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This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
Spending a Friday evening alone in the studio with an adequate supply of Mexican beer leads to all kind of funny things. This one came out of nowhere last night and, even though it's in the same ball park as the stuff my wife and I are working on, I wasn't going to take it any further. But I needed to get it out of my system. So I decided that I was going to have it all wrapped up and encoded in iMovie before my wife picked me up to go out after work. So there you have it - a rough cut that won't even make it to proper demo stage, not mixed, with mistakes, bad edits and all.
I know there's a forum for songs, but I'm not looking to improve this one or anything. It's just a silly snapshot of my Friday evening.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 17:42:11
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/03/07 17:53:23
I like it. I can imagine the finshed production sounding like this........ Hate me for it if you like, but I love this song....
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 17:52:45
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I didn't know that song - I can dig it. I'm not really familiar with him, I think I heard one of his songs in one of Rowan Atkinson's movies, secret agent stuff. Liked it as well.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 18:11:53
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Very much like The Kids In The Hall theme song...only minor. Great vibe. I dig it, baby!
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 18:17:55
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yorolpal Very much like The Kids In The Hall theme song...only minor. Great vibe. I dig it, baby!
Would you believe I know them not, either? I'm very much lacking in terms of popular culture outside my own classics I guess.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 18:52:34
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2015/03/08 18:52:05
How did you sit so still for so long?
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:00:52
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Karyn How did you sit so still for so long?
Corona induced stupor. ;)
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:18:40
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Ooo... Not what I was expecting at all, but I liked it! It also reminds me of something, but I can't remember what.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:22:19
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paulo I like it. I can imagine the finshed production sounding like this........
Hate me for it if you like, but I love this song.... I like how in a year he went from "Me and My Shadow" (on his previous album) to "Me and My Monkey." LOL.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:39:01
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Sounds great to me, mixed or not! I get the Kids In The Hall comparison, same kind of sound. It puts me in mind of Ry Cooder and Manuel Galbán. I think you would like those guys if you don't already.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:45:28
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i love it Rain! Great job. Sounds real good too!
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:46:15
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Of course, if he plays any farther down on the strings, he'll be playing on the bridge itself! LOL.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:48:22
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To be perfectly honest, I usually try not to listen to anything that would ressemble what I am working on for fear of contamination, and because eventually, it leads me to be overly self-conscious and to lose the naivety I need to write. So I had a vague and totally generic frame of reference - classic 50's surf music, rockabilly (mostly through Brian Setzer) and Link Wray. I think the inspiration may have come from this song which I listened to last week... Some friends mentioned Tarantino movies, but considering that I don't like him, I couldn't say he inspired me.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 19:50:30
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Thanks guys! Spending so much time working in the studio and rarely getting to share any of it with anyone, a good word from one of you goes a long way. :)
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 20:27:48
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/03/07 20:39:05
I like that Juno Reactor song. Yours reminded me of the Pixies too.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 20:28:26
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Rain: Spending a Friday evening alone in the studio with an adequate supply of Mexican beer leads to all kind of funny things! Awesome! Yeah, I can definitely hear the Mexican beer influence {burp} very much so  {burrrrp} omg, sounds like you had lots of fun.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 20:40:08
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Love the Pixies - they were a staple of my DJ years, but I think I havent heard them since the late 90s. A shame... Thanks Greg. It was lots of fun indeed. It's great to be able to draw the line at least on one project every now and then, to just pull the plug on a song and call it a day, no matter how sloppy the playing, and with no hope of fixing everything or properly mixing it. Just letting go.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 22:24:37
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I like it. Good 'ol guitar twang. Something you might hear in a Quentin Tarantino movie. I wouldn't discard it too soon.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/07 22:57:18
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Massively cool guitar number. Great riffs. Great sound. The rhythm section and the organ are really pushing. Cheers, Bert
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 00:25:52
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Thank again, guys! I really appreciate!
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 04:01:51
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I really like it. I love that guitar sound. Puts me in a Pulp Fiction kind of mood. I recorded Windy and Warm really buzzed on Abita Springs Amber beer. It was good time
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 05:04:54
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Excellent! Definite movie soundtrack sound. Glad to finally hear you play. Loads of comparisons above, but to me this is channeling Brian Setzer.
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/03/08 19:02:45
If this is his "throw-away" stuff, then I'm ready to hear the polished material!
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 09:53:15
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The band that did the Kids In the Hall theme song was Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet and they were great. I'd say their guit tone was quite a bit screechier than this which has more of the traditional surf tone. A while back I got to see the guitar player from Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet play in his new band at a buddy of mine's bar. They were calling themselves Ancient Chinese Secret and it was spectacular. Kind of like that old stuff you'd hear on Kids In The Hall but far more skilled and mature playing, excellent backup and leaning a bit further into rochabilly territory than surf (but still pretty surfy). His tone was amazing and they were just ripping the whole time. Just thought maybe if people liked those theme tracks they might want to look them up. And Rain... this sounds very very good even if you haven't polished it. Heck, sounds better than my fully "produced" efforts. lol Great playing too. Very natural. You got skills, bud. Cheers.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 10:59:20
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No... he's got SONAR! 
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 11:28:02
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Actually based on past posts I don't think he uses Sonar to record/mix... being a Mac dude and all. Might be some Cake tools used in there though.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/08 19:00:36
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Thanks Beep! You know, I've come to the sad realization that most of the time, the more I try to mix, the more I screw up things. :P And you're correct - unfortunately, no Cakewalk products were used. Though I do own all their synths, 2 of them no longer work on OSX and Z3ta has authorization issues for which we're waiting a fix. Not that it would have been susceptible of being used in such a cut. The plugs list: EZ Drummer Kontakt player for the bass track (because I was too lazy to re-track it) Logic's Classic Organ Lexicon PCM Reverb on a buss IK's Fairchild on the stereo buss to glue things up Waves L1 for the final mixdown A very few bands of EQ here and there, using Logic's own EQ. Various guitars all recorded DI with the POD HD300. No compression, no fancy processing, some very crude volume automation in 2 or 3 spots.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/03/10 01:36:13
I loved it. You could hang out at my shop any time.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/03/10 01:36:18
The beauty of what you've done is to stop before you over fixed everything. Another example of less is more.
Also shows that you don't have to do too much if you capture it right. Quality in quality. Well done.
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Re: This is what happens when I have a few too many Corona's
2015/03/10 01:37:00
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Thanks guys. Funny thing is that my wife heard it, expecting something very silly and now she's telling me we could have done something with that. I'm starting to think that, all those years, I've been putting songs I wrote in the wrong pile - I throw away keepers and keep lost causes. :P
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