Yet another NEW song. We Will Remeber This Day

I'm not really crankin' 'em out, I just happend to have several projects that were near completion and here is the latest.
 
This is a tune I really enjoyed writing and recording, hopefully it will provide you with some small measure of enjoyement.
 
I welcome your observations, good and bad,   Thanks. - Daryl
 
We Will Remember This Day
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We Will Remember This Day
 
Some Days Stand Out From All the Rest
When the Livin’ Was Easy and Life Was the Best
And Day Like Today  Just Seems To Suggest
Peace of Mind
 
These Are the Days That Make Life Worth Livin’
When We Know That We’ve Got Much More Than We’ve Given
And The Trouble Days We Spent Are Forgiven
Again
 
Chorus:
 
Miles and Miles Away
Years From Now We’ll Smile and Say
Life Was Made for Such a Day
We Will Remember
This Day
 
I Remember the Time It Was Just You and Me
And We Laid on the Sand and We Played in the Sea
And The Palm Trees swayed in a Fragrant Breeze
What a Day
 
You Remember the Time We Camped By a Stream
And the Moonlight Danced on a Silver Beam
And the Night We Shared Felt Just Like a Dream
What a Night
 
Chorus:
 
There Are Days We Spend Right Here at Home
With No Place to Go When We’re All Alone
And We Think of the Best Days We’ve Ever Known
Like Today
 
It Isn’t the Time and It Isn’t the Place
It Isn’t the Sun That Makes Our Hearts Race
It’s What We Believe and What We Embrace
What a Day
 
 

Nice song, buddy!  Vocals and instrumentals are very nicely done.  There's something in the mix that is bothering me but I haven't been too accurate on that lately so I wouldnt' take that too seriously!  :-)    I really like your tune. 

That open hat is a little hot D. Your vocals continue to improve :-) Relaxed, but with character and emotion, the way a lot of people wish they could do it... I like the production, my only nit is that open hat. Good job. (I might back off the closed hat a bit too, but definitely the open one.)

You capitalize all the words in the title of the song.  :-)

But if it makes it easier for you, by all means, do it. :-)

Well, take everything everyone says with a grain or two of salt :-) But I like to listen "critically?" And I listen on phones, good ones? So I hear things... Maybe they're not important? But I'll give you a very honest opinion from my perspective. Rick NoHow heard it as a general high end, "I think the mix has a little too much high end (hats and some sybs) otherwise very good." I heard it specifically as that hat, and specifically the open hat, but maybe a bit the closed one too. So you have a little smoke there :-) LOL!

Thanks all.  I will tweak on those highs this weekend.  Not sure how I overcome this affliction and given the age of my ears, I probably can't.  I guess that's what this forum is for.  Thank you.!

Janet, I knew it was something like that.  I do find that I end up recording the verses before I have them memorized.  I put the words up on screen so I can see them beyond the microphone and in those cases it helps me key in on the words.  But I wont' do it again because it's more work.  I'm such an idiot some times.

It's a powerful lesson for you younger players out there.  Don't be exposing yourself to LOUD music without ear protection, and don't shoot your guns without ear protection either.  I spent my youth abusing my ears with guitars and guns, thinking I was invulnerable, but later in life you learn, too late, that you're not.  I'm paying for it now.  I started wearing ear protection religiously in my 30s.  Too late and I didn't really pay the consequences until I was almost 50.

darylcrowley


Thanks all.  I will tweak on those highs this weekend.  Not sure how I overcome this affliction and given the age of my ears, I probably can't.  I guess that's what this forum is for.  Thank you.!

Janet, I knew it was something like that.  I do find that I end up recording the verses before I have them memorized.  I put the words up on screen so I can see them beyond the microphone and in those cases it helps me key in on the words.  But I wont' do it again because it's more work.  I'm such an idiot some times.

It's a powerful lesson for you younger players out there.  Don't be exposing yourself to LOUD music without ear protection, and don't shoot your guns without ear protection either.  I spent my youth abusing my ears with guitars and guns, thinking I was invulnerable, but later in life you learn, too late, that you're not.  I'm paying for it now.  I started wearing ear protection religiously in my 30s.  Too late and I didn't really pay the consequences until I was almost 50.

And that's why you can't see lyrics?

This is a very nice song, Daryl, but for some reason it sounds like the entire mix is going through a flanger, which distracts my attention from the song itself.

Hey Daryl

   I've listened to this one a few times, just hadn't commented. My energy and stamina
from my physical condition has had me drained but I'm trying to "build back up.
The cool thing about you and your songs are that they are so unique in a good way.
Maybe as I have commented less and mainly "listened" lately I've sort of come to
understand "me" a little more in some ways.

   There is something that draws me toward the whole learning and mixing, writing,
producing etc subject. It feels good to see someone as yourself doing tunes that has
heart and soul. I know that you struggle with "some" issues, such as your hearing but
yet manage to still do so well, as if that (wasn't a problem for you).

  You overcome that and even "set standards" in quality such as your guitar tone as
well as other things that is "that Daryl style". It's sort of like (i had mentioned earlier)
about learning. That is me I'm speaking of. It's like (I) can sort of study your works
like the study of artists styles.

  So when I listen to "your" stuff I can sometimes hear something that could use a
tweak from a "tech" aspect in the engineering, I'm also reminded of the fact that
your stuff still sounds very good and you do things so well. That also reminds me of
reading that an artist had once said that "a painting is never finished".

  I like this Daryl

Jimmy - Thanks for the kind words and the careful listen.  It does get discouraging fighting with my failing ears.  I have an almost morbid fear of losing my hearing (too late to change that now.)  I would almost rather lose my sight as I can't imagine a world without music.  It has been one of the most important things in my life since I was about 4 years old.  Not just performing, I gave up road life years ago because I don't like living out of a suitcase.  But even when I was not playing but raising a family, music and concerts were always in my life.  Music is a very emotional and passionate thing for me,  I FEEL every note, even though I can't hear them very well, or certainly not like a should.  My right ear hears at a significantly lower decibel rating than my left does, and my left ear ain't good.  It's a struggle.

Now, just arriving at age 60, I view life and music from a new perspective because everything in life has a new perspective, as I'm sure you realize with your own challenges.  Life changes you and that changes your music, as it should.
 
I love all the things about recording, mixers, effects, EQ, all that stuff is fascinating but it requires a different skill set than performing and one that demands just as much attention.  It sure would be easier if all I had to do is play and sing, and not have to worry about the drums, the mix, the keyboards, etc.  I sure wish I could have learned these things when I was young and my mind could have absorbed so many different disciplines, but don't we all wish we could start all over with what we know now.  And living in the north woods backwater just doesn't give me a lot opportunities for local collaboration.  So I do what I can.  I try to challenge myself every day musically and I try to put the passion and pieces of my life into my songs.  Let's face it, we all die young and at age 60, I don't have enough time to say all I want to say musically.  So I try to make sure my lyrics and  my guitar playing say something.  For some reason I feel that when I'm gone my friends and family will best understand how I felt, that somehow the will finally realize what I was always trying to say.  Sometimes I almost feel as though I'm in a race with life and I need to get this things out of me and recorded before the race is over.

When I was young it was all about speed and feedback, now it's about space, melody, content and caressing each note, trying to eek out the message contained in a single note.  I've always been moved by strong emotional melodic guitar passages and I hope that my solos ultimately solidify the meaning of the words.  Where my voice doesn't give me the range to convey the emotion I feel, my guitar is capable of giving me the range to say what I feel needs to be said.

Now, I wish I could say it like Larry Carlton or something, but I'm who I am, and I say it the best way I can.

But still I need the crits because my ears lie to me and I know the folks here do not.  Thank you!
 
Radio - Thank you!  I spent a number of years on the road in what was primarily an Eagles cover band.  It's certainly colored my music over the years and I have no end of great memories of that band and our journeys.

Nice work Daryl.

Lovely song, Daryl, and the performance and mix are perfect; exactly what I've come to expect when I listen to your material.

darylcrowley


A flanger?  Really?    It totally escapes me, honestly.  I hear nothing like that.   If it does, I quit trying to mix.  There is no flanger or anything remotely phasey on any track. 

Perhaps it is the converting to MP3 or the host site then. Not sure, but I downloaded it 3 times to make sure that it wasn't something on my end.

Enjoyed this tune...nicely done, very relaxing and tells a great story...

what else is there?

Good work laddy!!

Great song Daryl... You have a fine touch buddy...
Killer tone...