This is a demo for the first few verses of a song I wrote about 10 or 12 years ago, but never managed to perform or record with any of my bands or projects. It's actually the first thing I started working on after I got my Crawlers at the start of this year, but somehow this song has always progressed in fits and starts. I hope to get it completed before another 10 or 12 years pass!
Anyway .... the guitar is as always my Crawler-equipped 1990 Gibson LP Std. Much of the song is heavy riffing, all bridge pup, double-tracked with two different GarageBand amp sims. There are some lighter, cleaner-toned but heavily effected bits -- I fear I can't remember now which pup they were, and I might have even used the coil-tap there. Drums are hand-programmed with ns_kit7 samples, and the bass is (as always) my '76 Rick 4001, also through a GB amp sim. I feel like there ought to be some keys or synths, maybe piano, somewhere but I haven't figured that out yet.
I just ventured trying to record vocals the other day, and I freely confess my singing is even worse than the sloppy "done in one take over breakfast" guitar solo. Well ... if I could find someone else to sing, I would, but I haven't, so it had to be me ("No, it didn't!" I hear you cry ... ;)).
At present, the current recording kind of peters out in a bit of drums and bass. There's supposed to be a spacey, almost Doorsy, section there (with, alas, more vocals!) but I haven't worked it out yet, or even recorded any guitar for it. This is meant to be a pretentious, excessive rock epic ;) so it will slowly return towards heavy guitar tones, and wind up with a final revisitation the initial heavy riff-verse-chorus pattern. But I haven't gotten there yet.
