This is just a short little dealy. A couple of days ago I was messing with a vocal reverser thing. It probably sounds like I’m saying “hand lotion” but I’m not. I forget what I was saying…
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This needs a lot of work/love. I can’t solo for shit on guitar. Gawd!
A friend of mine did some awesome poop in his spare time. He picked up a crap guitar, a crap bass and his powerbook at the place where he teaches music. He recorded a pretty sweet groove with some dirty drums behind it. Recorded through the Powerbook’s crap mic I think but it came out all nice and dirty.
Here’s the goddamn original:
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It’s decent. It’s catchy. But, like all beautiful things … I had to destroy it. Tramp flowers.
Here’s the sacrificial lamb:
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It starts out as a polka slaughter. Sparing no one, humiliated, insulting and omnivorous. But then I caught an idea at the end and tried to turn the world back into a happy place. It may be corny at the end but it was kinda a soulful hook there for a sec, had to build on it.
N’Joy.
Blisters. >_<
There’s some work to be done on this one. Drums are a bit aggressive. I love the way the idea in the middle came out. I lost my vocal idea somewhere in the recording process. I’ll have to just listen to it a while to get it back.
Jun Jun Jun Jun.
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Ok, ok. So 9 hours later, I have this piece of crap. “Oh wah”, you say. Seriously, this needs to be overhauled. And the blog just isn’t a great way to say, “hey I fixed it”. When I post a song and rework it, it might be on an old post. So bearing that in mind, when I post a tune for the first time usually my limited audience only hears it once.
But I encourage you to click that little category up there (recordings) and check back on older tunes. I might have published an update. Meh, like I said, a blog doesn’t lend itself well to music publishing. I don’t what does, the radio? Shoving music down people’s throats? I guess.
So I give you Click. The A section and B section hardly match except by some very small thread of beat. It develops and changes pace very quickly. I might not be able to mend it.
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An updated tune: “Finish”.
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Um. This is a tune ripped off from a video I saw on google video. It was some Bush bashing thing. The link is there.
What’s important is the fact that I spent 1.5 hours playing this lick straight. Talk about repetition. I’ll probably have to practice it everyday to be able to play it. It’s incredibly computerized. I think it plays only one note at a time. It’s very hard. Enjoy.
So, one track is the loop. The other two loops are me playing. I had to play along, which is where the 1.5 hours straight comes in. The middle part (as it stands) is just me. I spent forever just getting the part worked out, I think I nailed it. Whoever did this probably wonders why the hell anyone would spend the time to mimick an obvious synth, but whatever, maybe if I post the link it will get back to them.
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I went to the Black Cat and saw The Sword destroy and punish the audience.
The Sword is a bit of a mix. They can be a blowback to thrash, they can be doom or they can be mathy metal. They sound a bit like High on Fire (slow drone) but not completely. I can’t completely compare them to another band. I’m not some metal expert.
Torche (formally Floor) opened for them. Torche was ok, not exactly catching my ear like The Sword did. Torche is from Florida, The Sword is from Austin,TX. They’re both on tour right now, hitting the east coast before heading central and then back to Texas.
The Sword’s only album Age of Winters has been in my car and on my speakers very often since I got it. As much as I overplayed Muse, I’ve been recently overplaying The Sword. I know the album fairly well. I say this because I was wondering how faithful they’d be. With only one album, I figured they’d only play stuff from that album. They did. They played like 5 songs from ‘Age of Winters’ and 1 new one
They were incredibly accurate to the produced album. Spot on. Any solos were improvised but the rest was obviously well practiced. It was very metal.
They have good chops, it’s not a chop contest but the songs are really interesting to listen to (even for a Jazz ear). The album is good, the show was awesome. They tried to leave but I started screaming my head off for them to come back, as did everyone else. I think a lot of people there hadn’t really heard of them and were really surprised at their sound. It was a good crowd, some sarcastic heckling (“play louder!” “that was pretty good!”) at the beginning but then the hecklers shut, perhaps impressed.
The show ended with my favorite track, the last one on the album, which has the most awesome trailing lyrics at the end of the song:
Let the seers come forth,
At morning light we ride north.
Awesome words to end the album. Awesome words that ended the show. \m/
If you have any questions, please see picture or song for details. Thanks.
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Not done. It’s just 00:52 long. Ignore the cheesy title.
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