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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Nov 6, 2023 9:48:50 GMT -6
All -- I just posted a new four-song "Kandahar Guitar Society" (KGS) EP for free streaming on SoundCloud. It's called "Jet Black Sky" and is based on a short story I wrote several years ago. This is the first harder rock/vocal project I've done in a few years. I took a detour into guitar instrumentals, and this is me getting the band back together prior to doing some live shows. Here is the link, and thanks for listening: on.soundcloud.com/bZ1UbJohn |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2023 15:08:20 GMT -6
All -- I just posted a new four-song "Kandahar Guitar Society" (KGS) EP for free streaming on SoundCloud. It's called "Jet Black Sky" and is based on a short story I wrote several years ago. This is the first harder rock/vocal project I've done in a few years. I took a detour into guitar instrumentals, and this is me getting the band back together prior to doing some live shows. Here is the link, and thanks for listening: on.soundcloud.com/bZ1UbJohn Cool stuff! |
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Post by dnic on Nov 6, 2023 21:23:03 GMT -6
All -- I just posted a new four-song "Kandahar Guitar Society" (KGS) EP for free streaming on SoundCloud. It's called "Jet Black Sky" and is based on a short story I wrote several years ago. This is the first harder rock/vocal project I've done in a few years. I took a detour into guitar instrumentals, and this is me getting the band back together prior to doing some live shows. Here is the link, and thanks for listening: on.soundcloud.com/bZ1UbJohn That's some in your face melting music John. Did you say you're doing the vocals? If so WOW! And I'm sure I'm not the first to say you sound like Alice Cooper. I thinking of a mean cover of "schools out". |
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Nov 7, 2023 17:30:27 GMT -6
Thanks Dane…appreciate it…and I am a fan of Alice.
John
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Post by antares on Nov 8, 2023 5:12:36 GMT -6
Well if that wasn't hot stuff, I don't know what is. Track two was my favourite, but I don't know what it was called because I think I confused it with the set title Jet Black Sky- maybe it's the/an eponymous track?
Your soloing is right up there with the very best of the shredders John- you make me want to switch an amp on!
I know that your recent outings have been all down to JW with a drummer. I hope it's not taken the wrong way if I ask whether the drumming is programmed, at least on the first track? Either that or he's a phenomenal drummer.
The last track UXO gave me what I hadn't realised I'd missed subliminally with the others which is quieter passages- dynamics if you like? I've noticed that all the monsters deploy that technique to devastating effect (and frequently closing a collection with a hauntingly melodic track.)
Now here's where I stick my neck out- I was getting a taste of STP in their Core era in Jet Black Sky, and that's praise indeed. John, you've scored a home run there fella.
Respect and thanks for making it available for us to listen.
Addendum: I posted this by mistake in Justin's "Check This Out" thread, so I had to delete it and repost here. Also, I've figured out that I cannot like a post from reading in the "recent postings- I have to change to the actual thread to like a post. Mystery solved, just another Proboards wrinkle.
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Nov 8, 2023 17:16:48 GMT -6
Steve -- Thanks for the kind words. The second track is Jet Black Sky, and that is the name of the project. Kind of like Deep Purple's "Burn" or Prince's "Purple Rain"!
I did everything on this project. The drumming was a slow, painful, deliberate process using my MIDI drum kit and lots of editing. I do not claim to be a drummer, but I can put a drum part together. That is what you are hearing.
I am mostly a guitar player, and, like Sir Mick said, "It's a noise we make, that's all...you can be kind and call it music."
Thanks again for listening, and I do love STP.
John
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on May 20, 2024 9:24:34 GMT -6
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Post by dnic on May 21, 2024 8:41:44 GMT -6
I'm 68, I'm fairly well versed in and like the music from the 60's thru the 90's. I should say rock and pop and even some country. After the 2000's it's all the same to me. Have no idea who the players are. Except Taylor Swift because I don't live in a bubble. But she makes me wish I did live in a bubble.
I turned 33 in 1989 so I guess taste-freeze is pretty accurate.
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Post by stratpurist on May 21, 2024 9:28:16 GMT -6
I want to say that maybe musicians are less prone to taste freeze than most but nothing is universal. Long after Pink Floyd stopped making albums my son turned me on to System of a Down.
I saw an interview with JJ Cale where he talks about metal music - He admits he doesn't love it but as a guitar player he found it interesting.
Part of the issue is the business. My kids get their new music from streaming services and go to concerts. I still listen to vinyl and cds and mp3s (ripped from vinyl and cds).
And what do they play on the radio? Classic rock; Beatles, Stones, Floyd, EC etc. Around here if you want new music you have to have Sirius or Spotify.
Mostly unrelated: Find Steve Lukather interview explaining why he was banned from the Berklee school of music. Funny story but he makes a good point.
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Post by dnic on May 21, 2024 22:23:03 GMT -6
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Post by antares on May 22, 2024 3:38:49 GMT -6
Lady Madonna, I Am The Walrus, Get Back. Have you seen Rick's tear down of I Am The Walrus? It leaves you speechless.
Look again at those guys up there on the roof of the Apple HQ. You see four guys at their zenith, each persuing their own agenda, but crucially- still just about in a band context (admittedly in its death rattle.) Except Ringo maybe who just cruised through all the choppy waters. Back in the day I was not interested in The Beatles because we had multiple sea changes of musical fashions from the 1960s through to the 1980s, and it was (eg) Floyd, Zeppelin and Hendrix that did it for me. The Who and The Stones likewise meant little to me then. One outfit that I missed but love now is Small Faces. With age comes an appreciation of melody and harmony, especially the complex examples (God Only Knows anyone?.) The 1960s especially represented harmony and melody very strongly. Taylor Swift? Very good for what it/she is (I haven't heard that much) but nondescript to me nonetheless.
How did we get to here from KGS?
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on May 22, 2024 6:51:24 GMT -6
How did we get to here from KGS? I think I started it with that article. I think it dovetails with original music because I always return to the music I like as inspiration. I admit that my KGS music has a lot of familiar themes and tones, but I've accepted that observation and I still enjoy the process. While I may have Taste Freeze, I think it is OK. I listened to "Humble Pie Rockin' the Fillmore" again last week, and it has one of the greatest sets of guitar tones ever put on vinyl - in my opinion. I have to make myself listen to all of the new music coming from my friends and colleagues in Nashville, and I really want to be open-minded enough to like some of it. Will start a new thread on the responses I get to my music, but that is another topic... Please continue... John |
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Post by antares on May 22, 2024 12:12:39 GMT -6
"While I may have Taste Freeze, I think it is OK. I listened to "Humble Pie Rockin' the Fillmore" again last week, and it has one of the greatest sets of guitar tones ever put on vinyl - in my opinion."
"Rocking The Filmore" is indeed a great recording for guitar tones. My copy has a two inch split radially from the outer rim of one of the disks where somewhat ironically I rocked over it on my Ma's rocking chair soon after I bought it way back then. Happily it still plays albeit thump, thump, thump for the first eight minutes or so. You can pull each side of the split up and down until they align and it plays! I still have that rocking chair.
Walk on Gilded Splinters ...
Because it's subjective, I reckon that one very good recording of guitar tones is "Irish Tour '74" where Tony Palmer (I think?) had the good sense to bring it right up in the mix.
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Post by dnic on May 27, 2024 21:23:40 GMT -6
Oh man! Rocking the Fillmore was a killer record. I had a good player and speakers and some days after work if the wife was out I'd crank up "I don't need no doctor" and lay in the middle of the living room floor and just let it heal me. " it's really been as gas this time"
Frampton cut his teeth playing live like this. I think that's why his studio records sounded so frilly but the same songs kicked total butt on Frampton comes alive.
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Post by antares on Jun 5, 2024 2:05:05 GMT -6
Continiuing on the great guitar tones thread fork, yesterday I was listening to the "Jar of Flies/Sap" EPs while driving to Windsor Great Park with SWMBO and our golden retriever. I was reminded yet again of what I've always known well enough that Jerry Cantrell is a really great player who measures and makes every single note count. No widdling around with Jerry. He also writes great material and sings too (I guess whenever Layne was too wasted?) but it's the tones he wrenches from his guitars that really do it for me. He's far from being classified as a little known player but I think he deserves wider recognition. Tones to die for. Even better- he's still alive! Jar of Flies / Sap is well worth the time spent. You even get a cameo from the late great Chris Cornell.
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