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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 01:17:30 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-21T01:17:30+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Covered</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to December Music. This is my 11th straight month of doing an album in a month project. I’m quite a bit behind the previous months’ pace, but I’m starting to make good progress now.
I think I like this one because it was actually written on guitar instead of on a keyboard. I’m messing with overdrive pedals, trying to find a new sound that makes me happy. I like the rhythm sound here, though it’s a tad toppy. It doesn’t work well for leads though, so I went to an old standby for most of this.
There’s another twist to this months project. I actually wrote lyrics first. Not a lot, just a handful of random couplets. I used one of them here.
The rhythm guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Custom that I think is getting to the point where if the frets aren’t replaced it’s going to be unplayable. Shit. The chain is a Dunlop Crybaby wah into a Klon KTR overdrive pedal into a Keeley Super Phat Mod overdrive pedal into both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The leads are the Les Paul into a Wren and Cuff Tri Pi 70 fuzz pedal into the KTR and the same two amps. The second solo is the same chain as the rhythm with a rotating speaker sim added in the mix.
Verse 1
cover your head and hope that they’re never coming for you
there’s a chance that it’s nothing
but you never know, you never know
Verse 2
There’s no way out for you there’s no way that you can escape
at the end in the darkness
you can never know, you never know
Break
Head to toe in darkness like a ghost in the night
Chorus
One look
One look at it
Middle 8
Covered up in nothing
nothing left to say
covered up in nothing
nothing left to do]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Welcome to December Music. This is my 11th straight month of doing an album in a month project. I’m quite a bit behind the previous months’ pace, but I’m starting to make good progress now.
I think I like this one because it was actually written on guitar instead of on a keyboard. I’m messing with overdrive pedals, trying to find a new sound that makes me happy. I like the rhythm sound here, though it’s a tad toppy. It doesn’t work well for leads though, so I went to an old standby for most of this.
There’s another twist to this months project. I actually wrote lyrics first. Not a lot, just a handful of random couplets. I used one of them here.
The rhythm guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Custom that I think is getting to the point where if the frets aren’t replaced it’s going to be unplayable. Shit. The chain is a Dunlop Crybaby wah into a Klon KTR overdrive pedal into a Keeley Super Phat Mod overdrive pedal into both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The leads are the Les Paul into a Wren and Cuff Tri Pi 70 fuzz pedal into the KTR and the same two amps. The second solo is the same chain as the rhythm with a rotating speaker sim added in the mix.
Verse 1
cover your head and hope that they’re never coming for you
there’s a chance that it’s nothing
but you never know, you never know
Verse 2
There’s no way out for you there’s no way that you can escape
at the end in the darkness
you can never know, you never know
Break
Head to toe in darkness like a ghost in the night
Chorus
One look
One look at it
Middle 8
Covered up in nothing
nothing left to say
covered up in nothing
nothing left to do]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:47:39 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-24T04:47:39+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Voice</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This is a surprise. It was literally a throw away and here I am putting it second on the December playlist. I needed 10 songs and I only had nine so I setup a funky little drum loop, put crap loads of delay on my guitar and just started playing. I wasn’t counting measures or anything so when I changed from a hypothetical A section to a hypothetical B section I didn’t have any idea how long to play or how long I had already played or how long I had to play when I switched back from B to A. Also, when I switched back briefly from A back to B I couldn’t remember what I played, so the last eight bars became a C section. Fascinating,
I changed the drums for each section and added the bass, also more or less live all the way through the song, afterward. I kind of like the melody, especially in the B section, and for the leads I brought out tons of delay again but I set the subdivision differently so it wouldn’t really line up with the rhythm part.
There’s something about going from Eminor to Cmajor in the beginning that makes me think Pink Floyd a little. Did they do something similar on Animals somewhere? I can’t pin it down.
The rhythm guitar is my Gibson Les Paul Custom into a Mooer e-Lady, a Klon KTR, a Wampler Faux Tape Echo, and both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The lead is the same guitar and amps but the pedal chain is a Dunlop Crybaby, an MXR Uni-Vibe, the Klon and the Faux Tape Echo again.
A
Hear that voice
Hear it clearly
Make the choice
Make it simply
fear destroys
so completely
B
Breakthrough could be coming
Feel it right around the bend
It could turn into something
that could set you on your way
No time like the future
one look and you see it all
Take time to find the answer
you had with you all along]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is a surprise. It was literally a throw away and here I am putting it second on the December playlist. I needed 10 songs and I only had nine so I setup a funky little drum loop, put crap loads of delay on my guitar and just started playing. I wasn’t counting measures or anything so when I changed from a hypothetical A section to a hypothetical B section I didn’t have any idea how long to play or how long I had already played or how long I had to play when I switched back from B to A. Also, when I switched back briefly from A back to B I couldn’t remember what I played, so the last eight bars became a C section. Fascinating,
I changed the drums for each section and added the bass, also more or less live all the way through the song, afterward. I kind of like the melody, especially in the B section, and for the leads I brought out tons of delay again but I set the subdivision differently so it wouldn’t really line up with the rhythm part.
There’s something about going from Eminor to Cmajor in the beginning that makes me think Pink Floyd a little. Did they do something similar on Animals somewhere? I can’t pin it down.
The rhythm guitar is my Gibson Les Paul Custom into a Mooer e-Lady, a Klon KTR, a Wampler Faux Tape Echo, and both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The lead is the same guitar and amps but the pedal chain is a Dunlop Crybaby, an MXR Uni-Vibe, the Klon and the Faux Tape Echo again.
A
Hear that voice
Hear it clearly
Make the choice
Make it simply
fear destroys
so completely
B
Breakthrough could be coming
Feel it right around the bend
It could turn into something
that could set you on your way
No time like the future
one look and you see it all
Take time to find the answer
you had with you all along]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:34:24 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-24T05:34:24+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Desperate</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Interesting, this is the third of three songs for this month that were written on guitar rather than the usual keyboard or MIDI bass. Note that the three songs are the first to be mixed, and show up first on the playlist for the month. Does that mean something (yes, it does).
Lots of pedals on this one. I’m trying to try out new overdrive combos this month and this has some of that, but it’s got plenty of sauce on it at times too. The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom. The amps are all Vox AC15 and Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedals for the rhythm tracks are a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The leads are a Dunlop Crybaby into the Klon and the Super Phat Mod again with a Donner Harmonic Square doing the octave effect. The cleanish solo in the middle is the KTR into a Wampler Faux Tape Echo.
I started out this month writing some lyrics rather than my usual music first, lyrics second workflow. I didn’t use everything I wrote, but the chorus on this one came from those early ideas.
Chorus
Desperate to be seen as more than just a stand in
Desperate to be seen as more than just a symptom
Verse
Hidden away
for one more day
can’t let them see
could it be me
Verse
step into line
like its a sign
what its about
try to stand out]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Interesting, this is the third of three songs for this month that were written on guitar rather than the usual keyboard or MIDI bass. Note that the three songs are the first to be mixed, and show up first on the playlist for the month. Does that mean something (yes, it does).
Lots of pedals on this one. I’m trying to try out new overdrive combos this month and this has some of that, but it’s got plenty of sauce on it at times too. The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom. The amps are all Vox AC15 and Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedals for the rhythm tracks are a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The leads are a Dunlop Crybaby into the Klon and the Super Phat Mod again with a Donner Harmonic Square doing the octave effect. The cleanish solo in the middle is the KTR into a Wampler Faux Tape Echo.
I started out this month writing some lyrics rather than my usual music first, lyrics second workflow. I didn’t use everything I wrote, but the chorus on this one came from those early ideas.
Chorus
Desperate to be seen as more than just a stand in
Desperate to be seen as more than just a symptom
Verse
Hidden away
for one more day
can’t let them see
could it be me
Verse
step into line
like its a sign
what its about
try to stand out]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:43:13 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-24T15:43:13+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Detection</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This one… the more I listen to this the less I like it. I was digging the chorus at first but now… did I steal this from someone? I’m starting to think it might be coming from Kings X/Dug Pinnick? Like, if Dug Pinnick was walking down the road and a small meteor fell from the sky and conked him on the head and left him all fuzzy and then he fell down a flight of stairs and landed on a guitar and wrote the first thing that came to him it would sound like this song only a few hundred thousand times better. Something like that? Anyone else picking up that vibe?
Anyway, when I write riffs I think like a computer, in powers of two. My phrases are either one bar, or two bars, or four bars, or eight bars, or 16 bars (we’re ignoring the hundreds of millions of 12-bar blues I’ve mangled over the years because the math doesn’t work out). Fortunately, the session drummers in GarageBand work in similar patterns. I almost always keep the drum sections in eight bar chunks, and the drummer function will add fills in the middle and at the end (usually). So phrases whose length is a power or two will end up with drum fills in approximately the right places.
Not this sucker. This suckers phrases are three bars, then three bars, then two bars. Using an eight bar segment for the drums put a fill at the end of the fourth bar, which is right in the middle of the second phrase which is right in the wrong place. I had to chop of the drummer segments into the appropriate lengths and then tweak the fills to fit correctly. It worked, but it ended up sounding like Keith Moon having a bad, lazy day. Oh well.
The guitars are all my Gibson Les Paul Custom. The amps are all a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (I used them both on every take). The pedal chain for the rhythm is a Dunlop Crybaby into a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. I’m really trying to find a home for that Keeley… it’s just… not quite there. The leads were the Klon into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Donner Yellow Fall delay. I’m really trying to find a home for that Blooze Maker… it’s just… not quite there.
Verse
give me one reason I should stay
there has to be a better way
can’t take much more of this
the truth is hard for you to take
its not a thing that you can fake
I’m really tired of this
Chorus
soul defection detection
this is my
brain infection detection
this is my]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This one… the more I listen to this the less I like it. I was digging the chorus at first but now… did I steal this from someone? I’m starting to think it might be coming from Kings X/Dug Pinnick? Like, if Dug Pinnick was walking down the road and a small meteor fell from the sky and conked him on the head and left him all fuzzy and then he fell down a flight of stairs and landed on a guitar and wrote the first thing that came to him it would sound like this song only a few hundred thousand times better. Something like that? Anyone else picking up that vibe?
Anyway, when I write riffs I think like a computer, in powers of two. My phrases are either one bar, or two bars, or four bars, or eight bars, or 16 bars (we’re ignoring the hundreds of millions of 12-bar blues I’ve mangled over the years because the math doesn’t work out). Fortunately, the session drummers in GarageBand work in similar patterns. I almost always keep the drum sections in eight bar chunks, and the drummer function will add fills in the middle and at the end (usually). So phrases whose length is a power or two will end up with drum fills in approximately the right places.
Not this sucker. This suckers phrases are three bars, then three bars, then two bars. Using an eight bar segment for the drums put a fill at the end of the fourth bar, which is right in the middle of the second phrase which is right in the wrong place. I had to chop of the drummer segments into the appropriate lengths and then tweak the fills to fit correctly. It worked, but it ended up sounding like Keith Moon having a bad, lazy day. Oh well.
The guitars are all my Gibson Les Paul Custom. The amps are all a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (I used them both on every take). The pedal chain for the rhythm is a Dunlop Crybaby into a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. I’m really trying to find a home for that Keeley… it’s just… not quite there. The leads were the Klon into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Donner Yellow Fall delay. I’m really trying to find a home for that Blooze Maker… it’s just… not quite there.
Verse
give me one reason I should stay
there has to be a better way
can’t take much more of this
the truth is hard for you to take
its not a thing that you can fake
I’m really tired of this
Chorus
soul defection detection
this is my
brain infection detection
this is my]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:27:15 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-24T21:27:15+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Recounts</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[December 2020 and he posts a song called recounts… I wonder what this one’s about.
I don’t hate this one, but it’s close. It’s okay, I guess. I’m trying new pedal/amp setting combinations this month and it pretty much all sounds like crap to me.
All of the guitar tracks are a Gibson Les Paul Custom, and all tracks used both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. For pedals, the rhythm tracks used a Mooer e-Lady into a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The chain for the leads was the Klon KTR again into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Donner Yellow Fall.
A - H
so can we please put end to all this bullshit now
loser time to go
and don’t you dare try to tell me that it isn’t so
No losers are allowed
B - D - I
all counted
you lose my friend
re counted
you lose again
C
so once again you are acting like a spoiled child
you lose every time
and we all know you are guilty of a thousand crimes
eternally reviled]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[December 2020 and he posts a song called recounts… I wonder what this one’s about.
I don’t hate this one, but it’s close. It’s okay, I guess. I’m trying new pedal/amp setting combinations this month and it pretty much all sounds like crap to me.
All of the guitar tracks are a Gibson Les Paul Custom, and all tracks used both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. For pedals, the rhythm tracks used a Mooer e-Lady into a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The chain for the leads was the Klon KTR again into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Donner Yellow Fall.
A - H
so can we please put end to all this bullshit now
loser time to go
and don’t you dare try to tell me that it isn’t so
No losers are allowed
B - D - I
all counted
you lose my friend
re counted
you lose again
C
so once again you are acting like a spoiled child
you lose every time
and we all know you are guilty of a thousand crimes
eternally reviled]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 22:05:22 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-24T22:05:22+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Sides</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[This one isn’t bad. Simple, basic, somehow it has two choruses… not sure how that happened. It kinda feels single worthy, as if this little monthly thing were an actual album which is pretty laughable. Maybe it’s good enough to go onto some future re-recording project. Probably not.
The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom, and the amps are all Vox AC15 and Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedal chain for the rhythm guitar is an MXR Uni-Vibe into a Klon KTR, into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. For the leads it was just a Wren and Cuff Tri Pi ’70 into the Klon KTR.
Intro
So Much Time to Kill
So much left to get to
Held against your will
Nothing else you can do
Verse
Its time for you to choose a side
what you stand for
Its time for you to decide
What will you do
No way that you could pass this up
Don’t let this slide
Wish you every kind of luck
No place to hide
Chorus
everything that you could be
is rising up to meet you
everything that you can see
Is just about to come true]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This one isn’t bad. Simple, basic, somehow it has two choruses… not sure how that happened. It kinda feels single worthy, as if this little monthly thing were an actual album which is pretty laughable. Maybe it’s good enough to go onto some future re-recording project. Probably not.
The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom, and the amps are all Vox AC15 and Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedal chain for the rhythm guitar is an MXR Uni-Vibe into a Klon KTR, into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. For the leads it was just a Wren and Cuff Tri Pi ’70 into the Klon KTR.
Intro
So Much Time to Kill
So much left to get to
Held against your will
Nothing else you can do
Verse
Its time for you to choose a side
what you stand for
Its time for you to decide
What will you do
No way that you could pass this up
Don’t let this slide
Wish you every kind of luck
No place to hide
Chorus
everything that you could be
is rising up to meet you
everything that you can see
Is just about to come true]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2020 20:21:31 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-26T20:21:31+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Glance</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Let’s address the one bar long elephant in the room. I was recording guitars and just riffing along, oblivious to the world when I reached bar #59 and the bass and drums dropped out. I just kept playing even though I had neglected to put in a place holder to help me stay in time. I had even failed to keep the built in click track on. I just blew threw it as if I was some kind of musician who actually has a good sense of time. Then instead of going back and fixing my dumb ass mistake I left it there. Is it in time? Mostly, yes. Is it good enough for me to live with it, even for a recording that isn’t anything more than a demo? No. So what is a guy working on a mix to do? Well, take the last four beats and flip them around so they play backwards, of course. Problem solved in a manner that Syd Barrett would likely have approved of. Genius level laziness, if I do say so myself.
As for the song as a whole, it’s not too terrible. I had the whole verse section in my head before I started working on it, but I think it was going to be faster and a lot bluesier. I’m not upset that it changed, but I wonder if it could have been better if I’d stuck to the plan.
All of the guitar parts are a Gibson Les Paul Custom and the amps (two amps on every take) were a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox AC15. The pedal chain for the rhythm parts was a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The leads had a Dunlop Crybaby into the Klon into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter into a Donner (I think?) Harmonic Square for the down octave effect.
A - G
first glance and you think you have it
no chance you could get it right
its not of this earth
good luck try to figure it out
C - K
feels like it could come together
sit tight till the time is right
of your own making
have fun watching it collapse
D - H
It could happen
No time like now]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Let’s address the one bar long elephant in the room. I was recording guitars and just riffing along, oblivious to the world when I reached bar #59 and the bass and drums dropped out. I just kept playing even though I had neglected to put in a place holder to help me stay in time. I had even failed to keep the built in click track on. I just blew threw it as if I was some kind of musician who actually has a good sense of time. Then instead of going back and fixing my dumb ass mistake I left it there. Is it in time? Mostly, yes. Is it good enough for me to live with it, even for a recording that isn’t anything more than a demo? No. So what is a guy working on a mix to do? Well, take the last four beats and flip them around so they play backwards, of course. Problem solved in a manner that Syd Barrett would likely have approved of. Genius level laziness, if I do say so myself.
As for the song as a whole, it’s not too terrible. I had the whole verse section in my head before I started working on it, but I think it was going to be faster and a lot bluesier. I’m not upset that it changed, but I wonder if it could have been better if I’d stuck to the plan.
All of the guitar parts are a Gibson Les Paul Custom and the amps (two amps on every take) were a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox AC15. The pedal chain for the rhythm parts was a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The leads had a Dunlop Crybaby into the Klon into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter into a Donner (I think?) Harmonic Square for the down octave effect.
A - G
first glance and you think you have it
no chance you could get it right
its not of this earth
good luck try to figure it out
C - K
feels like it could come together
sit tight till the time is right
of your own making
have fun watching it collapse
D - H
It could happen
No time like now]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:22:58 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-28T14:22:58+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Far</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Usually when I do an album in a month thingie the first idea that comes to me ends up being the best song. Not this time. This song is the first of the month and I’d give it an “eh” at best. King Crimson fans might get a giggle of pity out of my very much intentional lifting of a little bit of Starless. You’re welcome. Also, the downside of writing the lyrics off mic is that you might end up rhyming ours with hours and not catching it until you’ve already finished singing it. File under: Ooops.
The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedal chain for the rhythm tracks is a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat mod. The leads are the Klon into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter and a little Donner Yellow Fall for some slap back.
B - E - J
Count the days
its ending soon
There could be some changes coming
C - G
We have the chance to start again
A second change to get it right
we see it to the end and then
a better way is in our sights
D - I
The choice is ours
The final hours
we’ve come so far
We’ve come so far]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Usually when I do an album in a month thingie the first idea that comes to me ends up being the best song. Not this time. This song is the first of the month and I’d give it an “eh” at best. King Crimson fans might get a giggle of pity out of my very much intentional lifting of a little bit of Starless. You’re welcome. Also, the downside of writing the lyrics off mic is that you might end up rhyming ours with hours and not catching it until you’ve already finished singing it. File under: Ooops.
The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedal chain for the rhythm tracks is a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat mod. The leads are the Klon into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter and a little Donner Yellow Fall for some slap back.
B - E - J
Count the days
its ending soon
There could be some changes coming
C - G
We have the chance to start again
A second change to get it right
we see it to the end and then
a better way is in our sights
D - I
The choice is ours
The final hours
we’ve come so far
We’ve come so far]]></itunes:summary>
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                                        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:48:57 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-28T14:48:57+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Fuss</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[I didn’t have very much hope for this one as I was working on it, but now that it’s done I kinda like it. It’s not a hit by any stretch, but it’s kinda fun to play and not so bad to listen to (in my uber biased and 100% non-objective opinion). Two things. The little two bar bridge at the end of the second guitar solo had to be changed because I played it totally wrong when I was tracking the rhythm guitar and I just didn’t have it in me to go back and play it again. The compromise was to change the bass part (which is just MIDI, not a real bass) to match the incorrect guitar. Second, if you listen close to the rhythm guitar there is a moment when I pushed the low E string off of the neck. It’s a little flub that only lasts a brief instance, but it’s there.
The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom and the amps are all Fender Bassbreaker 15 and Vox AC15. The pedals for the rhyhtm parts are a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The lead is the Klon into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter and a Donner Yellow Fall.
B - E
I gaze upon the sky and try to think it through
the question puzzles me I don’t know what to do
C - F - K
I think on how to proceed I can’t work it out
If only I knew what the fuss was all about
D - L
I know I could find a way
through all the chaos
someone’s gonna have to pay
whoever they are
H
Lock it down
shut me In
its the thing to do
look around
take the win
see it through]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I didn’t have very much hope for this one as I was working on it, but now that it’s done I kinda like it. It’s not a hit by any stretch, but it’s kinda fun to play and not so bad to listen to (in my uber biased and 100% non-objective opinion). Two things. The little two bar bridge at the end of the second guitar solo had to be changed because I played it totally wrong when I was tracking the rhythm guitar and I just didn’t have it in me to go back and play it again. The compromise was to change the bass part (which is just MIDI, not a real bass) to match the incorrect guitar. Second, if you listen close to the rhythm guitar there is a moment when I pushed the low E string off of the neck. It’s a little flub that only lasts a brief instance, but it’s there.
The guitars are all Gibson Les Paul Custom and the amps are all Fender Bassbreaker 15 and Vox AC15. The pedals for the rhyhtm parts are a Klon KTR into a Keeley Super Phat Mod. The lead is the Klon into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter and a Donner Yellow Fall.
B - E
I gaze upon the sky and try to think it through
the question puzzles me I don’t know what to do
C - F - K
I think on how to proceed I can’t work it out
If only I knew what the fuss was all about
D - L
I know I could find a way
through all the chaos
someone’s gonna have to pay
whoever they are
H
Lock it down
shut me In
its the thing to do
look around
take the win
see it through]]></itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://img.hearthis.at/o/c/3/_/uploads/22365/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_75edacec57c7cebd106dab487d8596761554302639021d61bee3co.jpg" />
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                                        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 03:32:24 +0100</pubDate>
                                        
                                        <atom:updated>2020-12-29T03:32:24+01:00</atom:updated>
                                        
                                    
                                    <artist>Robert</artist>
                                    <title>Blame</title>
                                    <description><![CDATA[Is it obvious from listening to this that I was over it long before the tracking was finished? It’s a sloppy mess and it deserves it. Listening back now, it’s maybe not as bad as I thought it was, but it’s still not that good.
Are we tired of me playing dotted eighth note delay games yet? The Edge, I aint, dig? Can you hear the spot where I had recorded a section with the delay and then edited something out? Like I said, sloppy. The delay pedal I use doesn’t do trails so you can hear when I shut it off mid-take. Oh well.
The guitar parts are all Gibson Les Paul Custom through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedal chain for the rhythm parts is a Mooer E-Lady into a Klon KTR (I really like that combo) into a Wampler Faux Tape Echo 2.o. The leads are a Dunlop Crybaby into the Klon into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker.
What does this mean
how can we be
so in between
don’t look at me
I did my part
right at the start
I felt so smart
stabbed through the heart
———
Don’t look at me
I set you free
you couldn’t see
how it should be
you threw the game
your self to blame
you have no shame
you’re all the same
————
Everything you’ve every known
everything you’ve ever shown
every chance you’ve ever blown
back to you]]></description>
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                                    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
                                    <itunes:email>contact@hearthis.at</itunes:email>
                                    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is it obvious from listening to this that I was over it long before the tracking was finished? It’s a sloppy mess and it deserves it. Listening back now, it’s maybe not as bad as I thought it was, but it’s still not that good.
Are we tired of me playing dotted eighth note delay games yet? The Edge, I aint, dig? Can you hear the spot where I had recorded a section with the delay and then edited something out? Like I said, sloppy. The delay pedal I use doesn’t do trails so you can hear when I shut it off mid-take. Oh well.
The guitar parts are all Gibson Les Paul Custom through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15. The pedal chain for the rhythm parts is a Mooer E-Lady into a Klon KTR (I really like that combo) into a Wampler Faux Tape Echo 2.o. The leads are a Dunlop Crybaby into the Klon into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker.
What does this mean
how can we be
so in between
don’t look at me
I did my part
right at the start
I felt so smart
stabbed through the heart
———
Don’t look at me
I set you free
you couldn’t see
how it should be
you threw the game
your self to blame
you have no shame
you’re all the same
————
Everything you’ve every known
everything you’ve ever shown
every chance you’ve ever blown
back to you]]></itunes:summary>
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