https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/bats-brew
 
 

it's good stuff.
rock on.

Bat,
 
Sounds good, great rockin' tune.   Like your guitar work immensely.
 
 
Regards

thanks mark!
 
 
appreciate it.......
 
 
 
this song, was during my PRE-Sonar days......
 
rig setup at the time:

 
 
 
one the guitars and cabs used during tracking:


this tune pretty much captures the sound of the boogie cranked real loud thru a pair of closed back 1x12's with greenbacks
 
this was recorded with the venerable ole VS-1880
the guitar solo, was actually the original track from the demo i did on a VS-880ex, with only a sm57 and a ART Tube Mp preamp.
 
 
most of the guitar work was done on my trusty old Carvin DC200K

the carvin is a 1984 DC200K, with a shaved neck, duncan custom custom in the bridge, and a Kahler trem. it's a gibson scale length. i gotta tell you...
all those switches, every one of them, is disconnected.
LOL
have been, since i put that Duncan Custom Custom in it around 1992.
the pickup is directly connected to the volume pot, with no caps or resistors or tone control, ala van halen's old original setup.
on this particular guitar, it really works well.
but, to be fair, i have to say, when i bought the guitar, i was playing covers full time, and those switches (single/dual coil, phase and tap) all worked wonderfully. i could approximate ANY tone off this guitar, and put it to full advantage.
later, i dialed it in for my own custom sound, and it's been that way ever since!

I've heard this one a few times - never gets old - such a classic.

Great production as usual bro.  I like the groove of this one & the guitars are hot as hell.  Nice finger work.  Solid vocals & performances overall.  Good job Bats.

Great stuff!  Superb guitarwork and vocals.   Love the picture of that Carvin - looks like new.  

WOW!!  Superb tones and killer licks!  Would like to hear that kick drum a tad more.  Love the snare sound.  I have a little trouble making out the words...bring all guitars down a micron???  Just my opinion here.
 
Great job!

I haven't heard this one before.  It's a great rocker.  Terrific guitar work and vocals.
Niiiccceee!

Clean-

yes, you've been around long enough to have heard this one before...
i have an all acoustic version of this as well, a drunken fest, really, i never post it, but it's fun/funny.
 
 
 
chuck C
appreciate the comments!
 
on the production:
as i said earlier, this is an OLD production, done on a Roland VS-1880 (18 track 24 bit hard drive all in one machine)
 
i wished i had the original mix handy, the one i did on my first roland machine, a VS-880EX....(an eight track digital DAW)
that was the machine that brought me to the vs planet website back in '99.......

i needed help.


i still do....
 
but anyway, the sonics of the 880ex were pretty good (20 bit, i believe), but i moved up to the VS-1880, and finished this song on that machine.
the sonics were that much better, but i still used the original main rhythm track and Lead solo directly from the 880EX tracks, and damned if a simple little SM57 thru a ART Tube MP direct into the 880ex, didn't sound every bit as good as ANY track i've done recently, with a much more powerful system.
 

there's a 'moral to the story' in there somewhere......