AJFOne’s Customs 6/3 – Broken links????
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LATEST UPDATE 7/28 Frank Zappa – Montana
GUITAR/BASS: nsw1-6
Arguably the best song from the 1973 LP Over-nite Sensation, “Montana” is one of those silly complex yet simple tunes Frank Zappa wrote so well. The singer wants to move to Montana “just to raise up a crop of/Dental Floss” (yes, that’s right, dental floss grows in bushes, didn’t you know?). He will also grow bees to be able to wax his floss. Riding his pony around his fields of floss with a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers in his hands (the same ones that appeared in the album’s previous song, “Dinah-Moe Humm”), he will embody a new kind of cowboy, the “Dental Floss tycoon.” Full of twisted pseudo-ranch pronunciation and including a high-pitched “Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay” for the final fade-out, this song was a laugh riot, but it also included a complex middle section with sped-up vocals and percussion. The introduction is also noteworthy, as the drum fill was written out and obligatory — it became the song’s signature, so to speak.
That’s all my intention to introduce or reintroduce you to some old friends
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LATEST UPDATE 7/29 Temple of the Dog – Say Hello 2 Heaven
GUITAR: Bansheeflyer
Andrew Wood, the witchily flamboyant frontman of the Seattle gutter-glam outfit Mother Love Bone, was a close friend of Cornell’s – the two were roommates for a year and Wood’s early project Malfunkshun had appeared alongside Soundgarden on the early Seattle-scene comp Deep Six. After Wood’s 1990 death from a heroin overdose, Cornell channeled his grief into two songs, the grinding hymn “Reach Down” and the elegiac “Say Hello 2 Heaven.” The writing, Cornell told David Fricke last year, “came so quickly that I barely remember the thought process. [The two tracks] didn’t seem to make sense for Soundgarden. I remember thinking, ‘Is this okay?'” Cornell gave the demos to Jeff Ament, the bassist in Mother Love Bone, who fell for the songs instantly, and who, along with Mother Love Bone guitarist Stone Gossard, worked with Cornell to flesh them out. In its finished form, “Say Hello 2 Heaven” is mournful and thick, with Cornell’s voice slowly building to a searching yawp as the guitars gently weep around him. The song opens 1991’s Temple of the Dog, a document of the supergroup-in-waiting that helped cement Seattle as the epicenter of what was then known as “modern rock.” “It didn’t feel like a morose project. It felt sort of celebratory,” Cornell told Reflex in 1991.Thank you for, yet, another awesome classic.
Yes sir. I sing this at karaoke
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It’s Cornell at his very best. Thank you for doing this.
It’s Cornell at his very best. Thank you for doing this.
Thanks to Bansheeflyer so cranking out the guitar. To all my guitar charters:
thanks for the Dishwalla – love this song, actually the whole album !!
AWESOME! Thank you for Dishwalla, I always thought that that was a super underrated album.
My pleasure. I’ve loved this song for awhile and I’m glad my collaborators stepped up to make it happen sooner than later.
Yeah, Dishwalla’s Pet Your Friends is an excellent album. Everything else they released beyond it is forgettable. But that’s the story of ’90s bands in general!
…Oh shit. I just remembered a band that would be great in my suggestions thread that had one amazing album and that’s it… Deep Blue Something. Time to get to work crafting another post…
Okay, onto the song!
You guys most likely don’t realize this, but this song naturally fades out on the album–
“But Atruejedi! The custom doesn’t fade! Doofus.”
–That’s what I want you to appreciate! I only charted the vocals to 4:50 because I figured that would be a good place to stop and let the fade happen. What AJ did (and I didn’t realize this until I played it just now!) was take a sample from earlier in the song (the beginning) and slapped it on the end of the song. It’s barely noticeable (a keen ear will hear a slight volume increase) and flows perfectly and naturally with the song. Kudos, dude! Seriously impressive, and something I will brag about on your behalf! Attention to detail and extra effort like this should not go unheralded.
That being said, I think the harmonies became “un-synced” from the melody near the end of the song during your amalgamation process. All of the harmonies should perfectly align above their melody counterparts, but it’s noticeably uneven for at least the last two phrases. Might wanna give it a looksy.
This song is much trickier than I anticipated on guitar. Voxtaring it is not advised.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif” /> My first playthrough, I did only vocals on expert and got a 99%. The coolest part is because [activate humblebrag] it was so well-charted, I didn’t have to worry about singing to fill the tubes. I just sang naturally and killed it. [terminate] No more robot choir boy for songs that get the attention to detail they deserve. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> Luckily I had harmonies on, because I sang the harmony accidentally at the very beginning. Derp. And I did it the second time, too, while playing on hard vocals and expert guitar. Gotta train my brain!So, who’s gonna step up and do Counting Blue Cars, now?
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