Speed Goat

[Cheebs]

Speed Goat is uppon us! First rough mix of my "band's" "album". The song is called Put it in the Back of Your Mind

http://www.fluffypotato.com/music/Sp...OfYourMind.wma

Lyrics and melody by my girl Beth. Arrangement and instrument parts and generic stuff like that by me.

Beth sings. I play everything else (everything else being drums, percussion, guitars, and bass).

Hopefully we will get a real drummer for the rest of our stuff, but I did the best I could.


Fun production notes!
Due to being stupid, I bought the wrong gauge strings for my floating bridge guitar. For those of you not familliar with a floating bridge guitar (like me), that means big problems. I could only get it to tune up in drop B (B, E, A, D, Gflat, B). You can imagine the fun I had trying to play waaaaaaaay up on the high frets to get it to sound right.

The vocals were done with a nine-year old in the room, an ancient toy poodle, and a hyper jack russel puppy. The old-man dog really hates the puppy to make all that much more fun. You can just imagine slogging through those takes...

The only way I could get the ring out of the snare drum was to duct-tape a chewie toy to the top head. So...maybe it was good that there were dogs in the house!

I recorded/mixed/produced myself on my trusty Roland VS 2480 with a nice supply of SM57's and inexpensive Chinese condenser mics. Woo Hoo cheap technology!

[arjue]

I dig it, its good fun

I like your wifes voice. Reminds me of the Long Blondes.

[arjue]

oh, and the bass break is hot

[Type Ryan]

Not bad. I was expecting metal with a name like Speed Goat, but the rock/ska sounds pretty good. It reminds me of mid-80's rock.

[K3V]

Not bad, not bad.

[Cheebs]

oh, and the bass break is hot

Ah, thank you very much. I can't do weedleies and squeedleies on guitar to save my life, so a guitar solo didn't seem like a good idea. That section needed something, so I gave it a go on the ol' bass. My fingers weren't quick enough to play that so I enlisted the help of a guitar pick. It turned out that the tone change going from fingers to pick was exactly what that secion needed.

[Kev]

No one cares about you anyway.

[arjue]

Great decision, not what i expected at that point at all yet it fits the whole tone perfectly. Not just saying this because i'm bass biassed.

[jyoung]

Regular rock music isn't really my thing, so I'll just critique the technical elelments of the music:

The drum kit on the whole sounds a bit dull; the snare drum in particular needs a lot more life to it (or then again, maybe you just weren't hitting it with a whole lot of force).

Guitar tone is ok, albeit a bit generic.

Bass sounds fine.

The vocals sound great in the softer sections; in the other sections though, they just doesn't quite fit with the rest of the music. Maybe you (meaning you, directly) could throw some graveled backing vocals in there to add a bit more bite to the vocals.

[Cowutopia]

This is fun shit. Get a drummer though, seriously. The drumline just needs more fun stuff going on. Everything else is awesome, I'd put this on my player and listen to it.

I love the tone of your girl's voice, full and low, not high and squeaky/whiny like a lot of singers. There are bands (Palomar, Mates of State) whose vocalists are in that obnoxious range that kind of keeps me from enjoying it the way I could.

Anyway speaking of Palomar, it's some fun stuff. Link up in the usual place. They are supposed to have a new album out but I don't know what happened, they cancelled the album release show.