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[Apr. 9th, 2006|08:16 pm] |
So, I'm the newest member of "the coalition"...a hip hop group...we're gonna do it live style...went to 21 Soul's crib/studio today and laid down a track...it was really cool...everyone was like "how long has he been here? 15 minutes? he already got it done"...I'm really looking forward to this...I'll learn alot about recording...alot about making good basslines to work with drums...alot about how to work fast off the top of the head...As spokeman said when I left "This is the beginning of the best"...
Young Gray on the bass... |
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| It's bigger than hip-hop. |
[Mar. 24th, 2006|02:28 am] |
So tonight I played at the local. It was the most fun I've had in a long time. I'm now in a live hip-hop group with some extremely talented rappers. For real, I had so much fun. I'm looking forward to working with these guys.
peaks and valleys... |
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| Gray teaches bass. |
[Mar. 4th, 2006|11:33 pm] |
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If anyone knows anyone who wants to take bass lessons, I teach now. E-mail at hiregrayrobertson@yahoo.com if you know anyone who wants bass lessons. Everyone wants to play the bass! |
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[Feb. 11th, 2006|12:36 pm] |
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They announced senior superlatives yesterday...I got Most Talented AND Most Likely To Succeed...Haha...much love to all who voted. |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2006|10:35 pm] |
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I've decided, that everyone who attends CCA is a horrible driver. I tried to pass about 5 cars going down the street in front of school, so I got up to about 50 MPH...but everyone else was already going atleast 50. Then going down frazier, I noticed EVERYONE was tailing the car in front of them...it was really funny. So going across Veterans I got MINI VAN up to about 70ish and passed all 5 cars. I'm pretty sure Johnnia was scared. So we pull into the Bessie Smith Hall parking lot and decide to not park in Zack Wamp's reserved spots so drive through the parking lot to try to make it to the parking lot right next to it. The gate was closed so I ended up going the wrong way down a one way street...with a train of cars following me...then went to the other side of the lot with the open gate and went down ANOTHER one way street the wrong way...all while listen to THRILLER. Somewhere on the trip, we got KRUMP wit fiddy C! and out-krumped the black people behind us. The whole event was funny because they started out talking about how the levees were bombed...and some signal mountain kid said he thought it was asign from God that NO was destroyed...I was kind of pissed that his teacher would even allow him to say that...Lunch was free...which was cool...I was elected the speaker of my group and had to answer questions from the top of my head...I quoted KANYE which was my goal for the day...it was funny...went back to school and allison and charlotte threw pennies at eric's car...my bass lesson in strings was really laid back...like always...I enjoy just sitting with my bass talking about stuff and playing some...then senior seminar...which made my day even better suprisingly...No more senior seminar on wednesdays...and mondays are just like "check in" days then leave...that's so cool..then went to tortilla factory and ran a red light on the way over there...THEN I ran all the way from tortilla factory to CSAS...it was really awkward/lame/fun/funny/tiring...oh well...I had a really good day up until youth symphony ran 15 minutes late...and I hate how kids in orchestra don't have rhythm...but we're playing the seasons which will be fun...and that was my day....the end. |
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[Dec. 10th, 2005|12:27 am] |
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I've decided that thai food is my new favorite food. There is SO much of it, and I have to try it all, eventually. I finally wrote a second line to my "greatest pop song" ever. So far...my two lines are perfect..I get paid $125 to play bass this weekend...a 2 hour rehearsal and a 2 hour performance...4 hours of work...that's about $30/hour...Hell yes. I got a BIG paycheck from work the other day. I'm going to get BIG tips from work tonight...21 days until im 18...that's 3 weeks...EXACTLY... |
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| so blue. |
[Dec. 3rd, 2005|12:56 am] |
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My final Berklee scholarship audition is on Monday in HOTlanta, where they playas play. I'm ridiculously nervous/anxious about the audition. I'm playing "Syeeda's Song Flute" by John Coltrane. I've decided the best way to learn the song is to play it OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER... I also have to sight read a bunch of stuff that they give to me before the audition; the past 2 auditions I've had I made it through all of the sight reading perfectly. That's not a worry at all. I have to improvise some basslines and solos over certain styles that they choose. Then, I have call and response where they play something on piano and I play it back to them. That has been my weak point during both of my previous auditions, and I really hope I've improved as much as I think I have. I'm headed down to HOTlanta tommorrow night to chill with my parents...and then my audition is at 10:30 on monday morning...then I might stay in Atlanta for the rest of the day...I might not...I think it would be fun to take 2 college visit days instead of one, and just sleep on tuesday. That would be SO nice. Oh yeah, in 27 days, I turn 18. |
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[Nov. 25th, 2005|03:42 pm] |
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Yesterday I ate TOO MUCH FOOD...then late at night I at TOO MUCH MORE FOOD...even though I was SO full...the food was SO good...I wrote about half of my senior seminar paper about the MBASE Collective last night...and added a small paragraph to my English paper last night...tonight after I work for TOO LONG I'm going to try and finish atleast one of them...tommorrow I don't work!!! BUT I might be training to become a host...I hate a late lunch at Hennen's a few minutes ago and asked one of the managers if I could become a host...good looks and charm got me a YES...(no ego)...One of the kitchen managers said it was cool too...I've got a new...or not really new, but picking up the pace on an ongoing project that I'm going to try and get finished before Santa comes to town...it's the best work I've ever done... |
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[Nov. 20th, 2005|11:20 pm] |
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Today, I went to see the film "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" starring Curtis Jackson aka Young Caeser aka 50 Cent aka Fiddy. I thought it was going to be the funniest movie ever, and it definately ended up being one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. But it was really good, on the serious side as well. I'm really looking forward to the sequel, "52 Cent"...Fiddy's song "Bestfriend" was really funny... |
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| stressed out about being stressed out |
[Nov. 15th, 2005|12:23 am] |
I have to work at 4 every day until sunday. I've got 2 weeks to do my research project for english. I''ve got less than a month to finish my 9 page research project for senior seminar. I've got 3 weeks to get ready for my berklee audition. I've got about a month to get ready for senior showcase.
I'm so tired and stressed out.
On the positive tip, I'm getting 3 new albums from the Gruvis Malt crew next week that I've been waiting for for over a year. |
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[Nov. 12th, 2005|04:59 pm] |
I got top band in All-East Jazz. I wasn't really happy with my audition, but it was apparently good enough. If I was a rapper and not a bass player, I guess I would call all the other rappers(bassists) "Wack MCs". I'm so tired. I woke up at about 6 and went to bed about one. I almost fell asleep coming back from K-ville. I'm an amazing driver though.
Fiddy C. Tonight? Nope. |
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[Nov. 5th, 2005|06:29 pm] |
I'm so tired. The past 2 days I've had training at Hennen's at 8 in the morning, one day for 5 hours and the other for 4. It's not hard work, but I don't really enjoy it because I don't really do anything. I basically stand around watching people cook food that I'm not going to be cooking, and I don't learn anything. I look around the kitchen and everyone looks so busy, and there is nothing for me to do. I have done everything I have been told to do, but I feel like I'm wasting space. I'm not the type of person to want to work a job that doesn't involve any work, and that's exactly what I'm doing right now. It's nice to make some money, since I haven't in a few months, but I don't like standing around not doing anything. It's a waste of my time, and I could be so much more productive doing other things. Hopefully, when Hennen's finally opens, I'll be working, and not just wasting space and time.
The last performance of Seusical is in about two hours. I've had alot of fun playing it. Thanks to everyone in the show for doing a good job, and letting me play the funky bass for the show. Musically, this is probably the most fun show I've done. |
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| I'm a good writer |
[Oct. 28th, 2005|01:06 am] |
I just wrote a really long letter. But it's really good. I think it's the one of the best things I've ever written. And it won't even end up on my live journal... |
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| bekrlee |
[Oct. 26th, 2005|09:03 pm] |
I submitted my Berklee application online tonight. My transcript was sent out two days ago, so it should arrive tommmorow along with my application. I don't doubt that I'll get in. I just have to find a way to pay for it. |
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| dEMO |
[Oct. 22nd, 2005|10:05 pm] |
So I've been "remixing" Afroman's "Colt 45" hit for a little while. It
didn't end up how I originally had intended but it did end up being
pretty cool. Or atleast I think so. It's not really funky anymore and
it's not about sex and drugs. If my remix had lyrics it would be a more
R&B type sex song, not a rap type sex song ...but a little more
emo...because that's what I do...I write emo songs...I couldn't
find any way to get the song online, but if you want to hear it (you
do) reply with your e-mail address and I'll gladly send you a copy of
"the remix"...Below is a REALLY LONG description of how I made the
track...It would mean alot to me if you read it....
Thanks
( I'm not really a hip hop producer )
NEVERMIND...since commenting was too hard to do except for one person ill post a link
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz2/grayrobertson/colt45thethingsidoforyoudemo.wma
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[Oct. 19th, 2005|04:11 am] |
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" I always said (though, never technically asked) that being in the band was just a long running equation - a simple “pros vs. cons” kind of list. But in this situation one gives the cons a much longer "line of credit" than the pros. Actually, it's not unlike a "make or break" end-of-the-night poker game. It's you against the entire country (so picture maybe someone like Steven Segal opposite you), you're holding something promising like a straight flush, but you're just about out of family heirlooms to wager. Steven is surely not holding much because he can barely tell the suits apart and for some reason he only has four cards in his hand (and this is five card stud). You're putting on your most confident chest, but can't help but notice that even his suit jacket is made of rubies. You've stayed in so long because you've filled the pot too much to cut your losses."
That's kind of how I feel about alot of things right now, but just a little bit different. I feel like I have been holding on to a "promising hand of cards" for way too long, and the other players aren't even holding the correct number of cards. I need to stop waiting for the other players to drop out of the game, and I need to start playing my own hand, because it's pretty good.
(I didn't write that quote, just the stuff after it)
(This doesn't apply to ONLY one situation. It applies to many. That's why I posted it) |
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[Oct. 17th, 2005|12:52 am] |
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I was working on my essay for Berklee earlier and I was thinking about why I wanted to go there so much more than any other school. I first thought "it's all musicians" which is more or less the reason, but the more I thought about it, I think that would make it the most difficult school for me to go to, which is why I want to go. At CCA I can be "that guy who plays the bass" or whatever people think when they see me or something. But if I go to Berklee, a school of nothing but musicians I can't be "that guy who plays the bass" because there will be many of those. To succeed in that environment I would have to be "that guy who does (this), (this), and (this) really well and sounds like (this)". I really want to decide what direction I want to go with my music because I can't succeed just doing what I'm doing now. I need to "brand" myself I guess.
The only way to really be that person musically is to figure out who I want to be non-musically. Going back to my old live journal and looking at it up through now, I see how much I've changed. I've changed so much in just a few years, and even more so if I look back on who I was when I was "growing up".
Think about this. When you go off to college (if it's out of state primarily) no one knows who you are. Who you were throughout high school and before does not matter. All people will know you as is who you are at that moment. No one will know what type of clothes you wore, what music you listened to, how you acted, or anything else about you before that moment. Going away to college seems almost like re-starting your life or starting a new "chapter" of it. You can start over and be who ever you want to be. Is who you are now the person you want people to know when they first meet you in your "new life/chapter", or are there things you want to change?
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| hennens |
[Oct. 11th, 2005|04:53 pm] |
Last night I spent $116 dollars on a pair of pants and shirt for an interview today. It's a shame no one saw me...I looked too good...ha!...I got the the interview about 10 minutes early. Shook hands and acted real polite and stuff. Talked about my last few jobs. The guy asked me how I heard about the restaurant and I mentioned my stepbro who is doing the marble and granite in the restaurant, and mentioned homegirl Erica. He explained what the kitchen would be like and it sounded pretty hectic, and I said I would do anything but the steaks...He said "So Gray, how would you like the come aboard?"...HA! I start out at $8.50 an hour and work 3 or 4 shifts a week which is cool. Trainging/orientation starts towards the end of this month and the official opening date is November 14. The guy said that he wants the restaurant to be the place where people want to be seen...I know it will probably be hard work but I am really looking forward to it. I hope everyone else from CCA who is applying gets a job and makes rediculous amounts of money. Good luck to everyone.
Oh yeah, I have to dress like a ninja chef and wear all black chef gear...that's funny... |
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