batsbrew
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"Long Journey"
https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/long-journey long journey, a song inspired by a friends' trip across the ocean, to a new land, new people, new experience blends acoustic and electric guitars, open D tunings, slide guitar, a bunch of harmonies, live drums, kinda zeppelinish, njoy, feel free to comment
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Wookiee
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/18 13:59:30
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Nice stuff Gonzo mix sounds very good here. 
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Karma has a way of finding its own way home.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/18 19:28:09
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As usual, this is a fine sounding tune! Really like this one a lot as it is different from some of the others that I've heard from you. Oh, and drums sound great!
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/18 22:12:41
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I dunno if SoundCloud is dead right now, but none of the songs will play for me. It acts like its playing but never makes any progress.
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droddey
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/18 22:18:03
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Oh, it looks like they pass your info to other companies, and I don't allow that in the browser, so I can't play I guess.
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batsbrew
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/19 11:10:57
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wookie
thanks for commenting, glad you like it....
i have a reason for posting this one in particular, i'll come back to that in a bit.....
dcumpian-
thanks for listening... and yes, this one is a bit different.
i really like the acoustic/electric blend, a lot of my stuff has been either full on electric or totally acoustic...
i think maybe i should work on the 'blend' tunes more, see if something comes out of that!
the drums, were performed by Brent Dacus, a session drummer out of Dallas/Ft Worth, that hooked up with Mike Musgrove to provide “drums for hire”.... so to speak. mike recorded the drums there, using a Roland VS-2480 DAW, and brent played along with my 'demo' of the song...
mike sent me the audio files, i dropped them into my DAW, and re-recorded everything around the new drum tracks.
worked great.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/19 12:16:45
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/19 22:13:28
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Another excellent song with some great playing, vocals, and a terrific full sounding guitar sound.
Really Niiiiccceee!!!!
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/20 14:05:51
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Loved this tune Bat. The mix of guitars and harmonies all fits perfectly. As I have come to expect from you...another good one all the way!
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Lynn
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/20 14:16:57
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This is one of the most fun songs I've heard in a while. Congratulations, Bat, you've done it again!
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batsbrew
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/20 18:36:05
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droddey
sorry you're having issues with it, it works perfectly fine for me.
and nobody has ever called me in the middle of the night asking me for my soundcloud password.
heheh
timidi
thanks lone ranger with cyclops eye
freddy j
appreciate it freddy,thanks.
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Scottytunes
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/20 21:14:02
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Funtastic all the way around. Love the dobro's played in stereo.
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notnat
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/20 21:20:26
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Very cool arrangement/production... the guitars sound great...
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batsbrew
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/21 13:30:02
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STARISE
thanks, glad you liked this one..
Lynn
fun song!
ha, that's great to hear
my work here is finished.
;-)
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Leadfoot
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/21 15:56:25
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Dude, love the swamp feel of this tune. The kind of song where you find your head nodding to the beat without realizing. Nice groove!
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eric paul
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/22 18:37:47
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hi batsbrew love your stuff top notch very engageing well done eric
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batsbrew
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/23 12:45:22
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scottytunes
thanks scott, for checking it out..
now, on the dobros..
there ARE no dobros!
LOL
it's actually a pair of acoustic guitar parts, detuned to open d, and i'm just playing standard slide on those.
i'd love to have some REAL dobro on that track, that'd be so cool...
i don't know how to dobro.
i need a dobro.
or sumptin.
heheh
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notnat
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/24 19:46:17
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Listened again... I really enjoyed this one... I have several old National-style resonator guitars with the "biscuit-bridges... but only one real "Dobro" with the cast aluminum spider-bridge resonator... its a round-neck, steel-body, fiddle-edge from the 1930s... if you can find one, it's worth whatever you have to pay to get it... again, I'm sorry I missed your feedback on my latest post... Thanks again... 
post edited by notnat - 2013/06/26 21:37:33
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guitartrek
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/26 07:20:55
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Great production as usual. Everything is excellent. Guitars sound fabulous. I really like the "smack" of your snare on this tune. Is that a live snare? Superior?
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THE NIGHT FOX
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/26 11:23:20
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Great sounding tune , love the guitars in this song of your and the vocals sound great !
Nice thanks for sharing - James
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batsbrew
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/27 11:30:37
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notnat
thanks man....
i'm glad you got to hear this one, it's a bit different...
a direction i think i want to explore more....
a lot of close mic technique employed on this one, it was harder to get the tones right, because the close mic demands such a limited range of motion while playing..
you can't move!!!
at all!!
if you do, you hear every little movement....
so, it's hard to sit still when you squirm all the time like i do....
i had to find a sitting position on the acoustics, set the mic, and literally go stiff in position, because any lateral movement at all, and the eq of the mic would just go to he77
LOL
i've thought about picking up a dobro, i think i'll put the feelers out for real......
thanks again!
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batsbrew
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/28 10:39:48
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guitartrek
thanks for listening...
this is a real drummer...
Brent Dacus, out of D/FW
he's a degreed dude, does gig stew in that area....
the guy that recorded the drums is mike musgrove, another artist in that area.....
brent played along with my demo, mike captured it and sent it to me, and i began from scratch with the new drum tracks.
that was a great set of tracks i got from brent, i built an entire album (now out of print) around his drum tracks.
"Bat's Brew", another one i recently posted, was another of these songs.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/28 15:55:08
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nightfox thanks for mentioning the vox.... that's what i work on the most, the other stuff is easy, mostly one-off stuff, but the vox kick my butt, and i'm my own worst critic! 
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/28 17:10:32
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Gonzo, Nice mix of instrumentation and great vocals as usual. Yes, the batsbrew is brewing it all up again. Great sound and production.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/30 10:41:01
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I really enjoyed this Batsbrew. I like all of it. Vocals really good. The drums really kick. Toms are so full. I love your playing (always have). Bass guitar sounds a bit shy in my cans. The kick pumps really nice.
All the best.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/06/30 13:13:08
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wow. very cool song - and I almost missed it! I don't know 'bout you, but I do not have the time to check out every song posted - so thanks to those who have bumped it up again!
I especially love the vocal harmonies, this is what separates "good tracks" from "excellent tracks"! so this is a kilkler!
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/07/01 19:04:30
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Awesome all the way around!!! I love your stuff.
Rocky
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/07/02 13:29:49
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theguitarplayer
thanks so much, appreciate the kind words
rimshot
thanks man, it's nice working with real drums i tell you....
i'd love to remix this with a fatter low end, i'll look at that bass tone closer, i'm sure i can dial it in better.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/07/02 14:17:04
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Love everything about this tune, bat. Drums sound great, as usual. Nice how you managed multiple guitars right up front without getting in each others' way or stepping on the vocal, and a very nice contrast between the acoustic and electric guitars. But it's the tight, well-balanced vocal harmonies that really set the piece apart. Not so much Zep as CSN&Y meet the Swampers.
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Re: "Long Journey"
2013/07/02 14:51:30
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Love it. Production is great. Almost sounds like a lost track from LZ III, esp. the slide. And that is a compliment.
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