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Daily Demo: Crashing

November 2, 2009 by krisis

Song #77: Crashing (live demo) [“Save As” to download from that link]
Last recorded for Blogathon 2002.

10 years ago this weekend I went to my first college party, still very much a purposefully-naive, dewy-eyed teen.

I came home having had my first vodka cranberry and my first inklings of adult romance, drifting to sleep wrapped in the blissful denouement of each.

The following Monday morning was a decidedly dreary day, and I found myself locked out my dorm room in my pajamas. Instead of heading to French 103 I sat down in our common room – five stories from the ground with a two-story windowed wall staring out into Center City Philadelphia.

I pulled out a pad and wrote “Crashing.”

Later that day, having been let back into my room, I recorded its first rough demo and transferred the lyrics to the first page of the crisp new book I bought for my collegiate songs. Up until then I wasn’t sure how I would know it was time to start using it, but I suddenly did.

“Crashing” made frequent appearances at parties and late night hangouts throughout my Freshmen year, resulting in the first complements on my voice I had ever heard. They came as a great shock to me, as they still do. Later that autumn I recorded it for my first full length demo, Other Plans – shakily, in the middle of the night, trying not to wake up my mother in the process.

As a dreary fall turned to winter I moved on to add other songs to my slim gray book – many of which I still play to this day. Yet, it was “Crashing” I would play between classes as I sat at the dinged, old upright piano in the theatre green room. I would hypnotize myself with the rolling two chord verse, learning how to play piano in increments (and maybe a little bit about what the song really meant, as well).

It took the entire intervening decade to learn how to play piano well enough to demo it that way, and it seems apropos that it wound up recorded just as shakily and late as its original demos were, respectively.

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Filed Under: college, demos, identity, memories, self-critique, stories, theatre, Year 10 Tagged With: rain

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  1. Crushing Krisis › Under My Skin says:
    February 9, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    […] “Crashing” marked the beginning of my “modern” era of songwriting, so I marked that one with a recording. […]

  2. Crushing Krisis › Happy Birthday To This says:
    August 26, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    […] video. I posted an early video demo of Regenerate, which became my theme for the year. I released my first piano demo, a recording of “Crashing” to commemorate it’s tenth birthday, plus demos of my plaintive “Kick Me” and my […]

  3. Crushing Krisis › 10 posts from Year 10 for my 10th anniversary says:
    October 27, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    […] Fresh Music: Regenerate & Daily Demo: Crashing Regenerate: “The emotions are still vivid and visceral to me; this may be as close as I can […]

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