New Distant Towers tune, Dive 2 the Middle

Good evening fellow.....urrrr.. scratch that.  I haven't been around enough lately to use the term "fellow Cakies".  But that should be changing now.  Hope everyone is well and getting creative.
 
This one took four months to come around.  It is called Dive 2 the Middle and you can find it at this link:
 
http://distant-towers.com/DTlatestsong.htm
 
or on Sounclick at:  http://soundclick.com/share?songid=9217914
 
We would very much appreciate any listens/feedback.  As usual we'll take the good, the bad and the ugly and hopefully be the better for it.
 
This one stemmed from a live session at my studio with Robbie Brunjes on drums, Tom on bass and me on guitar.  The final accounting ended up thus.....
 
Tom McCaffrey:  Lyrics, vocals, bass, lots of advice
 
Robbie Brunjes:  Drums, drums, drums
 
Tony Wood:  Guitars, guitar synths, a few backing vocals, arranging and mixing
 
Thanks!!
 

This is a real cool song. I'm not too keen on the distorted Aminor chords on the organ sounding guitar synth, but otherwise this is pretty nice..........real twisty. 

The Doors meets tom petty? =)

Well, its kind of hard to jugde a massive work like this. I like it though. The mix is a bit muddy for me, i would like to brighten it a bit, and also make the low end a bit more defined and punchy. Perhaps a little stereo widening also=

Cool vocals all in all. But I wonder if it should be better if you gave them more FX ? THe musical bed is quite surreal, and it wouldnt hurt if the vox were a bit surreal too.


All in all, good performace. Most of my comments are mostly down to personal taste and preferences.

Well done!

I was only wondering earlier today what had happened to you guys, then I vaguely remembered reading something about you taking a break and then lo and behold here you are..... anyway...

Song wise I think this might well be my fave of all your tracks I've heard so far. Usually your stuff has to grow on me a while, but this one jumped straight out at me. Love the vibe/atmosphere of the guitar chords - reminds of a sound the guitarist in my band used get using one of those Roland Space Echo things I think (lots of complicated looking, surely it will just all tangle up any minute, tape looping around the place as I remember it!.) Anyhow, however you did it it's cool. Me like !

Mix wise I kind of agree with Chrome that it sounds kind of muddy in a way, yet at the same time I like it so having heard your usual standard I guess it's deliberate on your part anyway. I might be inclined to edge the vox up a little and at the risk of sounding like a   Chrome groupie I think some more fx on them would suit this piece too. I'm not sure that the audio clip at the end really adds anything, but I'm really nit-picking now - just personal taste.

Anyway, I've downloaded it for further listening pleasure, so thanks for sharing and showing most of the rest of us up yet again ;)

James:  Thanks for listening.  I hope you'll be able to lay some feedback on me after this one sinks in some more. 

Scott:  Thanks for checking this one out and for the feedback.  That synth part definitely stands out but I can also see where it would be too strange.

James:  Thanks for sampling this one.  Cool baby cool (we is tryin)

Chrome:  Thanks for the listen and the feedback and good comments.  I think that I have too many guitar tracks happening and that is probably muddy-ing things up a bit.  I don't want to lose the little bit of gruffness the guitar has but I would like a little more clarity myself.  I'll have to revisit and see what a few changes might do in that department.

Dave:  Thanks man, preciate the listen and comments.  Still saving up for them new teeth I see

Paulo:  Thanks for stopping in to listen and for the good feedback and kind words.  The only intentional part of the guitars was to use a Gilmourish patch on my effects unit since the chords kinda fit that sound in my ears.  I said the same thing to Tom about the audio at the end but it has kinda grown on me now.  Thanks for downloading this one, I hope you enjoy and feel free to comment on anything you hear.  Your help is always appreciated.  Shoot man, we ain't showin no one up around here including you but it is nice of you to say.

Bob:  How ya doin man?  Thanks for scopin this one out and for the great feedback.  We had fun working this one up live.  In fact Tom and Robbie were coming over in the afternoon and earlier in the day I went up in the studio and stumbled on to the chord progression for this one and once they arrived it took off.  We did change the middle part some but other than that it is pretty much the arraingment that we formulated live.

Tom has a copy of this project from early on and he plans to sprinkle some of his magic on it in the future so this one could pop up again with some new/Tom twists to it.

Thanks for all the feedback.  I'll take a look at the muddy guitars to see what I might be able to do towards improving that and still keeping the vibe.

This does have a bit of a Doors Sound. Really cool tune. Cool and interesting ending. Guitars sound really nice.

Cool song.  After just hearing a couple songs with the vocals right out front, this one made me want to turn up the vocals, although I can hear them fine.  So I'm not sure...could just be subjective.  Cool transition at 2:34. :-)

Dark, disturbing, unnerving ............. reminds me of that shadowy shape in the closet that beckons one to come closer and meet it face to face.  Strong moody/atmospheric feel for me ......exactly the way you planned it.  I like the sinister guitars too.  I would like to hear the vox bumped up a bit to really narrate this tale.  The changeup threw me so I'm going to have to take another ride on this one ........good work........Ron 

I wash going to say Doors meets Tom Waits, or something like that, so similar reaction to above. Pretty cool tune with a nice vibe and some nice guitar tones and such as well. Oh, and as I read the previous post, yeh, the Steppenwolf connection is pretty apt as well, both vocally and musically.

Geno:  Thanks for the listen, the nice comments and for checking out the web site.

Tap:  Thanks for listening, the kind comments and a vote for the strange ending.
 
Janet:  Thanks for checking this one out and for the good comments.  I tried to mix the vox so they stood out well but it is definitely subjective.  I can hear them fine although I know exactly what is being said so I am biased.
 
Ron (rolifer):  Thanks for putting your ear to this one and for the kind comments.  Thanks for the kind words on the percussion.  Robbie did a great job and I barely messed with his mix, it sounded fine to me.  If only Jim could have held on for a few more decades....
Ron (savage):  Thanks for listening and for the very colorful comments.  We like to make them a little mysterious and moody if we can.

Larry:  Thanks for putting your ears on this one.  It has been a busy year and we are looking forward to getting back in here more for sure.  Thanks for the kind comments.  It is always very cool to get feedback on what others hear in our tunes.  Steppenwolf is a new one but I've always dug them, they are dark for sure (at least the tunes I've heard).

Dean:  Thanks for listening and for your nice observations.  Tom (McCaffrey) definitely has a lot of different vocal styles to my ear.  He surprises me on almost every tune with some new twist to his vocals.

Legion:  Thanks man, preciate the listen and the feedback and nice comments.  Yeah, the break at 2:35 definitely comes flying out of left field.  That is usually me as I am always trying to hijack our tunes and take them someplace totally chaotic.  I am going to revisit the mix with an eye towards getting some of the mud out and that might help the vox, not sure.  In any case I plan to see what I can tweak here.
 

DT in the morning.  I guess I missed this one.  The break where the drums go ballistic with the guitar is soooo cool.  Yeah, I'm likin this.  These are not the best speakers at the warehouse but they are good enough to get a good idea.  There's that chameleon vocalist again.  Great job guys.  Nice to hear some DT!! Some great guitar work and drums!

Hi CreatingNoise
Cool intro with distortion gtrs +wha wha
nive vocals,cool mix 2.34 change everything
sounds beautiful, solo  and synths....
3.34 again same cool riffs, 4.28 cool wha wha solo gtrs
with delays,auto pan......fade out with distant voices in water...
Great Work i like it 
J.Feitor

Just listened on my good earphones and it's a treat!  I like the tune the more I hear it.  Kinda like the Biscuit!  Gheesh!  The solo again.  So cool!!

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