bats brew

HI RIK! thanks for listening! yea, lots of twists, for sure.. funny, flexable, i bought that way back when, before passion and warfare, and i thought 'yep, you can hear the zappa influence right away!' but really, it was similar, but parallel to zappa, IMHO. the strymon, is just dead easy to use. i spend ZERO time setting up tones, and end up digging all of them. since then, i've gotten a bit more dialed in with the choice of IR's i use, makes the biggest difference. most of the solo tones, are miced up mesa boogie with a Barber Direct Drive pushing it.

thanks so much cakeboy yea, melody is the thing on this one. the riffs are melodies, the fills are melodies, the whole thing just drives that idea home, simple, but tricky with arrangement. sometimes, these things just happen, this is one of em.

it's funny, that Seagull Artist Mosaic, i used for some of the tracks on this one, smelled so bad of cigarettes when i first bought it (pawn shop, $125 with a semi-soft case) that it has taken about 5 years for the smell to go away. LOL [url=https://postimg.cc/Mvp0Mhd9][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Mvp0Mhd9/IMG-5920.jpg[/img][/url] i bought it as a 'banger' guitar, to take to the desert... but hell, the cedar top sounds so smooth against the bright spruce top, it's a great sound blender. [url=https://postimg.cc/BXbDQ2ny][img]https://i.postimg.cc/BXbDQ2ny/WORLD-SESSION.jpg[/img][/url]

wow, nice, was hoping this would be exactly the way it is. thanks steve! rip DB

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/high-time *High Time - one of my favorites on the album, the lyric for this one poured out in about a half hour. boom, done. it's meant to be fun and uplifting. reminds me of a roadtrip i once took, i imagine a lot of folk can relate to this one. Taylor 414 and Seagull Mosaic on this one, miced by ADK Hamburg and Shure KSM44.

one of my very best arrangements, lots of ear candy, wanna bump this, one last time

the plexi tones, by the way, are from a Strymon Iridium

Thank you jack! Thanks, The guitars on this are tele and strat with humbuckers thru Marshall plexi and mesa boogie mkiib head into a avatar 1x12 with celestion heritage speaker The trick is the Barber Direct Drive Super Sport pedal driving the amps, and tightening of the low end

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/headin-for-the-weeds *Headin for the Weeds - my anti war rant. the whole 'war' section in the middle, was a blast to come up with. i just wanted cacaphony, and even tho i tried to impart some angst, it still comes off fairly groovy and proper, exactly opposite of what i was going for! hehe, so i just went with it. this was written about 5 years into the Iraq war. another sony ACID drum track. the drum groove was written for this song, but i liked it so much, i have used it in a more recent song as well, one of my "formula One trilogy" songs, called "Silverstone".

howdy old joad! yep, i like that tele! it's made out of Catalpa, it's super lightweight, feels great to play, very resonant.

hi wookiee! this song was inspired by a friend who, as the title says, was waiting to shine. just needed the right breaks, right circumstances, right planet alignments, etc... his was an older riff i had, that instead of the maj 7th thing, it was a minor diminished chord. i still like that riff, and might right another song around the original riff....

thank you tom! appreciate it

thank you daryl! i appreciate that

hi rik! thank you for listening and commenting... yes, the swagger was quite intentional on this one! it's a fun little riff to play

Hey tom!thanks