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Leonardo

from The Juvenalias by William Remmers

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"Leo, you're back you're better than ever/Why won't you win an award or two?"
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8TH GRADE

THE JOSHAA EP was my first CD. I still have a copy, the paper insert full of typos, explaining that the whole album was recorded in a single January night. 5 tracks plus a secret song (concept albums, funny/obnoxious voices, secret songs, backwards messages, general attempts at Britishness... there's gonna be a lot of these things). This is salute to Leonardo DiCaprio who, despite my taunting, had not ever lost the Oscar® for Best Actor (the famous losing streak and memes were years away). Full disclosure, I have still not seen The Beach. I'm sorry, The Beach, I've heard you're actually pretty good.

At this point, I had switched to Audacity which allowed easy multi-tracking. I still used the same desktop microphone which served to pick up all guitars (acoustic or amplified) and vocals. It even picks up the sound of a large plank of wood I used to act as stabilization between my carpeted bedroom floor and my Wah-wah pedal. I couldn't tune a guitar but at least I had a Wah-wah pedal. As you can see, the new recording system allowed me an opportunity to overdub as many inane voices as I wanted. The guitar parts were usually done first, in one take, sometimes singing at the same time (which never helped). Vocals were done after and completely improvised. Rarely, if ever, was anything written out. These are purely improvisational nightmares.

As for the scream "Joshaa" at the end. We'll get there when we get there.

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from The Juvenalias, released May 1, 2020

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William Remmers has been doing music since he was a prattling babe.

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