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Once it got into the funk groove, I dug it. Very solid pocket. Didn't mind the chaos one little bit! Maybe vocal just a bit more prominent in the mix at times. Can you hear your words consistently or does the effectery wash them out one in a while? Still those funky demons gotta swirl. Long live your experimental music! cheers, -Tom

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Ha! One of a kind you are. So true and fun. I like the speed of the edits, good quick pacing. I LOL'ed a couple of times. Thanks for the grins! Would like to hear your impressions of Davinci if you ever have time to share them . . . Cheers, -Tom

Well I just bought time macro for all those great orchestral pieces I've never ever written. Looks cool though.

Thanks! @Old Joad - it's because I'm always in music school! thanks for the listen. @thegaltieribrothers- thanks Paul, glad you liked it. @jerrydf- thanks Jerry, I agree it is Autumn like, as is my life . . . these days . . . @bjornpdx - thanks Bjorn, it was a one take deal with some very minor velocity editing for the most part. thanks for the comment! @DeeringAmps- that killer Bb is courtesy of Noire. There are some boomin' subtones on some of those Noire patches. Just great. But the upper register I blended mostly the Pearl piano for it's brightness. So the whole range is kind of a hybrid, which creates some interesting phaseyness when Noire and Pearl blend in the middle. It was fun to experiment with eq all along the way. Thanks for the comment! @FJ Lamela- many thanks for the listen! @Tezza - my thought exactly, to add other elements in after the first announcement of the theme. I just have too many other projects bubbling away to devote to that idea. I really could hear a cello or something else wandering in, but I had to stop myself from adding another thing to my to-do list! Good comment, many thanks. @Andrew Ball- sounds like you have been there. very many thanks for your personal comment. I guess that's part of the "journey", isn't it! But I don't yet see how philosophically I will adjust . . . yet we must. All good! @Douglas Kirby- yes it has that mood, doesn't it? Ready or not . . . many thanks! @amiller- many thanks for the listen! @daryl1968 - thanks again mate. The piano is Noire on the bottom, Pearl up top, and a blend in the middle. It kind of ended up a bit dreamy which worked. Glad you liked it. Hope all is well with your various life and musical projects . . . take care. @mark skinner- thanks and yes those sustains can say a lot in a piece like this. Thanks for the comment! Appreciate it.

Cool as hell. It really got some drive when that snare comes in, which you might make louder. And you might drop the volume on the rhythm guitars when you are singing. Other than those two nits, loved the mix and the vocals and the song. cheers, -Tom

I liked it! You mentioned rubato, and yeah maybe? For four pieces to all play in unison with rubato is quite a feat. But it still comes off pretty natural and I like your sound elements. I am not familiar with the traditional but I liked your version. What instruments did you use? cheers, -Tom

Well, just to agree with everyone else, very cool bluuuuuuues. Rockin' side of blues. And just to be different, I heard David Bowie-esque-ness in the chorus. Yowsa! As an experiment, have you tried putting a large or room reverb on the master bus, so everything sounds like a blues club? You have treated it pretty dry, probably lots of predelay . . . I just wonder if something more club-roomy might be a fun vibe to try out. cheers, cool jam! -Tom

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vocals are pretty darn good and the drums sound very clean and punchy. I'd drop the volume of the rhythm guitars, particularly the lower-chorded one, at least half a db - it's dominating the mix at all times. Great chops, great tones. Sounds like you are having fun. Big fan. -Tom

waaaay cool. Congrats, looks like your drama with the source files is working out quite well! cheers, -Tom

Hi Paul, nice tune. Lyrics held the interest. Maybe a bit more reverb treatment on the drum kit? They are pretty darn dry compared to the rest. I liked the doubled vocals on the chorus, nice matching of those. Maybe a touch of melodyne here and there on the verses, depending on your pitch-fixing philosophy . . . it's far from horrendous as is . . . depends on how much you'd want to polish. Your song certainly doesn't lack for important subjects - there's a lot going on in this one. cheers, -Tom

I wouldn't quit on this. Nice and moody. Can't wait to hear it. -Tom

Always a pleasure. Maybe the vocal could be less up front, just a bit of reverb or echo? Those guitar rhythm chords are doom without any gloom. Very good. See you under the bridge. Where's that confounded bridge? -Tom

That's a fun mix and you don't hear hard rock hoedowns that much. Plenty creative. Around 1:48 in the background there's like a harmonica lead, or a crowd, or a cat wailing, or? Pretty low in the mix but I think it monkeys up things. I guess its a feature of the chorus? It kind of comes and goes. Great ending! A very creative piece. Maybe play with a little more reverb on violin, so it matches the rvb of the drums and guitar? I dunno. Still pretty cool. cheers, -Tom

Nice one! For my money you could easily start right at :47 . . . the intro drums left my mind wandering away onto other topics. Which it is wont to do. The percolations that build and fall away are all really cool. Nice sweepy combo of the coolest 80's synth tones, combined with the drums of today. Very high quality once it gets going. It spends the first :47 seconds idling in the garage. That's when people pass out from the CO. cheers and good luck! -Tom

Daryl you have the sunshine in your voice, and the midas touch on a mix. For example, the song itself for me is a little more cotton candy than I'm usually attracted to, but your voice and the crystal clear mixing standard you always deliver more than kept my interest. It's a relationship song and a "will he commit???" song, and I've been committed for so many decades now that all I can say is "good luck figuring it out, dude" Great JG on the guitar and the Brit dance hall is well done. And very well sung indeed. cheers, -Tom

A podcast by my son and his friend, "15 Minutes of Shame" . . . with some of our tunes on it. "Back to School" - kind of dark . . . enjoy! -Tom

Oh jeez. Well, they are talented for sure but I never really caught on to their music, apart from a couple of funkier efforts. And my wife absolutely loves them, as they are the soundtrack for her midlife Chrysler . . . and is more or less dragging me to an arena concert of theirs. They are pretty popular, so looks like I'm in the wrong of it. I promise to keep an open mind as I listen with disdain at their simplicity. I'm open to the alternative facts of any superfans here . . . what am I missing???

Because they grow up and leave. or you may prefer Soundcloud: thanks! -Tom

Out of curiosity, care to share a link to your song? It would be fun to hear and perpetuate the virus!!!

So how did you "suddenly" start getting those streams? Congrats are in order!!!

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So that was his real given name then? ?