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Re: Into the sun
03/04/25 09:05:29PM
1 Week: Randy Gabel
thanks so much
03/04/25 09:05:29PM
1 Week: Randy Gabel
Gary Dabrowski:
yet another enjoyable toon from you Randy...I like it! 👍😊
yet another enjoyable toon from you Randy...I like it! 👍😊
thanks so much
Re: Into the sun
03/04/25 08:10:39PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
yet another enjoyable toon from you Randy...I like it! 👍😊
03/04/25 08:10:39PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
yet another enjoyable toon from you Randy...I like it! 👍😊
Re: DRY YOUR EYES
03/04/25 05:57:27PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
03/04/25 05:57:27PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
Farrell Jackson:
I don't know the song but the style sure does take me back to my younger days. Excellent playing Gary!
I don't know the song but the style sure does take me back to my younger days. Excellent playing Gary!
Re: DRY YOUR EYES
03/04/25 05:55:35PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
03/04/25 05:55:35PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
JimsAE:
I love the big combo organ tracks. You do this stuff so well. Doesn't feel like an oldie to me. Sounds brand
new.Such a great bunch of melodies.
I love the big combo organ tracks. You do this stuff so well. Doesn't feel like an oldie to me. Sounds brand
new.Such a great bunch of melodies.
Re: DRY YOUR EYES
03/04/25 05:54:30PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
@jimsae: Jim...thanks for listening and your comment, I'm glad ya like it!
03/04/25 05:54:30PM
1 Week: Gary Dabrowski
@jimsae: Jim...thanks for listening and your comment, I'm glad ya like it!
Re: Still Here
03/04/25 01:06:18PM
1 Week: JimsAE
Randy never fails to put a smile on my face when he has a guitar in his hands. A great instrumental!
03/04/25 01:06:18PM
1 Week: JimsAE
Randy never fails to put a smile on my face when he has a guitar in his hands. A great instrumental!
Re: Broken Lonesome...
03/04/25 01:04:41PM
1 Week: JimsAE
I've played the other version a bit on my show. Nice to hear you've gone back to it. Steve, you have the best damn voice for this genre. And it's always lovely to hear Annie singing with you. A...
03/04/25 01:04:41PM
1 Week: JimsAE
I've played the other version a bit on my show. Nice to hear you've gone back to it. Steve, you have the best damn voice for this genre. And it's always lovely to hear Annie singing with you. A...
Re: Big Moose Jam
03/04/25 01:03:04PM
1 Week: JimsAE
I have never seen a moose, but I know they are very big creatures. This cool jam does the big beasts justice! Almost a surf-rock vibe in places with the guitar, and the synth bits fit perfectly.
03/04/25 01:03:04PM
1 Week: JimsAE
I have never seen a moose, but I know they are very big creatures. This cool jam does the big beasts justice! Almost a surf-rock vibe in places with the guitar, and the synth bits fit perfectly.
Re: Mosquito swarm Jam
03/04/25 01:01:41PM
1 Week: JimsAE
Very cool jam. Love the Sergio Leone guitar riffs, and just the right amount of ambiance.
03/04/25 01:01:41PM
1 Week: JimsAE
Very cool jam. Love the Sergio Leone guitar riffs, and just the right amount of ambiance.
Re: Silent Hill 1 (ft...
03/04/25 01:00:08PM
1 Week: JimsAE
My wife is a huge Silent Hill fan. You do such a great job on this. Epic, soundtrack style. I played this one on my show the other night. Everybody loved it!
03/04/25 01:00:08PM
1 Week: JimsAE
My wife is a huge Silent Hill fan. You do such a great job on this. Epic, soundtrack style. I played this one on my show the other night. Everybody loved it!
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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!