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Nice! Nice job on the mp3 production as well!

I want to appoligize for not checking out the other threads here too well yet, time has been short and consumed with my own composition. Selfish of me for sure.

I had plenty of that this week :? Kind of late for me to pipe in with something useful, but wanted to say I liked you guitar work on this one. Good classic rock has to be driven by loud lead guitarists!

jeremy

Thanks everyone! :D I'm almost looking foreward to next week. 8)

Have to agree with the "lack of variety" ....but you've come up with a pretty cool, original rock riff which I REALLY like. If you can come up with another riff for the chorus, this'll be a killer.

Definite traces of your influences in this, TR - your fave bands, I mean. I can hear some Kiss in this - don't know if you're into Alice Cooper, but I could visualise him singing this.

Guitar playing's excellent - rhythm and lead. You definitely ROOOOOOOOOCK! Weak point's the vocals - they're not bad, but for this kind of hard rock music you definitely have to put more into them. Bass is good, too - TF's pretty much spot on there.

I do like the last (repeated) line of the chorus - "you bring the fire into my life." That's the bit that makes me think of Alice....(Alice, Alice, who the **** is Alice?)

Lot of good points - but you need to work on those vocals, at least IMO!

:D :D :D

Vic

Thanks Vic! Believe it or not, that's not Thunderfingers, it's me. He was partying at a friends house when I recorded it. He has come up with a much better bass line. We intend to do a good recording of this, mine is just a demo. Yes, I know, my vocals are weak. I will work on it. Good call on the influences. James said my leads were unique and I thought, not really if you ever heard Ace Frehley. :lol: KISS, Alice Cooper, yup. We will try to polish this for our "good" recording. My plan is to join this group to write songs, learn to write songs better and record demos and then when we get lots of material we will log the studio time to get them down properly.

James said my leads were unique and I thought, not really if you ever heard Ace Frehley. :lol: KISS, Alice Cooper, yup.
Good call. Those guys are in my visual memory bank but not audio...Well, like I say about teaching...you only have to stay one page ahead of the students to look like you know what you are talking about :lol:

James

Hey, thats OK James. It is cool how we sound like our influences. Ace has a very unique style and I guess a lot of his style rubbed off over the years. I took the unique comment as a great compliment. :mrgreen:

No critique of the lyrics here. Sounds like a good 80's party song ala Pat Benetar's Hit "Hit Me With Your Best Shot".

I think it could be faster. It's about 122bpm now so maybe 130. In the chorus instead of cutting your words off do them legato. I can hear Alice belting out "ROOOOOCK ANNND ROOOOLLLL IS MY MUUUUSSSSIIIICCCC!!!!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! And this is my personal preference, you could back off the reverb some on the vocals and overal production. They call attention to the vox. I mean lots of bands use tons ov verb and it seems to be coming back but in this nstance I think it's too much. I think if yu turn it back untilyou think now it's not enough it will be just right. Again my prefs.

When you record for posterity I think changing the drums up would be good. I realize this is pre-production. :wink:

Good job and rockin' lead.

Ernie

"Those guys are in my visual memory bank but not audio..."

Yeah late at night I like to pull out my 7" vinyl knee highs and eye liner. :shock:

Hehe :lol: Just kidding, I sold those in a yard sale ages ago!!!