The 7th Annual Gift of Music

[HeuristicsInc]

I've been meaning to do reviews of all the songs, but I'm not getting to it so I figure I'd better at least do one:

glennny - When I realized that we'd randomly drawn your name to cover my song, I guessed that you might pick the Floyd since we'd previously discussed musical tastes. I'm glad you did! I like your version a lot - very much true to the original, but with your own stamp. Can you enumerate who's on this and what they played? One of my favorite things about this cover is the backing harmonies, and the orchestration is very good. Thanks, you made my day!

-bill

[furrypedro]

Paco and Glen, you are both very welcome.

Glen - Tomski is the other guitarist in Carpetburn, he did all the guitars, vocals, shaker, tambourine and editing, I just added some extra percussion, vocals and the mixing.

[glennny]

on behalf of glennny (me)
The Berkeley Social Scene tackled "time" by Pink Floyd
for Bill

cast:

1986 simmons electronic drum fills- Ken Mahru
Real and really awesome sounding drums- Ken Mahru
Tick Tocking guitar - glennny
Rhodes- Lunkhead
other synths- Lunkhead
Bass- Martyr
Edgy Gilmore vocals- Martyr
Mellow Rick Wright vocals Low- Lunkhead
Mellow Rick Wright vocals high- glennny
harmony vocals- Lunkhead
one take- there's only 5 minutes left to track guitar licks and guitar solo- glennny
backing oooohs and ahhhhs- all 4 of us

We did a live take of glennny-guitar, lunkhead-rhodes, martyr-bass, and ken-drums.
Then we overdubbed the vocals, the electronic drums, the guitar tick tock, the synths, and the guitar licks/ solo

it was very fun to do, it was a great excercise for the band also. We worked very efficiently we had nothing at 9:30 pm and were virtually done at 12:30 am

the worst part was we wanted to do the reprise, and the great gig in the sky, the whole album really, but there wasn't any of that time stuff to do such.

[HeuristicsInc]

...but there wasn't any of that time stuff to do such.

how appropriate
-bill

[roymond]

...but there wasn't any of that time stuff to do such.

I'm trying to overcome this tonight...

[fluffy]

It fills me with pleasure that it's at least a vague possibility that Roymond is my gifter.

[Albatross]

It fills me with pleasure that it's at least a vague possibility that Roymond is my gifter.

It fills me with pleasure that it's at least a vague possibility that Roymond is my gifter for the third time.

[HeuristicsInc]

heh heh, i know who roymond is gifting...
-bill

[signboy]

HOLY FLYING F#!%@!! If I had a hundred thumbs, they'd all be pointed up for Eddie Bangs. Freakin awesome! This stays in my work truck.

[edit] wtf happened? It was an incredible cover of Sledgehammer a minute ago, and now all I can find is the Jackson 5. I'm gonna go cry a little. Eddie, if you see this, can you send it to me? I love it.

[re-edit] holy shit, I'm dumb. I was on the wrong year the second time I went to the site. It's all good now, except I'm still a touch special

[wages]

Balance Lost - didn't realize the songs were already posted! Just listened. Well done!! Very true to the the original while also adding your own flavor. Thanks a bunch. Sounds like you probably had fun doing it. I hope so!

Roymond, I'm sorry if my version isn't as good as what you might have hoped for. I did put a lot of work into getting to this point, but a full band would definitely have been better, so feel free to express your dislike. I could always send you my G&G version of "South Side". :\

[Albatross]

Been working on this for most of the day and I am very close. A bit more tweaking and I should be in sometime tomorrow evening.

[Albatross]

Sorry, fluff, but Roymond is not your gifter. You'll have to settle for me. Happy belated GoM.

Albatross covers Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five"

[Spud]

Max, that is wonderful.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Sorry, fluff, but Roymond is not your gifter. You'll have to settle for me. Happy belated GoM.

Albatross covers Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five"

I really loved the riffing.

[fluffy]

Sorry, fluff, but Roymond is not your gifter. You'll have to settle for me. Happy belated GoM.

Albatross covers Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five"

I take what I can get. Thanks!

Great riffing there, yeah. It's like classical guitar done on an electric guitar with a cool jazz groove. Intense but relaxing. I should have had a snifter of brandy instead of a white Russian tonight.

I'm also very glad you didn't follow through on the whole lyrics thing. I wasn't serious about that suggestion. :)

[ujnhunter]

Why is In Bloom by the Ukeladys only 300kb?

[fluffy]

Because the file got truncated.

[j$]

WHAAAATTTTT NOWWWWWWW?!?!?!?!?!

Lucky I have all the files backed up on mah website for the purdy ladies.

http://www.johnnycashpoint.com/gom09/uk ... nbloom.mp3

Appears to be 6mb so should be OK - though can't guarentee this is the final mix without listening to it (and I don't have headphones on my werkkomputah at the moment)

j$

[Billy's Little Trip]

Ok, finally I got to hear your Uke rendition of In Bloom. I can honestly say I've never heard it done like that, I loved it, lol. Thank you, Sir and/or Madam.

[Albatross]

Garcias for the feedback, hombres.

I'm also very glad you didn't follow through on the whole lyrics thing. I wasn't serious about that suggestion.

I never had any intention of doing that. The less singing I have to do, the better.

[Albatross]

OK, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's what you've all been waiting for, the annual GoM Stiffee Report:

STIFFERS
Enter It in the Art Show
Jim Tyrrell
Lord of Oats
Roymond
Wreckdom

STIFFEES
Albatross
Caravan Ray
Jon Eric
Mike Lamb/Kasper
Me$$iah

Please make corrections if needed.

[Ross]

OK, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's what you've all been waiting for, the annual GoM Stiffee Report:

lists.

For the record the committee and I are working with Heuristics to make sure the stiffees do not remain stiffed - do not bother calling the doctor after 4 hours.