dig it, beans and bitchsnax

[Marksman45]

I've just uploaded two more mp3s of the upcoming Dream & Shadow Huntsman Group album, "BURN(!)" and a new version of "An Eye Named Amy"

You can check them out here:
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/btw/prod/dashg-adv.html

[Lightning Rod]

Mars,
I think this is a good tune, but I think you should redo it.

there are red notes

the production ideas are good, I think. It reminds me of some Tull.

You need a lead/contrasing instrument.

I have heard a number of your recordings and this is not one of your best.

pardon my candor.

[Marksman45]

I imagine those red notes must be the electric piano, which the guitars aren't in tune with. I can fix that, I'm just lazy. I will probably fix it by the time I'm ready to release the album

I almost put an organ on it but decided against it 'cause I've been using organs in a rock setting too much.
If I had a saxophone, I'd write a sax part for it

Really, I'm only resisting re-doing it because the vocal came out perfect, and I don't want to put my Leslie cabinet through the hell of that guitar solo again. That poor Leslie cabinet is at least 30 years old, I don't know if it could take it again

[Doreen Peri]

Geesh.... LR you're such a critic!

Mars... I thought it sounded great!

(He does this to me all the time, too... I record something and love it and he says "do it over"... LOL! oh well...)

anyway, that's what critique is for .. you can take it or leave it.

sometimes he's right and I take it .. other times I leave it.

Great work, Mars! Keep on keepin' on!

[Marksman45]

Thanks, Dor

I always ask people what they think about my work. If I agree, I tend to listen; if I disagree, I tend to not listen. But I'm a little egotistic that way

Sometimes that out-of-tune piano bothers me, sometimes I like it. It seems to depend on what mood I'm in. The rest of the song is close enough. That's what I go for, close enough. "Close enough for blues." I have to, 'cause I'm really not very good at actually *playing* instruments, just conceptualizing and composing. I fake the rest.