{"id":9247,"date":"2020-06-26T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:21:13","slug":"dont-like-neighbors-demo-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/dont-like-neighbors-demo-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Like Neighbors &#8211; demo track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWGrouZ6uUI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Like Neighbors&#8221; sprang into existence as a one-off, a lark, back in the summer of 2007 &#8211; and prob&#8217;ly shoulda stayed there.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with most of the music I produce, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Like Neighbors&#8221; started out as me screwing around with interlocking rhythms via my now long-dead Digitech RDS 8000 Time Machine (gawd, I miss that thang). Something in the knitting suggested lyrics and I leaned over to the old cassette boombox I used to document said noises and began intoning: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like neighbors, don&#8217;t like neighbors, don&#8217;t like neighbors, stop, stop staring at me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was short and stupid but I had to admit I really liked it &#8211; sort of like America&#8217;s relationship with Tom Cruise. That being said, it was just a fragment of improvised silliness and, once recorded, I walked away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, when digitizing my home recordings, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Like Neighbors&#8221; was one of those tracks that stood out. Dumb as it was, there was something compelling about the recording. Maybe it was the lo-fi production (yes, I do lower fidelity recordings than what I serve up here &#8211; impressive, eh?) or the intimacy of the almost whispered vocals. Whatever the case, zoom forward to 2020 and the concept randomly bobs to the top of my &#8220;songs to reapproach&#8221; pile.<\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t Like Neighbors<\/h2>\n<p>The original recording only repeated the &#8220;don&#8217;t like neighbors&#8221; line a couple of times over the backing riff. I knew the public version needed more meat on its bones.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first thoughts I had was: &#8220;I wonder if couldn&#8217;t fit a quote from Mr. Rogers&#8217; old &#8216;Won&#8217;t You Be My Neighbor&#8217; in there somewhere?&#8221; Well heck, I sure could!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t go outside<br \/>\nin my own backyard<br \/>\nwithout them staring<br \/>\nover the fence.<br \/>\nSuppose I want to pee<br \/>\nbehind a bush?<br \/>\nGonna put out that<br \/>\narc light with a gun &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further lyrics came easily.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing &#8211; I <em>am<\/em> an introvert who would really rather his visible neighbors were trees and vistas, rather than other humans. For another, I <em>do<\/em> like a backyard that&#8217;s private enough for one to just whip it out and water a bush without fear of being seen. Finally, the neighbor where I was living when I conceived the piece had a huge, buzzing and glaring arc light outside my bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I wanted to shoot it out. No, I do not own a gun.<\/p>\n<p>I considered adding more verses but decided to keep the song short and unconventional in its structure. (That almost makes me sound like an <em>artiste<\/em>. In truth, I found the tune to be grating after more than a couple of minutes, so kept it short.)<\/p>\n<p>I tried the nearly whispered vocal approach first but it didn&#8217;t work. Consequently, I decided to go with a more stagey approach, assuming a character and delivering the lines with their emotion. Most of the verses were recorded separately, rather than in one long go, so they could be expressive and overlap.<\/p>\n<p>I also decided to sweep the vocals and some of the guitar parts back and forth with the rhythm. I love how it sounds in headphones and other, smaller speaker spreads but out of my TV via Youtube? Eeeeeccccchhhhhh. Maybe not such a good idea. I have a lot to learn about recording.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well &#8211; that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called a &#8220;demo,&#8221; right?<\/p>\n<p>All samples, bass, guitar, and vocals by CAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff&#8220;Don&#8217;t Like Neighbors&#8221; sprang into existence as a one-off, a lark, back in the summer of 2007 &#8211; and prob&#8217;ly shoulda stayed there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,38],"tags":[1082,366,1012,1079,906,1081,1031,1080],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-music","tag-arc-light","tag-bass","tag-cae","tag-digitech-rds-8000-time-machine","tag-guitar","tag-introvert","tag-samples","tag-vocals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t Like Neighbors (Stop Staring At Me!) - CAE song demo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Don&#039;t Like Neighbors&quot; sprang into existence as a one-off, a lark back in the summer of 2007 - and prob&#039;ly shoulda stayed there.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/dont-like-neighbors-demo-track\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Don&#039;t Like Neighbors (Stop Staring At Me!) - CAE song demo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Don&#039;t Like Neighbors&quot; sprang into existence as a one-off, a lark back in the summer of 2007 - and prob&#039;ly shoulda stayed there.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/dont-like-neighbors-demo-track\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"coreyshead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/coreyaedwards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-26T16:15:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-22T21:21:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Corey A. 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