bats brew

the music is better than the cover. heheheh.... the pills are opioids. the title track, is dealing with the opioid crisis

here's fat albert!! LOL

http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/batsbrew13 The Wild Animals is the 4th full length album release by Bats Brew. This is modern rock with a classic rock vibe, a touch of acoustic, progressive, hard rock and melodic rock. "The Wild Animals", is available now on CDBaby, CD's and digital Downloads. title track: https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/01-bats-brew-the-wild-animals

we don't need no stinkin' prs birds!! LOL i met paul reed smith, way back in 1980, when he still had a small shop on the 2nd floor of a little building overlooking the bay at annapolis... i actually saw the first guitar he was building for santana, on a work table, with the MOP birds cut out and sitting next to each pre-carved hole in the neck, ready to go in!! i found guitars that i liked more over time, than any of the prs, and those are in the picture above! the strat styles are all custom, the carvin has been customized, and the Ibby is stock. hey thanks for listening david, i appreciate the comments!

hey Macce! thanks for listening.... this is all done with a Mesa Boogie Mark2b head, going into a variety of cabs and speakers, some miced, and some direct in using a Palmer PDI-09. the guilty parties:

thanks for checking it out hidden... glad you dig it.

hey douglas! thanks for listening.... drums on this, superior drummer 3, and i swear i can't remember ANY of the kits i built for this album, because i used a new design for every single song!! LOL and why not, i've got a million combinations... maybe once i find one that just ticks every mark, i'll keep it as a 'signature' drum kit, but for now, i'm just experimenting.

album release first of next week

hi wave! thanks so much for listening, and the kind words.... and a side note on 'talent': i've been playing a long time, and i've put in the woodshed time, so, really, it boils down to becoming proficient at a certain level to be able to say what i want to say without tripping over myself... and at the end of the day, i don't want to be the fastest, or any of that sport-group stuff, i want to write melodic stuff that works for the song, and all that practicing and riffing along the way, should be about just making it easy to say what i want to say. always play with conviction, and it will never matter about speed or timing.

hey starise! stuff in the food?! well, i put tequila in my freshly squeezed orange juice, does that count?! heheh hey thanks for listening, yes, no timidity. i think you'll really dig the whole album. it has that kind of energy flow that takes you up, cruising speed, down closer to the ground, straight back up in the air, etc....

so, as i mentioned before, i bought a new fuzz, a Barber Exacta, and wanted to run it thru it's paces... this is the version of that session. the Exacta has 3 different fuzz circuits in it, and i used all 3 for the 3 main solo sections. the first solo, is my favorite tone... the 3rd solo has the thin razor-sharp tone that starts at around 1:32 has my least favorite of the three, but that one has that ripping short lead on it! LOL... actually, the ripping solo starts at 2:33, and i can't remember which fuzz circuit i used on that one... i think the same as the first. at that solo, it's a stacked up sound... the fuzz is pushed by fulltone fatboost III, and running thru a budda wah AND a fulltone mini deja vibe...

heheh, yea bjorn, i can teach you a tune, called 'my dog has fleas' LOL think someone taught me that one, way back when.... thanks for listening

ok, bumpin for the week! LOL

bumpin for the weekend

alright freddy! glad you got to check this one out, i'll be posting a couple of other tunes here and there, as i roll out the album release... this is an instrumental version of the song version, "Michael's House", which is the 2nd cut on the album. it just works so well as an instrumental, i decided to add it to the album....

hey tom! glad you dig this one... the whole album is got a lot of diversity in it, i nicked a hendrix quote from '3rd stone from the sun' during this, hence the 'a slight return' nod as well.

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/10-the-wild-animals-michaels-house-a-slight-return this is one of two instrumentals off my new full length album out next week. The album is called "The Wild Animals". two instrumentals, along with 8 songs. i'll post a link when it's ready to roll. meanwhile.....

and.... it's done!

alright! happy halloween!

hey sailor! glad you dig this one, it was a fun one to track, and to play and sing. this arrangement was probably the 5th version of this song, so a lot of thought and experimentation went into the final version. and the reason for getting it tight, was exactly as you described... getting 'pulled in'.... when you forget about it, as you're listening to it, that's my goal.

hey david! thanks so much for getting in the halloween spirit with me! and you didn't even get shredded!!

Thanks Douglas!

hey FJ, thanks a lot ! appreciate it

alright tom! i'm glad you dig my stuff, this tune was just a fun thing i wanted to do, but it got pretty adventurous, with 12 guitar parts at one time at certain sections.

hey john! yep, wolf man....that's the one that inspired this. story background: it's a little ditty about 2 brothers and a lycanthrope....... it's loosely based on the original wolfman movie, the one where larry talbot gets bitten by the werewolf, and he see's the pentagram in his hand; he knows he's phucked, so he goes to the old gypsy woman who knows about these things, to find a cure, and she basically tells him the only thing for him to do, is to kill himself...... quite the bum deal. anyway, these 2 brothers have been partying all night, drunk as skunks, and one of them staggers out into the moor, and proceeds to meets his maker. the remaining brother wants revenge, but has sobered up now, and figures out that he'd better get some kind of ammunition... ....so he goes to see the gypsy-witch, to get some aconite (wolfsbane) and a spell here and a prayer there, and believes that he is well prepared, and he goes out to the moor to get his revenge. but that's not what he gets......