A coupla new songs from me

[AndyR]

I've been a bit quiet on here recently, lurking but not posting much.

I've been extremely busy at work - bad, but at least I've got a job. And then in the spare time left I've actually been doing musical stuff... (In a serious effort not to buy more guitars to put the new BKP models in :lol:)

I have two songs completed recently

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I just finished this one a couple of days ago after a mammoth month of tracking and tw@tting about with it:

A Hundred and Twenty Pound

It has BKPs on it, but hidden enough to make it not a "clip". There's rhythm MQs in an Explorer in the first section (cos the SG broke a string!), and Riff Raffs in an SG everywhere else. These were all recorded originally as guides using my Boss BR1600's amp sims - but they worked in the mix so I left them. The "knopfler" bit that kicks in at about 2:10 is my Apache'd 50s Roadworn Strat played through my Laney Cub 12, mic'd up with a rusty old SM58.

The acoustic is my Godin 5th Avenue, and the organs are my Roland VK-8M module played with a hammer-action piano keyboard - I must get round to sourcing a midi keyboard with rounded keys like wot an organ should have... (I had very sore fingers after doing some of the slidy-sloshy bits!)

But the thing I'm most impressed with is the bass part - Andrew owns an Electric Double Bass now!! :o (A cheap and extremely good value Stagg EDB). I meant to do a "NBD" topic but got so engrossed in learning to play it that I forgot! :lol: I absolutely adore this instrument - I had no idea how much I'd take to it. It was while looking around for something to record with it that this old song from 1994 popped out of the wordwork.

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I've also got this one I wrote and recorded for my missus over Christmas - never got round to posting it:

Now That You're Sleeping

That's just the Godin and me (including some "frog chorus"-like bass vocals because the EDB hadn't arrived!). A bit slushy perhaps, but I'm rather fond of it (so was she :D).

[gordiji]

Andy , some interesting stuff in the first one though i did find it a bit disjointed .it was great around 2.00 and could have stayed like that all the way for me, maybe i'm a bit linear.love the apaches.
your voice at the beginning brings donald fagan/steelye dan to mind 8)                                                                     i'm sure your wife was chuffed with her's.
thanks for posting

[FernandoDuarte]

Cool songs!

And nice solo, didn't rememer of solos on your songs, you should do it MORE!

[AndyR]

Thanks guys. :)

Yeah, solos... I'm guitar-totting widdler as much as the next man, and I keep thinking I'd like to record something that really shows what I do in that department... But when it comes to songs I always have the "songwriter" mindset: I think in terms of "instrumentals" not "solos", guitar or otherwise (mind you, I can only play guitar well enough to "solo", I can't really "talk" with any of the other instruments I play).

While planning the recording, I actually had to lengthen the arrangement of that one to accommodate the instrumental. In the acoustic version it's only a couple of bars. And, actually, the solo was meant to be acoustic... it's just that when the bass, rhythm, organ, and drums were in place, and I recorded an acoustic lead, there's no way I could get it though the band without severe processing and it ended up sounding not very acoustic... so I just thought "out with the strat, let's do for real what this part suggests in a half-@rsed way at the moment..."

If I could play the flute, mind, it would have been a flute solo!! :lol: (The song was written in '94 in the middle of a 2-3 year Jethro Tull fixation)