
GONZO-X
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trick or treat!
there's the trick!!

there's the trick!!

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Sounds cool man. Very interesting blend. I kinda feel like the drums could be a bit more up front when they come in.
The bass frequencies are a bit heavy in general relative to the other frequencies. They sound great though.
And the year before that, and the year before that...Sounds cool. I especially like that acoustic part. You posted this last year, didn't you?
And the year before that, and the year before that...
(just for completeness: each of the 3 years before that one. Then it looks like a 4 year gap since the original posting in 2007).
That is dedication to getting the song juuust right. Especially if you only work on it once a year!![]()
A 9 year old track is posted in the mixing clinic for the zillionth time for mix suggestions?
Musically this is, was and will remain polished but loses it's "bite" with repeated posting.
Lyrically it has always needed work.
My thoughts go to the 2nd line "drank up all the mead" and just how clunky it sounds/reads.
The convenient but messy "to pass over you the worst" also gets me each time.
Yet they only buildup the suspense for "run into the moor and see the evil eye upon you cast a glance, and the payment, it is nigh."
I tried to rewrite it to give it some internal structure and pull the area, foods etc together.
Night upon the moor (moors are highlands)
Scrumpy in the gut (trad Dartmoor drink)
Mists muddy the air
Gibbous (or Hunter's) moon clear cut
Couldn’t see corruption
Condemned son of a bitch (clearly a bad pun but I tried to keep it)
As jaws tore out his throat
Eviscerated in a twitch
“tis your kin up on the moor
with his innards at his feet.”
Sup on Aconite this night (wolf’s bane is highly toxic)
Queen poison, witch’s curse (Queen of Poisons is an alt name for Aconite)
Farewell all that your believe
As the beast’s bite is worse
“tis your kin up on the moor
with his innards at his feet.”
His debt as yet unpaid
While his reckoning you cheat
Run up to the moor
Stare into the devil's eyes
If the bane doesn’t kill ye
Then you’ll see where evil lies.
but has almost no dynamics (sounds limited).
that's simple.I laughed for like five minutes at Steve's comment that this has been posted every year since 2007. Why do you keep posting it, Gonzo?
Especially if you only work on it once a year!![]()
Hi Gonzo-X, I'm listening to the new version you posted above ,pretty cool song you have here , it has a unique style that I pretty like, arrangements and effects are subtle and well designed/balanced. the acoustic guitar and lead electric guitar have really sweet tones. I haven't listen to the previous versions but his one is top notch I'd say. The story line of the lyrics is very interesting and give part of the uniqueness of the song. The mix is well balance and arranged you did a great job and well done![]()