Free sound clips from Metal on Metal

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The Ghost of FM: Thanks for pointing that out. You can critique any you want. Thanks Walter
 
I checked out "Rest In Peace".

That had got to be the spookiest, scariest, biggest, bad assed harmonica sound I have ever heard in my life!

It was almost a shame when the vocal started and harp stopped.

Nice Job!:cool:
 
Thanks! That is the 15 hole marine band. You don't hear it very often. I use to play in stairways of high rises and tried to get that sound with the cool edit 200 reverb. Walter
 
Congrat`s on the release Walt. There`s alotta heart in them tunes. I been listening over several weeks now.
 
Toki987: Thanks for all your support. This and LIVE AT THE ALPINE HALL CD, are now availalble at my website:

http://www.spontobeat.com/

Metal on Metal is not pictured yet, but you can order the Alpine cd and just add a note on the paypal sectiion that you want that one. It will be a pretty interesting cover.

The great news is I am able to donate $6.00 on every cd to the Smiling With Hope Foundation:

http://www.smiling-with-hope.org/


MY main inspiration to get back to playing was to raise some $ and awareness for the foundation. Mentally Retarded people have upwards of a 97% full-time unemployment rate, and are sexually abused, on average, 10 times or more by the time they are 14. I have done the big record deal stuff in the past and never made a dime. I always ended up with a bill and a product that never felt right. Doing it all myself, I pay $4.00 per cd to the web/cd designer, $2.00 for shipping, which leaves $6.00 profit to the foundation. Plus I have complete control of the finished product. This mini disc invention has been in my dreams for 40 years! Here is the dope on it. Thanks Walter

The technique used to record all cds:

21st Century Field Recordings - All of Walter's music is recorded in the early 20th century field recording tradition. Adventurous men would pack their simple recording equipment in the back of their cars, drive into the deep south, to locate and record, in their homes, the musicians of that area. This is how most of the country came to learn about blues, folk, country, and Cajun music. These visionary men paved the way for the slick studio recordings we now take for granted.

Walter sticks to this recording concept by using only a mini disc recorder and a stereo microphone to record all his band and solo cds. Once they are recorded they are formatted to cd quality, and may get a slight touch of reverb, echo, and compression. It only takes about 2 minutes of production time to transform a mini disc recording to a finished cd.
 
here is the cover. Walter
 

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I really enjoy your music Walter,you just don't hear much of this good stuff anymore.

Good luck with your cd's!

Pete
 
thanks Pete. If I get a few people thinking about the Mentally Retarded citizens, it is all worth it! Where in NJ do you live? I grew up in Belleville, and South Orange. Both bordered Newark, and that is where I usually ended up hanging out. Walter
 
Hey Walter,

I live by Teterboro airport,(makes for fun recording!):D

Pretty cool what your doing for your special friends.

I worked for a couple of years in a head injury job rehab.
Mostly a bunch of kids in car accidents and such.
Best job I ever had,I loved every one of them!

I wrote a song about it,if you want to check it out-

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1317&alid=-1

"Special People"

You probably have to download it,hi fi dosn't seem to want to work.
Towards the bottom,just a rough take.

I'll be buying one of your cd's,definitly.

Pete
 
Pete: Thanks for turning me on to your music. I listened to just about it all. I really like your solo stuff. It was very relaxing and inspiring. I am going to grab my old Kalamazoo as soon as I am done here! As I listened, I was thinking of an old man walking along some old railroad line, thinking about his life. He held a lot of sadness in his heart for all the pain he had seen, but he keeps on walking, waiting for the next special moment. You have a great groove. NJ produces some great ones! Walter
 
That Suit!

Where did you get the tin foil suit Walter?:D
Seriously, good luck on your venture and keep up ALL the good work you do.

Dan
 
Hevy: I have a story around my suits. I was driving down the road one day in Austin. It must have been a 100 degrees and humid. I see this black guy walking with this lame suit on. I hung a u - turn and flagged him down. He told me he was a singer and his sister made all his clothes. I got her number and called her. Her husband was a Baptist preacher and she made all the choir and wedding dresses for the church. She said it was her calling from the Lord to sew. I asked if she would make me a suit. She said yes. I went and bought patterns and materials and she charged $100 labor per suit. She did all of this with a simple sewing machine on her kitchen table. We developed quite a relationship over the years. She loved the materials I gave her. I had a weeks worth of suits from her that were made of lame, sequence, and other exotic fabrics I don't know the name of. Her and her kids would have shreds of my suits materials in their hair and carpets for weeks after she finished the suits. That was her only complaint. Now the sad news. One day in a fit of anger, over the music world and my struggle with it, I sold them all at a garage sale for $1.00 each. These were silk lined, and worth thousands of dollars each. People were buying them for Halloween costumes. When we moved here to Ca, I found the silver one, which was her first and most primitive creation, in a box. It is all I have left from those days when I wore those suits, drove an 59 caddy limo, 63 park ave Caddy(both mint), had a Rolex watch on each wrist ( one set to TX time, the other NY), gold rings on every finger, and Vaseline in my hair. I was a bit crazy in those days! Walter
 
Stuff sounds great Walter!... I wish the samples were longer.... A good length for snippets is about 1:00... Then the listener can get past the first chorus...

Maybe you can lengthen a few...That would be great... I really dig the stuff and want to hear a bit further into the songs.

Joe
 
Joe: Thanks. I am new to all this stuff. I will do that for the next cd. I am a school teacher and start work next Thursday, so my music time will be cut into big time. I am excited to start work. I feel blessed to have made it to this point in life. I hope one of my students will draw the cover for an ucoming release on being Menatlly Disabled. Take care Walter

PS: Making everything up as I go along, I often don't have a chorus, or a lot of them, or a little............ I never know where I am going!
 
well... the cover reminds me of jimmy smith's "back at the chicken shack" :D
 
Walter Tore said:
Joe: Thanks. I am new to all this stuff. I will do that for the next cd. I am a school teacher and start work next Thursday, so my music time will be cut into big time. I am excited to start work. I feel blessed to have made it to this point in life. I hope one of my students will draw the cover for an ucoming release on being Menatlly Disabled. Take care Walter

PS: Making everything up as I go along, I often don't have a chorus, or a lot of them, or a little............ I never know where I am going!
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I totally understand Walter.... Anyways, it's great stuff!
 
ino: I looked up that cover. It is a cool one. We shot mine in my back yard. That is Mocha our dog with me. She goes everywhere and especially loves laying at my feet when I play on the street. Music put her in a trance of peace. That photo really captured her street look. Thanks Walter
 
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