Hi Robby and Mark,

Great song, guys. Excellent performances and mix. Killer vocal, Robby! 

Well done.

ABeautifulVirus


nice job on this track. calls to mind a bit of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger, which is always a great thing :) 
guitar solo is tasty and reminds me of classic arena rock done the way it should be.  i think the slide guitar in the beginning can come up a db or two so we can enjoy it all the more.

good stuff. 


-Daren 

Viral, Skynyrd :-) I'll take that! I give props to my partner Mark, he is the man in the booth and an excellent guitarist and drummer. Thanks so much for your compliments!

Very nice, gentlemen.  Keep it up.  

Hey Robby & Mark,
You guys make a GREAT collab combo. Love the structure of this piece.  I'm diggin the way it starts out mellow and ends up being full and thick.  Mix sounds good on my end. If I must nit the cymbal hits need to back off a bit. A very well written/played piece from you both.  KUDOS GENTS!

Kev

Much better, guys. Drums still bother me as kinda puny and narrow. Vocals sound thin during the intro. And into the first chorus the acoustic needs to come up...otherwise it kinda drops off from the anticipation that is getting set up.

Well fortunately for my listeners? I have the privilege of collaborating with people who know what the .... they are doing? Because, "trust me." I do not? 

Mark has remixed this puppy, and I think it is much better. He did lots to it? Based off of the feedback here? You people? (stops for a moment, chokes back tears...) You people? You are the Kate Beckinsale to my fantasies...  Mmmmm Kate Beckinsale... That's what you people are to me? I wish I could enjoy you all the way I want to enjoy her...


I'm sorry for that right there Lord, and please be with the Pygmies in New Guinea...

And the new one highlights my fretless track :-D Which is an added bonus in my opinion? Because, I'm familiar with that bass... We're good friends ;-) And it is a sweet sweet bass...

I think my bass hero Frank T? Would be well pleased... The bass? Well... The bass is its own thang? And if you are a bass player? Warren? Frank? BAPU? Well, you know what I'm saying. The relationship between the bass and the music? It's like the relationship between Clint Eastwood and Sandra Locke? It was visible on-screen... There was an intangible there? They had a connection... i.e., "he was hitting that..." And you could see it? In the relationship they had on-screen... That's what a bass track can do for a song... 

It's like an encounter you dream about? Hold down the bottom...  


I'm sorry for that right there Lord.


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Reece? Janet?  (and other aspiring bass players...)

Take note... "Hold down the bottom..." Grab it and pin it like an MMA opponent... And beat it in to submission... "Hold down the bottom." Whapow!! Hold it down!

Guitarhacker


Cool song. I like it. It has a nice country rock feel to it. 

Nice bass. The acoustic and dobro are nice too. 

To my ears.... the vocals are a bit muffled which seems to be your default EQ setting on vox.  I'd personally like to hear a bit more crispness to the vox. Just a touch to add sparkle and air. 


Other than that... man.... good job and a nice collab.

Love Bug (Herbie?) You speak the truth, I like that about you? :-)

Robby... another listen... Great song, mix & performances... I just listened again, and I must say, I really admire your bottom end... you must work out a lot... on that fretless thumb bass... I remember the first time I heard Jaco... I pulled all the frets out of a perfectly good Jazz Bass... I've also defretted a valuable vintage Hofner... devalued it quite a bit, but it sounded really cool... that was a a pretty bone-headed thing to do... when I sold it I had to knock $300 off the price...
   

I do love that fretless bass. As much as a man can love his instrument...

I took a similar, but different route. I've always been intrigued by people playing a fretless? I've seen friends "try" and fail miserably... The fretless is a fickle and demanding mistress. The first thing you realize is? THERE ARE NO DAMN FRETS! And wherever you put your finger? Well, that's the note. And it doesn't always end well... The fact about it is, playing the bass is all about "the feel for the song?" And "holding down the bottom..." (my thoughts)

So you can do that for years on a freted instrument and be happy! (I was) But then I was drawn to the dark side... That fuzzy fretless sound, the ability to slide between notes, do vibrato, do quarter notes and half notes? I'm just facinated by the fretless.

But I sucked ASCII at it when I started? And for a long time thereafter... However, and unfortunately for things that I choose to defeat? "I am exactly like a pit bull..." I will grab on to your neck, and I will not let go? I simply will not let go. You can punch, stab, gouge? It doesn't matter, I will not let go. So I got a fretless, a really nice one! That Warwick is like a hot date with Pam Anderson before the Hep C? Back in the slow mo beach watch intros? I know "for a fact" that every man reading this knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Well? That's what this bass is like. It wasn't cheap. But I sucked at the whole "playing a fretless instrument." It is it's own thing... It's completely different than playing a fretted bass, and it is challanging if you've never tried it?

And when you do try it initially? It will be difficult, and you may suck at it? And you may be discouraged? "Do not give up..." I have a freted Alembic that I really do not play? Because I so enjoy the fretless. Again, it is it's own thing? It's a bass? But it's like a different instrument... And it is VERY satisfying as a bass player to lay down a track with that beast! LOL! I LOVE IT! "Pam Anderson in early Bay Watch intros..."

So the opposite path I took was to get a killer fretless (which I could not play) and have IT modified! Instead of doing the same to a nice fretted instrument.

I took my fretless to a Luthier, and said, I want lines? Where the frets are supposed to be? I know you can use tape. I know there are dots on the side... "I wanted lines where the frets are supposed to be?" So the guy I took it to, he's really "really" good? He actually runs a school teaching people to be Luthiers? :-) And he cut the neck... "ouchie?" And he did inlays? I requested Mother Of Pearl, but he advised against it, and said a hard plastic resin would be better? So I opted for that.

So my fretless? Unless you look very closely? It looks like a freted bass; Here's a shot from the front;