:: mike errico diary ::

:: Saturday, March 4, 2006 ::

Yesterday, I did a percussion track which will be the backbone of "Better Here" (I think that's the title, anyway...) We used brushes on my lap steel case, which sounded great and looked ridiculous, a guitar case, all mic'ed up like that. For the "kick drum" we just put the case on the floor and I stepped on it. We got it sounding great, and then decided that my demo take was better. It's creaky and I think you can hear some of the finger picks rattling around in there. Fun.

Weekend off. Thank God. Whitney Biennial. Shot some film. Took a nap. Fuck it.


post a dream.
:: mike 4:46 PM [+] ::

Yesterday, I had a half hour interview with Mary J. Blige. I learned a lot about singing from "What's the 411?" and it was just a total Chris Farley moment to talk with her. ("Remember when you sang 'You Remind Me'?... that was awesome.) It was a lot of fun.

I informed her that by 2012 I think the word "Hateration" will be in the Oxford English Dictionary, with her as the originator. She laughed. "I don't think they'd put something so ignorant in the dictionary." Really? "D'oh" is in there. "Hateration" is definitely on the way. And it may well say "See also 'Holleration'."

The interview will be up on Blender.com in the coming weeks. Today, it's a sit-down with Atreyu. www.myspace.com/atreyurock. I hear they like to spit. So I'm bringing a video crew.


post expectorant.
:: mike 9:40 AM [+] ::

Drums are done.



Bass is done.



25% of rhythm guitars are done.



We're moving.



I think: best record yet.



post a communication
:: mike 4:48 PM [+] ::

mike,

i read this on the jayfarrar.net
message board. i'm sure it's still up there somewhere.


About 3 or 4 years ago when I lived in Nashville, I was walking with
some friends from my Apartment to the Ryman to catch the Willie Nelson
and friends concert. At a red light we saw this guy in maybe a 1982
Ford Truck with mud tires and a Hank sticker on the left bumper. The
light turned green, he laid a black mark on the pavement about six
feet long and sent up a cloud of dust. We started laughing. Another
block or so, we saw he had circled around and finally found a parking
spot. He got out of his truck, had on cowboy boots held together with
duct tape, and some jeans that looked like that was the only pair of
pants he owned. The guy looked pretty rough. He took off with a bag
that he took out of his truck and started walking. About two hours
later, this guy along with Keith Richards, Ryan Adams and Willie
Nelson walked on stage and nailed "Dead Flowers" by the Rolling
Stones. Later I found out it was Hank III. I remember feeling strange,
here I was feeling bad for this poor guy who had a beat up truck,
clothes, and a plastic sack. Then he came on stage at the Ryman.
Anyway, I keep up with his music now, and yes I think he is good.
:: mike 4:40 PM [+] ::