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Re: Into The Chasm
07/24/26 08:47:09PM
1 Week: Rich Lodato
I have always loved this journey of splendidness.
07/24/26 08:47:09PM
1 Week: Rich Lodato
I have always loved this journey of splendidness.
Re: "LOCKED AND LOADED"
07/24/26 11:04:25AM
1 Week: RON DADEY
07/24/26 11:04:25AM
1 Week: RON DADEY
cooter:
Full throttle, all cylinders firing and epic right out of the gate. Mighty fine good sir! Just a killer tune and your musicianship is off the charts, RD! Love it.
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Full throttle, all cylinders firing and epic right out of the gate. Mighty fine good sir! Just a killer tune and your musicianship is off the charts, RD! Love it.
Re: At One
07/23/26 11:22:53AM
1 Week: Rich Lodato
07/23/26 11:22:53AM
1 Week: Rich Lodato
Farrell Jackson:
A wonderful song, Rich! The acoustic picking and sound is so ethereal. Great vocals as I've come to expect from you and you didn't disappoint...very cool!
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A wonderful song, Rich! The acoustic picking and sound is so ethereal. Great vocals as I've come to expect from you and you didn't disappoint...very cool!
Re: "REMEMBER WHEN?"
07/23/26 11:02:52AM
1 Week: RON DADEY
[quote="Farrell Jackson"]
This is great Ron D! Excellent, creative playing. The section from the 3 to 2:10 minute countdown is a brilliant production technique when the lower register guitar plays...
07/23/26 11:02:52AM
1 Week: RON DADEY
[quote="Farrell Jackson"]
This is great Ron D! Excellent, creative playing. The section from the 3 to 2:10 minute countdown is a brilliant production technique when the lower register guitar plays...
Re: At One
07/23/26 09:51:41AM
1 Week: Farrell Jackson
A wonderful song, Rich! The acoustic picking and sound is so ethereal. Great vocals as I've come to expect from you and you didn't disappoint...very cool!
07/23/26 09:51:41AM
1 Week: Farrell Jackson
A wonderful song, Rich! The acoustic picking and sound is so ethereal. Great vocals as I've come to expect from you and you didn't disappoint...very cool!
Re: "REMEMBER WHEN?"
07/23/26 09:48:30AM
1 Week: Farrell Jackson
This is great Ron D! Excellent, creative playing. The section from the 3 to 2:10 minute countdown is a brilliant production technique when the lower register guitar plays the back up for the main...
07/23/26 09:48:30AM
1 Week: Farrell Jackson
This is great Ron D! Excellent, creative playing. The section from the 3 to 2:10 minute countdown is a brilliant production technique when the lower register guitar plays the back up for the main...
Re: The Hollowed...
07/23/26 12:10:39AM
1 Week: The Hollowed
[quote="cooter"]
I'm going to do my best to leave you two a BillB inspired comment. Cause I dig his comments: Here are two humans void of pride and prejudice unleashing waves of creativity and...
07/23/26 12:10:39AM
1 Week: The Hollowed
[quote="cooter"]
I'm going to do my best to leave you two a BillB inspired comment. Cause I dig his comments: Here are two humans void of pride and prejudice unleashing waves of creativity and...
Re: At One
07/22/26 01:39:38AM
1 Week: Rich Lodato
07/22/26 01:39:38AM
1 Week: Rich Lodato
cooter:
Brother Chef Rich, that is beautiful, good sir. I love the everything about this!
Thank you Brother Cooter!
Brother Chef Rich, that is beautiful, good sir. I love the everything about this!
Re: At One
07/21/26 11:59:23PM
1 Week: cooter
Brother Chef Rich, that is beautiful, good sir. I love the everything about this!
07/21/26 11:59:23PM
1 Week: cooter
Brother Chef Rich, that is beautiful, good sir. I love the everything about this!
Re: The Hollowed...
07/20/26 09:34:08PM
1 Week: cooter
I'm going to do my best to leave you two a BillB inspired comment. Cause I dig his comments: Here are two humans void of pride and prejudice unleashing waves of creativity and originality running...
07/20/26 09:34:08PM
1 Week: cooter
I'm going to do my best to leave you two a BillB inspired comment. Cause I dig his comments: Here are two humans void of pride and prejudice unleashing waves of creativity and originality running...
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Thank you Toni! The lyrics from one of my favourite songs from 30 years ago - Deacon Blue's "Dignity" - have always made me feel a certain way, and I think it was in the back of my mind when I wrote this one. That and John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane" from a few years before, I loved the interaction of the piano and guitar in that one, and that chorus line "life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone" I think I was maybe subconsciously trying to put the two together.
You have a masterful way of weaving a story through your songs that sets my mind on fire with empathy and compassion. I will have to include this in the Social Commentary show too.
Fabulous Chris!
Thanks so much Tricia. It's taken a little while to find the voice again after a few years away. Coming back now though, getting better, just need to keep at it...! First song for a long time where I've been confident enough in the first take not to resort to melodyne or whatever to fine-tune the vocals. Maybe I'll sing live again one day... who knows
Thanks Dace! I've always struggled with trying to get the sound I wanted when producing my songs - always tried layers and layers of effects to try and get things to sound right and ended up with a bit of a compromise every time. A couple of months ago I upgraded my Sonar DAW software to the Platinum version and suddenly all the things I found really hard to do became SO much easier. I also joined a user group on FB that's given me a load of tips and showed me how easy it can be. The biggest change is using a linear multiband compressor on the master, but also the level of Eq and compression on all the individual tracks makes a huge difference. This song has five instrumental tracks and one vocal, which is pretty minimal for me. No pads anywhere and only two FX busses. With what I was using before it would have sounded too empty to my ears, but with this new stuff it seems to make it wall-to-wall. I'm having a lot of fun at the moment!