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herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:13 am

smoke

Hewitt Huntwork · Post by **Hewitt Huntwork** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:44 am

I am impressed.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:33 am

Hewitt Huntwork wrote:I am impressed.

Glad you liked it.

Thanks for listening!

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:08 am

Great work. I loves me some lap steel.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:32 am

Lunch Money wrote:Great work. I loves me some lap steel.

Me too.

It is the property of one Bruce Gottlieb, who owns many useful things:

The supro isn't in this picture, nor is the amp (by the same company). But the old Gibson just left of the banjo is in this song, as is the Martin on the wall at far right.

Bruce is generous in sharing his good fortune for recording purposes.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:40 am

Oh, and thanks for listening, Greg!

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:49 am

relaxing, chilled out vibe. I dig!!

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:52 pm

Amberience wrote: relaxing, chilled out vibe. I dig!!

Glad you liked it.

Thanks for listening!

bobsled · Post by **bobsled** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:39 pm

Love it when people post rock and roll, thanks for the music, herodotus.

mayan · Post by **mayan** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:55 pm

Great piece, herodotus. Outstanding. Nails a mood, creatively. The lyrics/vocals are tres cool, to boot. All in all, a keeper for sure.

geekboy · Post by **geekboy** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:22 pm

All in all a very nice effort. Herodotus, is that you singing? Are you playing all the instruments?

For my taste, the drums have an unusual ambience that doesn't seem to match the "roots" vibe of the rest of the instruments. But that's just nitpicking -- well done.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:47 pm

mayan wrote:Great piece, herodotus. Outstanding. Nails a mood, creatively. The lyrics/vocals are tres cool, to boot. All in all, a keeper for sure.

Glad you liked it!

bobsled wrote:Love it when people post rock and roll, thanks for the music, herodotus.

Thanks for listening!

geekboy wrote:All in all a very nice effort. Herodotus, is that you singing? Are you playing all the instruments?

For my taste, the drums have an unusual ambience that doesn't seem to match the "roots" vibe of the rest of the instruments. But that's just nitpicking -- well done.

No I am not playing anything but the drums in this song. I also did the mixdown. The guitarist/singer is a guy named Charles Schlee, who is also a member here, but who is sadly stuck in the oblivion of dial-up.

The 'unusual ambience' you are hearing is a gated reverb that got put on one of the snare tracks as a sort of joke. Sadly, when the guitarist was moving around virtual tracks on his hard disc recorder, the clean snare track was erased instead of the one with the gated reverb.

But I have actually grown to like it a bit.

Thanks for listening.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:58 pm

This is a really cool song - just up my alley! Very, very nice!

The only aspect I don't like so much is the recording/EQ on the cymbals. According to my taste they sound almost painfully trebly and sharp and 'in your ears'. A bit more restrained and 'airy' would make them sit better with the rest of the mix. Again, just according to my taste. Maybe the mp3 coding also affects them...

Really nice song!

Best,

Joey

Klemperer · Post by **Klemperer** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:24 pm

very nice song - and very very very nice equipment too

. Really like this. Nice bass, nice all. I ended 2006 with listening to many nice electronic pieces, now started with 2 great quite different songs

. Don't know if I wanted to be someone's cigarette, though

(crappy laptop-speakers-listening).
Nice work! Lap steel, aah...

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:30 pm

I've had plenty of nasty addictions; definately wouldn't wanna be anyone else's..

Cool track, herodotus.

Smoke: downtempo-heavy-6/8 w/supro lap steel guitar