My Band :-(
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Topic: My Band :-(
Posted By: Soulman
Subject: My Band :-(
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 05:11
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Hey guys, I just want to get some opinions of my band from my prog peers. These are just recordings that my friends and I did together. Although we were formally of undeveloped bands, we had never played together before this point. I'm hoping we'll get to show our more symphonic-y progressive in later songs. I'm on lead guitar  and Zappa-esque vocals on "Harold Takes a walk"....enjoy and please commentCriticisms and Comments? http://www.myspace.com/allthekingsmen69 - http://www.myspace.com/allthekingsmen99 ------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't Kill the Whale, Dig it Dig it" - Jon Anderson I shall live by those words all my life Jon |
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Posted By: Soulman
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 05:48
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Do yourself a favour and don't listen to the Hi-fi link...it screwed up the song. or else just download the mp3
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Posted By: HeirToRuin
Date Posted: April 02 2006 at 10:36
thanks 
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Posted By: CaptainTomahawk
Date Posted: April 03 2006 at 10:07
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Hey man i've just listened too Harold takes a walk! not so keen on the first couple of minutes but i really started to get into the song at about the 4 minute mark! Good Guitar playing throughout! Looking forward to hearing some more man! |
Posted By: Soulman
Date Posted: April 03 2006 at 19:19
Thanks so much for the comment dude. I guess I'm not that bad of a guitar player after all  ...Maybe one day we'll be play together as headliners at some Prog Festival...that'd be so awsome. ------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't Kill the Whale, Dig it Dig it" - Jon Anderson I shall live by those words all my life Jon |
Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: April 03 2006 at 20:27
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lol. im almost done with Harold Takes A Walk. the dialogue is so funny. I like it. *thumbs up* .. And you arent a bad guitarist at all. better than me. |
Posted By: pinball_wizard
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 18:29
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uhh...umm..i listened to Paint It Black. Dude, who's singing and was he drugged that day? He sounds half dead! As for Harold Takes A Walk, i dig it. I like your guys playing, i'm just not sure about your singer. ------------- See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 11:04
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Alright, time for me to be a dick. Paint it Black was...messy, but I've heard worse. The guitar solo was great, though I'm not sure if it fit the song too well. The vocals were...somewhat uninspiring. Harold Land was very entertaining, nice job on that one. Sorry for being a douche, don't take any of this too seriously, it's just one person's opinion. You do sound good on that guitar though.  -------------  |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 12:16
you all have a long way to go but full credit to you for trying! -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: cowbell1
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 13:34
| Is the drummer using splash cymbals all the time? |
Posted By: Soulman
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 23:49
Well we were recording all of this live inside our drummer's basement through a PA and into a computer. Unfortunately, we didn't even consider putting alot of mics on the drum set, so the sound sort of suffered; especially since the unidirectional mic we were using on the drums wasn't really focused towards the crash cymbals he was using.
Your comment is well noted, as I'm sure everyone here and everyone I know who has listened to that song, didn't like the vocals. Luckily for you guys, that was entirely a time one time thing and he will not be and never will be our vocalist. We've already finished worked on two songs on which the keyboardist and I do vocal harmonizing and such on...so hopefully it will be an improvemnt. As for the messiness of the presentation. Yes it would be for people who listen to prog rock. The song comes off a little punkish in how driving it is, but at that point we had only been jamming for awhile and didn't really attempt to do any complete songs. So at the last minute for an audition demo we made those songs, which luckily got us in (well its a youth band event).
Thanks for your comment! It looks like everyone else problem has stolen yours. But yes, I do hope these songs will be the beginning to an evolution of this band towards some greater...something more progressive. ------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't Kill the Whale, Dig it Dig it" - Jon Anderson I shall live by those words all my life Jon |
cowbell1 wrote:Posted By: Soulman
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 00:33
It's called Harold takes a Walk...but hell, we should cover "Harold Land" by Yes . And don't worry, we need some criticism anyhow, to help us work on our sound...but that's so much for the compliment.------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't Kill the Whale, Dig it Dig it" - Jon Anderson I shall live by those words all my life Jon |
Posted By: magoo
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 19:02
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I clicked on the link and it said the members page was removed ... ?????? |
Posted By: Soulman
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 14:00
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Sorry I changed the link slightly, just a couple days ago....I'll change the link at the top of my post as well but its http://www.myspace.com/allthekingsmen99 - http://www.myspace.com/allthekingsmen99 ------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't Kill the Whale, Dig it Dig it" - Jon Anderson I shall live by those words all my life Jon |
Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 23:51
man this band is so awesome!! i love it!! better than GG King Crimson and Yes combined!!
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Posted By: Soulman
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 00:58
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^^^^^^. he's actually in the band (rhythm guitarist)
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Posted By: Nakatira
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 08:13
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Listen to Paint it black.
I love this tune, one of the stones best.
The band could use some more playing together, its not as tight as it could be, that being said its not bad.
Some more practice could take you far.
Try Some compressor and verb on the vox, pluss cut eq at 100hz.
The drums needs to come up more, specially the bass and snare, maybe use one mic on the bass and one the snare and one over head.
The guitar also need some more beef, theire a bit skinny, the bass sounded the best to me.
a lttle compressor on it and its set to go.
Hope you find this as constructive critisizme.
JUSt keep working it, it sounds as I you guys enjoy your playing, and you should.
Keep it up. ------------- http://daccord-music.com/home.cfm |
Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 00:29
Sorry man, my mistake.  ------------- |