Demos for Bill & Pete/House Carpenters added to Archive.

Quickly: I just posted a group of six 4-track demos to my Archive.  The tracks are as follows:

1. For Good Measure
2. I Know & You Know
3. Have You Seen My Baby
4. As the Night Goes By
5. 12 O’Clock Sharp
6. Across the Windy Distance

All of these are well-done, and the only one that isn’t a fully fleshed-out arrangement with drums is “As the Night Goes By,” though that one nonetheless is a nicely done recording, with some vocal tricks in the arrangement that are a lot different that what the House Carpenters ended up releasing on In the Choir of Primates.

Enjoy them.  I have begun a blog post about “I Know & You Know,” but as I’ve started working again it may take a little time to finish the commentary.  I am at a point where I’m getting ready to start writing and recording again.  I plan on returning, after cutting Adieu, False Heart live in studio (to great effect, I’d say), to my tried-and-true method of overdubbing the various instruments on the recording.  I expect other people will be part of it, too, as their schedules allow.

Good news is that after years teaching high school and barely surviving the round of layoffs that hit my school district like so many across California, I’ve started teaching seventh grade.  I am well aware that things always deteriorate after the first week, but for the first time in years I have a group of students who ask questions without being prompted, who want to do a good job, and who aren’t too jaded to allow themselves to have fun in class.  Of course I had students like that at the high school, but generally I had to push everything forward.  I would never have sought this change, but I’m genuinely grateful it happened, and I’m having a ball.