day 38, "the making of....."

trying to remember rule number 6: "don't take yourself too seriously"! ha, that's a hard one. but a good one nevertheless.
feeling tired but had a very good meet with jp today. we decided on the 4 songs, plus one extra that i will do on my own with a wall of lush guitar: no, not heavy metal geetars!! that's all i'm gonna tell ya. but it's gonna be warm and luscious. can't wait.
we also have a backup song in case we move through the others and have time to spare. truth is, I have about 20 some odd songs i could record. most of them are songs written in the past few years up until the present. and some are a bit older, but they're standing the test of time so far. a little tweak here or there. sometimes it's good to step back and reassess an old song. you can see better what was missing, maybe change a word or two or add a new musical section if it warrants such. that's happened with one of the songs we'll be doing this week.

sometimes when i'm writing, i make up guitar chords, going by the sound i hear in my head. move a finger here, another one there till it's the chord i want. so, tomorrow, i have to create charts for the musicians, kind of like "musical road maps" the simplest way to put it, instead of actual written out music. mainly, it's chords and what bars they fit in. so, my work will be cut out for me on one song especially, but it will be worth it.

and now, without further adieu, i say goodnight. 2 more days till we're in the studio...yes.

love always;

marcy xoxoxoxo

day 37 "the making of......"

phew, ok, about to go to sleep but it's blog o'clock!
so, i spoke to jp today and we are meeting tomorrow afternoon to discuss the songs. hubby and i were talking about them today and i agree with him, i love all of them. it's nice to have a producer this time around to collaborate with; also the onus is not completely on me, but I am happy with that responsibility anyway. just nice to have some help with someone like-minded who is a great lover of real, live music, who has a long history in the world of music that i completely respect and admire.

so, we shall meet tomorrow and discuss. been practicing me songs.

ah, to sleep, and yes to continue to dream...oh, i'm so freakin' dramatic!!! haha!

love always;

marcy xoxoxoxoxo

days 35 and 36, "the making of...."

alright, guess i'm getting into doing 2 days at a time, but anyway, i'm doing it so that's good.
well today i spoke to jp. we were going to meet tomorrow to discuss the songs but he can't, so we'll either talk at length over the weekend or i'll meet with him sometime on sunday. either way, it's all fine.
some things are moving albeit, slowly, but still in the right direction. so, we shall see what the next few days bring. 5 more days till i'm in the studio. wow, can't believe it's here already.

nothing else to report. tomorrow will be a busy day and hopefully will have some more news at the end of it.

till then..

love always;

marcy xoxoxoxoxoxo

days 33 and 34 "the making of......"

well, i was so tired last night i forgot to do me blog!! so, again, i'm doing two days in one. actually, yesterday jp was trying to contact me a few times and i returned his calls, leaving messages. we finally got to speak. it was about a song of mine that i sent him a little while ago. i just did it with an acoustic/electric and vocal on the demo. he loved it and suggested we do that one in addition to the other 4 songs, and keep it simple. i love that idea!! very excited about that. just me and my geetar! so, i've been practicing a lot and due to all the typing i'm doing online etc. and the piano playing i'm also doing,and my game-playing on my iphone [i am addicted to scrabble!!!!] my hands and arms are getting a real workout! but it's all good. i'm always learning, trying to push myself a bit and experiment. still got the nightclub set up in my living room. tonight i was singing some of my new songs but also some old ones i haven't sung in a while. it was fun and at times a bit of a struggle remembering words i hadn't sung in a while. but when i relaxed even more, most of it came to me. all right here in my own little "mental" computer otherwise known as my brain.
oh, yeah, and i booked a little gig at a songwriters thingy for october here in la.. wow, can't believe how this year is rocketing by....whooooooooosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

today, well, still in the middle of some bizness stuff, but i will have more definite things to report in the next few days for certain. full steam ahead, chip chip cheerio and all that stuff!!

love always;

marcy xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

days 31 and 32 "the making of...."

oops, got it wrong on friday when i said it was 10 days till recording, sorry! it's actually a week from this coming tuesday so that makes it 9 days from now. still exciting. not much to report over the weekend except that i heard from reggie, the bass player and he is good for studio dates, so that's great.
this week is gonna be pretty monumental. so much is going on, so much will be determined by what happens this week, lots of business stuff happening. i'm meetin with jp on friday to go over the songs. i think it's going to be hard to decide on which songs to do! for me, well, I pretty much like all of them although i can see how some might be more immediate than others. we also want to pick 4 songs that give a good well-rounded view of me. we'll do it, it will be great.
i need to get some sleep so i will sign off now. gonna fasten my seat belt...

love always;


marcy xoxoxoxoxoxo

day 30, "the making of....."

so, here we are at day 30, really, is it day 30 already??? wow, time is racing by. not a huge amount to report today, just business as usual but all is good, moving in the exact right direction. once i know things for certain, i will talk about them more. i haven't heard from reggie, the bass player for a while, even though i've sent him a few emails. but he's probably on the road.
oh, it was great when i talked to gat [james gadson, the drummer] the other day. he said, a lot of his friends and fans watched our rehearsal on youtube that we did last year and loved it, so that's good. i'm getting pretty excited. it's only ten days till recording. i'm glad i got being ill out of the way. man, i was ill for about 8 days, one of those where you wonder, "waaah, will I ever get better?" thank goodness, yes, i did and I am. amazing how the immune system works. i don't know what i had but it was a flu of some type. anyway, enuf of that, it's had enough air time.
in case anyone wanted to see that rehearsal, it's here: www.youtube.com/marcelladetroit. it's gadson, reggie, semmi [on guitar] and luke miller on keys. unfortunately semmi and luke won't be joining me on recording, semmi is in new york and not sure where luke is at the moment. but the vibe will pretty much be the same, very funky, i can't wait. i think i'll have to take a chill pill before i go to the studio that day to contain my excitement-not really! maybe some mantras,maybe some meditation, maybe some exercise, a massage, i'll be so relaxed i might just sleep through it! ok, maybe no massage! but seriously, this feels like a new beginning-ok, ok, don't mean to get all mushy on ya, but it does. and now it feels like it's going to be on different terms: mine!! glory hallelujah, i say, glory hallelujah!! can i get an amen???

and on that note, i will say, good nite.

similar time, same station tomorrow.

love, always;

marcy xxoxoxo
10 days till recording!!!!

day 29 "the making of......"

Ok, here we are at day 30. got some great ideas from some people on raising funds etc. so grateful for the thoughts from everyone. will address that very soon. meanwhile, it's full steam ahead.
I talked to jp today and got the drummer, gadson possibly taking his drums in the night before so we can start early enough the day of. the drums usually require the most amount of time to set up and mic properly, very important. gadson called me today to confirm he talked to the engineer at the studio about arriving the night before. it was great to talk to him, I haven't spoken to him for about a year! can't believe it's been that long. he sounded real good. he's so incredibly funky, i can't believe it, so exciting. him and reggie together are like my dream rhythm section team! ok, gotta calm down, getting too excited thinking about it. gotta relax, it is near bedtime after all, just the other side of midnight....

so, other than that, other interesting things are developing. but i can't divulge anything until it's final. sorry for the mystery, but, call me superstitious, i don't wanna jinx anything. very superstitious, writing's on the wall, very superstitious, ladder's bout to fall...[thank you stevie!]. .i know, not a great show of intelligence necessarily being superstitious; but the other side of it is, as we say in the music biz, "it ain't final till it's vinyl" meaning, until you have the physical record, or in this case, "thing" in your hand, you can't count on it.
so i leave you with that little dangling carrot. i know you won't lose sleep over it.......

love, always;

marcy xoxoxo