[Farottone]

Fair enough, still 27+ more songs to look forward to! I don’t suppose you could give us an updated total so we could do our own Christmas countdown?

 

Farottone, if there were a Nobel Prize for customs, you’d be the only choice. Well done sir.

 

Thank you but it’s 40 of us more or less, with whom I would gladly share equally the prize. This worked as a wonderful collective effort. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”>

 

So, grandtotal… let’s say around 325. I really botched the eyeballing of the total before we began and I apologize for that (what we lost along the way does not make up for the difference), however 3 days away for the grand finale (oh yes, there WILL be a grand finale) I can see we really did well with our releases. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”>

[TrojanNemo]

Just checked the numbers, it looks like we will be surpassing the goal. And here I was worried for a second.

[Farottone]

First of all, it’s just amazing to see all these donations flooding in, I’m so happy I can’t explain. Second, Nemo, it looks like you’re being punished for being awesome. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif”> Good thing you set a cap there!

[AJFOne23]

82. December 21st, 2PM EST-20:00 CET

 

 

Funk & Soul Pack

by AJFOne

 

GUITAR/KEYS: wingsoveramerica

VOCALS: EchoOfMystery

 

By the ’70s, Motown artist Marvin Gaye was bored with “the Sound of Young America.” When he wanted to go more in the direction of message music, label founder Berry Gordy wasn’t pleased. It didn’t help matters that Gaye had a reputation around the label of being “difficult,” making him somewhat of a pariah among the talent pool. One of the key tracks for Gaye’s new musical path was a song that was co-written by Four Tops member Renaldo Benson and Motown staff songwriter Al Cleveland. As Gaye worked on the song that would become “What’s Going On,” he angrily reflected on the stories told to him by his brother Frankie Gaye who was a Vietnam vet. The melancholy alto sax line was blown by Eli Fountain and, like the song itself, it seemed as a kind of aligned signal that the upbeat ’60s were giving way to the more pessimistic ’70s.

 

 

GUITAR/BASS: Chips

 

“Grace” might not be a shred-fest like Van Halen’s “Eruption”, but it gives a primer for what to expect with Buckley’s versatile guitar playing. The riffs aren’t in your face but are more subtly inventive with rapid arpeggios and jittering chords. Buckley never stays in the same place for too long on “Grace”. He forgoes typical verse, chorus, verse song structure and instead opts to chart new territory in each section between a refrain of “Wait in the fire.” As he madly screams and makes soulful vocal embellishments near the end as the guitar moves frantically about, it’s a great moment to put your face in your hands and say to yourself, “Life isn’t fair.”

 

 

GUITAR: mrcoupdetat

BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery

STANDARD KEYS: Bansheeflyer

 

This funk and soul song reached #1 on the R&B chart and #6 in the Hot 100 in 1968. The song is particularly historical because of its influence on the careers of the Jackson 5. Michael Jackson was the lead vocalist on the group’s audition tape to Motown’s Berry Gordy in 1968. The song, of course, was “I Got the Feelin’.”

 

 

GUITAR: mrcoupdetat

BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery

STANDARD KEYS: Bansheeflyer

 

“Cold Sweat” is a groundbreaking moment if only for the fact that it ushered in the entire funk era. Its intrigue, however, lies within the fact that it falls into the lineage of jazz motifs created by Miles Davis. Funk became the music of the day, only thanks to the music of the past. Its contributions to the future can be found on most popular records today. On this record, Brown shouts the classic line “give the drummer some,” a nod to his longtime collaborator, the renowned drummer Clyde Stubblefield. This seemingly routine call led to a drum solo that would define the concept of “breaks,” a model that not only influenced dance music of the era, but ultimately led to the sampling dynamics of hip-hop music.

 

 

GUITAR: mrcoupdetat

BASS/VOCALS: EchoOfMystery

STANDARD KEYS: Bansheeflyer

 

Not just “funky” anymore … this is pure funk. You know the thing: Deep thunderous bass setting up a single chord groove, two or three guitars trying to outdo one another as the catchiest rhythmic hook and horns assertively emblazoning their melodic blasts on top. JB himself weighs in with his usual grunts and screeches, mixing raps on dancing with some political commentary.

Do you like this release? Awesome! If would have downloaded this release even if it was paid DLC, please donate 90 cents per song to the Make-A-Wish foundation please, we’ll be forever grateful!

Song count so far: 278

 

The next author up at December 21st, 10PM EST-04:00 CET is ghostbyob. Even in the desert comes the night.

[Jimi369]

What a release! Thank you so much!

[kueller]

So surprised to see Grace get a proper custom here. Thank you very much.

[rcale]

I just teared up seeing Whats Going On. Thank you so much.

[MrPrezident]

Just amazing releases in the last couple days, and this last one, my god. What great choices! Very impressive.

[Yoa]

Thank you for C3thon.

 

I’m in New Zealand, and was unable to donate to the US site as our card was rejected, so I donated to the NZ version of Make A Wish.

 

Thanks one and all, happy holidays

Donating from Holland is also troublesome.. website just blocks when I click donate….surprised they don’t support PayPal.. Will try other options.

Thanx C3 charters!!

[VOC Sonder NL]

Holy shit AJF,

Marvin Gay “whats going on”

 

OMG!!!!!!

Thank you thank you thank you.

[VOC Sonder NL]

Donating from Holland is also troublesome.. website just blocks when I click donate….surprised they don’t support PayPal.. Will try other options.

Thanx C3 charters!!

I had no issues from the netherlands. Only I could not select Euro, but dollars worked ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

With creditcard

[AJFOne23]

Thanks soul brothers and sisters for the love and thanks to my crew for helping get it done for a great cause!

[Funk Meister Freud]

It’s been a veeerrrryyyy long and eventful day that prevented me from checking in sooner….. but what do I see?!?!?

 

OH HELL NO!!!!

This pack is so funking unreal….. I gotta slap my @#!&^$% ass silly just to comprehend that it IS real!

Damn AFJOne23!!!! Ya done did me in on this one, homes! Thank You SOOOO MUCH!!

[AJFOne23]

It’s been a veeerrrryyyy long and eventful day that prevented me from checking in sooner….. but what do I see?!?!?

 

OH HELL NO!!!!

This pack is so funking unreal….. I gotta slap my @#!&^$% ass silly, just to comprehend that it IS real!

Damn AFJOne23!!!! Ya done did me in on this one, homes! Thank You SOOOO MUCH!!

 

Was waiting for you to chime in

[ghostbyob]

83. December 21st, 10PM EST-4:00CET

 

 

Sahara

by GhostByob

Nightwish – Sahara

 

Dark Passion Play is the first album without original vocalist Tarja Turunen,
a demo from this album to this “c3thon” will be Sahara, a narrative about a cursed in the desert.

 

 

Do you like this release? Awesome! If would have downloaded this release even if it was paid DLC, please donate 90 cents per song to the Make-A-Wish foundation please, we’ll be forever grateful!

Song count so far: 279

 

The next author up at December 22nd, 6AM EST-12:00 CET is Nyxyxylyth. Before he became MC Madman, he went on a psychedelic trip.

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