Summer Days

       This is a song I wrote several years ago and finally got around to recording it a few months ago this year. 
 
I'm no singer, but I give it my best try at the time. 
 
It's not perfect, but I thought someone might enjoy hearing it.
 
https://soundcloud.com/user-88101205/summer-days
 
Happy Holidays everyone!
 
Bobby
 

You got me in that having fun in the sun mode after hearing this. Nicely done and great guitar playing. I thought the vocals got a little buried though. Had trouble making out the lyrics.

Yeah, cool guitar work on this one. I'm with Bjorn on this in that the vocals tend to get buried in places but you have a winner here, nice job.

bjornpdx
You got me in that having fun in the sun mode after hearing this. Nicely done and great guitar playing. I thought the vocals got a little buried though. Had trouble making out the lyrics.

Thanks for taking the time to listen and reply bjornpdx.  I know what you mean about the SUNSHINE talk. Yesterday we had like 1 inch of snow here, it's all gone today luckily. Don't get me wrong, I like the Snowy weather, but when they don't have it in the forecast it's a bit of a problem where I am at. 
 
Thanks for the kind compliments on my guitar playing. Most of the time I try not to think about things and just play. 
 
It always amazes me at how great the ears are of everyone on these forums. I really need to get some good monitor speakers, what I have right now sounds good "For listening to PREMIXED songs" but it's not made for mixing, I wouldn't call them Monitor speakers at all, they are the Logitech Office Depot Speakers. But I am looking to upgrade soon, if I can. 
 
You mentioned the buried vocals, I recorded this one a couple months ago and you are right on about what you are saying. I haven't done that much mixing on the vocals, a while back someone had mentioned to me "I find that most heavy rock songs have the vocals buried in the mix".  That's one reason I didn't make it stand out. 
 
Mainly I was just trying to keep things even. I'm not a mix expert by no means. 
 
I may revisit this tune in the near future and change a lot of things. I appreciate you taking the time to listen and tell me what you think, that really means a lot. 
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Bobby
 

biodiode
Yeah, cool guitar work on this one. I'm with Bjorn on this in that the vocals tend to get buried in places but you have a winner here, nice job.

Thank you biodiode for taking the time to listen and reply. I haven't mixed that many songs, or songs with vocals at all, so I'm still learning a lot of things. I kind of buried the vocals intentionally, but I did it because a song I posted here a long while back someone said to me something like "Most hard rock songs have the vocals buried in the mix". Maybe I shouldn't have followed that advice? To be fair though, that was a different type of song, a bit more heavy. 
 
I'm glad you liked hearing this, that means everything to me! 
 
Thanks again!
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Bobby
 

daryl1968
you know I like this one Bobby - thought I'd give it a bump....

Thanks Daryl, honestly, I think you could sing it much better than me, no doubt about that. 
 
Thanks again!
 
Happy Holidays!  And "MERRY CHRISTMAS!". 
 
Bobby
 

Nice one Bobby, it does what it says on the tin what more could you want, nicely played and produced.  (At least your singing does not kill like Wookiee singing does )

Wookiee
Nice one Bobby, it does what it says on the tin what more could you want, nicely played and produced.  (At least your singing does not kill like Wookiee singing does )

 
Thank you Wookiee for listening and taking the time to reply. I'm going to work on it some more. 
 
I couldn't help but have a laugh with your comment "At least your singing does not kill like Wookiee singing does ". 
You never know what your talent is until you try. You should always keep trying, and the reason I laughed was because you sounded a lot like me. 
 
By that I mean : I am the AL BUNDY of Vocal Singers.  LOL : Dang Woman not only took my voice, but she made the strings on my guitar not play right either! Kidding of course. 
 
Thanks again for taking the time to listen and reply. 
 
Happy Holidays to you and yours and everyone here! 
 
Bobby
 

mikelgom
Nice song. I love the rock melody!

Thanks Mike, I appreciate you taking the time to listen and reply. I'm hoping to remix and re-do a few things on it in the future.  Funny thing is, this songs was never intended to be like it is now, I originally made it up more easy going with clean guitars throughout, but I wasn't happy with my sound and thought I would just turn on some distortion and change the chordings and this is the result. It was fun to do and I guess in the end that's the most import thing of all. 

Thanks again!  Happy Holidays!

Bobby
 

thepogue
this really works well...vox sounds fine and shes a rocker...what's not to like? Very cool tune. like the duel leads...nice
 
Not a big fan of the panning on fade away...(takes more away then bring to the table)
 
good work!
 
 

Thank you for the kind words and taking the time to listen and reply. That means a lot. 
 
I am replying on Christmas eve so I must say : "Merry Christmas!!!! Happy holidays and Seasons Greetings to all!!!! 
 
 Thanks again for taking the time to listen and reply, I may remix this one in the future taking everyone's advice to heart here. 
 
Bobby