Hello to all my future starry eyed fans, groupies, and "free drink Freddies".....your wait is over before it began. I, being a veritable reverse "Mc Fly" have time travelled from the past second by second to be with you now to record the sonic nuances of your fluttering eyelashes and to put into words the breath of a butterfly as he tears his wings off, yearning for the return of his days as a caterpillar............to some......it is just music.....do not pity these people my children.....love them, as I love you...
Now, all bullshit aside. These are four of my "half-songs". Half-songs being, as my signature says, sketches with greasy palm prints and rubber shavings still showing. I make something up, record it on my computer with Cubase SX3, add various vocal meanderings in hope of gold....or maybe some iron ore.....I'd even settle for an old metal scourer used to scrub lobster pots. The first vocal take is what is on these tracks because I have too much to concentrate on without spending days polishing one song. Plus I get bored very easily with my ADD.
My voice is no American Idol second stager.......maybe that of the fat kid who the grandma's thought should have been given a second go for hitting more notes than he missed by a 60/40 ratio. I am a lone artist with my best option of partnership being friends who live 2 hours by car away from me and I haven't tried looking for anyone else near me to sing for me or collaberatte with yet, I will soon.
So, I just want you to hear the rough idea of what some of my songs are like and tell me what you think of the basic structure. I have about 50 of songs like these and when I get my mp3.com.au account setup I will put more of them on there. Remember that my guitar playing and vocals and mixing is just very basic, I can and will do the tracks that I like or that people tell me they like as a polished product eventually.
On the songs, the longer length of a couple of the songs is not what will eventually be recorded again. It was to give me space to improvise in the earlier mentioned search, sometimes it comes quick, but sometimes I need to dig longer to find the mojo.
Anyways.....here they are, please......don't drive angry, and for the love of God.....be gentle with me....I am a tortured artist after all.
Thanks.
http://www.myspace.com/sonofsamurai
Edit:- These are not nessesarily my best or favourite songs even though I like them, but they are my most recent.
I use a Shure mic, a good ($3500) Taylor acoustic guitar, sometimes an Ibanez electric, a digitech RP12 effects board, a cheap ($400) yamaha midi keyboard, an M-Audio USB MIDI connector and an Audigy 2 soundcard, recorded with the ASIO4ALL ASIO driver on Cubase SX3.