Check out my bands song
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Topic: Check out my bands song
Posted By: himtroy
Subject: Check out my bands song
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 15:18
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My band self recorded our first actual song recently. Before that it was all just jam sessions. The recording quality is higher than anything I've ever played on as of now and I'm pretty proud of how it went. It has some progressive tendencies, and a very heavily psychedelic section. I am on organ and synth in it, which I've been playing for about a year (was a guitarist before that). The instrument set up is Drums, Bass, Guitar, Sax, Organ/synth. Its was for the most part recorded live with the acoustic guitar and certain lead parts put in afterwards. It started as a composition of mine in a music class and has evolved greatly. Theres multiple key changes and it also shows the beginning of our use of alternate time signatures. (intro is 7/8 and 4/4 alternating at different tempos).Hopefully you'll enjoy it! http://home.comcast.net/~mmp31/song.mp3 - http://home.comcast.net/~mmp31/song.mp3
------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
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Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 17:09
| Dude this is sick! I really enjoyed it, are you guys working on more? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 17:22
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Excellent! It's jazzy, but psychedelic and avantgard-ish at the same time. That's probably why it reminds me of Soft Machine's Third. If the guitar solo was an extended sax solo it would have also reminded me of early VdGG. The musicianship is very good, and the musical ideas are good too. The sound of course goes back to '68-'71 but I like that it doesn't sound as retro prog at all. And all the keyboard parts are exceptional. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 23:33
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Thank you very much. Unfortunately it's kind of a doomed project it seems though. Other than the guitarist we're all about to graduate high school, our drummer is leaving for the marines immediately after graduating and we're all going to different schools. If we can find a replacement drummer we can hopefully keep it going. I have my eye on one right now.
And yeah you hit the nail on the head, Soft Machine is definitely one of the main reasons I started playing organ. And I'm very into VDGG too, which seems pretty obvious through the organ in some of the trippy sections in that jam. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 02:49
The piece was much longer than I expected. I think I logged out of PA before it was over.  Anyway, this is the best "unsigned" music I've heard since long ago. Whatever you guys do, together or each on his own road, you'll do a great job I'm sure.  |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 07:05
don't have time to listen to it all, but I will eventually!! It sounds really good though!
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Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 09:35
Can I cover it with my band?
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 10:54
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Yeah, I'd definitely recommend hearing the entire thing, the transition out of the trippy sections is pretty ridiculous. Hopefully I can try to accomplish something with music, but it seems very unlikely as of now. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 11:01
Hah, you could. Have fun figuring out those harmonies. The 7/8 intro is something absurd like me on organ playing the riff, my guitarist playing the minor third harmony, and the sax player doing the minor seventh harmony. I'm definitely going to miss this line up of musicians. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
AbrahamSapien wrote:Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 22:45
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We just played our first show with this lineup and it was also really the first time many people heard that song. It went pretty well I'd say. Since everyone else there was really poppy we got some pretty odd reactions to the Hammond Organ being there, as well as some odd looks during the trippy section. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 23:07
Epic win! This really sounds like classic Canterbury. I mean seriously, this is some high-quality stuff. Great job.
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 23:10
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You guys get an A+ in progmanship. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Nakatira
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 11:01
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Fantastic I get some gnidrolog vibes from this. amazing stuff. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 23:10
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Thank you very much. Being compared to Canterbury music could not satisfy me more as it is my favorite genre. I'm definitely thinking I want to get all the recording gear together and record a more jammed out live version of this song. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: May 23 2010 at 08:10
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well done ... even a swinging drum solo ... would like to hear more 
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 23 2010 at 19:54
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Yeah, at our show on friday our drummer went absolutely insane at his solo section. Amazing energy. Losing him is going to hurt us pretty bad. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: May 24 2010 at 07:55
Four minutes in, really good sounding stuff  There goes the drummer now, grooving nicely...------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: May 24 2010 at 13:52
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Nice. I'm enjoying it, and that's what counts for me. ------------- "Es ist übrigens unmöglich, eine Meinung zu haben, ohne dass es unerfreuliche Überschneidungen gibt. Die Grünen sind für den deutschen Wald, die NPD ebenfalls." |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: May 25 2010 at 13:02
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So this band is about to break up. My drummer is leaving, and the guitarist is focussing on his other band and working full time. The sax player is around for two months then most likely will be away at school. I'm going to attempt to keep it going somehow. I really wouldn't mind an organ trio (organ, bass, drums), and then when we can sax added in, but I'm scared about not having a band to jam with for a while. I seem to have no options of people to play with. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |