I drink too much

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I played around with this over the Christmas holiday, Its a little too loose, but y'all will get the idea. A good new years tune for sure

I Drink Too Much
 
There's that wonderful blues voice again.
In the chorus you need 3 guys copying your line, "Drink 2 Much" - "Drink 2 Much", like that..........too cool man.
Your bass sound needs to be more defined on this recording.
My only nit:D

Keep up the good work and Happy New Year:D
 
This song made me very thirsty, but that being settled, I really like it. Mississippi blues at it's finest. The next round's on me.


Bob
 
I agree 100% about the 3 voices doing the "drink too much" refrain....actually the bass, drums, piano, and rythem guitar was a loose jam (the song dosen't need to stop after every turnaround...drummer really just winged it)

I put down the lead guitar and vocals Christmas night...I was alone and knew it needed the refrain but didn't have the voices.

Im going to recut the song, but I just wanted y'all to hear what im working on now
thanks so much for the listen guys.
 
Great tune, Jimi!:)

I enjoyed the track and your guitar and vocal work was very smooth and professional sounding.

I don't know about the extra vocal stabs during the chorus as lyrics like that might be best put out as a soloists expression, the way it is right now.

I will look forward to hearing the finished production with a tighter performance from the drummer who was throwing off the flow of the tune a bit uncomfortably as you noted.

On the re-do, you might also consider bringing the tempo up about another 4 or 5 BPM.

Recording wise, you seem to be achieving a good degree of clarity on the majority of instruments but there might be too many layers of sound on this recording and a smaller arrangement might tighten up the performance and clarity even more.

Very cool!:)

Cheers! :)
 
thanks for the review ghost.

The only tracks that were doubled were the bass guitar, bass drum, and rythem guitar. (i ran a "as is" track on the bass drum and the bass guitar and a "compressed" track) as an experiment to see if it would tighten up the bottom end. I think the main reason that it sounds like too much is going on is because it wasn't a tight performance, I will fix that in the next cut.

thanks again for the review.
jimistone

As a side note...I played thru a Peavey studio pro solid state amp (who says you can't get tone out of a cheap ass solid state?)
I can't say enough about how much I like that amp. I have a tube fender amp that I love too....but...the peavey comes thru with the goods at LOW volume.

Live, the Fender kicks the peaveys ass, but in the studio its a toss up.
 
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I drink too much - I can relate man.

The acoustic sounds a bit thin, I like the tune over-all, great blues. I can definitely see this being played in a down and dirty bar somewhere. Great job.
 
I dig! Great blues song. Everything sounds like it was recorded very well.

I think I'd like it with our without the refrain. As mentioned, the drums could be a little tighter, but it's not bad at all.

Cheers!
Brendan
 
Thanks lynx and paco,

I didn't have an acoustic on this track by the way....what you are hearing is an electric with a clean sound (no distortion)
 
Cool tune. I like the vocal and guitar sound. It does sound like the performance issues are cluttering things up. The bass and drums are a bit too sloppy to give it a tight groove. I would personally compress the drums more to even out the dynamics. They sit okay in the mix but the dynamics just sound a bit too sloppy. Nice job.
 
Thanks Tex and bsanfordnyc.

This cut has a sloppy performance for sure Tex.....but I liked the guitar tone I got. I started laying down tracks on another one....its going to be tight.

Yes, thats me singing.
 
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