TapeOp's Rain Dogs

[Rigsby]

Dear God why have I never spent time in off-topic? That is one of my all-time top five favorite albums. I feel like a big chunk of life has passed me by while I sat there filling out a NAMBLA subscription form. I would have been so on that shit!

You can take mine if you like, i'm stupidly busy right now so you're more than welcome to it. Let me know.

[greatmagnet]

I'm on it if that's cool with everybody else....

[Rigsby]

Coolio.

[swingdoc]

OK children, here's Cemetary Polka.
Keep your gyrating to a maximum...
http://swingdoc720.tripod.com/sitebuild ... taryp1.mp3

[phalex]

I think I broke my pelvis. I was gyrating like 420 times a second. That song is awesome. Good job. I really liked the drums and the synth, or whatever that thing with the flange was.

[joeysimms]

Fabulous swingdoc! The solo section reminds me of Fred Lane.

[greatmagnet]

I think I broke my pelvis.

Ooooh...I get it...you're supposed to gyrate your pelvis. That explains it. Unfortunately now I have to go out and buy a whole new pair of underpants. I was hoping this pair would last me 'til payday.

See, now I just have a Payday in my underpants.

[thecongostudio]

Sorry to say, I am way too ridiculously busy with school, work, and family drama right now to do the song. Jockey full of bourbon is up for grabs for whoever wants it.

[Bear]

OK children, here's Cemetary Polka.
Keep your gyrating to a maximum...
http://swingdoc720.tripod.com/sitebuild ... taryp1.mp3

Man. That is so awesome. That synth sound is wicked, and that breakdown (did you record someone pissing?) is fucking great. Big ups on the solos, too. Sweetness.

[Scodiddly]

Sorry to say, I am way too ridiculously busy with school, work, and family drama right now to do the song. Jockey full of bourbon is up for grabs for whoever wants it.

I'll give it a shot. But don't expect too much... I'll probably do the whole thing with 3 tracks and in one evening.

[swingdoc]

Hi guys, thanks for the kind reviews.
Yah, thats the little wang draining the golden nectar. Its recorded through a Neumann M49 to Neve1081 to Fairchild 660 to 2" tape to API board, Pultec EQ's and genelec monitors. That was Jeff Robinson's recommendations. My wang wouldnt have it any other way.

I sure hope we get all the tunes done and can put together the whole album at some point. I'm so freakin impressed with everyones' work so far. Every tune you guys have done sounds great.

We should put up a challenge to Gear Slutz to match our album recreation. We'd hurt them so bad they'd cry and cry and cry and we'd just throw on our cape and wizard hat and make them walk the plank. Then we'd drink the mead until we all vomit.

[OM15.2]

Then we'd drink the mead until we all vomit.

that actually doesn't take too long.



Cool version man. Totally original and nice.

[Scodiddly]

Don't say I didn't warn you about doing it fast and crude... mere hours later, I slapped together something by bouncing between two minidisc recorders. Everything first take! Yeah, I've got the computer recording stuff, but it's too annoying to work with. I miss the days when I just dubbed between cassette decks...

http://www.scotthelmke.com/jockeyfullofbourbon.mp3

Nope, I don't smoke, but I do have a bit of a cold. And the one lyric run-through and one take was pretty much my throat budget for the evening - I really need to practice more.

Edit: Now I want to re-record it on the computer, so I can actually mix the sucker and such. The percussion didn't really come through - it's a one-gallon plastic jar through a SM-57, but the reverb from my guitar amp got lost somehow.

On a side note, any recommendations for vocal mic? I did the above with a CAD E-100, which won my recent shootout on my own voice by sounding both clearest and most lifelike. It's the one where I feel a tickle in my throat while listening to the raspy passages.

[greatmagnet]

Cool, Scott.

On a sidenote: There's that line about the "mohair vest" in that song? If you try to look up the lyrics to this song online there's about twenty web pages that list the lyric as "mother vest".

WTF? That can't be right. I bet it's like the world of LimeWire where one douchebag ignorantly mis-labels a Cardigans song as Mazzy Star or what have you and all of a sudden it turns up as a Mazzy Star song on about eighty billion servers.

Mother Vest! LOL! Isn't that a grunge band?

[Scodiddly]

On a sidenote: There's that line about the "mohair vest" in that song? If you try to look up the lyrics to this song online there's about twenty web pages that list the lyric as "mother vest".

WTF? That can't be right. I bet it's like the world of LimeWire where one douchebag ignorantly mis-labels a Cardigans song as Mazzy Star or what have you and all of a sudden it turns up as a Mazzy Star song on about eighty billion servers.

Yeah, I looked at a couple different lyrics pages and noticed that. The same one that had "mother vest" also had "Dutch pink pink on a downtown train", and that's not right either. But I couldn't resist singing it that way on the repeat.