A new road, later that day
This is another nugget I found this morning, not very long and a jam with myself way back in 2008. I remember the day I wrote this was a really bad time, only a few months before I met my wife. Earlier on, I was sitting watching TV with my daughter on my lap, tears falling silently behind her and a melody came into my head. She was collected by her mom and I went into the studio. The song started off as a very meloncholy piano piece which disgusted me and I left it all turned on but went away for a while. Later that day I came back to the song, pulled myself together and this happened. The drums are played in live and it got me through that day. Making music is such a healer.
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mam-gu
Forgot I wrote this until I found it this morning. This was written the night my step-grandmother died and it is a nice piece. I wasn't close to her but I felt the pain of my family that night and this came out.
(0 ratings) The Inspector
This time with more beans and less gas...no new guitars just a lot of cut and pasting and some new drum parts now that the blisters have healed. Got past the minute mark which is a start...
(0 ratings) Functional_25/04/10
This time with a new recording of both guitars with new amp settings. Also have dropped the bass back into the mix and am not happy with the lower sound of the Ricky compared with the standard tuning recordings. The guy I bought it from complained that it hadn't 'got it' when it was detuned and now I think I know why. Tuning to C just wasn't the thing in the late 70's! Anyhoo, this is once again just a test to see how the guitars sit together. The actual song writing and development becomes a shed load easier once the sounds have been worked out because then you just have an idea and press record rather than listening to something that stands out like a sore thumb. At least it does for me and my method of working.
(0 ratings) All Good Things
This is my favourite groove I've knocked up. Heavily influenced by my love of QOTSA and came out of me at a time when I could only think of the darker side of humanity the song still has an upward bounce that the full dark lyrics will compliment. The vocals on this are my mate Tony who listened to it and found the perfect chorus harmonies which I struggle to hear and I quickly recorded him. The main chorus lyric is mine, the rest is him ad-libbing to get a vocal melody down for me. Also the nice bridge run is his idea. Again, played badly but this is something I really want to revisit.
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This was written for my wife just after we got engaged and were living 5000 miles apart. Times were hard emotionally and I think helped us both stay connected. My wife always dreamt of having a song made for her so at least I could cross one of her list.
I know it could sound better but with so much of what I write, I get the idea down and then move on. Most stuff never gets looked at again, I think this has got legs but really needs a live band to do it justice. We did mess about with this with my last band but it just didn't feel write when we tried to record it. It was writen and recorded in a weekend.
(0 ratings) Classico
Named after the bottle of wine I was drinking oddly enough...this is the best slow song I have written to date and I really like it for all of the catchy stuff I hear in my head that will hopefully filter down into the final recording. Its the first song I wrote for my wife since we got married and its recorded in a DADGAD tuning which gives it a lovely folk sound. This will also appear on the project that will hopefully be ready by our anniversary.
(0 ratings) monkeystar
This is part of a project I'm doing to make some nice songs for my wife for our 1st wedding anniversary. The songs are cut and paste ideas that are not played properly yet but hopefully outline the idea ready for vocals and final recordings. I like this tune as the bassline was a first take without an edit and its got a nice free flow to it that I struggle to reproduce when recording normally.
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