James G

I know what this thread is about.

It's about 6 pages.

One more, about Dr Feelgood, to this day, one of the best live bands I've ever seen;

..and another;

One of my favourites;

'Blue Ray'..he was a seedy looking guy with a pencil 'tache and a mauve shellsuit, selling dodgy videos out the back of a Datsun Cherry.

1 hour ago, bayoubill said:

 

 

Dear James,

May I borrow your black Les Paul?

You're welcome to borrow it Bill, but it's not a Les Paul. It's a 1981 Gibson Sonex -180 Deluxe, my first 'name' guitar.

Nice melancholy piece with a good sense of movement and plenty of melody.  Don't understand why people would suggest adding vocals when you've already said it's an instrumental.

Excellent Steve, that's album cover material!

1 hour ago, paulo said:

Billy Joel though.........

For many years and for no reason whatsoever I always imagined that guy was a boggle-eyed onanist of the highest order. 

Turns out I was right.

Yeah, he came out of that pretty badly.

2 hours ago, synkrotron said:

Nice one James

What brand/model of wall bracket are you using?

Most of them are 'Chord 180', black metal discs with adjustable arms - currently £2.71 each on Amazon! The others are 'String Swing' which have a nice hardwood block to fix to the wall.

Here be mine...

That was really good, thoroughly enjoyed it. If I was being picky there was a little too much about the metal guys, but some fascinating stories in there. The one about Jay Graydon & Steve Lukather writing a song for George Benson was a hoot 🤣

Pro stuff top to bottom, enjoyed that a lot

Great stuff, thanks Kenny. Love stuff like this. It's available on Netflix here so I'll watch it tonight.

My condolences to you and yours Bob.

11 minutes ago, paulo said:

For many years now I've found that after 5 tracks I'm getting twitchy. Apparently this is a thing and not just me, one theory being that modern production techniques are the cause of this by being fatiguing on the ears. I also think that in these days where people don't necessarily buy the whole album but cherrypick the individual tracks that they like that compiling the album in such a way that makes it more coherent is  becoming less of a thing because most people never listen to the whole thing anyway. Some of my favourite albums back in the day had a very distinct side 1 and side 2 where the mood changes as it builds and are just not the same if listened to in a random order.

Yes, sequencing an album could be a dying art; I say 'could be' cos I don't buy enough albums to get a full picture. I noticed with Mark Knopfler's latest (Down The Road Wherever), that although it's chock full of good songs, there's just too many of them (16 I think), and they don't flow particularly well. If I go back to his earlier records like Get Lucky or The Ragpicker's Dream, they've been carefully put together with about 11 or 12 songs.

I've bought a few albums lately that are far too long. I don't know if it's a case of 'filling up the CD' or what, but it seems when albums drift to over an hour long, they lose coherence. Maybe that's just my age, and a throw back to listening to 45-50 minute LPs.

I'm not saying there aren't any female vocalists here (bluesy or otherwise) but I don't recall hearing one.

I think this is the actual song link Jesse.

https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13837955

Stems are audio tracks with all effects, automations, etc. printed into them. They're used so a mix can be re-created easily, but not a re-mix.  They can be individual tracks or sub-mixes of more than one track.

Shame they've splintered into 2 distinct 'Yes's'.

Not sure what Tom's been smoking, but to me you sound neither English nor anything like Elvis Costello 🤣..I got more of a Josh Groban vibe.

Anyway... well written song, nicely captured. Drums are a bit stiff, but programming can be like that. Certainly of your best tunes.

Just a thought - I notice you guys all post the songs on your individual pages, why not have a dedicated Scandalous Grace page on Soundcloud?

Wow, this hit me just right this evening.  Outstanding.

Edit: I checked out the original, which I hadn't heard before. I have to say, you've really brought out the melody, and I love your arrangement.

Always liked that song, used to be one of my 'getting ready to go out' tunes.