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Lean This Way
1. Loud Enough
2. My Hands Are Tied
3. Blame
Scott Liss – vocals, guitars, percussion
Gianni Scalise – bass guitar
Chris Donofrio – drums
Erik Rudic – shredding guitar solo on track 1
All words and music written and arranged by Scott Liss.
Produced and Recorded by Paul Ritchie
at Retromedia Sound Studios in Red Bank, NJ.
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music in New Windsor, NY.
So… here’s this:
For the best quality that Youtube can offer, change the settings to watch it in HD. It makes a good bit of difference… the audio and video is much better than standard. If it plays choppy, just let it load in full before you play it. You know.
Peace.
I’ve been working on a music video for one of the new songs I’ve recorded. It involves animation achieved by filming with a camcorder a series of picture discs spinning on a turntable… the process is sort of like what is called a phenakistoscope, an early type of animation based on the principle of persistence-of-vision, but modified in a few different ways.
The process was a lot of trial and error to achieve the proper results, but a hell of a lot of fun to do while learning. I had a few questions early on and was fortunate enough to get some answers from an animator/artist by the name of Graeme Hawkins, aka Retchy, from all the way over in Scotland. Good dude… he pointed me in the right direction from the start when I was figuring things out.
I’m intrigued by different types of animation, especially adapted forms of early techniques. This was the first video I’ve ever made for anything, aside from filming the Elliott Smith cover a few months back, but that doesn’t count.
I will be releasing this soon so be sure to check back shortly.
For the moment, here are some of the picture discs I made that were used in the video:
And here are some screenshots from the video itself:
Elliott Smith was/is one of my favorite songwriters. I feel a strong connection to his music. The way he used melody, his chord progressions, atypical phrasing, thoughtful lyrics, etc….wholly impressive. His songwriting and arrangements, very much influenced by classical music, was unique unto him. He was also influenced by one of my favorite bands, the Beatles. There’s just something very special about his music.
I got to see Elliott play live once in Brooklyn at a venue called Northsix. I feel fortunate for having gotten to see him.
He died in 2003 on this day, October 21.
I don’t frequently play cover songs but I wanted to do this as a slight nod to Elliott Smith and his music.
Enjoy.
A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free
Challenging myself to keep this new song rough around the edges. Straightforward and honest. Been using one of my favorite acoustic guitars…a little USA-made Harmony folk guitar from the ’60s. It sounds like it looks.
…sometimes.