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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Here's a little ditti I "composed" for single fretless five string bass and Strymon Flint. I "performed" this on my Martin Keith Elfin 5 fretless bass with TI Jazz Flats, played fingerstyle. There are no overdubs, this is a single stereo track, whatever you hear was done by me and my bass, in my best dream state.
Back again wit some Uptown Funk 'n Friday. Start your weekend off right with some real cool funky stuff. Get out on the dance floor!
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Nice work Jeff. Like you said, a dream state track. What was your recording setup, DAW software and interface? Any plugins? Did it go from the Strymon directly into the digital interface? I’m always impressed with the Strymon products.
The piece reminds me of game or movie music. Doing game music is huge now. The technology is really evolving.
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Best "get 'em up dancing" song to come along in years. Also , one of the most requested. Can't count the number of times we have played this more than once a night.
Only time I've played it was with a big band and girl singer. BL counted it off too fast so that didn't help the groove plus it sounded like a big band playing rock.
Our band's normal audience prolly wouldn't dig it.
There are lots of songs that seem to be faster than they really are. Long Train Running seems to be one of them. Heard that song too fast many times. It has its own groove.
Sometimes they’re all hepped up on goofballs and they fly through songs. Below is an example. I’ve also seen bands just want to get off the stage or they were paid to do a fixed number of songs. You have to wonder why they even bothered.
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A 1966 demo of Pleasant Valley Sunday. The street was Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, NJ. Recorded by the Monkees fifty two years ago in June of 1967, the song did well. The beginning riff, as recorded by the Monkees, sounds a lot like the Beatles I Want To Tell You that came out months earlier. In 1967, the Monkees had just started playing on their own records after firing Don Kirshner.
A 1966 demo of Pleasant Valley Sunday. The street was Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, NJ. Recorded by the Monkees fifty two years ago in June of 1967, the song did well. The beginning riff, as recorded by the Monkees, sounds a lot like the Beatles I Want To Tell You that came out months earlier. In 1967, the Monkees had just started playing on their own records after firing Don Kirshner.
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It was a far simpler setup than that. Bass > Flint > Radial ProD2 > Marantz PMD661. And, my Sennheiser headphones (not heard in the recording
).Below is another little thingy I composed ("Bass Noodle #1234"). This is with the 4004L SPC, played with a pick, and shows off some other capabilities of the Flint.
And, for some even more bass wackityness®, "Bass Noodle #1235" "features" the, earlier mentioned, C tuning fork.
My last classic rock/pop band drove me nuts regarding tempo. And, the tempo kept varying thought some songs, too. One video of us doing "Just What I Needed" at a gig sounded like a train leaving the station, for the first few bars!
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It was a far simpler setup than that. Bass > Flint > Radial ProD2 > Marantz PMD661. And, my Sennheiser headphones (not heard in the recording
My last classic rock/pop band drove me nuts regarding tempo. And, the tempo kept varying thought some songs, too. One video of us doing "Just What I Needed" at a gig sounded like a train leaving the station, for the first few bars!
Simple indeed. That last big note had some nasty digital distortion. Intended performance art?
You don’t think about this as a Burt Bacharach song. This 1969 version by Smith did well. I think that the hammond makes the song.
That's very cool. I love this kind of ambient stuff.
Yeah, that happens, on occasion, when I get going and don't mind the level meters!Simple indeed. That last big note had some nasty digital distortion. Intended performance art?
I added a couple more dittis to that post.
Thanks. A lot my "Bass Noodles" are kind of like that. See above for some more!
And, once again, these are all "Performed Live!!!" with no overdubs. These are LONE WOLF recordings.
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When I see "Marantz' I still think this:
Those are pretty recent models, right?When I see "Marantz' I still think this:
Where's the toobs?
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As far as I can recall the radio dial on the tuner was to capture the live concert broadcast to record. Contrary to corporate views, the more concert recordings I owned, the more concert tickets I bought.
A Marantz 2252 is at the center of my stereo. CD player is also a Marantz. Tape player is a Sony. All basic stuff for seeing how things sound.
Besides the PMD661, the only Marantz I currently own (but, not seeing any duty in a long time) is my 1030.
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