Q: I'm listening to 'long long journey' right now and the sound effects, backing vocals and all of the different keyboard sounds would be epic to see live.
A: it wouldn't be that way at all live. it would hopefully be much better and more well rounded in sound. any song can be done any way, that's one of the most fun things about songs. and i exploit this to the fullest by never doubting that i can do any song all by myself, using only the tools i have. despite the fact that it usually sounds drastically different than i may have imagined it. a great majority of my songs would probably be much better as guitar songs of some sort. but that's just not what i can do nor have. when the live band show comes around, it will open up many many different doors so that a lot of the shenanigans i do on records will not be necessary anymore... this is why it seems strange to me when i hear people cover my songs and they cover every little riff in between lyrics excactly the way my recording did. to me that wasn't even part of the song, that's just the best way i could think of to deliver the song at that time using the only tools i have available. for example i bend over backwards doing all kinds of things to make up for the fact that i can never really have a strumming guitar. a strumming guitar of some sort is what every song probably really needs. and yet because i don't have that i usually end up doing completely different and unrelated things, to compensate. which i think has worked surprisingly well unless you ask the haters and hatresses