Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
This is the original version of “I am Not Alone”. Some of you might own the “old” version of Steam Powered Giraffe’s Album One, and you might know how Erin “Upgrade” sang this song on the album… I wrote the song for Upgrade. She gave me one line of lyric that she wanted me to incorporate when I was creating the song, and I used it.
Believe it or not, Michael Reed and I recorded the entire song without Rabbit or The Jon. I played rhythm guitar, piano and sang the lead vocals. Mike did bass and drums. Mike then added harmonies and he had me add more harmonies on top of those. We then had Upgrade sing along to my vocal track and recorded her. My lead vocals were removed and that was that. When we kicked her out of the group, we re-did Album One, taking out all of her harmonies and putting in whatever “follow-along tracks” we had recorded for her to sing along to if any existed. We were actually going to keep I Am Not Alone in and just use the “original” recording that didn’t yet have Upgrade’s voice on it… That didn’t happen obviously…and we went with “Ice Cream Parade” instead.
So here it is. The original “I am Not Alone” before we replaced my lead vocals with Erin’s “Upgrades”. No one outside of the band has ever heard this before. Enjoy. Also, you’ll have to excuse the weird cutoffs on some parts…as it was a placeholder track.
P.S. - Just imagine The Spine and Michael Reed doing a duet together :3 Ahaha!
But then. I felt. The spines hand.
Gone. Completely. I’ve just. Lost it.
<3 thank you for this David. :) It’s beautiful!
This needs to be on a future album. It’s too sweet and beautiful to leave moulder in the archives.
I’m sorry to say that I’ve made up my mind. After today’s events, I’ve decided that my pay check and my daily schedule doesn’t need to accommodate so many hats, if they’re going to keep perishing like this!
As a strange twist of fate, I chose the same fedora I wore on the first day of this terrible month.
I decided to take a day to relax from all of my work… Well, not so much as decided to, but rather that Peter VI insisted upon it, after hearing about my fedoras continuing to perish, and my pay check not accommodating so many hats.
As a sort of apology for my ‘misfortune’, Peter purchased me yet another fedora to wear.
I’m slowly running out of money, and my paycheck can’t handle paying for so many hats while still supporting the rest of my lifestyle. As a result, I had to try making a fedora out of what materials I had around the manor.
The robots all seemed to be in an odd mood this morning. Well, more odd than their normal selves. The Spine was acting immature, Hatchworth was actually careful for once, and Rabbit was acting like she had just been invented.
And, of course, somehow my fedora got involved in the whole thing.
What do you do when you encounter a nest by Bunny Bennett?
Bunny nest and can be disturb when you turn on the lights or turn off the wi-fi. if you find a bunny nest of blankets and pillows LEAVE IT ALONE
To determine if Bunny is done of your shit place sting around the nest in a tic-tac-toe shape or circle the nest with flour. Check the string an hour or two later
SEE! the sting is down and you see snacks everywhere so she must of left the nest at some point. This means she DOES NOT need to be rescued
If you find a bunny that does need to be rescued, put it in a dark, quiet location with wi-fi, and maybe add a laptop and some video games to entertain and keep her company. Bunnies are a hunting species and while they may look calm, they are actually very, very fierce!
NOTE: IF YOU SEE A CREATURE WITH SIMULAR LOOKS OF A BUNNY BENNETT, THAT IS A DAVID BENNETT. USE CAUTION AROUND THOSE AND NOT TO GET THEM CONFUSED
I don’t think I got enough sleep last night, to be perfectly honest. I don’t know why, maybe I couldn’t get comfortable or maybe I was having trouble breathing right from the smoke that I dealt with yesterday evening.
Either way, my being so drowsy during the day left my fedora more defenceless than normal.
Today Peter V decided he’d hire an actual gardener to come in, after receiving a sternly worded complaint from Walter Guy Gary about being a scientist and not a gardener. I, however, was still instructed to be outside with the gardeners so that they knew how the garden was supposed to be set up.
Once again, to get into the outdoorsy spirit, I wore a nature-coloured fedora.
Today was one of my more relaxing days. I only had some work to do in the afternoon and that was all that was scheduled for me, so I was given permission to sleep in. As a result, I also had time to sit down and have a more proper breakfast than I normally did.
I didn’t know what my fedora for today had to do with eating breakfast, until Rabbit came into the dining room to join me.
Once again I had a rather average day. I worked on some upgrade designs for the robots, this time with the robots present so that I could ask them what they wanted in the next update to their chassis’. Needless to say, not many of the ideas were used, but I got a general sense of what they’re looking for.
Today, just for giggles, I chose a more decorated fedora than usual, in the literal sense.
