Friday, February 17, 2006

Waiting for the Doctor

friday friday friday. another week down.. i don't feel much older.

it looks sorta cold and windy outside, but clear. sometimes the sun can make all the difference, but it looks kinda sad out there.

in any case, for the past few days i've been working on a wide variety of stuff, just bouncing around from one to the other, trying out ideas and experimenting with toys and ideas. this is certainly a product of that. Waiting for the Doctor reminds me a lot of the beastie boys (!) - but only their instrumental stuff off of check your head and ill communication. those were great albums.. if i remember correctly, ad rock played guitar and mc a played bass and the drumset was mike d and eric 'bobo' something-or-other.. (who also played awesome percussion all over stuff) and the fucking fantastic money mark on all manner of keyboards and such.

that was a golden age.

so they got into doing these instrumental jams.. some of them were loose, some were pretty tight, but by the end they had enough for an EP (?) called the In Sound From Way Out.

this song is definately a nod in that direction.. i think they even have a song called Sneakin' Out the Hospital, but i don't remember if it's an instrumental or not.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) I now live in the neighborhood in which both Check Your Head and Ill Communication were written and recorded ("Glendale Blvd--That's where I'm at"...I drive on it all the time)
2) The Beastie Boys rule...I can hear the inspiration here...interesting to write a jam piece when you're one dude...cool.
3) I happen to know for a fact that you posted this song last night BEFORE midnight...just an FYI...some of us are paying attention ;)

Keep it cool...I'll be in PDX for the weekend at the end of March...I'll let you know where the party is...
Peace

Aaron & Emily MacDonald said...

ha! everybody knows the beastie boys are New York kinda guys.. everybody.

it's true, i did post that one early, but i'm still using a dialup connection, and it can take a half hour to upload a song sometimes. so i do it whenever i can.

i wouldn't want you to have to wait until after i got off work.