What Happened to MRX????

[markophonic]

Haven't heard from him in a while???

Hope all is well.

He provided great insight and support!

[Kramer]

His last post was a week ago.
http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/sho...717#post653717

[mrx]

Markophonic, thanks for your kind words.

They've been making theats about spying on internet usage at work, so I've been keeping my head down.

It's also been a very frustrating time with the people I've been working with. I'm sure you all have similar horror stories that could fill this forum - a big part of the reason home recorders and drum machines are so popular...

I've had my last two bands fold after the singers bailed, and feel that the one I'm working with now is on the rocks. The singer is so good, but it gets frustrating putting in long hours programming backing tracks, making demos, getting our live rig together, etc. only to have her show up to record tracks for our demo and have no idea what three songs we picked, or where her lyric sheets are.

There's an open mic tomorrow that we used when starting out to test new material, etc. I'm half tempted to put together a couple tunes and go try to find someone new. I can't sing, and don't want to suck, but maybe it's the only way I can show folks what's possible.

[bdbdbuck]

MRX,
I feel your pain man, been there before.......it sucks. Haven't heard from clif in a couple of days but I think the project is coming along pretty good. Are you gonna be able to do it?


bd

[mrx]

Hey bdbd - Lookin' forward to it!!!

I've just been going through my old originals, trying to pick one to redo. Maybe posting one of my tumes, bad vocals all, is just what the doctor ordered...

[Earlds]

For what little its worth, I thought Id point out that Many {and I mean Many} of my favorite songs where sung by lousy singers.But than again that must mean that I like lousy singers.I mean, I love Hound Dog Talor..Maybe Ive got issues..Earl D......

[morindae]

Hey MRX, I took the plunge many years ago and began to sing my own material. It was the best thing I could have done. Singers can be a pain in the ass to deal with, especially when they don't sing your songs correctly. Take it from me, you're better off singing yourself. Good luck.

[clifchamb]

People can be flaky, especially singers our singer for our cover band has no sense of timing, he always comes in early or late and we have to change chords mid-measure to accomadae him. He doesn't listen to us an just gets upset and blames us if he is off. ANyhow MRX, I feel you pain too. ...So when do we get to hear some of you MR8 stuff?


CLif

PS> bdbdbuck I emailed you a little progress report

[bdbdbuck]

Way back in the 70's I played in an Acoustic duo with a dude that had ZERO timing. He was well connected in Georgetown, so the duo lasted longer than I expected. Major bullshitter, he could get gigs in places I never thought we would ever play. He was a decent songwriter and even had a hard time playing his own stuff. Needless to say once we would play a club, we would rarely be asked to return. After the breakup, I did some solo work for a while in some of those clubs and kept the contacts warm, which was helpful when I started another duo later. It was funny about the breakup....dude claimed he had a recording contract and tried to get me to move to Nashville. I pressed him to see the contract, but one day he just dissappeared.



bd

[dyuob]

I was in a little band about 15 years ago. The singer was amazing, except for a couple of problems. He could never sing a song the same way twice, and he drank. Alot. We were just cruising, with offers all over the place and then, during the Christmas season that year, he just disapeared. We'd been booked to play parties and clubs, but now, we had no singer. Sooo, we played all the dates that we could, and called it quits. Haven't seen him since. Saw his wife once and she said he felt real bad about everything.
Yeah, right.
I spent weeks recording and mixing a couple of songs for a demo. and he just disapeared. We were so hot around here for a while that the guy who video taped us for a promo package we putting together bootlegged the video and was selling them.
I used to run into copies of them every once in a while.
*sigh*
Ok, the business sucks sometimes, you meet a lot of very narrow minded people who can't see anything but their own reflection.
But hey, after all these years of not doing much with music, i decided it was time to do what i wanted to do, whether or not I could sing! Maybe I'll find the right people for a band, maybe not, but it's always about the music.

[a12stringer]

MRX,
Go for it, bro.
Great vocal technique is useless if it is soulless. A lot of really "great" singers suck in terms of technique. But they connected with their audience on a different level. Look at Janis Joplin and Leo Kottke. Kottke describes himself as having a voice that sounds like "geese farts". But I think he connects. Jim Croce, John Denver and John Lennon did not have great voices either, but they connected with their audiences. A really great song will connect with its audience, no matter what the voice presenting it.

[clifchamb]

Originally posted by dyuob
..... it's always about the music.

You said it brother. After playing for years in 2 different live bands, I get the most musical fullfillment from writing and recording my own songs whether I get people to help me or not. What gives me comfort is that I know no matter what happens the rest of my life I will always have music..


clif

[turntablist]

what if you lossed your hearing along with your limbs in a freak bowling accident??

[dyuob]

Originally posted by turntablist
what if you lossed your hearing along with your limbs in a freak bowling accident??

it's still in my head.

[turntablist]

yeah you're right, you could probably hum songs and feel the vibration in your head. hopefully none of us will have to do that though.

[clifchamb]

Originally posted by turntablist
what if you lossed your hearing along with your limbs in a freak bowling accident??

Then my wife will have to play the skin flute for me, other than that I try to avoid bowling due to it's high risk or danger involved.


clif

[turntablist]

lol

[nhanks]

Been checking out the forum for a while, but had a filter level on the windows that blocked me from registering. Finally realized that so now can post. My story about the impermance of fellow
musicians and the frustration of it all is from about 2 years ago, when a fellow guitar player, going back to high school, (let's see,
about 30 years ago) we finally doing some really good music, we just had this intuitive things that happened with our music, him
on guitar and me on hammer dulcimer, doing some original and some celtic stuff. I was using my yamaha 4 track, to help us listen and get the sound we wanted. We were almost ready to set up some gigs and spring came and he up and decided he'd go fly fising for the rest of the spring and summer and that was that.

But as one of you guys noted (yes a pun) the music goes on. Anyways I got an MR-8, getting started mixing on it, and got the cakewalk guitar track II for the PC mixing, but just haven't had the time to figure out how to sync up the tracks on the cakewalk when I drop them in. Most of them line up, but some don't. I just
need to read directions, the journey's the thing. Will be checking
in time to time. Nice to join in with fellow home recording musicians.

[clifchamb]

welcome to the forum nhanks!

clif

[nhanks]

Thanks!