TO COOL TO BE CRUEL

[freddy j]

It has been a while since I have been on the forum.  Things such as hurricanes, hurricane  cleanup and repairs (for both my family and sisters abodes), replacement purchasing of a new car for my sister's drowned car.  Further delays to non-participating in the forum  included a brief flare-up of my reactive arthritis and my sister took a bad fall which required several weeks of hospitalization, rehabilitation, and home care. 

A lot has been posted since I was last on and I look forward to listening and commenting on as much of the new stuff as I can.

I did get a bit of time to get together with Cakewalk and my guitars to come up with this song.  It is a bit rough -- so I hope that you will provide  crit.'s,, comments and suggestions

Thanks as always.

 

TOO  COOL TO  BE CRUEL

https://www.soundclick.com/freddyj

[Wookiee]

Sorry to hear life has been biting you on the ***** @freddy j , been a bit like that here.

Classic Freddy here nice to hear you back here, sending you and yours a little of the force to aid you in anyway you need.

[freddy j]

To use a hackneyed metaphor, life is a bit like the stock market there are highs and lows and then the rest of the time.

Thanks for sharing the force.  I need a bit of a jump start.

Thanks very much for commenting -- I appreciate it.  BTW - l love the recent songs that you have posted (eg. 6 and four, etc.)

[Amberwolf]

I sympathize; I went thru a housefire, cleanup, and rebuild over a decade ago, and it took years to get "back on track", and I am still not really where I was before that (though I did find out who my friends were and weren't, and how very very few of them I actually had). 

 

Regarding the song itself, I would like to hear it with the timing tightened up; it's hard for me to focus on anything else technical about it ATM. 😊 

 

I doubt any of my stuff is of a style you'd like, but you're welcome to poke around at my threads and comment; I can always use feedback as I have very very few listeners, and almost none of them has anything to say.  

[Bajan Blue]

Hi Freddy

Good to see you back - keep on doing what you do - I love that swampy old style blues you do - Love it!!

Cool

Nigel

 

[Bapu]

Classic freddy j track. Swampy AF. 

[treesha]

Sorry for all the difficulties you and your loved ones have been through. Music gets put on the back burner for a time, but then when we are ready and it is still there. I enjoyed the song very much, and even if you dont want to be mean, you play a mean guitar!  Take care 

[DeeringAmps]

Always a pleasure to start the day with a little Freddy J!

Taking the chorus to the 4, yeah man!

👍's 👏👏

Take care Freddy,

t

[daryl1968]

Hey Freddy! Unmistakably and unapologetically your style - great stuff mate.

[freddy j]

Hi Amberwolf. Thanks for your comments.  It does take a while to recover from events such as you described and hurricanes.  It has been a year since we experienced the two hurricanes in a row and my sister's condo complex is still working on some repairs.

I appreciate your insight on the timing.  I do have a problem with timing that seems incurable.  Whenever I do Bluesy or Bluesabilly stuff I try and inject that loose style of  the early electric blues guys (e.g., Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Willimson II, Lazy Lester, etc.).  They can pull it off but unfortunately I can't seem to do it.  Oh well, maybe if I keep trying I'll finally get it?

Thanks again.

[freddy j]

Hey Nigel.  Thanks for listening and your kind comments.  I have been trying to catch up with listening to your posts on this forum and as always they are most impressive!

[freddy j]

Hi  Bapu.  Thanks very much for taking the time to listen and for your kind comments.  I just got done listening to your recent post.  Most impressive indeed!

 

[freddy j]

Hi Treesha.  It does take a bit of time to clean up from one hurricane and even more time from two.  Thanks for your kind comments and I'm glad that you liked the song.  I would never be mean to my guitars -- after all they do most of the work 😀.

[thegaltieribrothers]

Good Job!

[PhonoBrainer]

Shwaaaaaaaaaa-mp groove!! Give it up for Freddie, with 188 songs on his SoundCloud page! That's inspirational right there.

I liked the greasy groove and tasty licks a lot. Well done sir. So sorry for your recent tribulations.

Please keep those excellent guitars above the waterline!

cheers,

-Tom

[bjornpdx]

Hi Freddy
I remember when you got hit with the hurricanes, living as you do in hurricane central. Wow it takes a while to recover from those disasters. Glad to hear you've found time to create music. Take care. 
-Bjorn

[Makke]

Good bluesrock song. Nice performance and sounds.

[Amberwolf]

On 10/29/2025 at 8:28 AM, freddy j said:

I appreciate your insight on the timing.  I do have a problem with timing that seems incurable.  Whenever I do Bluesy or Bluesabilly stuff I try and inject that loose style of  the early electric blues guys (e.g., Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Willimson II, Lazy Lester, etc.).  They can pull it off but unfortunately I can't seem to do it.  Oh well, maybe if I keep trying I'll finally get it?

Myself, I cannot really play, so I mess with the timing of things I record until they sound like I want them to (or until I give up in frustration).   

If there is an audio clip of something I already have (or can find) with the timing I want, I'll use the audiosnap to extract it's timing to a midi file, or use an existing midi fiel if I have one, and apply that timing to the clip I want to fix. That sometimes does the job, or gets me close enough to finish it.