"Rides Again" (Rock)

"Rides Again" (Rock)

Hi, Folks,

Back in cold, windy, snowy March when I bought my new PRS guitar, I tried recording some test tracks in Sonar to see what it would sound like.  Although I've posted a few songs since then, while I was cleaning up my hard drive last week, I found this forgotten test song consisting of only two very basic rhythm guitar tracks, bass, drums and a scratch lead vocal.  So, it was just sitting unnoticed for months, and I decided to try to clean it up a bit, and add a guitar solo, a tiny clean guitar fill, and some BGVs, and here's how it ended up.

Please give it a listen if you can, and let me know what you think.  As always, any and all helpful comments, suggestions, constructive criticism, input and ideas are welcome, and also greatly appreciated!

"Rides Again"

128kbps MP3 on SoundClick at: http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10984531

or...

Slightly Better Quality MP3, First Song on the Player at: www.BobOister.com

Many thanks in advance for your opinions, suggestions, comments and ideas!

Bob

Awesome as usual, Bob!

Hi Bob,

Great song. The mix sounds great too. I like how the kick has plenty of bass but is crispy at the same time and I really like the background harmonies, they make the song imo.

Bub

Bob, your stuff continues to be impressive

This is another hit. 

I would like to hear more "power" in this tune? Because that's what your music is all about? 

It started out that way? But I expect your songs to "kick my ass?" 

And this one failed to do so.


Robby.

Hey brudda Bob!..hope your well...really enjoyed this tune! Loved the when the bass kicked in. I was grinning even before I hit the "start" button and for good reason...this is a coool-arse tune!! Great share!

As usual, great singing and sound writing!  Great sounding crunch guitars and a very hot solo.  Something happen around 3:06, the song does not transition smoothly. 

was trying to think what this reminded me of...i guess vintage Priest, but there's something else too! awesome guitar tone to this one Bob, i too love that little clean fill. in the chorus some of the harmony vox sound a little strange, almost kinda out of key...but not quite. the solo is a little hot in relation to the rest of the instrumentation. otherwise another storming modern rock tune!

some of the harmony vox sound a little strange

 
I noticed that too, at around 1:10 
 
You do a really good job with everything. Really good! Thanks for sharing!
 
Julien

mcourter:

Hi, Mark,

Thanks for giving this a listen, and for your gracious comments!

Yep, I actually completely forgot about this because it really started out as just a guitar sound test.  I had only added a couple scratch tracks to try to get an idea what the new guitar would sound like in the context of a real mix.  I have three spiral notebooks that I use as "studio logs" to jot down basic info about song projects such as, record dates and times, instruments used, amp settings, effects, etc., and I never even entered this one into the logs.

I was doing some hard drive cleanup and backing up to my external drives when I happened to find it under project name "PRS Test 1".  I opened it up and saw that I had actually recorded two verses and choruses on five tracks, and decided to add to it keeping everything including the scratch lead vox.  I just figured, "in for a penny, in for a pound", and tried to make something out of what was already there.  I'm kind of glad that I spotted it and opened it up to see what was inside!

Thanks again for checking it out and for your kind words, have a good one, Mark!
Bob
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Bub:

Hey, Bub,

How are you, buddy? Doing great, I hope!

Thanks so much for checking this one out for me and for your encouraging comments.  Yeah, I recorded the background harmonies over the scratch lead vocal track at around four in the morning, and that's when I decided that the test song was probably worth adding to and finishing.  I guess it worked out as a good way to make a little something out of nothing, and it seems to have turned out okay.

By the way, you did an absolutely amazing job on your recent remake of "I Only Have Eyes For You".  That was truly some great stuff, my friend!

Thanks again for your input, it's much appreciated. Have a great weekend!
Bob
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Nice, tight as tight can get rocker Bob. here aew my nits though:) It was so tight that to me it lost it's crunch. But then, Badfinger was like that and it worked so what do I know. From reading above, it appears you actually sang the harmonies. I thought it was a plug in. Impeccable. The wideness of the guitars really bothered me. Sounded like they were on different planets. Really took my head away from the tune. Maybe it's just my feed or something as no one else mentioned it. All that negativity aside, great work, especially for a WIP.. 

Oh yeah, great stuff Bob! That's an epic chorus, huge hook. I like that whisper track on the verses, bit of a nod to The Doors there? Excellent track, love it.

Bob, your tunes always make me smile.

That bass guitar is killer.

Your harmonies are spot on.

Fabulous.

SteveStrummerUK:

Hey, Steve,

How are things, buddy?  I hope you're treating Ruby well and giving her a good workout, she's a real beauty!

Thanks for checking out "Rides Again" also affectionately known as "The Song That Time Forgot", (or at least I did).   Yep, I was doing some backing up and hard drive cleanup in anticipation of finally starting the long nightmare of setting up my new DAW, that's been sitting here for weeks now.  You know the drill, re-installing everythiing, re-authorizing plugins, transferring project files, etc.  So, there it was, and I said what the heck, let's make a mud pie out of a puddle, and this is the end result.

Thank you so much for your encouraging words, friendship and support, I greatly appreciate it.

Have a great week, my friend!
Bob
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thepogue:

Hey, Tom,

How are things, bro?  Hope all is well after Irene in your neck of the woods!  About 80,000 homes still without power up here in Northeast PA, but luckily, our lights never even blinked, which is a very good thing.

Thanks very much for giving this a listen, and also your very kind words!  I really appreciate and value your input highly.

By the way, your latest new DT post, "Turn for the Worse" is truly a power packed, classy gem, full of dynamite work by the three of you great musicians!

Thanks again for checking in on this one for me, I always respect and appreciate your opinion, buddy.  Have a good one!
Bob
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Listening on my lappy-juke and this sounds so pro, astonishing, clean, etc.  What a blast of fresh air this is!  (in way of inspiration)

Mix and song are 10/10 on so many levels; easily my fav of yours to date.  This has a wider (pop) audience appeal then your former excellent mixes.  I'm extremely honored to rock with this.