Wednesday, December 5, 2018

"This Diamond Ring" by Rachel Edwards


The "This Diamond Ring" album was the first record album I ever bought and paid for with my own money.  It was at the old Wangsgards on 2nd Street in Ogden.  They relocated a few years ago and I suspect they don't sell vinyl records anymore.  ;)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hck2-Bej3y4

It has been eye opening for me how much work and time it takes creating music and videos for them.  When I was writing software we would make an estimate and then quadruple it.  (We often went over that LOL!)

I spent hours and hours over several days on that "rough draft" video for "Five to One" that I changed  released on Election Day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883O0LNoRWc).  It's going to take many more hours to redo it the way I have envisioned now.

I thought I could bang this song out in one or two takes and be done.  The first take wasn't too bad, I debated whether to call that it.  But then I thought I could make it just a little better.  I did six more takes and, once again, I felt each one had some minor flaw.  I finally gave up in frustration.

I performed this song last night at karaoke and decided to give it one more go when I got home.  I recorded this at 1:30 AM and it's not perfect but it's okay.  We used to have a saying at work: there comes a time in every project where you have to kill the engineer.  LOL

Anyway, the point I wanted to make is support musicians and art, especially your local musicians and artists.  Our local music scene is Salt Lake is INCREDIBLE!!  Music and art make life worth living.  There is just no way I could have made it this far without music in my life.

Please don't just rip their music, buy their CD's, official downloads, AND vinyl records (Talia Keys and the Love's vinyl record is so COOL!!!).

Michelle Moonshine: http://michellemoonshine.com
Shecock and the Rock Princess: http://shecock.band
Stop Karen: http://stopkaren.bandcamp.com
Talia Keys: http://taliakeys.com

Wangsgards Market: https://www.facebook.com/Wangsgards-Market-419492170012/

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