December 19, 2004

Welcome to the second episode of The Podtridge Family

This week:

    "Running Away" (c) 2001, Lyndzie Taylor, Podcast rights granted

This song was recorded at the studio of Grammy-winning producer (and in this one case, co-writer), Clif Magness.  Lynzdie and I went to Santa Monica to for her to work with Clif on June 6, 7 and 8 of 2001.  Clif had a basic chord progression and gave a very basic track to Lyndzie who then took it back to the hotel room and, in about an hour, wrote the melody and lyrics.  The next morning we went back to the studio and she recorded the vocal, all-the-way-through, in ONE take.  The only overdubs in this song are a few "doubles" for the choruses.

    "(Thank Your) Lucky Stars (For the Black and White Cars"  (c) 1999, Argyle, Podcast rights granted.

This song was penned by Daniel's band mate and Argyle drummer, Doug Bellucci, as an ode to the Los Altos, California Police Department who kept stopping Argyle and their friends simply because they were teenagers driving like teenagers do...

    "Deadline"    (c) 1999, Michael Lehman, Podcast rights granted

During the height of the dot com boom one of the online brokerages companies, I think it was e*Trade, was running a commercial where an obvious dot com developer type came home to find all of his plants dead because he'd been working too hard.  Being a developer and creative type, I knew well the feeling of coming up from the "zone" to find the world a different place than it was when I'd started.  I'd also learned, as I suppose many of us have to, that a deadline, the bane of our existence, is sometimes the only way to force something to actually get "done"....and so, for creative professionals of all types...enjoy!

Enjoy!

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