Talk Dirty To Me! - Greg_L goes hairmetal

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true-eurt said:
I just heard the original on this at work the other day! I'll have to listen when I get home from work later...I bet it rocks tho...you do have a gift for that Greg!
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Haha, hope you like it. :D

D_Vincent said:
Great job on the song Greg...I find most of poisons recordings sound more like demos that have not been finished yet so Im sure its not to hard to make one of their songs sound better than the original which you seem to have done...also some of CC's lead at the end of the solo seem to be a tad bit out of tune or close to it and never sounded right to me however your version sounds better...I guess it pays to keep the guitar in tune...lol...nice job.
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Lol. Thanks a lot. I'm not a fan of Poison, but I agree that most of their stuff sounds pretty bad production-wise. Typical overdone 80's sound. The drums on the original version of this song are pitiful. :D

antichef said:
gawd I hate that song :D -- but it is fun to hear it redone. Very nice job as usual on all the aspects.

What software do you use? I'm going to ask one of these questions per song you post, and eventually I'll know your whole setup.

I was in a neighborhood metal band in the 80's - our rhythm guitar player really looked and played the glam part (and I very much did not - creative differences held us back :)) - once, I was driving the two of us through a drive through fast food place with him sitting in the passenger seat - we could barely see a nice looking female ordering something at the counter inside the place. We ordered, sat, and then before we got our food, the drive through cashier sheepishly leaned out the window to hand me a piece of scrap paper -- with her phone number on it -- but not for me, for him! Ack! Was it the hair? He must have been barely visible from in there.
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Lol. That was the style back then. Rockers got the chicks. I don't know why, they just did. Maybe it was the whole "bad boy" thing, even though most of them were giant pussies. I was never into the hair-metal stuff back then though. Hell I was a punk rocker. I was listening to the Ramones and Black Flag and the Circle Jerks while Guns and Roses was all over the TV and radio. I hated hair-metal. I mostly still do, but I kind of like some of it now just for nostalgia.

Anyway, thanks for listening. I use Reaper. Reaper is awesome.
 
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I was in a damn internet cafe, got one song uploaded, tried to upload my stuff to you on yousendit, and at the same time I was trying to listen to this.

And the lady comes up and says "we are closed" and turns of the fucking computer on me. Actually, she shut down the whole row of them.

I almost punched her. Now I am back on the ship and can't download and listen to this.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow.
 
This is a great recording and a great mix, but I think what really nails it is your solid and cohesive performance on all of the parts. Absolutely fantastic!
 
Never heard the original.

The tune sounds good to me.

Well recorded.

Guitars sounds bigger than the 80`s:D

The balance of the mix sounds awsome.

My only nit, but htis might be the same in the original.

But at 0:17-18 somewere, when you go from the intro into the verse.
It sounds as if it "Dont have a good expression for this, without it being offesnsive" Limping a bit.

It sorta comes from the the power of the intro , and then it sorta stumbles a tiney bit.
I`m not sure what it is, it might just be me:o:D

Anyways I dug the tune:)
 
Nakatira said:
Never heard the original.

The tune sounds good to me.

Well recorded.

Guitars sounds bigger than the 80`s:D

The balance of the mix sounds awsome.

My only nit, but htis might be the same in the original.

But at 0:17-18 somewere, when you go from the intro into the verse.
It sounds as if it "Dont have a good expression for this, without it being offesnsive" Limping a bit.

It sorta comes from the the power of the intro , and then it sorta stumbles a tiney bit.
I`m not sure what it is, it might just be me:o:D

Anyways I dug the tune:)
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Thanks a lot dude, although I don't really get what you're talking about. :confused:
 
Resurrected post - back from obscurity

I'm a little slow and new....but I just discovered Greg's covers of a few of my metal favorites!

Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love! Sweet! and in the original key! Damn! David Lee What? Eddie Who?

Deuce! Greg, that's creepy in a great way! It's like you got a time machine, and went back to the KISS studio in '73. The tone's are so similar it's just blowing my freakin' mind! :cool:

Talk Dirty...You just made me like that song again and I was a huge Poison fan back-in-the-day. I just saw them last fall and Bret's voice was not as much fun as what I just heard!

New York Groove - Ace is the Man!!! Great tribute to a classic! Thanks for making my Wednesday a little more fun and inspiring me to keep working on those covers that I never thought I could sing. :D
 
Haha, dude you're going through all of my old, assy sounding shit. :laughings:


Most of those covers are 3 or 4 years old now. I used them to learn. That was some of my early stuff. Ugh, I can't even stand to hear that crap now. :laughings:
 
OH no, You are not gonna get off that easy! I wanna know how a drummer decides to cover Deuce and not only NAILS the original guitar tone, but improves upon it!!!! Start talkin' buddy!!
 
Lol. Well, for that song, back then I used an SG plugged into a Digitech RP300a processor that went into an Acoustic 123 solid state piece of crap practice amp turned to 11. Then I stuck an SM57 in front and went to town.
 
great performance..reminds me of my time back in the late 80s....i used to be the girl on the far left

the boxx

clicking on your own risk
 
lol...thanks. this was one of the reasons i was disinherited by my father
 
Greg_L said:
Lol. Well, for that song, back then I used an SG plugged into a Digitech RP300a processor that went into an Acoustic 123 solid state piece of crap practice amp turned to 11. Then I stuck an SM57 in front and went to town.
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What did the Digitech say "Deuce '73- Greg, use this one"!!! I mean really, we got guys all over this forum using those things, PODs and what not, and they don't get that convincing of a sound. WTF!!!:spank::spank::spank::spank:

Seriously though, I suspect that (you can tell me if you think I'm high...and you will) most of that crap in the middle (PODs, pedals, pre's, etc) isn't as important as a good guitar and a quality speaker to move some good 'ole fashioned AIR around in the (not so over-eq'd) mix.

ur thoughts?
 
maximusbs said:
What did the Digitech say "Deuce '73- Greg, use this one"!!! I mean really, we got guys all over this forum using those things, PODs and what not, and they don't get that convincing of a sound. WTF!!!:spank::spank::spank::spank:

Seriously though, I suspect that (you can tell me if you think I'm high...and you will) most of that crap in the middle (PODs, pedals, pre's, etc) isn't as important as a good guitar and a quality speaker to move some good 'ole fashioned AIR around in the (not so over-eq'd) mix.

ur thoughts?
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I think I used the "Angus" setting with some tweaking.

I'm okay with PODs and all that shit. They don't bother me at all. I use Guitar Rig 4 all the time. I'm primarily a drummer. I don't have Hiwatts and Marshalls and AC30s laying around. I look at amp modellers like I do with drum sampling: if it sounds good, use it. Some people don't/can't play drums, so they use loops and samples. No problem. As long as they souind good, and most importantly - human - it's all good. It's the same with guitars. If you don't have a 100 watt tube amp laying around but want the huge sound, sure, use a modeller. That's what they're for. This is home-recording. It's just a fun hobby. If it sounds good, it is good.
 
You have a good ear. Because there are many times when I think my guitar sounds good - and it is NOT good! This forum is helping though...
 
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