Planktons - What The Hell Am I Listening To?

Plankton · 10-18-2021, 06:35 AM

Ok, that was amazing.

...and I really don't know how to follow that up other than with a humongous thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Well, maybe just a couple of clarifications:

The Dream was my first album (is it really an album tho? lol) I created under the Planktons Odyssey name and it was created over a decade ago in 2009. Krill was immediately after in 2012, then Whale in around 2014.
The piano piece was a Zakk Wylde backing track. I'd love to have a full band at my disposal but thats usually too much drama. Ask me how I know this.
No flutes or synths were used. Every note played was from my newly acquired at the time Paul Reed Smith SE through a Zoom GFX8. It's still my #1 guitar to this day.
This was meant to be an EP, or kind of a demo. I figured you've reviewed most of my other works, so this would help to fill in any gaps and give a sense of how things had started and then progressed. Longer songs, bigger production, etc..

99.9% of the music I've made over the years is done as experimental practice with the record button pressed. It's never preconceived and is normally done using layered first takes with maybe a punch in fill here and there. Chalk it up to laziness, or maybe I'm trying to capture a stream of consciousness type of flow, but I've never sat down to actually write a piece out before consciously deciding to record it. It's always been in the back of my mind that I've always wanted to properly write and record an entire album, and I aint gettin no younger, so I need to knuckle down and do something before my fingers won't allow me to anymore. I put the guitars down a few years back to change over to something that would keep me healthier, which as you probably know is disc golfing. I've always been concerned with staying fit and sitting around plucking a guitar doesn't really facilitate that too well, but I think in the next year or two I'll more than likely hang up the discs for a while and try to follow my heart with at least one last hurrah. I mean, spending most of my life perfecting something just to let it all go seems a bit sad, pointless, and an exercise in futility. I need to get it done, and soon.

Again, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to listen, Troll my friend. Your writing style, the lead-in story, the full review, all of it. I was sitting here reading it last night with a big huge grin on my face. I hope that clarifying why it was such a short piece resolves any of the issues you may have had with it. Ultimately though, this all really fuels the fire to create more.

10-18-2021, 06:35 AM	#11 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	Ok, that was amazing. ...and I really don't know how to follow that up other than with a humongous thank you from the bottom of my heart. Well, maybe just a couple of clarifications: The Dream was my first album (is it really an album tho? lol) I created under the Planktons Odyssey name and it was created over a decade ago in 2009. Krill was immediately after in 2012, then Whale in around 2014. The piano piece was a Zakk Wylde backing track. I'd love to have a full band at my disposal but thats usually too much drama. Ask me how I know this. No flutes or synths were used. Every note played was from my newly acquired at the time Paul Reed Smith SE through a Zoom GFX8. It's still my #1 guitar to this day. This was meant to be an EP, or kind of a demo. I figured you've reviewed most of my other works, so this would help to fill in any gaps and give a sense of how things had started and then progressed. Longer songs, bigger production, etc.. 99.9% of the music I've made over the years is done as experimental practice with the record button pressed. It's never preconceived and is normally done using layered first takes with maybe a punch in fill here and there. Chalk it up to laziness, or maybe I'm trying to capture a stream of consciousness type of flow, but I've never sat down to actually write a piece out before consciously deciding to record it. It's always been in the back of my mind that I've always wanted to properly write and record an entire album, and I aint gettin no younger, so I need to knuckle down and do something before my fingers won't allow me to anymore. I put the guitars down a few years back to change over to something that would keep me healthier, which as you probably know is disc golfing. I've always been concerned with staying fit and sitting around plucking a guitar doesn't really facilitate that too well, but I think in the next year or two I'll more than likely hang up the discs for a while and try to follow my heart with at least one last hurrah. I mean, spending most of my life perfecting something just to let it all go seems a bit sad, pointless, and an exercise in futility. I need to get it done, and soon. Again, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to listen, Troll my friend. Your writing style, the lead-in story, the full review, all of it. I was sitting here reading it last night with a big huge grin on my face. I hope that clarifying why it was such a short piece resolves any of the issues you may have had with it. Ultimately though, this all really fuels the fire to create more. __________________ See location...