Musing Mana 13 - Always There Remix
On Mothers Day 2008 I released Musing Mana 5, Always There for my mom. It’s one of the first songs I wrote, and arguably fairly cheesy, but hey, it was “for mom” so she had to like it.
That version was, believe it or not, and I suspect that you probably will believe it, recorded on a 1980’s era Sharp Ghettoblaster boombox tape recorder out on the workbench in my garage! Since the recording is all on one track…voice and guitar mixed together, there is not a lot one can do to improve the basic performance, and compounding that I recall that the cassette recorder in that boombox had a bit of wobble. Anyway, I decided to try anyway to stretch my home recording engineer muscles a little bit. In this iteration of Always There we have some wonderful string players helping out that I am certain would make old Blue Eyes proud along with a bit of autotuning to correct the tape wobble and some added EQ to the original recording to try to balance the “boominess” of the guitar with my challenged vocals. By the way, during the guitar intro, the little bang sound you hear in the background is my wedding ring bumping against the guitar neck and I decided to leave that part in because there was no way to remove it and keep things seamless…let’s call it a bit of live ambience. So, without further adieu I give you Always There Remix.
This Is So Cool
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Moving Furniture Around
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I suppose we all inherit various traits from our parents. Me? Every now and then I get the urge to rearrange things. Mom loved to rearrange the furniture in the house, which could make it interesting if you came [...] Continue Reading…
Musing Mana 12 - Saving Grace
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I am a pretty spiritual person and not afraid to admit it. I am actually very happy about it and glad to share it when someone expersses an interest. Consequently it is only natural that my spirituality spills over [...] Continue Reading…
Woodinville Concert Band Videos
I have been a bit lax in posting the many videos that have been made of the Woodinville Concert Band concerts. So here are a few. The first two are from our spring concert in May and you can [...] Continue Reading…
Music Preview
I am working on recording a new song I wrote called “Saving Grace” that has a blues/rock feel with Gospel lyrics. Two demo versions of it are available for listening below. Let me know if the links don’t work [...] Continue Reading…
Shady Song Sharks
Some day I might put up a few of the song shark, “just send us $200″ and you might get published record offers I have received. If this stuff was as good as they make it sound I wouldn’t [...] Continue Reading…
What’ On My iPod Today? The Abyssinian Baptist Choir
This post is a continuation of my mini-series tour through my own music appreciation class as I randomly choose, purchase and listen to music across genres.
This week’s choice turns out to be Gospel and we’re playing Said I Wasn’t [...] Continue Reading…
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I realized there are some of my posts from the past year that seem to attract a lot more interest than others, yet they are buried pretty deeply in the mineshafts of my blog and unless you happen to [...] Continue Reading…
Guitarists: Are You on a Tone Quest?
Guitar players - There is a cool site for you to check out if you would like a convenient resource to sample the tone of a variety of axes, amps and effects pedals. Cruise on over to TonePedia.com [...] Continue Reading…
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