Yellow Beard 2009-10 Recording Schedule

Yo J take a look at some of these ideas and get back to me,

Summer 2009
We take a few days in August, make the most of the final days of summer, and make the dirtiest, sloppiest, inebriated garage/punk album we can muster. 3-5 songs, 1-2 minutes each max. Tentative titles: Sweaty Kisses or Slap It On The Pavement. Let's focus on guitar riffs for this one as well as coming up with as many progressions as we can. We should definitely do this one in Tucson.

Fall 2009
Finish Beach Tapes: '67-'72. Probably going to have to continue to pass this one back and forth. Maybe do a session in the Red Woods or Joshua Tree sometime in September or October.

Spring 2010
Start that pop opus we've been talking about. Maybe invest in a funky synthesizer or groove box. Probably going to need to focus on lyrics more so on this one—melodies and major chords we'll work from the ground up. We should carve out some time in L.A. for this one. Spring Break maybe?

Summer 2010?
Let's keep an ear to the ground and take a few pages from Timbaland and Q-Tip. I know Jay-Z declared it over but I think we should keep an open mind to the auto-tune, maybe even vocoders (note: if we head in this direction we have to make it as over the top as it can go). I think we'll have to put some effects on our voices to pull this off in any case. Don't want to do too many tracks in this arena, maybe a solid single or two.

This is really about Ta-Nehisi Coates, but I digress...

New favorite journalist: Ta-Nehisi Coates. Why? Probably it's a line that publicly admits that he is half lefty and half race-man. Maybe also because he can reveal that he secretly has a boner for Condi Rice--in his words:

That smile is the reason Rice can work for a president who got the lowest percentage of the black vote since Barry Goldwater, and yet still pick up a President's Award from the NAACP. Think Clarence Thomas could do that? It's also why Democrats—who are utterly tied to the black vote—should pray she never runs for office. And lastly, it's the reason why, when Rice is on TV, butterflies catch in my throat like it's a summer net. When she smiles, a special light descends on men like me who detest Rice's morals but still understand her story. Then a voice flashes in our heads, saying, "Condi Rice is not to be fucked with."

He follows this up with:

Once I had that knowledge, the calculus of passion began working on me. You mean to tell me this honey spars with Tim Russert, curses out white folks, could initiate a nuclear holocaust, and dreams of being Pete Rozell? Um, tell me again why I hate her guts. Then the math of my heart, so beyond logic, took control of my brain. I could no longer deny the sum, quotient, and dividend: Condi Rice was my goddess.

Beyond politics, it's an interesting confession dealing with race, culture, and stereotypes. I personally never had it for Condi, however, I did find this video hilarious and frustrating:



Obviously she's lying at certain points and her facts aren't exactly empirical evidence. However, she isn't going to back down to some random middle class white kid going to Stanford who decides to step to her. I'm loathe to respect someone who came out of the Bush administration (even Colin Powell) but I can't help but crack a smile and recognize the fact that

"Condi Rice is not to be fucked with."

EVOLVING PINK DEBUT

Having been in development for years, Evolving Pink's debut album on flight9, Structure of a Minimalist Earth, proves the master has been hard at work crafting one of the most beautiful albums we have had the pleasure to share with you. Combining organic methods of music making with the mental processes of a scientist, Evolving Pink does not disappoint.

Evolving Pink - Structure of a Minimalist Earth by ohgodnauseous

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