Free of Me

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Back in the saddle after a surprise 3x heart bypass (ah... the life of a rock and roll musician LOL) and banged this one out to get back in the groove. I think its one of my best but I would LOVE to get any feedback if anyone cares to give it. I'm keeping it close to me till I tweak it with some feedback.

Free of Me

http://www.soundclick.com/mothersbadson

first song, will auto-play for you

Rick
 
Glad to hear that you are ok after your surgery. I think your song has an ok structure and the performance on guitars is good. The Vocal performance is good too. As for the recording and mixing, I think your vocals dont sit well at all on top of the rest of the song. It sounds a lot like a person recording himself singing upstairs in the kitchen with the band playing in the basement (especially with regards to the heavy electric sounds). It sounds, also, as if your vocal recording is clipping or is running through a bad processor or both. You guitars sound like heavy metal from the '80s and your vocals sound like folk. That keyboard interlude is being played by a non-keyboardist on a very crappy keyboard with a very unconsidered and unaffected setting. In my opinion the keyboard should just be d/c'd. The "scratch the side of the pic down the string" effect was passe the second time Eddie Van Halen did it and that was nearly 30 years ago. The drums were given 20 seconds of thought and then stopped and started once in a while. I honestly think you are (over) using effects just to be using them. This song is not badly written but then you tried to turn it into a "rock anthem" using effects and overly distorted guitars. There are places in the song where your mix has a more acoustic feel to it and these are where the song is most honest. Maybe you could re-record the whole thing keeping the feel of the song in that arena and then see if you don't like (a lot) more. I know I would.
 
Hi Rick,
Hope you're feeling better after the bypass – bad news dude!

It's a good song but I do agree that it's been a bit overblown into a old fashioned rocky type of thing, but then to be honest that's never been quite my bag anyway.

Having said that, I really like the vocals and your voice is quite unusual, distinct and honest sounding. So, in my opinion this song should be stripped back to a gentle acoustic vibe with only minor flourishes of instrumental melody, so that it's your voice that carries the whole thing – y'know, be brave and expose yourself more and the emotion and atmosphere will win out.

Like I said though, it has the makings of a very good song indeed,
Dreamer :)
 
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