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Location: Tennessee | I realized I've got a pretty stout collection of songs done by people from the board here. For a lot of folks here, this is what it is all about ... making music. Maybe a lot of you out there haven't heard these songs done by a lot of talented songwriters, performers and producers. So here's your chance. I'm going to post a song a day (or as often as I get to it).
First up, a wistful look at our summers past, or maybe summer yet to be. This is from the Member's Night Out, Vol. 3 - A Day at The Beach CD. Excellent production by a talented multi-instrumentalist. Let the summer begin!
Ocean Street - StandingOvation
If you want to promote your own songs, I can't stop you from posting them up here. But I would prefer to play disc jockey for this thread ... if you want to send me MP3s of songs you know I don't have, I'd love to add them to my collection and get them into the mix. There's a bunch of you out there posting music (AlanM, Meuti, Damon, Patch, etc.) that I'd want to showcase your tunes. Just click on the email link above to get my addy and send them to me there ... it'll handle file sizes up to 20mb.
And now, on with the show ... |
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Location: Jet City | I'm not clicking on that link (besides I own the CD anyway)
That song gets stuck in my head and just doesn't go away. |
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Location: NJ | bobbo
great idea!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Be extra cool if you had pictures of the players so we knew what these folks looked like. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | That's too hard on the cameras..... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Nice Bobbo! It's good to have you as the OOFCDJ (Official OCF DJ). Good selection to start off with!
Are you looking for original songs or will you be playing covers as well? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by alpep:
bobbo
great idea!!!!!!!!!!!! Agreed. There's been a lot of pretty fun threads over the years but this one's never been done (to my knowledge). 'Course maybe we just have more "recorders" now too. At any rate, great work, bobbo! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I think you need to hook up with Al and figure out a way to just have the thread feature your pick of the day without all the comments.
This current thread could be the comment thread.
Maybe Al could pin them both to the top and somehow lock the SOTD thread while still allowing you to add to it.
Just a thought but as comments roll in, it will make the tunes harder and harder to find. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Maybe you can just lock a thread at the top that contains a link to the song of the day at the Ning Site. You'll just have to somehow change the song everyday and keep the link the same. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | cept that would only show the current song and not the other gems that he will be posting up. |
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Location: Tennessee | If it's done right, this will stay near the top of the page anyway. And I think comments are just fine. Maybe we can make this thread have many pages and a long life for all the right reasons. I think getting the back story to the song would be good too if we can get the artist to post and participate. Many are still around.
Speaking of which, Dave ... I think this is a truly great song. You played a whole bunch of instruments, and all of them quite well. The song itself is awesome, and paints such a great picture of the east coast shore that this song appeared in my head when I was back there a couple of weeks ago (and inspired me to this thread). The production of the whole piece blows me away. Care to talk about how you did it? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Speaking of which, Dave ... Care to talk about how you did it? Thanks for the nice comments. The story of the song is a true one. I grew up at the jersey shore and it was such an irony for me because every year for a few months in the summer vacationers would flock to MY town, which I thought pretty much ruined it. THEY were all relaxing having a great vacation, and I was just stuck in my own town wasting time.
Anyway, about the recording. Of course it was done on MAC using Logic and a apogee duet interface. I have to admit, umm, cough cough ... no ovation or adamas guitars were used. Sorry 'bout that. Like any original, it all starts by stealing somebody else's riff. The little 4 note arpeggio unisoned with piano and a Takamine EF417 is exactly the intro piano from Springsteen "Growing Up". I don't remember everything I did but the sequence was pretty much piano first, then bass, drums were a combo of live bass/snare and midi cymbals, some chomp chord piano, the church organ and then the electric guitar break was done using a telecaster.
Lastly, mixing, panning, a tad of reverb here and there, etc. I hate the vocals - combo of bad voice and terrible recording technique but that's the best I could do.
The most fun was trying to get that little accordion or concertina break (did you KNOW that's what it was supposed to sound like?) again trying to rip off Springsteen (Sandy). I only had preset samples and there is NO way to emulate the tone, swells and action of an accordion using a midi keyboard. What I did was play as "un-clean" as I possibly could - intentionally hitting adjacent keys, gliding from chord to chord and just making a muck of it and then double tracking it with some pitch shift and time shift. I actually did it in one take. It's not perfect by any means, but I thought I would only make it worse by worrying about it too much.
Anyway, that's it. Kinda raw but it was fun to do. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Originally posted by stephent28:
I think you need to hook up with Al and figure out a way to just have the thread feature your pick of the day without all the comments.
This current thread could be the comment thread.
Maybe Al could pin them both to the top and somehow lock the SOTD thread while still allowing you to add to it.
Just a thought but as comments roll in, it will make the tunes harder and harder to find. Just click on bobbo's profile then "View Recent Posts". That'll show you what you want. |
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Location: Tennessee | Fun to listen to, too. More summer songs to come soon.
But let's go back to the beginning. The original Member's Night Out Vol. 1 disc. Dave etal must have known there were more to come when they put a volume number on the first one. I'm glad they did, but this first one is kinda special.
Not only did he design the artwork for the disc, but also found the time to record a cover song of one of my favorite artists - Harry Nilsson. You might not be sure how anyone could pull that off, but then that would be underestimating Cliff's vocal and instrumental talents. Distinctly it's own version, this recording still has that vibe and would earn a nod of approval from both Harry and Fred Neil.
TODAY'S song-O-th'day:
Everybody\'s Talking - Cliff Doenges
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Great tune done very well. This may come up once or twice in this thread but thanks Dave, Cliff and those of you yet to come for the efforts.
(And I'm very glad I got my copies!) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Damon67:
That song gets stuck in my head and just doesn't go away. Same here! Can't remember how many times I've played that one.
Bobbo,
I know one of yours that HAS to be on the next OFC CD! Missed you and Kim 'out yonder'... |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Cliff, that was excellent.
Bobbo, could this be a thinly disguised attempt to drag th' 15,000th post out of th' unusually quiet one? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by muzza:
...th' unusually quiet one? You mean the quiet unusual one? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | FINALLY!
I scraped enough time together to give a listen. I've only had a minute or two now and again to read the posts and get back to business.(MAN! What a week!)
I love the idea of this thread, and look forward to the music being offered up. I'm not in the same league as most of the folks who post music here, and some day I'll figure out how to overdub, but it's fun to record and get a little feedback. (Pun intended. :rolleyes: )
The first two pieces are both great. Can't wait to hear some more. :cool: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Weaser might be a little closer on that one. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by dark bar:
Be extra cool if you had pictures of the players so we knew what these folks looked like. Here's Standingovation AKA..........  |
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Location: Tennessee | I've just collected this off the wireless ... the quiet unusual one has provided a back story ...
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Much like Dave’s tune, this one also has a JerseyShore connection.
ManyMoonsAgo(1976), I had what was my very first “SleepAway Vacation” with the (then) Love of My Life (ahhh,Carol!) for a week in Wildwood, NJ. At one of the BoardwalkArcades (probably SharpShooting), I had won an album (this was back when record albums were the “PremiumPrizes” as opposed to th’stupid Stuff’dAnimals). The album was “StephenStills-Live”, and (I think) it had just come-out. One side was electric, the other acoustic – both sides, “Live”. I always loved his version of “Everybody’sTalkin” from the AcousticSide, and this arrangement was loosely-based on his version.
th’Guitar is an old, Takamine Classical that Beal gave me after he salvaged it from Charlie’sBasement. It harkens back to the time of the initial Takamine/Kaman Days, and had rusty, green strings, and a patina of mold all over it. It CleanedUp like a Jewel, and continually became th’Guitar that was always within-reach around th’House (and subsequently, th'One that I would write tunes on).
Everything was recorded w/Cubase with a small-diaphragm condenser on th’Guitar, and large-diaphragm on th’Vocals (and ambient “bleed” from the Guitar). TrackOne was Vocal & open Guitar. TrackTwo was th’OtherVocal & Capo'd(II)Guitar. Tracks 3&4 were Bongos & EggShaker, respectively. th’Last thing t’be recorded was th’Harmonica. I’d always “screwed-around” with one, but never tried PLAYING an official, complete “HarmonicaPart” on a tune. This was my FirstAttempt. I decided to forego the usual procedure of recording th’Track “dry” and adding effects in “post” later-on, and piled-on the Reverb/Delay before-handt’put me in an old-style, “TootsThielmans” frame-of-mind while I was playing it.
I had initially tried t’Record this at Dave’s House before we left t’drive from Arizona to Moody’s/NAMM, but it was far TooEarly in a TequilaHazed Morning, & I just couldn’t get it “Right”, so we scrubbed it.
Back in th’safe confines of my subterranean TortureChamber atHome, I plowed-thru it.
All of th’Tracks were done in OneTake, with the exception of th’Harmonica, which I think was two(three?).
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Well done, sir. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | As for a pic (and this may cost me a kneecap or two but I'll take the chance)...
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
Originally posted by dark bar:
Be extra cool if you had pictures of the players so we knew what these folks looked like. Here's Standingovation AKA..........
Here he is Standingovation/Tupperware/Gallerinski 
Funny though, With a name like Standingovation in both photos he's sitting. |
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