{"id":11995,"date":"2022-01-21T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2022-01-22T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:08:34","slug":"chasin-chickens-demo-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/chasin-chickens-demo-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasin&#8217; Chickens &#8211; demo track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11998\" src=\"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens.jpg\" alt=\"Chasin Chickens demo track by CAE\" width=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens.jpg 1641w, https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chasingChickens-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1641px) 100vw, 1641px\" \/><\/a><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px; padding: 15px 0 15px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=2590385772\/size=small\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=0f91ff\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caemusic2.bandcamp.com\/track\/chasin-chickens\">Chasin&#8217; Chickens by CAE<\/a><\/iframe>&#8220;Chasin&#8217; Chickens&#8221; is my first &#8220;new&#8221; track of 2022. &#8220;New&#8221; with quotes because the song has been in my head and on my hard drive in various states of undress for quite some time.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;see, the thing is, I currently have something like 30 or more songs &#8220;in progress&#8221; (more quotes &#8211; some of the songs in question haven&#8217;t been touched in years).<\/p>\n<p>My current process is to work here and there on each song as I feel like it. Some songs grab my attention and I burn the candle at both ends to complete them. Others sit patiently, waiting for Dr. Frankenstein to slowly attach their parts. Here an eye, later on a leg, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>My only rule is that I have to record at least one thing every session so that my mucking about qualifies as progress (rather than just masturbation). Not the most efficient workflow plan, I admit but it keeps me going. Nobody is clamoring to hear this shit, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many of my projects, &#8220;Chasin&#8217; Chickens&#8221; (real, non-sarcastic quotes, that time) sat on my hard drive, basically finished, for months. One day I cued the file up to work on it and &#8211; say! I think we&#8217;re done. let&#8217;s master this goofy thing.<\/p>\n<h2>Chasin&#8217; Chickens<\/h2>\n<p>For years we kept three or four chickens for their eggs. I specify that so you won&#8217;t think they were pets. I know folks who&#8217;ve kept chickens as pets but all of ours chickens quite properly treated us like the oppressive egg-stealers we were.<\/p>\n<p>We kept them in a coop for at nights but I liked to let them out during the day for yard pest control. I also hated seeing them in a cage. I don&#8217;t like cages. The chickens certainly appreciated this approach. Like all living creatures, they liked their freedom. It became a major issue for us, however.<\/p>\n<p>Not only would they shit all over our porches, railings, deck chairs, and cars but they&#8217;d also destroy our plantings. Flowers and various plants in the garden that they were supposed to be protecting via insect predation. Hah, I say: hah!<\/p>\n<p>Even more frustrating (for me) was trying to round them up into the coop at night. Initially, it was easy. I&#8217;d go over to the coop and shake the tin feed cup with some feed in it and they&#8217;d come running, wobbly bodies comically a-bobble, as always.<\/p>\n<p>This changed after a few occasions of having to leave them in the coop for a day or two. They clearly disliked this and became harder to round up at night. Eventually, it turned into a nightly ritual of me chasing them around the yard. I&#8217;d get one or two in the coop but there was always one last chicken way up in a tree somewhere, all puffed up and squawking.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say as I blamed them. Who wants to be a prisoner? But the nightly cooping was for their own safety. Case in point, I eventually threw in the towel as our chickens chose roosting in a tree overnight to sleeping in the safety of their coop, a situation that delighted the local raccoons. I knew what would happen but I was not about to bust my neck climbing a tree at dusk to try and catch a goofy chicken. In less than a week, it was over. 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