1st new song in months Feat Morgan on lead

[sammydix]

But I didn't completely write it. A guy that goes by Neumuzik wrote the original music, BUT it was all midi. I hate all midi--particularly guitars, but I loved the groove to the song. So I asked him if I could re-do the song with real guitars and bass, and also write some lyrics and a melody.

He liked the idea, so I dusted off Amplitube and just started adding guitar parts. I suck at lead, so I asked Morgon if he could take care of that and he came through for me just nicely. Esp that ending which i love.

I play all the scattered around rhythm guitars and bass. Drums AD.

Updated with vox up 2 db.
https://app.box.com/s/zwfd280myublnm8hcxhim0ss0jcv8hpi

Original midi: https://app.box.com/s/csctq9p0sl1wl632tezfx0du69c5rtfa
PG-13 rated vocal trials with the midi file: https://app.box.com/s/sk1ajcao6lf6lsp3koujykv8s6taywm5

Kinda wondering about those cymbals. Too crispy?

[morgon]

I can still improve on those solos, theres a couple of places esp, Im away from home again atm but a few days from now Ill post those improvements.

Sammy, the RG on the linked file drops out in a couple of places? or maybe this rig Im using is?

[HugoRibeiroDotCom]

Terrific job guys!

cheers

[OpIvy]

This makes me feel like drinking a bottle of scotch and having a punch up in the dirt! Fuk'n awesome song.

...and morgon if you think the solos need more work, you can eat a dick.
They are spot on...

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by morgon

I can still improve on those solos, theres a couple of places esp, Im away from home again atm but a few days from now Ill post those improvements.

Sammy, the RG on the linked file drops out in a couple of places? or maybe this rig Im using is?

RG? Right guitar? if so, it doesn't drop out, I stop playing.
...or it could be because I cut some of my guitars completely in this version that you may have gotten used to hearing in the earlier raw version I sent you.

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by OpIvy

This makes me feel like drinking a bottle of scotch and having a punch up in the dirt! Fuk'n awesome song.

...and morgon if you think the solos need more work, you can eat a dick.
They are spot on...

Don't hurt em too bad OP!
Yup, it was meant to have that night out at the local pub feel.

Morgon's having one of those "I could have done better" moments we all get from time to time once something is "released."

@Hugo
Thanks for dropping by guy.

[msundh]

Great as Always. One thing that I realized on my latest song, that I think applies to you to,is that you (as me) are too laid back in your singing. You sing very good, but try to put more power when singing.
This is of only my humble opinion (including three beers
Thank god it's friday!!!

[sammydix]

Msundh, THAT's a first!!! (you should have seen my eyes bulge!)
I always thought I was laid back only when I did it on purpose, like in mellower tunes. Otherwise, i thought I was rather aggressive. I guess in a way that's good to hear. Thanks guy!

[msundh]

Listen a second in my headphone instead of my monitors.
The lead vox is way too low.
Still want more power in your singing, sorry.
On the influence on four beers and one big Talisker

[sammydix]

Up it comes. I'll repost later today in the original top thread.

EDIT: done along w original midi the song was based on.

[msore]

I like it, but it is the same thing for three minutes.

[sammydix]

It's a jammy, club-y tune.
I bet Dylan isn't one of your favorite artists.

[Wolffman]

I like it!! it has a great groove, very sunday arvo beer garden session


Cheers

[morgon]

Originally Posted by OpIvy

This makes me feel like drinking a bottle of scotch and having a punch up in the dirt! Fuk'n awesome song.

...and morgon if you think the solos need more work, you can eat a dick.
They are spot on...

Originally Posted by sammydix

Don't hurt em too bad OP!
Yup, it was meant to have that night out at the local pub feel.

Morgon's having one of those "I could have done better" moments we all get from time to time once something is "released."

@Hugo
Thanks for dropping by guy.

Haha, ok, I'll shutup now, thanks everyone for the kind remarks.

[karbomusic]

Originally Posted by morgon

I can still improve on those solos

"Shut up 'n play yer guitar"

Meaning your baby is not ugly... it's perfectly natural for you to feel that way but let it go, you did just wonderfully great and fine at it. Both of you did, sit back and enjoy it, I know I did.

[kindafishy]

Sweet collab, guys! Crunchy grooves and searing licks.

Cool character to the mix, Sammy. You really nailed that "recorded in a club" kind of feel here.

[Jorgen]

Thumbs up.

[msundh]

Originally Posted by sammydix

Msundh, THAT's a first!!! (you should have seen my eyes bulge!)
I always thought I was laid back only when I did it on purpose, like in mellower tunes. Otherwise, i thought I was rather aggressive. I guess in a way that's good to hear. Thanks guy!

I guess I have to take back the laid back part of my critics.
Don't drink and criticize
Cheers!!!

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by Wolffman

I like it!! it has a great groove, very sunday arvo beer garden session


Cheers

just a little fun ditty to throw together Wolff. I already knew I wanted a Reaper musician to join in, mainly because some of my better songs usually have somebody from the forums playing on them: Carbon, Stratman, Ted Wood, Kindafishy, and the list goes on.

Morgon offered his 'services' a few months back, so the choice was obvious for this one.

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by morgon

Haha, ok, I'll shutup now, thanks everyone for the kind remarks.

...and thanks for making the song complete. couldn't be happier with it.

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by karbomusic

"Shut up 'n play yer guitar"

Meaning your baby is not ugly... it's perfectly natural for you to feel that way but let it go, you did just wonderfully great and fine at it. Both of you did, sit back and enjoy it, I know I did.

I've used that Zappa quote a few times. brought a big smile Karbo.


@kindafishy
thx

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by msundh

I guess I have to take back the laid back part of my critics.
Don't drink and criticize
Cheers!!!

hey man, you hear what you hear. hope the upped volume helped, though.


@jergen
appreciate it.

[thequietroom]

ya the whole tune works.. it completely gave me the sense of enjoying some good live music at a club. I could picture myself and everyone else there having a blast

[Jorgen]

Hell yeah.

[sammydix]

kinda wish it was real. i miss performing live, haven't done in years except for a show about a year ago, but I had to sing to background music--at least it was my own mix. thanks QR.

@jergen
who's the pic?

[Jorgen]

Jorge Louis Borges, from Buenos Aires, Argentina... need I say more? Most known for his short stories, many of them working with what some may call magic realism. He himself may have used a word like fantastic, and rightly so. Fantastic, however, does not carry the same meaning/connotations today in Swedish, and, I believe, nor in English... but what do I know? You mostly see pics of Borges as old and blind, so this portrait I found rather special.

[sammydix]

I've heard of him and seen his works, but always passed. Being both a writer and an avid reader, I'll have to check him out more after what you said.

You mean 'fantastic' in the literal sense, right? As opposed to the "great or wow" sense where it's mostly used today (sort of the same as the original and new meanings of 'fabulous').

[m5blackmond]

@morgan -- you shut your dirty mouth. Those leads are just right

Great jam

[Jorgen]

Originally Posted by sammydix

You mean 'fantastic' in the literal sense, right? As opposed to the "great or wow" sense where it's mostly used today (sort of the same as the original and new meanings of 'fabulous').

Yeah, spot on, the same phenomena over here... and fantasy is, well, goblins and dragons. I love urban fantasy, though... Hellblazer, Lucifer... stuff like that. I red an interview with Umberto Eco just the other day... he's an avid comic reader. I'm not surprised.

[sammydix]

I write fantasy, but I usually try to find a different description (specifically because one thinks of goblins, dragons, political elves, etc), but none of that is in my fiction. Old and cliched. So I usually choose "speculative." But it's closer to surrealism or psyched out urban fantasy.

...and don't get me started on H. Potter! God how i hate it. Or more to the fact, how Rowling influenced so many copy cats to middle grade or young adult fantasy. It's like everybody's afraid of adult spec fiction these days.

@m5
thx

[mschuster]

interesting! i can't believe nobody's made a Hendrix comparison on the guitar sound, especially in the beginning. maybe not a 100% match up but definitely some overtone's. haven't heard that around these here parts...

Sam, you are the master of eclectic! great job!

[Jorgen]

Gaiman - The Book Of Magic - is what I believe influenced Rowling. I've enjoyed Potter from time to time - especially one of the films, can't remember the name, but it involved some cool time travelling, I'm a sucker for time travelling...

I'd love to read some of your stuff anytime.

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by mschuster

interesting! i can't believe nobody's made a Hendrix comparison on the guitar sound, especially in the beginning. maybe not a 100% match up but definitely some overtone's. haven't heard that around these here parts...

Sam, you are the master of eclectic! great job!

Appreciate that Mark. I was surprised to hear Morgan's trk once he sent it to me. Never heard him play like that. I knew he had style, which is why I asked him in the first place, but he can rock out too!

I'm only so eclectic because I bore easily.

[sammydix]

Originally Posted by Jorgen

Gaiman - The Book Of Magic - is what I believe influenced Rowling. I've enjoyed Potter from time to time - especially one of the films, can't remember the name, but it involved some cool time travelling, I'm a sucker for time travelling...

I'd love to read some of your stuff anytime.

Gonna take you up on that...

[morgon]

Originally Posted by m5blackmond

@morgan -- you shut your dirty mouth. Those leads are just right

Great jam

Thanks m5, cheers.

[zeekat]

Sounds like a tune that should end with a major bar brawl to me. Must be that old Clint Eastwood movie I've seen the other day. Lead guitar is FIERY plus its tone is totes ear caressing.

[morgon]

Originally Posted by karbomusic

"Shut up 'n play yer guitar"

Meaning your baby is not ugly... it's perfectly natural for you to feel that way but let it go, you did just wonderfully great and fine at it. Both of you did, sit back and enjoy it, I know I did.

Originally Posted by zeekat

Sounds like a tune that should end with a major bar brawl to me. Must be that old Clint Eastwood movie I've seen the other day. Lead guitar is FIERY plus its tone is totes ear caressing.

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

[sammydix]

that tone was pretty sweet, weren't it? thanks much for listening Zee.

[G-Sun]

Originally Posted by sammydix

But I didn't completely write it. A guy that goes by Neumuzik wrote the original music, BUT it was all midi. I hate all midi--particularly guitars, but I loved the groove to the song. So I asked him if I could re-do the song with real guitars and bass, and also write some lyrics and a melody.

He liked the idea, so I dusted off Amplitube and just started adding guitar parts. I suck at lead, so I asked Morgon if he could take care of that and he came through for me just nicely. Esp that ending which i love.

I play all the scattered around rhythm guitars and bass. Drums AD.

Updated with vox up 2 db.
https://app.box.com/s/zwfd280myublnm8hcxhim0ss0jcv8hpi

Original midi: https://app.box.com/s/csctq9p0sl1wl632tezfx0du69c5rtfa
PG-13 rated vocal trials with the midi file: https://app.box.com/s/sk1ajcao6lf6lsp3koujykv8s6taywm5

Kinda wondering about those cymbals. Too crispy?

Cool song. Nice vocal-drive.
Need some arrangment-things regarding guitar-solo and bass/drums (now it's like you've hit play in AD.)

[sammydix]

Much appreciated GS. Thanks for listening!