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Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« on: December 16, 2008, 06:53:19 PM »
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7152389

Those are mostly improvised! A little heavy on effects maybe but I was looking for an atmospheric kind of sound, and this guy can definitely do that.

The end result of over a year searching.. distinctive sounding voice, wicked mix of melody and edge, and he brings a lot of his own creativity to the table.. really pumped about this! Starting work on an EP right away..

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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2008, 07:19:02 PM »
Nice one - it was years before I realised how hard it is for most bands to find a vocalist (I was a lead vocalist myself so I never had the problem - we're a strange breed though, either we can't sing at all, or we can't produce a "performance", or if we can, we're too far up our own @rses! :lol:)

It's not my kinda music (and I'm listening on tinny laptop speakers..), but he can sing alright - I can hear the melody and edge you're talking about - and if he brings creativity and fits in as well... good stuff

good luck with it :D
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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2008, 08:29:57 PM »
I like it- both the vocals and riffing :) The vocalist sounds quite like Jonathon Davis! However, far too much reverb and delay on the vox, would sound better if it was drier and further forward in the mix :)

Keep us posted with the EP too!
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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2008, 08:58:59 PM »
we're a strange breed though, either we can't sing at all, or we can't produce a "performance", or if we can, we're too far up our own @rses! :lol:)

+1 on that. The singer in my ex-band was very, very good (and a good songwriter as well!) but a complete pain in the **** with an ego the size of the whole of London!
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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2008, 09:05:22 PM »
can't produce a "performance"

Does that include the type that can't remember the lyrics :P

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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2008, 09:30:36 PM »
The vocalist sounds quite like Jonathon Davis!


YES! Plus a bit of Layne Staley and Maynard James Keenan.

He can hold a tune certainly, but given that I absolutely loathe Jon Davis voice I'm not gonna be taken with this boy  :lol:

Hope he works out well  :)

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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2008, 09:38:43 PM »
He's a guitarist and writes his own tunes for his own band as well, so hopefully he doesn't have a bad case of LSD (lead singer disease) :lol:

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Re: Found a vocalist! Yes! clip insidE!
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2008, 09:01:22 AM »
He's a guitarist and writes his own tunes for his own band as well, so hopefully he doesn't have a bad case of LSD (lead singer disease) :lol:

Oooo noo! That could be worse - "singer/songwriter looking for backing band" syndrome!! :lol: (That was my particular, er, "social problem")

On the ego front though, everyone needs to remember that those "singer egos" are quite fragile (we are aware, subconsciously at least, that we are actually just con-artists who can sing a bit). And that's why the vocalist in one's band can seem so @rsey sometimes - bigheaded bluster to cover up basic insecurity.

Unfortunately, if the singer's any good, the rest of the band needs that ego and needs to learn to live with it, massage it when necessary, deflate it during rehearsals, but never damage it permanently - it's the oversized ego, the over-inflated sense of self-worth, and the need for adulation that enables the front man/woman to do the job...

Just think of the "great" frontmen - Freddie, Mick, Dave Lee Roth, Bono (don't like him, but he's good), etc, etc, etc... I only really know details about Freddie Mercury, but I guess they were all capable of being complete tw@ts behind the scenes, acting like stars even before they were. Without that special god-given "tw@t-factor", we would never have heard of any of them (nor, probably, any of their colleagues who played the accompanying banjos etc...) :lol:

But the flip side of the coin (for any of you lead vocalists out there), you've got to watch yourself for the prima-donna behaviour, it really winds the the other band-members up. Don't let it get to you, because the "tw@t-factor" is a good thing for the band as a whole, but every now and then you need to try to see yourself through their eyes...

Of course, I only figured this out after I'd stopped playing/singing in bands... :roll: And, to be fair, it was my ex-drummer who taught me that he'd learnt that as long as I was winding people up he knew I was still capable of doing the frontman bit in public...
(Not sure why my wife puts up with this behaviour nowadays though! :lol:)
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