Here’s the fifth glob of sound extracted from my melon with the Fishman TriplePlay MIDI pickup which is a tribute to various goings-on in the pool room of the Mendota Heights apartment building that my sis and her hubbs lived in back in the early 1990s. Living with the addiction to constantly create stuff I’m always trying to outdo myself. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I’m not even sure what it is I’m always trying to outdo. After making “Jet Island” two weeks ago I thought Good luck taking things beyond that, Me. I think this one managed to take it beyond that, whatever “that” is.
One of my favorite bands which a lot of this music stems from is Art of Noise. I remember buying their album in 1986 and it was like listening to the soundtrack to my dreams. I couldn’t stop listening to it and still do all these years later. Nowadays to the naked ear I’m sure most of it sounds pretty dated, but at the time, WOW. One of my favorite things they would do is play melodies using a sampled human voice (Eye of a Needle is one of my favorites and a perfect example). This tune has a bit of that. It’s so cheesy sounding but at the same time it’s a little creepy. The name of the voice used in The Pool Room was “Ella”. Right before Ella goes into a major 7 chord at the end she sounds a little familiar but I can’t place it. I wonder a) How much Ella got paid to sing “aaaaah!” and 2) what Ella would think if she heard her sampled voice in this tune.
The guitar sounds are so 1980s it isn’t even funny. I’m not trying to make them sound that way, that’s just what I grew up on and what the weird canvas that’s tucked behind them musters up. There’s a harmonic tapping thing in there that is a direct nod..er… ripoff of Eddie Van Halen. Here’s “The Pool Room”. I’m guessing this is my last musical creation of 2014 and it’s one I’m happy to go out on!
