New blues mix-Last one to know

anfontan · January 30th, 2010, 04:55 PM

I added some new parts to this blues tune, some tremolo guitar and worked on the drum parts a bit. Give is a listen and help me hammer it into shape!
Thanks in advance, too!

The link~
SoundClick artist: Anfontan - I multitrack my music-its the easiest way for me.

The Lyrics~
Last one to know

Woke up to new dawn this morning, but inside I feel the same
Woke up to new dawn this morning, deep inside I feel the same
You played me for such a fool
So I'm left alone with my just my shame

I felt torn up this morning, and torn down the rest of the day
I felt torn up this morning, I felt torn down the rest of the day
I'm in the sight of a wrecking ball
Just can't move out of it's way

Solo

I felt torn up this morning, felt torn down the rest of the day
I felt torn up this morning, and torn down the rest of the day
I'm in the sight of your wrecking ball
Just can't move on out of the way

They say love is blind and they sure got it right
They say that love is blind and they sure got it right
You know it's so
I was the last one that didn't know

anfontan-2010

Donovan · January 30th, 2010, 07:01 PM

I really like the phrasing in the intro... just a suggestion, but it'd have been nice to hear some more of that phrasing bewtween vocal lines.

Is that you on the harp? Nice!

anfontan · January 30th, 2010, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Donovan

I really like the phrasing in the intro... just a suggestion, but it'd have been nice to hear some more of that phrasing bewtween vocal lines.

Is that you on the harp? Nice!

Thanks a lot Donovan, I was thinking about adding some Les Paul lead bits-the intro and outro are a Gibson Melody Maker with a P-90 pickup-the rhythm guitar is a thinline Telecaster copy and the Tremolo is an Epiphone SG.

All the parts were played by me.

tonyw · January 30th, 2010, 08:10 PM

Reminds me a bit of Chicken Shack or one of those 60's brit blues bands, might be the P90 sound. Sound good to me mate keep making more!

anfontan · January 31st, 2010, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by tonyw

Reminds me a bit of Chicken Shack or one of those 60's brit blues bands, might be the P90 sound. Sound good to me mate keep making more!

I have been listening to quite a lot of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac CDs lately. And I see that Christine Perfect-later McVie was in Chicken Shack-I was thinking there was a connection to Fleetwood Mac.
If I recall correctly Danny Kirwan played a Les Paul (Gold Top maybe?) with P-90 pickups.

I will need to check back into some older songs I have done and re-record them with the new technology-I don't even have anything to play the old cassette 4 tracks though...time to see how well my memory can remember that stuff.

Extra crispy · January 31st, 2010, 11:13 AM

I like that Ascending turnaound, a lot. Vocals work well, Guitars work well. Now here's my constructive critisism. IMHO, your keyboard line is playing the same thing as the rhythm guit. They should counter each other, rather than cancelling each other out. Just my 2 cents. The recording quality is danm nice too... well done.

tonyw · January 31st, 2010, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by anfontan

I have been listening to quite a lot of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac CDs lately. And I see that Christine Perfect-later McVie was in Chicken Shack-I was thinking there was a connection to Fleetwood Mac.
If I recall correctly Danny Kirwan played a Les Paul (Gold Top maybe?) with P-90 pickups.

I will need to check back into some older songs I have done and re-record them with the new technology-I don't even have anything to play the old cassette 4 tracks though...time to see how well my memory can remember that stuff.

Christine McVie then known as Christine Perfect played keys and sung on one Chicken Shack cd and tune on that i thinks it called train keeps rollin is an absolute belter

tonyw · January 31st, 2010, 01:46 PM

The Album is Forty Blue Fingers the track is When the Train gets Back

anfontan · January 31st, 2010, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Extra crispy

I like that Ascending turnaound, a lot. Vocals work well, Guitars work well. Now here's my constructive critisism. IMHO, your keyboard line is playing the same thing as the rhythm guit. They should counter each other, rather than cancelling each other out. Just my 2 cents. The recording quality is danm nice too... well done.

Thanks a lot Crispy, I stumbled upon that ascending turnaround when I was jamming on some blues 20 years back or so. I like the way the chromatic climb pushes the chord structure-I don't recall it in a blues song but I'm sure it's been done a thousand times before.
I can see what you are saying with the guitar & keys, play them like a kick drum and the snare on the off beats. I'll definitely look into reworking the organ part-that was good advice!
The harp solo was a cheap Nady ribbon mic and a plate reverb in my recording software-it turned out to give me the club sound I was hearing in my head.

anfontan · January 31st, 2010, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tonyw

Christine McVie then known as Christine Perfect played keys and sung on one Chicken Shack cd and tune on that i thinks it called train keeps rollin is an absolute belter

I looked up some info online, it said there is still one of Chicken Shack's original members is still carrying on with the band.

WOW!

tonyw · January 31st, 2010, 09:56 PM

check your hotmail Tony

anfontan · February 1st, 2010, 09:20 PM

Hey Tony, thanks for sending that song, they had some cool variations to the standard blues form. I liked it a lot.

bowhunter · February 2nd, 2010, 07:13 PM

Cool Bluesing Tony!! Sounds good on my end!!

anfontan · February 6th, 2010, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by bowhunter

Cool Bluesing Tony!! Sounds good on my end!!

Thanks a lot Bowhunter-I tried for a vintage sound for this one.
Sorry it took a while to respond, this is a College town-Southern Illinois Univ.-and the students really slow down the internet connection when they come back from break......