Your/My Musical Legacy

[El Dunco]

I hope they at least find it interesting and get some value out of it. I sometimes forget how many guitarists didn’t pick it up primarily to scratch the itch of creating works and putting them out. Being in the music scene is most of my whole world, I get lost in it. My T&C threads usually get a pretty generous amount of attention all things considered.


If you can believe it, waiting until next month to find out if I’m going to die or not and how long is considered very quick post covid in the public healthcare system. Everyone else with anything less has to wait until at least July. I’ve probably run through the entire range of emotions over it until now I don’t even care because I don’t even know how to feel anymore. It’s the strangest feeling….

I’m still making my way through everything you posted so far. I’ll talk about it when I have the proper “feel” for it. I’ll put one more from our second album because it’s fastest song on there.

https://soundcloud.com/fragmentametal/darkest-storm?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=DE11C074FF0F4070A2FDBA51A0F8376C&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

[Phantasmagoria]

Wow..so what health issues are we talking about? I missed it man...

[Phantasmagoria]

Well since there does'nt seem to a be a mad rush to post up 'personal Legacy' clips in here as predicted lol...(surprise....surprise ..looks like it's just El Dunco and me )

I'm wondering if I might have a bright future/legacy as a vocalist ??

[Mincer]

How about instead of over running threads like this with your videos, just post a link to your YouTube channel?

[Phantasmagoria]

Eh a little late Easrter inspiration? (necro thread ressurection)

Well I already have one of those links to my channel in my sig so anoher link would just be overkill...

Plus this being a thread about musical legacies and all, a few video's sharing said legacies could'nt be more appropriate? Unless of course there are none to share (and no vid's to post) in which case the only reason to be in this thread at all would be to check out other folks legacies & what better way than to to watch educational and informative video's

[El Dunco]

Yes, but this thread is now at peak Phantasmagoria saturation. A bit of back and forth would be nice, especially considering I still haven’t got any answers about my health concerns. Not without yet another battery of tests.

You can post a few clips (I felt 5 was a healthy limit,) but I encourage everyone to listen to each other’s music and comment like Seashore did for me and I did for you rather than just dump and split…. Even if you don’t like it, at least say why.

That’s why I suggested a limit. Posting too many clips makes it really difficult to comment on because I just don’t have that much time, so your strongest 5, a link to your channel if there’s more you want people to check out and engage with the premise. If you can abide, everything is cool.

[Phantasmagoria]

Eh, well my first post predicted no great inrush of contributions into this thread (and *viola* lol).

Since nothing was happening in here (or about to happen). I posted an extra video featuring my budding vocal talents which could rightly be taken to be a part of my legacy as well (& hence 'on topic').

I'm the only one who even commented on anyone else's stuff in here (ie yours...which was the only option anyway).so I would'nt say I dumped and ran at all..

I'm a strong believer that a video (or a comparison to a video) is worth a thousand words..(tho' words do seem to be a lot more popular here ), but eh actually playing something when describing a tone or technique or demo'ing gear beats rapping on all day about it with the usual tired cliche's..like "my tone has a brown-ish edge to it" or "it's really organic" or w/e..

That's why I compared your band to actual bands it reminded me of. After that, all you had to do was google a song or two of their's (if you didn't already know them) and you'd know exactly what I meant

And yeah, all this happened like a month or so ago...maybe two . I have'nt posted in here or thought of doing so since...holy necro

[El Dunco]

I didn’t say you dumped and ran, I just said that’s what I don’t want to happen which people might do if they’re overwhelmed. Never say never.

[LesStrat]

This is an Interesting idea. Let me think about this one.

Five songs to represent my “legacy”? Hm.

Fair warning: I haven’t been able to post multiple links in a post for some time. We’ll see.

[LesStrat]

1. This is a signature tune from my band. I recorded this using the Celtic Franklin built by Scott_F. No effects; just volume control. The melody is all mine.

2. From the same album: a ballad that I wrote about 25 years ago. It was from a time of personal worship. I shared it with the band, and they wanted to record it.

[LesStrat]

3. Another ballad from our last album. I shared this one awhile back. The only guitar is a short solo. Our drummer and primary writer, gave me the lyrics and said “do something with this.” I wrote the music and melody.

4. from our 2nd album: another song that the drummer gave me lyrics and asked me to do something with it. This sat in my email for a couple of years. He was expecting a ballad based on his lyrics. Most of the music is mine, but he contributed significant parts.

[LesStrat]

5. Also from the 2nd album: I was supposed to be doing a lyrical rewrite for a rocking riff I had. We had developed this with the two singers we had to fire. The female singer wrote the lyrics, but I was never satisfied with them. Instead, this song came out. It demonstrates a pattern that’s kinda weird: most of the songs I wrote have little guitar. This one has one of my favorite riffs, though. It’s in the outro section before the “build”. This is the only song that I gave guidance for the drums. I usually leave that to the drummer.

Honorable mention: I think we do a better version of this song now, but the guitar part is an amusing story . I joined the band a few months before going into the studio for our 1st album. I had NO IDEA what I was going to play on this song. The drummer had written the keys and bass lines, but didn’t really have a guitar part. That’s strange because he is a riff master.

When they pressed record, the rhythm came out like this. I added the leads a few days later. This is NOT me on vocals.

[Phantasmagoria]

Sweet...another shared legacy finally

I like the music. It's got an Asia/Boston sort of pomp rock/AOR vibe & the tunes are catchy & kinda epic sounding

[El Dunco]

Very cool, Les!

[LesStrat]