Testing the waters...

PelliX

PelliX

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I have what's basically a cover band. About a year ago or so, our singer decided it was time to bring forth some of her own ideas. Naturally, we headed off to a bumpy start doing the songwriting and so on. I'm used to either knowing what to play or improvising a part into an existing song. It's a lot harder to start from scratch when the concept of the song resides only in someone else's head, and that person doesn't hand you a melody or chord sheet. While the song has something, I'm still not sure whether it should have been a little more progressive or perhaps even a more melancholic - not my forte. I found the lyrics to be a little on the sad side, so I figured that I might as well come up with something myself. Needless to say, I had a few drinks and set out to write a happy song. I've written simple music before, but never lyrics and it shows. Neither is a twelve bar shuffle boogie exactly revolutionary or innovative but I like one. While I can't say that the song is inspired by any *particular* existing piece of music, I do hear a little of Status Quo's Spinning Wheel Blues, listening back to it. Originally the lyrics were intended to be delivered faster and snappier, more in a narrating than a singing way but after a while she came up with what you hear, and while it would need some more studio magic to get it tight, it sort of sticks in your ear I find.

This Morning:

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Singer: vocals
Drummer: drums
Me: Guitars, bass, piano, arrangement, etc.

There's a fairly large collection of covers and a few more originals where that came from. You've been warned... :coffee2:

I guess I could have run off an MP4 of the track and uploaded it here...
 
Don O said:
Nice 12 bar beat Mr. X !
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Thanks, man! Most of what we play and cover is probably a little mellow for a lot of folks here; Stones, CCR, Status Quo, Pink Floyd, Beatles, etc.

Here's one that I initially started with a few folks over at the MF, but the project got stranded and we decided to give it a shot. The bass player on this one is far better than I am, bless him.

Sweet Home Chicago

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And a few more from when she had just joined the band basically. I was the lead singer before that, and we all agreed she was much better equipped in that department. I do still have recordings of the 'original' lineup, but I'm limited. Most vocal stuff is out of my league so we suddenly had a lot of doors opened in that sense...

Spirit In The Sky

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The Timewarp

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Paint It Black

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Fat Bottomed Girls

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We got everything from drop D metal bombs to tasty jazz here ! I’m getting old if the Stones and Pink Floyd are considered mellow. :run:

I’m in a cover band too, we cover CCR, Tom Petty, The Beatles, Steppenwolf, Eddie Money, Bob Dylan, Doors, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, etc. Our lead singer, who’s a fantastic musician, is also a song writer. He’s published about 50 CDs of originals over the years.
 
Cool! We do a fair deal of pretty standard CCR sing-a-long stuff, Bad Moon Rising, Before You Accuse Me, Cross-tie Walker, Fortunate Son, Green River, I'm sure you can imagine. Some Beatles indeed, a couple of Doors numbers (we don't really have a steady keyboard player, so often it's me doing the honors and I'm no Ray Manzarek).

We also do newer stuff... sometimes... not often... I have a bit of a soft spot for the Black Keys on occasion.

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We're currently giving Run Right Back a shot, actually.

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Every now and then we'll also take a song and just totally change the feel, genre, everything. I'll be honest, to this day I've not heard the entire original song in one go, I hate it. I've managed Bonnie Tyler's version a couple of times but wasn't too impressed, inspite of the fact that I really like her voice around that time.

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To be fair, the drummer wanted to do it, and he loved it...
 
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