MINDSCAPE

  This one will be a bit different than the rest of my other DAVE story things. I have already written at length about all of the songs that were featured on the album, so I will detail the process behind creating it instead. I had the idea to make physical versions of my music for a while. There is a Google Doc somewhere on my Drive where I theorized what I would put on a cassette if I ever indeed did make one. Here is that doc: DAVE RUNTIME (NO BONUS TRACK): 13:58 GREAT BIG WORLD RUNTIME: 11:19 DOIN THANGS RUNTIME: 9:22 BOTH LIL LUNGS ALBUMS RUNTIME: 20:41 Big brain ideas: I put some live Lil Lungs songs on the Lil Lungs side and I put either demos or new stuff on the Dave side LIL LUNGS ALBUMS+LIVE IN WATERTOWN RUNTIME: 23:11 (I cannot believe I was seriously considering putting Lil Lungs on a cassette tape) Not too long after this I bought a boombox which had recording capabilities. I, being the genius that I am, decided to put my phone up to the microphone and play all of my ...

  Almost immediately after I finished DAVE I started work on DAVE 3 with a concept in mind for how the album would be structured; what if, instead of 10 songs that are a minute each, what if I made one song that was 10 minutes long. What a journey. BIG NARF! The first part I completed for Big Narf was the part after the double bass part in the beginning, originally called Betty. Then, I made the double bass part to go before Betty. The rest is a blur to be honest, although I know I came up with the opening drum “solo” after the reverb bass tapping part. I’m not going to explain the story behind a lot of the parts, although the part directly before the tapping part, called Melly on music for white people to clap to , is based on the Black Cats song from Call of Duty World at War. Also, the beat on the second to last part in the song is the same beat to Joe McCarthy’s Ghost by the Minutemen, and the very last part is meant to coincide with the beginning of Tovik on DAVE. In terms of ...