Hey y'all.

I finally mixed down the new stuff. I hate my voice - I had a cold this weekend and just wasn't hitting it like I used to... but I really like the jams.

Iwannabetheone was a full-on stab at an Erotic-City-type jam with the vocals up high like Housequake etc... I don't know WHAT I was thinking about putting the bass just on the left channel. I must have been asleep when I mixed it down.

1grunt4daddy - that's the new band, but this is all me... EVEN THE HARMONICA!
http://www.blindslim.com/1g4d

So what would you change? Which one bores you? Why?

4jamiestarr said:

Like it man

Funky!

Lewis

No yawns here...dude I think you have real talent. And, you're doing it all. I know what a struggle that can be. I give you a lot of credit. Keep it up.

Thanks y'all. I'll step away from the ledge now.

funkydoo said:

"Iwannabetheone" felt like "Irrestible Bitch" Meets "shockdelica" Meets Sly Stone circa 73-74 with a Harmonica vibe that put me in the mind-set of Bar Kays&War.you are Talented&Have some Interestign things going on there.a little Chambers brothers Country Funk Flavor trying too sneak in there as well.thank you for sharing.

nice work! have u tried this jam out live in front of a crowd yet? it's plenty fun, funky and catchy and melodic all the way around. which kind of vocal processor are u using for the vox transposition? sounds very kewl. this jam is good enough to make me wanna go back and hear some of your other jams. even on my crummy dialup connection.
it's nice to hear a funky song that has harmonica in it. i play too, and wish some of the people i jam with would realize harmonica is good for more than blues!

High/Camille voice: I'm using the old-fashioned voice-transposition tool - slow the tape down, record the track, return it to the regular speed. Same as ol' P-dawg on his Camille stuff... do the same to get the super-high super-funky guitar work on Erotic City or Lady Cab Driver, Love Bizarre, etc. Except, to REALLY get good results, it's best to drop the speed to HALF-speed - (usually resulting in sounding an octave lower).

Yeah I've done this one live, and it works a whole lot better than it does on this demo... we got a whole room to sing the "Iwannabe-Iwannabe-Iwannabetheone" and the band stopped cold, so it was just the crowd singing. We took off our instruments and walked to the bar while the crowd was STILL jamming with the drummer.

It was awesome.

concordance said:

Oh - and thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it. These tunes are all works in progress.

concordance said:

That's pretty good stuff for being "works in progress." Do u ever run into tape speed/pitch problems when recording at another speed and overdubbing back into your jams? Technically, recording at a different speed should mean your vocals recorded off-speed woulnd't be perfectly time with the song, but it sounds like you've found a way around this.

Cool that you've been playing Iwannabe in front of a crowd too. It's a smoker!

concordance said:[quote]Technically, recording at a different speed should mean your vocals recorded off-speed woulnd't be perfectly time with the song, but it sounds like you've found a way around this.quote]

Say what? If you slow the song down, it's just like listening to a tape deck with bad batteries, or a 45 single set on 33. Of course, that's back before they had electricity. The song speed changes, you sing the song slower, but you're still keeping time with the song because, well, you hear it playing, it's just slowed down and dropped down a few keys. So when it speeds back up again, your recorded track with your voice speeds up with it, raising the pitch along with it.

It's really easy. No magic to it - you just have to have a tape deck to pull it off.

ah, i gotcha now. for some crazy reason i thought you were recording vocals at slow speed while the backing music was playing at regular speed. duhhh. thanks for the clarification