Lucius Sour's Journal: Mondo Bizarro Muso Wierdo Antagonistico

Day two of session with songwriter asked by publisher to provide "near-release-quality" demos of his stuff.

19:30-

MUSO: It's not going well, I want to cancel and go home, I've made a bad decision. It doesn't sound the way I hoped it would.

ME: Of course not. It's not finished! But we've recorded drums, bass, guitars, guide keys, guide vocals, and the backing singer is due in an hour. It'd be a waste of time (20hrs) to bail out now with nothing to show for it. At least postpone the next sessions until "you've got your head together" (MAAAAN!).

MUSO: What does your colleague think?

(Gets mate who's working in the office- he's not feeling in top shape, having left hospital the day before)

MATE: Of course it doesn't sound finished, you're only 20% of the way through it. I mean you're fixing anything obviously bad as you do it, but you should wait until it's finished before you pass final judgement. I mean the Eiffel Tower looked pretty unimpressive when it was just a pile of girders.

ME: Thanks, Dick. See? (WOW! He agrees with what I've said all along!).

MUSO: You're right. I want to continue as planned.

We continue.

MUSO: You don't like what I'm doing, do you? You're not smiling at me. You're just lookng at the machinery. I'm going to call the singer and cancel.

ME: I''ve just got a few things on my mind.

MUSO: And I don't? These are MY SONGS, you know! And my publishing contract!

ME: I know, but there are a few things such as the desk automation, the audio workstation, the 19" racks and the multitrack recorder's remote-controller to operate, whilst listening for distortion, over-or-under-compression, harmonic balance or the sounds and the artist/s' performance, as well as keeping an oversight of the overall musical arrangement and whether it's translating well to recording. I don't have much spare CPU for smiling (or other wanking of musos egos).

MUSO: I'm calling the singer to cancel.

Interrupted as BVX Singer shows up... she sings, and very well.

MUSO: (smiling) I think it sounds pretty good, don't you? Don't you? Why aren't you smiling? You don't like it do you? I'm cancelling....

ME: AAAARGH! (goes home and thinks about cancelling tomorrows session himself).