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Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:00 pm
by 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

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:13 pm
by 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.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:06 pm
by 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.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:44 pm
by HeuristicsInc
glennny wrote:...but there wasn't any of that time stuff to do such.
how appropriate :)
-bill

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:52 pm
by roymond
glennny wrote:...but there wasn't any of that time stuff to do such.
I'm trying to overcome this tonight...

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:50 pm
by fluffy
It fills me with pleasure that it's at least a vague possibility that Roymond is my gifter.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:20 am
by Albatross
fluffy wrote: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.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:48 am
by HeuristicsInc
heh heh, i know who roymond is gifting...
-bill

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:29 pm
by 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 :D

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:34 pm
by 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". :\

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:14 pm
by 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.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:12 pm
by 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"

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:34 pm
by Spud
Max, that is wonderful.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:34 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
Albatross wrote: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. :P

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:15 am
by fluffy
Albatross wrote: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. :)

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:12 am
by ujnhunter
Why is In Bloom by the Ukeladys only 300kb? :|

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:57 am
by fluffy
Because the file got truncated.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:26 am
by 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$

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:21 am
by 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. :)

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:48 pm
by Albatross
Garcias for the feedback, hombres.
fluffy wrote: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.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:38 pm
by 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.

Re: The 7th Annual Gift of Music

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:22 pm
by Ross
Albatross wrote: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.