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What do YOU think my band should do?
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Now is the time on MOG when I seek your advice, dear reader, about a possible change in musical direction, or rather our approach to live performance, that we're contemplating.You've probably never heard our music, but we're an acoustically-based trio usually comprised of two guitars and a bass, with 3 strong vocalists resulting in some occasionally very dense harmonies of which I've always bee...
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And one more ...
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Track:Tall Tales and Nightingales
Here's another song from my band's CD, one of the ones we've considered as test cases for the experiment using backing tracks on stage (see previous MOG entry).This one is potentially more problematic because it's the most drum-heavy song on the album. I'm certain we'd have to replace the over-the-top 'In the Air Tonight' drums with something a little more sedate, but there's more other stuff g...
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I should try being cranky more often!
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Track:Falling Apart
After last week's crankiness actually seemed to get a response from people, I feel like I should be grumpy again, but I just don't have it in me.Alas, another thing I don't have in me is the time or capacity to do a song-a-week every week. For SAW, we rotate, mostly among the three members of Haiku Rd., which means that I'm up about once every three weeks. But just as an experiment in contrasts, I
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The latest Song-a-Week
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Track:Magnificent Violence (Summer Rain)
It was my turn to churn out a Song-a-Week song this Monday, and so I did.The first thing I did putting this together was to assemble an electric guitar track consisting of 16th-note power chords over drum loops. Then I added the bass guitar. So far so good, I thought. Finally a song that doesn't rely too much on electronics!OK, so then I added some keyboard pads, mostly to make the bridges stan...
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