I was gonna change my mind and scrap the idea of the “Greatest Hits” album but I think I’m gonna go for it. I listened to both of my past demos… the one I did in 2003 and the one I did in 2006. Both of those demos has 10 songs each. I listened to them all and some of those songs I would like to bring back and try to improve. Make my older songs even better. Actually, I already re-did three of the songs off my 2003 demo for the 2006 demo… those songs were: “Evil Fred”, “Mr. Tough Guy” and “Back To Running”… those three songs were re-done many times but it don’t hurt to remake them again. I discovered a really cool folk original song I wrote called, “Big Giant Circus”, that one I’d like to bring back and try to make it even better.
It’s a good idea to do a greatest hits album too, that way I can give people an idea of who I am, what I’m about and what I do. I’ll do one album with all new original songs and the other side will be all the classics that I’m gonna re-record.
When I listened to the 2003 demo album the sound quality isn’t that good ’cause I recorded it on my old piece of shit M-Audio Fastrack interface so you’re gonna hear a lot of background hissing and there’s gonna be clipping too ’cause back then I didn’t know anything about production but now I’m just starting to figure it out finally.
I actually enjoyed looking back at my older material. Some I’ll leave behind and some I’ll bring back. There are many older songs that I wrote exclusively for youtube that I’d like to bring back too like “Take a Little Trip With Me” for one ’cause that tune has gotten a lot of attention. “The Nightmare Has Begun Today” also got a lot of attention so I’ll definitely re-do those two songs. Sometimes my original songs do get a lot of attention.
It may not seem like it but yeah, a lot of people do support my music. It’s just that the local press hasn’t picked up on me yet but that’s okay. I don’t make music for the local press, I make music for you and that’s the end of it. Each time I mention that I have people that like my music… there will be a handful of others that will deny it and call me “delusional” but fuck ’em. They’re just negative assholes. I do know I have a lot of supporters & fans of my music and I feel grateful. It’s a huge part of why I want to get back into the music thing. They make me want to make a return.
Kev