Diefenbaker shall be demoing this weekend, it has just been decreed, demoing to the tune of "hurry, HURRY HARD!" On the diefendocket for friday/saturday are:
-"Posing For Pictures" (an original... fast, punky, riot-grrl-y, yet very melodic and Buzzcocks-esque... if only Lush were still around so I could offer it to them, I think they'd like it)
-"Good Songs Bad Songs" (also an original, it's been speculated that it's our naturally loudest song... for whatever reason I feel like we're disturbing the neighbors when we play it; Shari's first lyrical contribution to the Dief, btw!)
-"I'm Ready" (a Fats Domino cover, of all things! Shari still needs a bit of coaching on the vocal, but I'm sure we'll iron it out this weekend... if not, the above image will be all the more fitting)
Note that perhaps one of these will be mixed by late sunday... I am by default Diefenbaker's producer though I absolutely hate mixing and am not smart enough at it to get consistent results, so the trade-off was that we can record as many of the backlog of Dief smash hits that have been piling up as S.F. would like, but I can't promise they'll be mixed anytime soon. If only there was an "ap", as the kids are calling computer programs nowadays, that you could just dump your raw tracks into, hit the button that says "Butch Walker" (or "Martin Hannett" for Shari's taste) and it would poop out a properly mixed song. If that retarded looking iPad could do that I'd buy one tomorrow.
Anyway, off to watch American Idol, then to... The Diefenbed!
Keep on rocking in the free world, jerks,
J. Diefenbaker, esq.
