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<p>For a while I have wanted to put out an album of material that would represent a side of me that has not totally been revealed via all of the other projects I have done.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Obviously its me so some things compositionally will be familar but for the most part it would have its own vibe.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The other desire I had was to write and play all of the instruments myself.&nbsp; I have been wanting to express myself on different instruments for some time and this project has allowed that freedom which at first was scary but&nbsp;now has proven to be very liberating!</p>
<p>I am one song away from&nbsp;completing the album which is a month ahead of my self imposed schedule!&nbsp; And I thought I would turn you folks onto&nbsp;some of the music&nbsp;for some initial (good or bad) reactions.&nbsp; Check it out!&nbsp; <a href="http://www.trinityrecords.net/BLUESYNDROME">http://www.trinityrecords.net/BLUESYNDROME</a></p>
<p>I will be adding some of the tunes here once I get the project pressed.&nbsp; Thanks in advance for your time and consideration!</p>
<p>All the best,</p>
<p>Rob&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Introduction:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Daytona Red : well thats me and my good friend Peter Considine from Aus. He's the guy doing the guitar and I bet he's known to many artists here by variuos names.They all mean the same though Peter is one talented guy who conjures things on his acooustic guitar that others can only imagine.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Myself and Pete did a project a few years ago called Daytona Red...he helped me express things in music which I hadn't been able to do before.This is an example.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This is a remastered version of My Uncertain Feelings:&nbsp;couple of points worth a mention The guitar solo was played by me on a Korg synth apologies to all you guitarheads out there ! and some of the synth sounds you hear were generated by Petes acoustic guitar .</strong></p>
<p><strong>I dedicate this to Pete&nbsp;" Uncertain Feelings " they really do ease Pete- thankyou for this track and all the others I still remeber the&nbsp;shock when we did Sex Cells&nbsp;!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sly</strong></p>

<p>Just wanted to thank everyone for their feedback on the Prison of Love song I did with Carol Douglas' lyrics.</p>
<p>Most appreciative!!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.imusicscene.com/Rob_Grant/music.php">http://www.imusicscene.com/Rob_Grant/music.php</a></p>
<p>Our collab song title...This Far</p>
<p>Rob Grant, Gary Carciello and I collabed...It was real fun until Robs computer died....BUT where there`s a will there`s a way, or so they say and we did it anyway...eheheee...We had to use what we had to hand and mixed the ingredients carefully...:-)&nbsp;We like it,&nbsp;&nbsp;hope you like it too.</p>
<p>Peace n love&nbsp; Mags&nbsp; xx </p>

<p>In our never ending quest to make iMS the best music&nbsp;site out there we have asked Nigel Potter to join the Moderator Team! I think most everyone knows Nigel and what kind of person he is. This is a wonderful addition to the iMS Team and I could not be happier that he has joined the team.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Dazed</p>

<p>Bug fixes are coming in slowly. You have probably seen a few corrections already. Getting close to sorting them all out!</p>
<p>Some of you are going to notice that Rapster's Corner is no longer on the front page. After seeing some discussions go south a bit, Rapster and I agreed it was better suited having these discussions in the forum. I am open for all sorts of discussions and I love reading the different viewpoints. We all need to stay professional in our replies! Since the front page is the first thing new members or potential new members see, I did not want to see any negtivity flying around. Thanks Joe for taking the high road on this. It is appreciated.</p>
<p><br />On Saturday May 10th we will have an interview with <a href="/mark_cloutier/">Mark Cloutier</a>.
Mark has a new CD out and we will be playing many of the songs as well
as getting to know him a little better. We will be in the <a href="/chat/">iMS Chat Room</a> from 9PM Eastern Standard Time until whenever everyone leaves!<br /><br /> After the Interview, we will play the songs from the iMS Songwriting Challenge! <a href="http://www.imusicscene.com/Carol_Douglas">Carol Douglas</a> wrote some great lyrics for Prisoner of Love so we will be playing all of the songs that have been submitted so far!</p>
<p><a href="/mike_kohlgraf/"><img src="/images/email_images/mike.gif" border="0" alt="Saturday Night Rocks" align="middle" /></a><br /><br /> iMS Radio is now a reality! We are pleased to announce that <a href="/mike_kohlgraf/">Mike-K</a> will be broadcasting beginning May 17th from 8PM to Midnight Eastern Standard Time so please join us in the <a href="/chat/">iMS Chat Room</a> for the Saturday Night Rocks show with your host Mike K! Mike has been a moderator at Soundclick for some time so many of you may know him from there. His radio show has been running for 4 years so we are pleased he has made iMS his knew home. We have a <a href="http://www.imusicscene.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=104&amp;t=11916">New Radio DJ Forum</a> you can check out when you have time. Please feel free to ask Mike any questions you maye have! I think that speaks volumes to the quality of members here! <br /><br /> Mike will be featuring many of the artist from iMS as well as some
other Indie artists you may not have heard of before. I am sure Mike
will be looking for some Artist Promo's so if you have time, please
take a moment and do one. Have fun, be creative. <br /><br />We also wanted to mention that we have created a new <a href="/forum/viewtopic.php?f=103&amp;t=11911">Songwriting Forum</a>.
We asked if the members would be interested in this forum and we
received a lot of positive feedback so it is now open for business.
This is a great way to get some feedback on lyrics before you finish
the song and hear all the lyric/arrangement suggestions after the fact!!</p>
<p>VenueStudio aka Kent has also put together an iMS Promotion Video for us. Have a look!</p>
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<p>Thanks for your support everyone!</p>
<p>Dazed</p>

I’d like to thank everybody who reviewed “Rob Grant Is Back!!!” I appreciate your kind words, gentlemen. However, I would also like to clear any possible misconceptions and publicly admit that I can’t play with that speed and superhuman precision. It’s all modern technology pros and cons of which we discussed recently. Even though I didn’t use any samples and played the Czardas myself, I can’t in good faith accept the praise for my musicianship because the track was heavily edited. I can, however, accept the praise of my editing skills. LOL! So there it is – I’m a cheater. But I’m not that bad and I still love making music! LOL. I hope you guys won’t lose respect for my modest musical ventures after this confession.

DrC

<p>if you wanna know what happened to the rapster's corner blog.. listen to this one.. been there before.. done it again.. cheers..</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imusicscene.com/comment.php?mode=view_comments&amp;type=song&amp;band_id=821&amp;song_id=4301&amp;template=review.tpl">http://www.imusicscene.com/comment.php?mode=view_comments&amp;type=song&amp;band_id=821&amp;song_id=4301&amp;template=review.tpl</a></p>
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<p>and here's rapster's corner if you like a dynamic read.. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.imusicscene.com/rapsters_corner/">http://www.imusicscene.com/rapsters_corner/</a></p>

Just wanted to say thanks to Carol Douglas for posting her lyrics for everyone. I had fun writing some music for it.

Kent (venuestudio) did a great job on the mix of this song as well so thank you very much!

Dazed

Im just an avid music listener. Cant play my way out of a paper bag....