This past weekend, I was really excited to start recording all these songs I wrote in ‘09. I recently found an optimal set-up in my office to record raw acoustic version of all my songs. I’m able to capture the natural sound of my guitar and keep my vocals as unadorned and natural [...]
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the shrubbery & the lichen
pine mountain road, originally uploaded by tracyshaun.
worlds upon worlds in the cold and comforting earth
warm the light that leads you living large
songs of melodies made sweet and silent
to be the tickle in the steps of giants
Two more songs…
These last two weekends have been fairly productive for me and my music. I finished up writing a song (the first in a month!) and put it and two other songs down on “tape”… I had been getting a little frustrated with myself for putting off recording weekend after weekend. I was writing & performing [...]
what a week for music
This last week was filled with big ups & downs in my music. I had become pretty discouraged about my songwriting and performing, wondering what it really was all about. I missed Monday night’s open mic out at The Sleeping Lady and I’ve been stuck on a few new songs that I hadn’t completed.
I began [...]
tracyshaun as joe cocker
IMG_5338, originally uploaded by kyeung808.
Last night at the #whuffaoke party/techmob/booktour the whole @whuffaoke team had a big winnebego converted into karaoke machine. Down on 2nd street into the night, we sang, we danced. Here I am singing With A Little Help From My [...]
6 Things That Make Me Happy
laying in bed late at night next to my honey, Julie, and listening to the house make its night noises among passing cars
hiking for hours with my dog in a light rain in the hills next to the pacific
seeing my kids struggle with something and coming out the other side bigger, better and more confident
finishing [...]
My Quick 7 - Seven things you (probably) don’t know about me
I learned to walk & talk in Silicon Valley
I did a brief stint in Sunnyvale, CA from the age of 6 months to 2 years while my dad & mom had a little adventure moving out from Austin, TX where I was born. They got a raise coming out here, but when they factored in [...]
songwriting
I have opened up some sort of internal creative floodgates lately. So much so that I am now onto my 15th song in the past 6 months. I’ve been playing them in open mics around the bay area and having a blast. I would love to take some time to blog about the songwriting experience [...]
fog on fire
fog on fire,
originally uploaded by tracyshaun.
allrighty! This is the 6th photo from the 6th page of my flickr photostream (as of 14:35 PST on 4 December 08).
It was taken on a particularly juicy fog day on my commute down to Palo Alto for my work at Socialtext. I was heading south on 101 [...]
back in the groove
I had a challenge the other night to create a gift for a buddy of mine. There were a bunch of different ideas thrown out for us, thoughI happen to have brought my guitar and quickly decided that I wanted to write a song for him.
I whipped out a quick little riff and some chords [...]
