{"id":7069,"date":"2015-01-20T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2015-01-20T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:30:18","slug":"hoo-ever-land-a-chat-with-jamie-hoover-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/20\/hoo-ever-land-a-chat-with-jamie-hoover-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoo-Ever Land: A Chat with Jamie Hoover, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Continued from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=7067\">Part One<\/a>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/jamie_hoover02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize at the time is that the setback of rotator cuff surgery and recovery wouldn&#8217;t keep <strong>Jamie Hoover<\/strong> from creating new music and new recordings. \u201cI thought, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m not gonna be able able to play guitar for while,&#8217;\u201d Hoover recalls. \u201cSo I got interested in the idea of trying to sing the parts.\u201d Thus began the process of a vocals-only project. Initially, Hoover had in mind another <strong>Jamie and Steve<\/strong> EP. \u201cI talked with Steve [Stoeckel] about it, and he wasn&#8217;t really into doing a whole record like that. And you&#8217;ve got to <em>really<\/em> be into something like this to be able to do it.\u201d So Hoover began work on what would become <em>Jamie Two Ever<\/em>. (In the end, only a portion of the disc is vocal-only tracks.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make a point of not using drum machines on it,\u201d he says. \u201cI played buckets and pots and pans instead. So it has that sound to it.\u201d Despite the inclusion of a track titled \u201cHonest Work,\u201d <em>Jamie Two Ever<\/em> is very much unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/essays\/todd_rundgren.shtml\"><strong>Todd Rundgren<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s <em>A Cappella<\/em>, a 1985 album that \u2013 on paper, at least \u2013 seems like pretty much the same sort of musical excursion as the original idea for <em>Jamie Two Ever<\/em>. \u201cI&#8217;m a big Todd fan,\u201d Hoover says. \u201cI make no bones about that. And I&#8217;m very familiar with that record. But I didn&#8217;t want to do what he did, which was basically sampling [vocals] on an Emulator.\u201d Rather than treating his vocals through a sampler, on <em>Jamie Two Ever<\/em>&#8216;s vocal tracks, it&#8217;s mostly Hoover&#8217;s natural voice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B00OQWDP32&#038;asins=B00OQWDP32&#038;linkId=EDA3EFRYO5NE3E5V&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite the grab-bag approach to songs on the album \u2013 some vocals-only, some with instruments, most solo, one with Steve Stoeckel guesting \u2013 <em>Jamie Two Ever<\/em> holds together as a cohesive whole, and provides a good sampler of the Jamie Hoover signature sound. The guiding principle when making the recordings was simple, Hoover laughs. \u201cI just wanted to please myself. If I get it to where I&#8217;m happy with it, then the narcissism comes out, and I&#8217;m ready to say, &#8216;Hey! Look at this!&#8217;\u201d And since the disc wasn&#8217;t made with the idea of creating an album, it has more of a collection-of-singles feel. \u201cI always think in terms of, what sounds like a single? And then it&#8217;s a matter of sequencing those songs so they flow together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The digital and physical (CD) versions of Jamie Hoover&#8217;s new album differ significantly: the CD includes nearly twice as many tracks (fifteen total). \u201cThe difference is simply financial,\u201d Hoover states. In days gone by, a record label would handle the distribution of composer royalties for songs \u201ccovered\u201d on an artist&#8217;s album; today, the onus sits squarely on the recording artist himself. As far as the songwriters getting paid, Hoover has no qualms with that. \u201cIt&#8217;s the right thing to do, of course.\u201d But the current arrangement exerts significant front-end financial pressures on the recording artists. \u201cI did that for my [2004] <em>Jamie Hoo-Ever<\/em> album, and it cost me an additional $800. That \u2013 for an individual doing an independent release \u2013 is really expensive.\u201d So the digital version includes only Hoover originals, leaving off his vocals-only reading of <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; \u201cMisery\u201d and a truly weird all-minor-chords reinvention of <em>Rubber Soul<\/em>&#8216;s \u201cI&#8217;m Looking Through You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/jamie_hoover03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center>\u201cI decided to make it a kind of marketing thing: only the 300 physical copies would include those other songs. If you want those, you have to buy the CD.\u201d He laughs and adds, \u201cShameless promotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hoover is still on the mend following his recent surgeries. Another Jamie and Steve EP is in the works. \u201cWe [<strong>The Spongetones<\/strong>] did some unannounced gigs not long ago. And I&#8217;m still producing, working on a lot of projects. And I can play. But my arms still hurt like hell. I can&#8217;t do push-ups or anything like that, but I can play. I&#8217;ll play until I&#8217;m tired.\u201d He chuckles, \u201cI think I could still do a four-hour gig, but at the end I&#8217;d feel like I&#8217;d been thrown off a truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from Part One&#8230; What I didn&#8217;t realize at the time is that the setback of rotator cuff surgery and recovery wouldn&#8217;t keep Jamie Hoover from creating new music and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,49,51,62],"tags":[1096,1097,2020],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","tag-jamie-and-steve","tag-jamie-hoover","tag-spongetones","cat-41-id","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}