Perfect Strangers - Rehearsal Track with My Vocals:

Inspector #20

Inspector #20

Ambassador of Tone
Fallen Star
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Ok, so while messing around with some other projects, my drummer friend suggested I throw vocals down on this track. Initially, I refused, but then reconsidered. So here it is...one take lead vocals - mistakes and all - to our home-made rehearsal track. Reverb and delay added, but no volume level mixing. I'm not thrilled with my vocal performance on this track, so i will likely re-record it at a later date, but here's a sneak-peak of our latest goof-off session... :)

PERFECT STRANGERS - DEMO
 
Session 5 said:
Awesome work !!!!!!!!!!!! Vocals very good!!! nice job!
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A few 'Easter Eggs' in the song...the whammy bar drop at 2:20 until the strings flop down against the magnet, then a pull up to pitch at the key change with 3-4 deep dives with lots of delay.

Did you hear the sinister laugh????
 
Don O said:
Robert, sounds great to me too, damn. And nice guitar work.
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Thanks, Don...I love creating and adding little Easter eggs in a recording. This one is an all time favorite of mine, so i was super excited to do it. Also, the mystique of the Arabic Shiraz scale gives it a haunting effect....
 
Don O said:
Robert, sounds great to me too, damn. And nice guitar work.
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Easter Egg Alert:

In the original recording, Blackmore performs a mild tremolo dive at around 2:22. Not wanting to be outdone, I pulled out my 1987 Squirecaster and performed a full tremolo drop at the same time interval, but in this case, I dropped pitch until the strings went slack and rattled against the pickups. I then fretted the E/A strings at the correct position, so my return to pitch would coincide with the song's natural key change. Once I made the return to pitch, I performed 4 rapid, pulsating divebombs, adding a heavy dose of rack mount delay for effect.

At 1:40, the verse goes "....and laughing...as the spirits appear...." so I added my most sinister laugh between 1:42 and 1:43, again with studio delay

The intro and outro 'keyboard' parts are played on guitar with varying degrees of octaver and flange... :)
 
I appreciate the input, guys...with each and every project, I am training myself to front my own band...
 
This cheap, 'J. Reynolds' Stratocaster - which just happened to be on my bench for setup when the recording was being made - can be heard on the 'clean' chorus sections beginning at 2:00 and 3:39 respectively... :-)

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On the recording, this was played through a Blackstar ID-Core 100 watt in Position '4' and strung with Ernie Balls thusly:

.044" / .040" / .028" / .018"w / .012" .010"
 
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