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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Time to return to the world of whale food again. Yes, it's another album I promised to review yonks ago, and this time it's an album of rock covers.
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A short little album that shows Plankton paying his dues, and pretty much nailing each song (of the ones I know), however I'm looking forward much more to hearing new material from him. Certainly demonstrates, to anyone who doubted, that he is a guitar god, but Plankton, we prefer to worship you for your original material...
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Thanks! Once again, you've managed to hit things fairly squarely on the nose with most of that. That album was made up of songs I've recorded over a few years. I had a bunch of cover songs laying around, so I threw them all in an album of sorts, and called it a day. There are some mistakes and clams in the mix and performance, and I have a few notes on some of the things you were unsure of.
That's me doing all the singing, except for the female vocals on Comfortably Numb, and WMGGW and the end of Applause and of course not Crowley. I hate my voice, as most people do, but I belt out what I can. You should hear the last few collaborations I've been involved in lately where I do the vocals on Melissa (Allman Bros), and wrote and sang an original. It's a little cringey for me, but I still happily trudge along.
Jacobs Ladder was done using a backing track for bass drums and synth, but I actually found out I knew the guy that created it, Johnny Megabyte. We've been friends on another forum for years. Small world.
Mr. Crowley has always been my favorite Randy guitar solo, so I wanted to pay tribute to the man. The opening synth is from the original, but I used a backing track for the drums and bass that didn't quite keep the same tempo as the original, so I had to slice and dice Ozzy's vocal track to get it to fit. The guitars are all me though, which is the point of it.
The instrumental version of Everybody Hurts was done live with one microphone in the center of my friends living room, who was a part of a small three piece band I was in. She played the rhythm as her friend (the third member of the trio) played some low synth, and they gave me this beautiful backdrop to just let rip. It was meant to be a song that we'd play live with the actual lyrics and vocals, but they liked that version of it better, and that was one of those 'one take wonders' that we kept from those recording sessions.
I hope that clears up any remaining questions, as I know I really don't explain things before hand, since I like to let the listener form their own thoughts first. It keeps things organic in that sense. On that note, I'll just say that the next one I linked you to is something I put together for an easy listening experience and was put together with a mix of originals and some backing tracks I had laying around. Hope you enjoy it and if I don't see/read ya before hand, have a Merry Christmas!