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Title: New Recording
Post by: the captain on February 09, 2008, 11:25:31 AM
I replaced existing lead vocals, all the guitars, and did a pretty thorough remix of my song "Josiah Bildner." Stop by www.myspace.com/thebeaumondes and have a listen.


Title: Re: New Recording
Post by: matt-zeus on February 12, 2008, 11:08:50 PM
This is a cool song! I love the piano and hammond fills all the way through the verse, it's got a cool jazzy sort of sound reminds me a bit of Steely Dan. The backing vocals are quite CSNY-like - a fine piece of work!


Title: Re: New Recording
Post by: the captain on February 13, 2008, 02:25:04 PM
I love the piano and hammond fills all the way through the verse, it's got a cool jazzy sort of sound reminds me a bit of Steely Dan. The backing vocals are quite CSNY-like - a fine piece of work!

The jazzy feel, I suppose, is from the two primary chords in the verse: Cmaj7 and Fmaj7(b5). The keyboards are by a friend of mine, Seth, who did a nice job. (He's also the Seth named in the lyrics who "once you finish one [song], Seth makes you write another; lately I don't ever have any fun." We were in a band together. He was more ambitious than me.) Thanks for the compliments, even though the two bands you've named are two I don't even like. It's an odd coincidence that usually when someone says I sound like [band], it's a band I hate!


Title: Re: New Recording
Post by: matt-zeus on February 13, 2008, 11:34:28 PM
Ha Ha! Thats always the way! Well i'm not big on CSNY, but Steely Dan - brilliant, some of the juiciest music I have heard, not much of an emotional connection perhaps but for arrangements and melodies and chords and stuff I love it!