Lantern/Whiskey
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crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
Man, everytime i hear your stuff it just gets better. This song should be being played on college and alt radio stations. A really evocative mood, the guitar sounds, vocal tone, everything is cohesive and working for the song.
I often think your take on music is lost on most people around this forum because it's not all about filthy guitar riffage and weedly weedly mosquito noises. Most people here are obssesed with guitar to the point that they don't seem to notice music and the power of it.
But it's their loss. I've always thought that you'll probably quietly do very well in music while most people here will still be worrying about what speaker cabinet will give them more 'doom' or what guitar strap will increase their metal cred.
Eff guitar players, this needs to be heard by normal people. I hope it is. Too good not to be getting into the ears of regular folks.
Man, everytime i hear your stuff it just gets better. This song should be being played on college and alt radio stations. A really evocative mood, the guitar sounds, vocal tone, everything is cohesive and working for the song.
I often think your take on music is lost on most people around this forum because it's not all about filthy guitar riffage and weedly weedly mosquito noises. Most people here are obssesed with guitar to the point that they don't seem to notice music and the power of it.
But it's their loss. I've always thought that you'll probably quietly do very well in music while most people here will still be worrying about what speaker cabinet will give them more 'doom' or what guitar strap will increase their metal cred.
Eff guitar players, this needs to be heard by normal people. I hope it is. Too good not to be getting into the ears of regular folks.
cream123
JustAskinologist
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
hey, thanks so much for all of the kind words, I would love to get this song onto some college radio stations or similar...I'm very proud of it!
as far as my take on music, Guitar is my main instrument so I end putting a guitar part or two in my most of my songs...things end up more natural sounding. That said, I try to be more of a composer/musician than a guitar player. Hell, I hate most of the "guitar music" out there. I won't put a guitar part in if the song/idea that I'm going for doesn't call for it.ry to put guitar parts in *if the song calls for it*.
I'm glad that you liked the tune so much. I ended up adding another 3 minutes for an outro/second section. Took it into 12/8 with a more ambient texture and then a more aggressive drum part. I also redid the arrangement including some of the drum parts in the beginning. I changed the link to match the new tune.
Heres the new link anywhoo. Link
hey, thanks so much for all of the kind words, I would love to get this song onto some college radio stations or similar...I'm very proud of it!
as far as my take on music, Guitar is my main instrument so I end putting a guitar part or two in my most of my songs...things end up more natural sounding. That said, I try to be more of a composer/musician than a guitar player. Hell, I hate most of the "guitar music" out there. I won't put a guitar part in if the song/idea that I'm going for doesn't call for it.ry to put guitar parts in *if the song calls for it*.
I'm glad that you liked the tune so much. I ended up adding another 3 minutes for an outro/second section. Took it into 12/8 with a more ambient texture and then a more aggressive drum part. I also redid the arrangement including some of the drum parts in the beginning. I changed the link to match the new tune.
Heres the new link anywhoo. Link
TheLivingDead
Dawn Of The Shred
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
Dude, very nice! You crank out a lot of really groovy, moving music. I like that. Keep it up!
Dude, very nice! You crank out a lot of really groovy, moving music. I like that. Keep it up!
Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
expansive songwriting man. nice.
expansive songwriting man. nice.
cream123
JustAskinologist
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
danka. I'm probably going to go back and clean some parts up....
thanks, I guess writing groovy, moving music is my goal, overall. I mean I dig groovy, and I dig moving music.
Seriously though, thanks for all of the kind words. For those who care, here are the lyrics.
Lantern
Marc Olberding – 9/13/2011
Verse 1:
Where’s that lantern
The Jar of fireflies
They’ve all suffocated
They’ve all died
They didn’t do so in vain
For from their remains
We created fluorescent faces
To light the way
partial verse:
Don’t you forget
The way that it felt
The sleepless nights that we spent
Dancing through our hell
(solo)
Verse 2:
What is it, what is it
That you mean to say
That you feel it breaking out
the break away
The truth seeps through your pores
The lady lay lady hey
The sun sets upon the land
The days we’ve known fade away
Bridge:
Take me back
Back to the beginning you pray
I’m beginning to fall apart
As you start to say
Chorus:
Bring the moonshine
The whiskey sunlight
I don’t want to remember tonight
Lightning, lightning
Lights up the night sky
Filling my mind
With electric light
And noises, noises
All these voices
Jumble, jumble what’s that word
Well I don’t see it
And I don’t feel it
Quite the way
That you seem to
Quite the way
That you seem to
Verse 1:
Where’s that lantern
The Jar of fireflies
They’ve all suffocated
They’ve all died
They didn’t do so in vain
For from their remains
We created fluorescent faces
To light the way
Chorus:
Bring the moonshine
The whiskey sunlight
I don’t want to remember tonight
Lightning, lightning
Lights up the night sky
Filling my mind
With electric light
And noises, noises
All these voices
Jumble, jumble what’s that word
Well I don’t see it
And I don’t feel it
Quite the way
That you seem to
Quite the way
That you seem to
Outro:
Don’t you remember
The way that it felt
That sleepless night that we spent together
Dancing through our hell
....Sometimes the ability to write not-sad music...meh
danka. I'm probably going to go back and clean some parts up....
thanks, I guess writing groovy, moving music is my goal, overall. I mean I dig groovy, and I dig moving music.
Seriously though, thanks for all of the kind words. For those who care, here are the lyrics.
Lantern
Marc Olberding – 9/13/2011
Verse 1:
Where’s that lantern
The Jar of fireflies
They’ve all suffocated
They’ve all died
They didn’t do so in vain
For from their remains
We created fluorescent faces
To light the way
partial verse:
Don’t you forget
The way that it felt
The sleepless nights that we spent
Dancing through our hell
(solo)
Verse 2:
What is it, what is it
That you mean to say
That you feel it breaking out
the break away
The truth seeps through your pores
The lady lay lady hey
The sun sets upon the land
The days we’ve known fade away
Bridge:
Take me back
Back to the beginning you pray
I’m beginning to fall apart
As you start to say
Chorus:
Bring the moonshine
The whiskey sunlight
I don’t want to remember tonight
Lightning, lightning
Lights up the night sky
Filling my mind
With electric light
And noises, noises
All these voices
Jumble, jumble what’s that word
Well I don’t see it
And I don’t feel it
Quite the way
That you seem to
Quite the way
That you seem to
Verse 1:
Where’s that lantern
The Jar of fireflies
They’ve all suffocated
They’ve all died
They didn’t do so in vain
For from their remains
We created fluorescent faces
To light the way
Chorus:
Bring the moonshine
The whiskey sunlight
I don’t want to remember tonight
Lightning, lightning
Lights up the night sky
Filling my mind
With electric light
And noises, noises
All these voices
Jumble, jumble what’s that word
Well I don’t see it
And I don’t feel it
Quite the way
That you seem to
Quite the way
That you seem to
Outro:
Don’t you remember
The way that it felt
That sleepless night that we spent together
Dancing through our hell
....Sometimes the ability to write not-sad music...meh
ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
I really like it.
I have the soundcloud app on my phone (should it still be called a phone if that's 2% of what I use it for?) and I "follow" you on soundcloud, so I saw this the minute it was up. I listened to it on the toilet.
I can't say much about your songwriting that crusty hasn't already said.
I'm mostly just glad that you stick around the SDUGF even though you seem to be "all good" when it comes to pickups and such.
Your music gets to me much in the same way that Bon Iver or Death Cab does (yeah mainstream, so sue me!) --- that thing where the composition is what you're hearing; as a whole. Not a guitar and a drum and a bass and a voice like so many other recordings.
Your songs come out of one place, like toothpaste coming out of a tube. There's lots of stuff in toothpaste, but when it gets to me, it comes out of the tube as one homogeneous thing. I like it.
All I want to say, is keep making music, and please keep sharing it with me.
You are the best.
Love,
Hunter
I really like it.
I have the soundcloud app on my phone (should it still be called a phone if that's 2% of what I use it for?) and I "follow" you on soundcloud, so I saw this the minute it was up. I listened to it on the toilet.
I can't say much about your songwriting that crusty hasn't already said.
I'm mostly just glad that you stick around the SDUGF even though you seem to be "all good" when it comes to pickups and such.
Your music gets to me much in the same way that Bon Iver or Death Cab does (yeah mainstream, so sue me!) --- that thing where the composition is what you're hearing; as a whole. Not a guitar and a drum and a bass and a voice like so many other recordings.
Your songs come out of one place, like toothpaste coming out of a tube. There's lots of stuff in toothpaste, but when it gets to me, it comes out of the tube as one homogeneous thing. I like it.
All I want to say, is keep making music, and please keep sharing it with me.
You are the best.
Love,
Hunter
ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
I got into making music in this same type of vein once.
It was potentially my most creative period.
Ambient texture + electro drums sounds lame to a lot of people, but it's fun to make and good to listen to. I made a lot of junk, but made some good stuff too.
I like it that it's rooted in making MUSIC, not necessarily all about the guitar.
http://soundcloud.com/hunterjsmith/rosewood-december
http://soundcloud.com/hunterjsmith/phase-2
I got into making music in this same type of vein once.
It was potentially my most creative period.
Ambient texture + electro drums sounds lame to a lot of people, but it's fun to make and good to listen to. I made a lot of junk, but made some good stuff too.
I like it that it's rooted in making MUSIC, not necessarily all about the guitar.
http://soundcloud.com/hunterjsmith/rosewood-december
http://soundcloud.com/hunterjsmith/phase-2
cream123
JustAskinologist
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
thanks much! btw, I love deathcab. A lot of their stuff is just quality writing. I'll take a listen to those tunes after I get alittle more done with my phyzix hmwk!
thanks much! btw, I love deathcab. A lot of their stuff is just quality writing. I'll take a listen to those tunes after I get alittle more done with my phyzix hmwk!
Bass_Medic_05
Purveyor of Low End
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
Nice job, like the lyrics!
Nice job, like the lyrics!
cream123
JustAskinologist
JollyRoger523
New member
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
Good work. You always write good songs.
Good work. You always write good songs.
cream123
JustAskinologist
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
I appreciate the vocal track feedback, I am much more of a guitarist than I am a vocalist, and at times it is tough to properly evaluate my own vocal tracks. I appreciate the feedback from a skilled vocalist such as yourself.
Thanks much!
I just wanted to say thanks for all of the kind words, I've been in a bit of a musical slump lately, relatively speaking. This has been motivating and I'm up and consistently making music again!
I appreciate the vocal track feedback, I am much more of a guitarist than I am a vocalist, and at times it is tough to properly evaluate my own vocal tracks. I appreciate the feedback from a skilled vocalist such as yourself.
Thanks much!
I just wanted to say thanks for all of the kind words, I've been in a bit of a musical slump lately, relatively speaking. This has been motivating and I'm up and consistently making music again!
Wattage
High Voltologist
Re: Lantern/Whiskey
Best thing you can do for vocals is record yourself and listen back to it critically, not in the negative sense but in the constructive sense and then recut them.
You are more than musical enough to start to hear where you need to go with your vocals as long as you are honest with yourself. Let your personality show through as well, don't be afraid of that, it's what makes all vocals really shine IMO.
Best thing you can do for vocals is record yourself and listen back to it critically, not in the negative sense but in the constructive sense and then recut them.
You are more than musical enough to start to hear where you need to go with your vocals as long as you are honest with yourself. Let your personality show through as well, don't be afraid of that, it's what makes all vocals really shine IMO.
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