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| A winning song for sure. Brings back great (albeit hazy) memories. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | rum soaked memories if I had to guess..... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Certainly never any mind/mood/body altering substances have ever found their way to any of the gatherings... :rolleyes: ;) :p
To quote the late Gary Colman: "What you talkin bout?" |
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Location: Tennessee | Well, if you were at Amelia II, you may have heard this song, except it wasn't this song. Well, not exactly. The contest song didn't win so he changed it round. And then sent it in to be a part of the A Day At The Beach CD. Which it was.
If you've been paying attention to some of the threads, you know that the T-Man had a couple of Adamas guitars made ... 2080 style with longnecks, one a 6 and one a 12. You've heard everyone who had seen/played them rave about their volume and deep rumble, but little do you know that the USGS in Lakewood CO picked up Richter readings the night bobbo had his way with the twins at T-Man Ranch there in the land of the Rockies.
And everyone who hasn't heard them want to know what they sound like. So here you go. It may be getting late in the season, but there is still some time for -
Summer Fun - Stephen Terry (StephenT28)
I'll let the man himself tell you how he put all the pieces together on this tune, but is there any doubt why anyone who is recording tunes around here talks to Stephen for recording advice? Certainly not in this little feeble mind.
The only question I have left, is do you think guiguite's new old Rafferty Adamas makes an appearance here on the Mungo Jerry snippet? Now wouldn't THAT be cool ...
Until the next time, take a break for some last minute summer fun. You can feel it on your skin. Makes you wanna get up and dance. Twirl around, fall to the ground. That's my kind of fun. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | "Can ya feel it?" Hell yes!!! That one makes ya move... 
Great song, Stephen!!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Makes me smile every time I hear it... |
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Location: Texas | Fun song. It's only an mp3 file, yet you can feel the 2080 thunder… awesome… |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Love this one...sounds like he had alot of fun making it. |
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| Originally posted by stonebobbo:
...is there any doubt why anyone who is recording tunes around here talks to Stephen for recording advice? None whatsoever. The man can play (many instruments) very well, knows how to craft a song, has impeccable taste in guitars, is a devoted husband and father, and no matter how much shit life has thrown at him (and there's been a lot, more than most deserve), has a great outlook on life. I'm proud to call him friend.
Great tune, Stephen. |
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Location: south east Michigan | What g8r said x2. |
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Location: closely held secret | Me too, except maybe for the insurance salesman thing... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by Slipkid:
What g8r said x2. Absolutely. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | wow......I was out trolling the bars and alley's last night looking to roll a few drunks so I could buy some new friends..........
then I come back on line, see one of my tunes posted and feel all the love. Guess I'll use the money from last night to get buzzed, be more creative and write some new tunes since I seem to have more friends than I realized.
anyway....the back story.
Master DJ Bobbo gave the history of the contest, location, etc., so here is how this one came to be.
I had worked out the music to what I felt (and still do) was a kickass catchy tune with an unusual melody and I just knew it was a winner. I contacted FILLHIXX up in Canada and knowing what a wordsmith he was, sent him an mp3 of the basic music and asked him to write some lyrics for it. He came back and said that normally he wouldn't be interested but IT WAS a different and catchy tune so he would do it.
Anyway, a few days later Phil sends me some of his wonderful sarcastic lyrics and off I go.
Unfortunately after trying for about 3-4 weeks I was never able to PLAY AND SING this tune at the same time.....the timing was just to "different" to allow my brain to cope with it.
I checked the calendar and had exactly one week till Florida and the contest so I did what was called for in this situation and PANICKED!
I told my wife I was "screwed" if I couldn't put something together quickly and asked her to write some lyrics while I tried to write the music. I gave her a few ideas that I had scribbled down and let her have a go at it. A few days later she had the majority written and I only had to tweak it in a few places to make the words fit the tune.
I decided to write the new tune on my freshly received 2080D long neck Adamas. I checked with Beal about the availability of using one of the only other known Adamas longnecks in existence and he said he would be happy to provide it for me to use......so GAME ON!
Then I decided to be cheeky with it and write the main tune on just one string....the bass string...punk at it's finest. The chorus had a descending chord pattern and I was off to the races.
Needless to say at the contest, with only a few days to work on the tune, it was not my finest hour and I struggled through the performance knowing it was doomed to defeat....(specially since I had earlier performed with Waskel his outstanding tune "Breaking Wind" that in my mind was a clear winner)!!!
When I got back home I felt the tune still had merit and decided to rework it and record it properly.
The tune consists of my 2080D longneck for all the guitar parts, my Dingwall Afterburner 6 string bass for additional lows and the high trilling parts and runs and my newly acquired (From Al) cajon that I had fallen in love with at the AI2 experience. All the background vocals were done by me along with the main vocals. I used Antares Speakerphone plug for the "telephonic" verse but the rest was pretty much recorded plain without anything special cept for a tad of eq and compression.
Then I got the bright idea to sloooooooooow down MungoJerry's tune "In The Summertime" (so that it was key matched to the 2080D) and use that as a lead it for the tune.
About this time, Dave sent out the call for CD submissions so I sent him over this "revamped" version of the wind song "Summer Fun".
Dave emailed me back and said he loved the tune and the intro but it got his creative wheels to turning and could he play around with the intro a bit and add a few things. Well, I trusted Dave and told him to go ahead and the masterful result was the beginning that you hear on the track with someone trying vainly to find a tune on the radio that they want to hear. The fact that Dave was able to pull together so many tunes that reflected the "Summer" theme was very cool. I was truly honored when he told me my tune would be the lead track on the new OFC CD.
and there you have it........the rest of the story! |
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Location: Tennessee | What's so great about this place is the diversity in style and content. And how easily we can go from a killer track produced with dozen of tracks, multiple contributors, layers and textures to just a guy and his guitar. Yet it is seamless and we lose nothing. Because it's the music that speaks.
That's the way it is with Patch. His music speaks. Volumes. It's the stuff that makes us want to sit in coffee houses for hours. Soaking up the nuances of words and music and the way they paint a picture in our mind ... with nothing to distract or color our view. It's just a voice, six strings, and a wonderful composition. But yet it is so much more when it gets inside of us. So as the summer wanes, take one more trip down that road, where you find a place to just enjoy the simplicity of it as it flows by ... of course, I am talking about the:
River - Patrick McGuire (Patch)
There's a lot more Patch out there. Check out "Small Boat" on MNO Vol. 3, A Day At The Beach. And I have more to share with you down the line. That in itself should be enough to keep you coming back here.
Until then, go ahead and stick your toes in the water of whatever it is that moves you. You'll find it's always warm and welcoming. Like a late summer river. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Patch what a great song, and the feeling of you voice with in the guitar was perfect. Great Job! |
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| Another winner. Very, very nice Patch. Well played, great dynamics, nice recording. Well done. |
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| Great song, Patch! |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Very nice! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by gulfcrow:
Great song, Patch!
No fooling ... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | WOW! YEAH it's NICE to see this thread is pulling some HOT lurkers out of their ADIDAS and into the main lights! Get me some oxygen STAT!
Welcome gulfcrow........... |
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| Originally posted by gulfcrow:
Great song, Patch! Welcome gulfcrow! Long time between registering and post number two!
I wondered IF BY any chance we already knew you? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Wow! What a week, and it's only Wednesday! I've never had such an exuberant intro. It actually made me blush I think.
Thank you everyone for the kind words and encouragement, especially Stonebobbo who hinted strongly files for besides "Small Boat". The problem was that I had little time to record. So I went pretty raw.
This was done on my lunch hour at my office with a Zoom H4, and sounds pretty much like it would if it were live. I did not use multi-tracking as I had not figured out how yet. So my 1538 12-string was plugged into the recorder and the twin mikes were directed toward the vocals (though they doubtless picked up the Elite as well). From then on, it was jsut playing while singing.
The guitar is tuned to Open-D, a set up that I really enjoy using. The chords are simple progressions of D's, A's, and G's with an occasional F#m if I remember correctly.
I first heard this performed live by Brendan Nolan, one of my favorite Irish balladeers based out of St Pete's in FL. It was written by Bill Staines, though I didn't know that until I googled it a moment ago. Most songs like this make me think of the coast, but this one has always focused in on the mid-Hudson Valley with my mind's eye.
Melodically, it's very similar to Brendan's and Bill's versions, but it has a personal bend or two in it just because open-D tuning lends itself to such musings.
I'm quite pleased that some of you are enjoying the tune. It makes everything a little easier after reading comments as gracious as these.
Thank you Bobbo for the great intro and for picking this song.
And to everyone else--
Thank you most kindly. :) |
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Location: Tennessee | Sometimes you just got to be bad. Sometimes you just can't help it. It's something inside you can't quite control. That's why every place you go there's a Marshal waiting to pull the plug on you. It happens. Sometimes you haven't done anything REALLY bad, but you get busted anyway. That's the straw/camel's back deal ... and you get branded:
Outlaw Man - Ronnie Davis
I'm not sure if Ronnie really is an outlaw, but maybe just plays the part sometimes. Like a bunch of others around here, yours truly included. So it goes. It happens to the best of us. But Ronnie can definitely play some guitar and sing ... as evidenced by this song. Which appeared on the OFC Member's Night Out Vol. 2 CD. What a great song. Life and death. Heroes and villains. The stuff we live with every day.
Fortunately this place is not a life or death thing ... we only wind up with the proverbial bullet in the chest for a little while; then the music makes us whole again. And this is real life ... we always have a chance at redemption with the promise of riding again. If we want it. But you have to surrender to the Marshal, as hard as that might be, and not take the hard headed approach that leaves your widow crying at your grave. For there is always one more song to sing and one more story to tell. So get on with it.
Oh, by the way ... do you what's the difference between In-Laws and Outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.
See all you outlaws around. Just check your guns at the door. Drinks are on me. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Late night radio with MasterDJBobbo rollin your own to a mighty fine tune!
Thanks for ending this night on a magical high! |
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