Drag Racing on King's Highway

I just finished this one up.  Back in the old days in Charlotte County, Florida there was a road out in an isolated area called King's Highway.  It just so happened there was a nice straight stretch that strangely had a 1/4 mile run marked on it.  Any time a challenge between two hot car owners occurred, it usually was settled out on King's Highway.  Not the smartest thing to do but what else would you expect average, redneck, teenagers to do.
 
For some of you old guys it might bring back memories and for the rest of you I hope it brings a grin over your chin.  As always any comments, suggestions, crit.'s, or donations to the Freddy J fund (an attempt at humour) would be appreciated.
 
Drag Racing on King's Highway
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Thanks for your comments Allan!  I thought that someone might comment on the amount of verb.  I did crank it up particularly on the vocals.  That was intentional on my part.  In my tired old memory, I seemed to recall that a lot of the car songs of the early 1960's used a fair amount of reverb -- as did some of the surf instrumentals.  However, I do have a tendency to overdo the use of it.  I'll have to go back and give it a listen.  Thanks again for the heads-up.

Good one Freddy!
Just thinking that the guitar riff that runs though the song would be more effective without the delay. Sort of gets in the way of the pulse of the song. Keep the reverbs on the other parts though. Nice work.

Very cool song Freddy. Love that guitar sound and riff.
i see where you are going with the vocal effect but I think you could back off on it a bit. 

Freddy,
 
Cool song.  Agree with comments above, a little too much verb on vocals.   It does have a more late 50's feel on the vocal verb treatment than the 60's surf music which is usually more dry.    I like the verb on the guitar but if you don't have the ability to pull back verb on the vocal part, you might try pulling back the verb on the guitar during the vocals to clean it up a bit.  Anyway, cool song.
 
Regards

hey Freddy - I like this a lot!  very cool groove, nice tune all around!
 
since you don't have the original any more, maybe you should consider re-recording it?

Cool Song Freddy ! I grew up in Ft. Myers , Florida .
My brother still lives there about to retire from working with the city .
Too hot for me in Florida , are you still living in Florida ?
Anyway cool song !

James

Hi Reece.  Thanks for your input -- I always appreciate it.  I think that I have done as much as I can with fooling around with the plug-ins and trying to correct things.  Maybe if I knew what I was doing it might help!  I think that you have a good suggestion.  I am OK with the guitars now but I do want to tame the vocals a bit more which means re-recording.  I am not sure how I am going to do it or when I'll do it.  I am working on about 3-4 more songs and I want to get most of each of them done before I forget what they are supposed to sound like.  However, I have put it on my list of things to get done.  Thanks again.
 
Hey Steve.  Thanks for taking the time to comment.  If you will note in my response to Reece, I think that the best thing that I can do, given my lack of knowledge and talent on the engineering side, is to re-record.  Thanks and I appreciate your suggestions.
 
Hi James.  Thanks for the kind input.  Back when I was living in Charlotte County there was very little to do, so the lads and I spent a lot of time in Ft. Myers.  At least Ft. Myers had a walk-in, air conditioned movie theater.  I did move back to Canada when I got married but after a couple of winters we came back to Florida and we are happy in the Tampa Bay area.  Thanks again.
 
Hey Warren.  Great to see you back on the forum --- you old hot rodder you!  Thanks a lot for commenting.  As you might have read above, I will be working on taking the verb down a bit -- at least the vocals.  It is just a matter of fitting it into all of the other stuff that needs doing.  Thanks again buddy.

I like the idea Freddy though it still sounds a little to much reverb to me.  Will keep the furry lugs open for the remix, if you do one.

Enjoyed it ....agreed with the verb points discussed.....did give me some cool memories of racing my 'ol '72 Chevelle....on and off track back in the day ;o) .  Thanx for sharing that one ...good stuff.