#chris lancaster

In case you don't know (all three of you who follow me...if that...ha), I not only play guitar, but I also track, mix, and produce music.  Here's a track I started working on 3 years ago with Alison Clancy, Chris Lancaster and Sonny Ratcliff. I started working on it when I was just learning the inner workings of sound engineering, continued working on it as I went through the worst break-up of my adult life, stopped working on it to hit bottle after bottle of Rittenhouse Rye, started working on it again when I felt a glimmer of hope, dropped it for a while, then picked it back up earlier this year.  This song holds a really special, yet very dark place in my heart.  I would sit with the cello, vocals and guitar parts and depending on what I was feeling that day, would either write something up or something down.  In the end, the song pulls on the unwound heartstrings of a broken person...a broken love.  I wrote all the synth parts, ambient sounds, and the beat.  I also layered the hell out of the guitars, and played a bunch of fuzzed out bass on this.  Although this is in all fairness a Loving You track, it's just as much a part of me as it is of them.  Play it, share it, and live vicariously through it.  Remember a time when you were there.  And it was dark.

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584296239/replacement-place-new-york-live-arts

I was walking home from work and I saw some dude in a hat jammin in the front seat of this car stopped at the light. I laughed and pointed at him because I do the same damn thing and he looked up and waved. I didn't think anything of it and kept walking and then I heard him scream my name. I turned around and he's getting out of the car running towards me and turns out, the homeboy I caught jammin was my best friend from the time I was 5 until I moved schools in high school. I haven't talked to him in like, 5 or 6 years. It's ridiculous that he recognized me since I've died my hair multiple colors and chopped it all off since I've seen him. I guess true friends never forget. We're hanging out later tonight and I'm so fucking happy. This just made my day. It couldn't have time out better.