Butterscotch Stanley in the Studio

As usual, wasting no time at all.

More to come.  Album is sounding good.

Levon

Others will sum it all up much better than me.  The soul in his voice matched the soul in his drums.  He could have been a great drummer and he could have been a great front man, and he did both better than most can do one.  A real American when America stood for something.  How about it for Levon Helm.  

Tell me one band that can sing a song about the end of the Civil War and make it sound like the most profound personal experience to anyone that hears it, even if you don't know or care what the song is about.  The fucking BAND.

Here's what you missed

Anyways, been meaning to write but been real busy.  More to come on that.  I want to give my two cents on Bjork's latest masterpiece and some other things.  Stay tuned for that.  Butterscotch Stanley is looking for shows in April and May if there are any suggestions.  Also playing a cool concert with Iktus Percussion at the end of the month.  I'll keep everyone posted on that.  Listened to Scrambles for the first time since last summer.  Made me feel all good and real bad inside.  

Butterscotch Stanley March Show

Keeping with the one-a-month show idea, Butterscotch will be playing Mr. Beery's this Saturday night March 31st.

Hope to see you there.

Mr. Beery's.
4019 Hempstead Turnpike
Bethpage, NY, 11714
w/
Eli Whitney & The Sound Machine
Holy Soviets
Joyce Nancy
Western Electric

Recording

Butterscotch is gonna record a new album soon.  And we just don't know what to do. But it seems like we're gonna do a 10-12 song album at about 22 minutes total with the guy who recorded A Passing Feeling and release it for free.  More to come on that.
Here's what you missed last weekend:

Butterscotch Show

I keep forgetting to use this thing to promote shows.

Come check out Butterscotch with lots of other great punk bands at 330 Melrose st. in Brooklyn tonight at 8.  gonna be a lot of fun.

http://www.facebook.com/events/223413201079715/

Traditions in Rock

New favorite song and I'll tell ya why.  But the real explanation, is that it needs no explanation.

Drum fill
Intro riff twice (not four times.)  This riff has a hit on the fourth beat of the measure.
Verse
Chorus
end of chorus also has hit on fourth beat but it becomes the new "one" making it a measure of three and then two bars of rest

Repeat this form but with variation in verse (scream on FACE)

Bridge

Third verse now with screams and more aggressive drums
Chorus has hit on beat 4 again, this time only 3 beat rest
repeat again and back to the full two bar rest

Outro Three times (not twice)

There it is.  The words are also incredible, the energy sounds like it's a live recording, and it's all in 2 minutes at 15 seconds.

This is one clever punk rock band.
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