2 Minutes with I6

[ImmortalSix]

Inspired by crusty philtrum.

This is from 2007 - I had just moved to Washington DC and was renting a room from a crazy cat lady. I had just become engaged, but my lady was hours away in a different city, so most nights, I would lock myself in my tiny room, drink cheap wine and talk to her on the phone.

At the end of one night, I laid this simple thing down.

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5768650

Listening to it now, I feel like it says a lot about about how I was feeling back then.

 

[JOLLY]

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That's cool. What's a trip is that the way you describe how your life was at the time is exactly how that sounds.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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Yeah, Jolly's right! Very cool stuff, man.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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Thanks dudes.

I feel like I could never write something like this now - the sound of it is like I'm listening to someone else play.

 

[CTN]

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cool stuff man. I like how raw the guitar tones are, and I also like your use of delay...and I also like how there's a somewhat musical, almost pleasing shimmeriness to the high end on those overdriven chords you were plucking.

Seems like one of those "stream of consciousness" kinda things, where you just seemed to be totally in tune with your life and your music at the time you recorded that.

 

[gilaltom3]

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I could just sit around and listen to that all day! It's got a real ambient feel with the delayed notes drifting off.

 

[DankStar]

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the delay built a beat/rhythm for you to play to, cool. like how the noise built up and carried through past the music.

[I'm kinda anxious to hear if other peeps lay down some "2-minutes-with" stuff, I dig the theme]

 

[ImmortalSix]

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cool stuff man. I like how raw the guitar tones are, and I also like your use of delay...and I also like how there's a somewhat musical, almost pleasing shimmeriness to the high end on those overdriven chords you were plucking.

Seems like one of those "stream of consciousness" kinda things, where you just seemed to be totally in tune with your life and your music at the time you recorded that.

Thank you so much

I know what you mean - that was a Stratocaster or my Squier '51, and it was a really cool single coil sound.

That delay, believe it or not, is from Line 6's "Gear Box," the software before "POD Farm" that shipped with their TonePort series of CAIs.

Its trails / oscillation became very musical indeed.

You nailed it on the description about being in tune --- couldn't say it any better myself.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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I could just sit around and listen to that all day! It's got a real ambient feel with the delayed notes drifting off.

Hey, thanks a lot.

I have actually been listening to it a lot myself. It sounds like someone else wrote it / played it.

My songwriting (or clip writing, in this case) chops right now are pretty much limited to open chords - it's like I lost 90% of my guitar knowledge.

I have no idea how it happened, I used to write stuff that I would listen to later and say "wow, that was pretty cool," or at least interesting. Now when I record, I listen later and say "YAWN, BORING!" because it's always so uninspired.

I think not knowing anything about effects or recording was actually a help to me - I used to let effects run wild, and that would kind of write songs for me. I'm almost sure this is one of those, because the title of it is "Delay K"

 

[ImmortalSix]

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the delay built a beat/rhythm for you to play to, cool. like how the noise built up and carried through past the music.

[I'm kinda anxious to hear if other peeps lay down some "2-minutes-with" stuff, I dig the theme]

Thanks Dank - that was cool.

I'm also excited for others' "2 minutes" --- bog props to Crusty for inventing a SDUGF "thing!"

 

[Hoss]

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Nice!!!