bats brew

a lot of folks want me to put this to a full band treatment, but that's not how it was written, not envisioned that way, so doing it any other way, is just not being straight up about the intention. would it work with full band..? of course. does it work as it is...? of course! it was designed to. that's what makes it unique. follow your inner voice on stuff like that. the guitar i used has quite a story: The Williams Special is a Les Paul-Strat-Mustang-Explorer hybrid, with hollow body cavities, Mustang scale length, built like a paul with mahagony and maple top, a short tenon neck glued in, with an ebony fingerboard, mother of pearl diamond inlays, with vintage-dimension strat body, and explorer headstock. a custom build (obviously!) i think it's pretty unique... started out with a EMG SA assembly, that was changed to a pair of Bill Lawrence Wilde L-280's in neck and middle, with a Duncan Lil 59'r in the bridge. folks sometimes think that the bridge pickup is moved out, but it's really the neck and middle that are moved towards the bridge, because of the scale length and the 24 frets... it's kinda like brian may's red special that way.....

Thanks again Mark I have messed with repitching stuff, Its fairly easy with studio one. But the sound of the real thing is one I'm so accustomed to, I couldn't bear to hear it altered. Cicadas! Yep, I grew up in the southeast, yes, I know that sound well. Thats a cool idea to capture it.

Thanks mark... More later

hey T! glad you heard this one, this one kinda balances out the 'next' one that i have posted already...the twilight rain song. so, hard rock, then introspective acoustic/electric....non drums. i don't know what you call that!! LOL ah, the white strat. that is a USACG build, alder body, maple neck with pau ferro fingerboard. the electronics are bill lawrence WILDE L500's in the bridge, L280's in the middle and neck positions. the blades on the 500L are awesome. the most balanced pickup i've ever played thru, but the choice of putting that pickup in this guitar, makes it a pretty hot and responsive pickup. https://www.wildepickups.com/products/l500 if you think about it, pickups that have pole pieces, have a limited 'window' of sampling the vibration of the strings.. vs, a blade, it's continuous. if you do a lot of bends (like me) the blade tracks continuously, and you never really bend out of a 'zone' of catching the steel string output. i'm sure folks would say that the window of capture over a pole is big enough that bending just takes you from one pole to another, and the thinness of the blade provides a very focused capture. it's as if it has clarity and fatness at the same time. alnico 5 magnets. but i can hear a difference. check out this late night reading on the '500L': https://darthphineas.com/2023/01/wilde-pickups-l500/

howdy ho freddy j! thank you for listening and commenting. i'm real glad you guys are digging this stuff!

thanks so much lynn!

thanks jack! i think i was influenced by listening to some Eric Johnson at the time i wrote this... i used a custom short scale electric i had made back in 1986, to do all the guitar parts on this one.

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/twilight-rain *Twilight Rain - this is purely autobiographical. i did a demo of this several years ago, and it was a full band arrangement. i did this version as part of a 'song-fact finding mission', and ended up liking it better. features real thunder and rain, recorded from the downstairs entrance door into our backyard in utah, and also features our little windchime on the back porch. from the latest batsbrew album.

Howdy ho cakeboy! Thank you for listening

thanks for that jack! appreciate it

Thank you Paul! Fun making these guitar tones. Trying out new settings with a Marshall and Tele kind of rhythm tone. Crunchy, but fat at the same time.

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/walked-away this is the rocker with the swagger. pretty straightforward, it's a hopeful song about walking close to that edge, and pulling back. hope it can resonate with someone besides myself!

Thanks old joad, I've been working at it!

Thanks Jack!

this one was fun to play, really, took about an hour to record the whole thing! they don't usually pop out so easy, that's for sure.

thanks so much daryl!

hey lynn!! thank you for the comments

Thanks for that cake boy! Yea, I always hope a new tune is entertaining, On this album I tried to have a little bit of everthing

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/the-time-is-magic from the new album, this is the title track. it's meant to just introduce the listener to the beginning of the album. it's kind of an instrumental... should effectively get you up out of your chair for a quick boogie, if it's doesn't, contact a neurologist. heheh

Its Monday! Waltz day!

Thanks Joad I worked hard on that vocal, It took a while to figure out how aggressive it needed to be, to get that vibe across

alright jack! thanks for listening the room sound on the drum track makes it kinda big, and you know, i had more vocal harmonies than what you hear now, and i took half of them out on the final mix, like, it was too much. LOL

hi john! glad you dig this one, it's a fun one, i think. it's kinda loosy goosy like vegas is... that's the good ole Budda Wah working on that one...

THANKS SO MUCH, LEADFOOT! yea, someone pm'd me and suggested posting this with it's own thread, cuz folks had not looked at the original thread again, and missed the new song link. yea, that little interlude there near the beginning of the last chorus, it just needed something there to introduce the 'final' section. i like the idea of nice melodies on top of gut punch rhythms. a nice blend of honey badger and honey. LOL

you rock john. you rock. it's cool that bandcamp lets you pull several different versions if you want... and of course, for any of my forum buddies that buy something, i'm more than happy to custom make files for you that are different than what bandcamp offers, and just send a download link. like, if you wanted redbook 16 bit 44.1khz wav files, it's easy for me to burn em. then you dump em on a cd, and can play them in any cd player. just seems no one does that anymore (except me!) LOL i've been thru flagstaff a few times, one of the coolest (literally) places in the southwest. i dig it.