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Dutch Oven Released February 2016 Tracks: Dutch Oven Overnight Lows Cold Meat Wagon Unknown Number Work In Progress Obviously it's a Problem Private Caller Availabe at CD Baby and iTunes |
I planned on vocals for it, and I had/have lyrics for the chorus. This was started in 2014, along with the songs that made up Bright Ideas Volume 1. The guitar solo was, really, just a guide for the vocal but I didn't hit any major bloopers so I kept it once I decided I was going all instrumental this this one. And I wanted to have something more upity to start things off since this is a pretty laid back CD; not a lot of fast ones here. A couple of firsts here for me, one being the 4 on the floor drum pattern and the other having that guitar lick going through the whole song. It's nice to try new things after all these years. And all the guitars are the SG3. Overnight Lows
May as well stick the rock-y ones first. Actually, it's not that rock-y, it just has a bunch of wah wah guitars. I orginally recorded my first version back in 2000 on what would have been my MD version of Always Tasty. The CD that I put out titled that didn't have this song. Now that I think of it, I didn't put out many instrumentals when I was making my CD collection. Anyways, this was one of those that I wanted to redo since getting the Roland drums but just never got around to remembering to do it (I had to figure it out again too). I love that Esquire. That's the wah wah guitar. And the other guitars, now that I think about it. Cold Meat Wagon
This was one of the first things I came up with when I bought my 8-track Tascam in 2013. The whole idea with the 8-track was to come up with ideas while sitting on the couch doing something else. I guess I actually did what I set out to do. I didn't think it would take 2 years to get a finished version. I didn't plan on having drums on this version, but I did a take, just for fun and it ended up being OK so I kept it. For the longest time, it was called Bm Cowboy. So to keep with the Old West theme, I called it Cold Meat wagon, which is another term for a hearse (in case you didn't know). And that's not a Strat (I don't own one), it's the SG3. Other than the Takamine, that's the only guitar I used for the song. Unknown Number
OK, so instrumetal titles aren't that easy to come up with. I used have a song called Go For Me, oh, let's see, over 20 years ago. It's nothing stellar; just a 12 bar but this turned out nice. The slide parts were originally played on a Gretch lap steel but I went out of tune too much. It's hard to see the fret line when your hand is covering it, so I switched to regular slide guitar and doubled it. The solo is obviously a nod to Peter Green. The Epiphone 61 SG Special is the slide guitar and the solo guitar is the Les Paul Studio through a BOSS Fender Reverb pedal. Work In Progress
One of the highlights of the CD. This was first thought up back in 2010/11 when I first got the Roland kit. It's just a lick but with the 2 guitars playing different things, the lick/riff has a blooming feel to it. Neat. Adding the B9 organ guitar didn't hurt it either. Everything is "live" except what the verse sections would be, so I got to practice my Copy and Pasting in Samplitude. I was tempted to put a vocal on it but I didn't want to wreck it. So I treated the verse parts as if they were sound effects dropped in. A Tone Poem, if you will. But the solo is one take and I think I caught one of my luckier solos. It's the Telecaster too. The beginning part of the solo's wah effect is the BOSS AW-3 that has a setting to increases the wah sweep maybe half a second after hitting the note. And with the RotoVibe and a bunch of delay, it almost sounds like a backwards guitar in spots. Neat. After it was chorused with the CE-20 for the stereo spread. Then I started "de-effecting" as I went along so by the end of the song it's almost a clean tone. Obviously It's a Problem
This turned out quite nice. This was originally thought up when I came up with Cold Meat Wagon, within the same week if it wasn't the same night. Anyways, again, it takes me 2 years to finish certain things. I always liked trying to make a verse and a chorus sound different even though the chords are the same. I'm not much of a song-smith so looking for work-arounds could be my calling. Anyways, it's my tribute to some of the Fleetwood Mac instrumentals, like the background harmony guitars that you'd hear on Before The Beginning or a Danny Kirwin instrumental. The main guitar is the SG3 again. The Esquire gets all the other electric parts and the Takamine and Epiphone MD-100 (Resonator) are the acoustics. Private Caller
This would be the first one started in October and it came from when I was covering Robin Trower's Too Rolling Stoned (I did a bunch of covers over the summer). At the end of the jam, I did a sustained C/Bb chord and it sounded pretty neat. The verse parts were actually planned for vocals but that Esquire sounded so good that at first I was going to make 2 versions. But I kept it instrumental. Even if I did a mainly vocal CD, this one would be included for sure....as an instrumental. Instruments: a lot, but all bass was the Viola bass. Ever since I got new strings for it, it's been great. Drums are always the Rolands. My new Esquire got used heavily. I got to use the Tele, Les Paul Studio, SG3 (if you hear something that sounds like a Strat, it was that), Epi SG, lap steel, Takamine (much better after tweaking the truss rod), and the resonator. Fun, fun, fun. So overall, I'm pretty happy with my second instrumental CD. My friends like it anyways. Back to Discography Back to News and Letters