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<p>When I came to Doctor C with a new song idea, my intention was a metal type progressive rock song. Doctor C with his wild immagination sent me an e-mail back with this wild idea about this poem called "Ulalume". I had never heard of it, nor had any idea what he was talking about. I did a search on the internet and had a few listens to some readings of the poem. I put the basic idea in his hands and he developed the music. Through some pains of poetry reading, which I had never attempted, we came up with this song. We handed it off to Farrell, where he added some very sweet acoustic guitar, then to Gary, where he added his electrifying progressive guitars. I believe Doctor C did a superb mix job on this and had a wonderful idea. I hope you enjoy this terrifying late Halloween story.</p><p>Rob</p>

<p>DrC - all keyboards, drum programing, and production.</p><p>Farrell Jackson -&nbsp;vocal, lyric, and melody.</p><p>Rob Grant - bass guitar.</p><p>Gary Carciello - all guitars.</p><p>About the song:&nbsp; When DrC presented this song to Rayon Vert it already had such a great&nbsp;vibe as just an instrumental. So the vocal&nbsp;approach&nbsp;I took was less is more because I didn't want to cover up any of those great sounding keys. This song is without a doubt the least amount of words I've ever put into a song lyric but with the added delay and reverb&nbsp;effects it seems to work quite well.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Farrell Jackson for Rayon Vert</p>

<p>About the song:</p><p>&nbsp;Gary&nbsp;presented this song to Rayon Vert for consideration. As soon as we all heard it, we not only said yes but HECK YES! Gary had the basic instrumental structure worked out but if you've listened to Gary's work, you know nothing is basic about it. So we went to work on it. DrC added his wonderful keyboard ideas,&nbsp;Rob created a great bass bottom and I found a melody. I think once you listen to this you'll hear some fabulous soloing with Gary's fat and creamy guitar tone,&nbsp;DrC's wild&nbsp;snake charmer keyboard fingerings, and&nbsp;Rob's bass&nbsp;playing is a solo in itself.</p><p>We hope you enjoy our song!</p><p>Farrell Jackson for Rayon Vert</p>

<p><span style="font-size: large;">Rayon Vert - State of the Union</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;Our CD, State of the Union, is now available through MIXPOSURE. You can purchase a hard copy through our site store. The CD features a collection of songs, we have released here over the last two years. The songs will also be available for individual download purchases.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank You, SO MUCH, for ALL of your support, the past few years.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">HAPPY 2010 and On!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rob, Doc, Gary, Farrell</span></p>

<p>COMING THIS WEEK!!!! Finally!!! We will be releasing all of our fun times together, to you. Available later this week, an all re-mastered and mixed collection of songs we have been doing here at Mixposure, over the last couple of years.</p><p>Gary Carciello, Rob Grant, Doctor C, and Farrell Jackson were born together at this site and are now proud to present our first&nbsp;born to the site. The CD will be available here through our page in download form or hard copy. More information will come, when they are in my hands, which should be any day now.</p><p>Rob G.</p>

<p>Well, this completes the songs for our first CD. The original "Black Cat" done by CGDC and Friends was sung by myself (Rob), but I really wanted Farrell to sing the song for our CD. I thought he might be a little reluctant, due to the song lyrics, being a little personal.......hehehehehehehe......I didn't want anyone to think he was the CRAZY dude........hahahahahaha. Well!?!?!?! I guess, there are people all over the world who can relate to the lyrics in&nbsp;one way or another.........and I feel Farrell did a SUPER job with the song.</p><p>ANYWAY!!! The song started with a bass and drum part, supplied to Doctor C. I had no idea what he would do with it. With his classical influenece, he added the first lead break section. I heard that added bass to it and REALLY loved his addition. After he added his keyboards, I added the lyrics and vocals. At this point we turned the song over to Gary C for his super guitar additions. This new version, has changes from the original,&nbsp;new drums by Doctor C, new lead guitar parts by Gary and of course new vocals by Farrell.&nbsp;The whole song has been re-mixed and engineered by Doctor C and sent out for mastering, in prep for our CD.</p><p>OH!! BTW!! I just HAD to try to get in the spirit on the times and get some "rapping" in this song........hehehehehehehehehe. Well??? It kind of turned out Charlie Daniel's style!?!?!?!?!?! <img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-undecided.gif" border="0" alt="Undecided" title="Undecided" /></p><p>I hope you enjoy this version and WATCH OUT, under that bed <img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-surprised.gif" border="0" alt="Surprised" title="Surprised" /></p><p>Rob</p>

<p>Rob Grant- bass. Gary Carciello - all guitars. DrC - all keys, drums,&nbsp;production, and mixing. Farrell Jackson - songwriter and all vocals. Nigel Potter - lyric.</p><p>This song is the result of an idea I was toying with on guitar. I had developed the chord structure and melody but hadn't written the words yet. Then.......the Same Nigel Lyric Challenge popped up at Mixposure. So I printed off the lyric and was amazed at the ease of how they fit with my melody. I then made a quick demo and sent it off to DrC, Gary, and Rob to see if they thought it had potential and if so, whether or not Rayon Vert wanted to particpate in the challenge with this song. The answer back was yes so we went to work on it.</p><p>The challenge deadline is 9-05-09. Well today is 9-05-09 and we are posting the song up as we slide in under the wire, lol!</p><p>Enjoy and thanks for the great lyric to work with Nigel, it was fun!</p><p>Farrell for Rayon Vert</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>This is a&nbsp;song idea that Rob Grant came up with.&nbsp;Rob always amazes us by the way he&nbsp;presents a song with just bass and drums.&nbsp; I used the words "just bass" but Rob's playing is never "just bass". His bass&nbsp;ideas&nbsp;are always big and exciting and they have&nbsp;the ability to ignite the creative juices in the rest of Rayon Vert.&nbsp; As Gary added&nbsp;the haunting guitar lines&nbsp;to it and DrC began to mold the song with his heavy, yet mellow Hammond, plus added all the little extra key parts, it began to take shape into a very cool sounding progressive rock ballad, so it's long. It was a pleasure to add my vocals and harmonies to this song.</p><p>We hope you enjoy the song!</p><p>Farrell for Rayon Vert</p>