friends in mind - back to 9 songs.
> Wrote another 5.
> Played and played and played those tracks to many people, noting what
> seemed to please and what didn´t.
> Down to 7 songs, in the process of writing one last piece, then call it
> a day and unleash my crap on the world.
>
> So that will be 35 odd full-recordings, many rerecordings and
> rearrangements to produce 8 tracks. That of course doesn´t include all
> the stuff I wrote and forgot about, or pieces that just don´t fit.
> Now that doesn't mean that the other pieces are necessarily "crap" -
> wrote a lovely Ben Fold's Five-style ballad for my gf - but she's the
> only one that will hear that.
>   
Yes, Shane, and that is the "brutal" part of Hindemith's metaphor.  Your 
work fought for survival and only the fittest remained after both you 
and your support folks were done winnowing...

Frank