Rock’n’Roll without much shiny-bright polish applied. After some difficulties with Ardour 6, discussed and remedied in the forum, we are glad to present the results.
(We hope you can see our tongues in the cheeks. Who would be so presumptious to compare themselves with the Fab Four!)
A-hooga!
Hi,
Seems to be coo!
Did not take the time yet to watch the whole stuff, but I will go back to it, and maybe drop down my personnal feelings!
Thanks for the reply! If you revisit it, you will, like everybody else who apparently listened, notice that
it’ s not the world’s most well-balanced mix and still full of glitches. Personally, we like that garage approach, but it might have gone a bit too far in parts. Also, the twins have a hard time singing in tune here and there, but what were we supposed to do? Neither Noel Gallagher nor Luke Spiller were available…
Oh, Eff! I just noticed the slip. Of course it has to be LIAM, not Noel Gallagher. Phew…
Everybody if you like it SPREAD THE WORD.
And you, Olivier Rougeot, what is it with you? Never heard from you again. Makes it difficult to take you serious. You are not by any chance in the habit of paying lip service, are you? That would be a pity.
To quote Forrest Gump, that’s all I have say about that.
Cheerie-oh!
Ok,
Sorry to have been long.
I took the thirteen minutes, a round, to listen what is going on.
First thing, thanks a lot for typing the lyrics.
Well, I don’t know exactly what to say which could be helpfull.
It is clear that you made a big and good job.
It is also clear that you master the « style » of this music, and you master the tools to deliver it.
It is also clear that it was not produced in a professionnal studio, so,recurent problems appear. A sound somehow « squashed » with digital processors…
I hear « no mistakes », and in the first song, a deep work in songwriting.
Hope you will find your audience.
Best
Olivier
Thank you for your detailed expertise. And apologies for the explicit words about your absence. We have to admit that we tend to react quite strongly whenever we sense the slightest unreliability, maybe because where we come from, people firmly believe in the benefits of keeping your word. No offence meant, and hopefully none taken.
As for typing the lyrics, you’re welcome. We consider it a nice touch, like in the old days, when you could read the lyrics on the LP cover. Sgt. Pepper was the first record it was done with, so we feel we have an obligation…
We didn’t expect any helpful comments, that is, recommendations or advice. We didn’t expect the “style” to be everybody’s cup of tea either, but we very much appreciate any acknowledgement of our effort, such as yours. Thank you very much for granting us “Mastery”, that’s something to be.
As for the “Style”, it is probably not by pure chance that you put it in quotation marks. We pride ourselves secretly on being slightly off the beaten path. Maybe that’s why the Single hasn’t even got 100 views on YT in two weeks, apart from the fact that Rock’n’Roll isn’t very much en vogue these days…
Like we said, we like that low fi garage sound. But you’re right about the recurrent problems with digital processors. With growing experience we managed to eliminate most inconsistencies, but… oh well.
One thing we have to say is that we can take no songwriting credit for “Heartbreak Hotel”, because all we did was to rearrange the lyrics of three Elvis Songs in order to create a paradigm of lovesickness that pervades his oeuvre. It was just one of those ideas. The middle part of “Why Don’t We […]” on the other hand is pure Stepford Crash Pilots, thank you very much Ladies and Gentlemen, drive savely (Ted Nugent).
Thanx for your good wishes. We, too, do hope that we will find our audience, even if they are just 100 people.
We listened to your “South Bank (London Felings)” and we like it. It is indeed quite moody. Something you will never hear from us though, naturally***. Do we hear nylon strings? Certainly. Not a bad thing, on the contrary. Did you slightly distort it on purpose, like John McCrae of CAKE does it, albeit considerably more? Great sound.
You’ve been to Denmark Street obviously, b-e-a-utiful!
*** = What was it again, the title of that last Bond movie with Sean Connery, you know, the one which wasn’t produced by the Broccolis?
If it was new for you to record the guitar in one take you may have a conception of the discipline required to record the guitar and bass parts of a seven-minute song each in one take. There are good days and bad days.
Thanks again,
Best on behalf of the group and ourselves,
Fineweather
P.S. Again, ev’rybody if you like it SPREAD THE WORD
Hi, thanks a lot for your kind and detailed post.
I will come back for a more complete saying in a while, but it is quite late here now…
Yes, you hear nylon strings, and the saturation is « accepted » but was not purposely settled!!
Yes, the guys in Denmark’s Street were cool enough to let me shoot some pictures.
Best.
Talk back soon…
Hihi, even if « soon » is a relative state of duration.
You’re welcome! And now that the issue is settled and you are kind enough to make it clear that “soon” encompasses a relative amount of time, well, take your time, it’s allright.
“Saturation” is a good description for the slight distortion of the guitar. We are familiar with the term in connection with overdriven tube amplifiers, particularly their poweramp tubes, but it also makes perfect sense here, we’ll keep it in mind.
Cheers,
SCP
One thought just occured to us: While we’re all on the subject of contributing to a platform here that’s all about sharing, listen to The Amber Bugs’ “Here’s where it begins”, it’s epic.
It is not Made with Ardour, mind you, but we feel they should be mentioned nevertheless, as we said, because of the subject of sharing. These amiable, unasuming young people are going to be big.
Happy Easter!
The Stepford Crash Pilots