"Sometimes I hate everything I have ever done"
A friend (and inspiration) of mine recently said that on his website and it hit me in a particularly close way. I feel that way all the time.
I recently got done with the second AFM album, Promises of the Young, and after trying it out in three incarnations, I decided to scrap the whole thing. I spent a whole year recording it throughout various sessions, only to end up with nothing. I just couldn't become satisfied with it. I kept putting it next to the first album, Mission Statement, and to the planned third (now second) one, God Bless America, and being completely unconvinced.
I have to take the opportunity I have, though, to exercise complete quality control over my music. I'm not under the pressures of a label and I don't have to release something I'm not proud of and embarrass my history. I have the chance to let only the best pass through my filter.
In the future, for fun, I might like to make some of my earlier music available. But it would be very, very stripped down, because I'm only proud of a very small fraction of it. I think I might just release remastered versions of tapes I recorded with a keyboard when I was ten. Some of that stuff is actually better than the music I was writing between 2001 and 2003.
I recently got done with the second AFM album, Promises of the Young, and after trying it out in three incarnations, I decided to scrap the whole thing. I spent a whole year recording it throughout various sessions, only to end up with nothing. I just couldn't become satisfied with it. I kept putting it next to the first album, Mission Statement, and to the planned third (now second) one, God Bless America, and being completely unconvinced.
I have to take the opportunity I have, though, to exercise complete quality control over my music. I'm not under the pressures of a label and I don't have to release something I'm not proud of and embarrass my history. I have the chance to let only the best pass through my filter.
In the future, for fun, I might like to make some of my earlier music available. But it would be very, very stripped down, because I'm only proud of a very small fraction of it. I think I might just release remastered versions of tapes I recorded with a keyboard when I was ten. Some of that stuff is actually better than the music I was writing between 2001 and 2003.