Acoustic Rock original- "Pura Vida"

Acoustic Rock original- "Pura Vida"


https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/pura-vida

an older song i thought i'd post

LOL  I was thinking that before I even read your post Lynn

Nice Work Bat!!!

gonz - you just blow me away - just too much.

Killer as usual.

Guitar playing is excellent, and you king at recording the right tones. Another one to add to the record.

It is a masterpiece, but I still think you could package it better for mainstream (prob not your thing anyway).
Shorten it and add another quircky instrument/riff to make it a little bit more memorable after you've listened through.

Anyway...

Awesome bats.

Cian

Lynn
thanks man..... heheh
this yes thing........
you know, i rented a dvd a couple of weeks back...
"Yessongs: Yes", from 1973

i gotta say, what a wonderful concert....
everything was vintage yes, except for bill bruford...
they had just replaced him with alan white, who did a great job....
and i know a lot of those songs, have some trouble singing along though.
and the guitar....?!
forget it!

Excellent job and song bats.

Very pleasant music and excellent execution (performance and mix). I really enjoyed it!
I would agree with Cian's comment regarding a more commercial/mainstream arrangement, but I feel in this case your (let me call it "careless") arrangement adds some extra charm and lightness to the track. 
Great tune!

regards,
Daniel

Strong Yes vibe. Excellent musicianship.  Funny, I wrote that comment about the Yes vibe before reading the comments.

darylcrowley
hey, i appreciate that man, but yea, lots of things i don't well..
or at least, takes me too long to accomplish!
LOL

 

whack
thanks cian....
i hear what you are saying about 'packaging'....
it would be smart to whittle it down, if i was going to market it, but i'm not.
i write these for my own enjoyment, they are the way i hear them in my head...
and it's nice not having any constraints.

i have a longer attention span than most, and enjoy long well developed songs.....
but i know most people just can't hang for longer than about 2 minutes!!
LOL
i guess older classic rock had more of an impression than the marketing class put on me....

i think of Zep's 'the rain song'...
how often it got played, in full, on the radio...

it's 7 minutes and 39 seconds long.
heheh

rimshot-
glad you dig this one....
the stereo acoustics, well, it's all mono tracks....
i never actually record in stereo.
too much pain in the ass, not enough bang for buck.
LOL

but the tracks are panned wide, left and right, i'm guessing that's what you're really talking about


EQ is so subjective..
but yes, if a particular freq is bugging my ears, i'll nuke it.
with extreme prejudice!!!

LOL again.....

but i try to keep it sounding natural, and i DO MIX AT HIGH VOLUME.

but i check real quiet too..... and sometimes THAT makes a change in levels and eq....

thanks for listening!

bapu
thanks for listening, i appreciate it

 
bob oister
thank you for checking out a 'coustic thing......
i actually bought those little bongos to play on this song, 
and have used them quite a bit since.
it's tricky to get the mic just right for those things....
you have to be very strict about the way you lay into them, or they overpower the mic.

still learningn how to play them.....

the band19
thanks band!
funny, that YES thing pops up pretty often..
but really zero influence, i guess it's just certain tones and riffs that key peoples' memories of yes tunes.
i don't know.
but thanks for listening!
 
 
chuckC
i'm always working on 'tones'.
heheh

i mean, really, a riff is cool and all, but if you can get it to say something inside the choice of tone..
which means, the way you pick it, the velocity of the attack, the choice of strings that day, the choice of microphone and front end gear chain....
all that.....
then the riff becomes something a bit... more.
that's what i'm looking for.

Yes indeed!  Excellent all the way around.  I agree with the others that your playing is excellent but your vocals are terrific also.  Good work indeed.

Sounds more like Night Ranger or Styx than Yes.






Just kidding. That is some sweet stuff, Gonz. I like your 70s approach of putting the vocals way back in the mix...very tasty.

james
heheh......
night ranger..... makes me think of mid 80's.....
and styx, makes me think of real late 70's......
Yes, makes me think of 1969-71.
LOL

i guess the idea with the vocal mix, is to put it right where it ought to be.

not annoyingly loud and up front...
and not buried.
but just.... right between the ears, in the cans, and you can still hear the room in the track,
hopefully gives it a more live vibe.

i might try recording some vox without the headphones....
track to monitors at volume,with the unidirectional opposite of the speakers, see what happens.
i've been meaning to try that for a long time.....
it's funny, i can solo the vocal tracks, and hear the background music picking up from the headphones anyway.....


 

creating noise
thanks tony
i appreciate that