General Music Chat

Posted a partial copy of Kenny Wayne Shepperd's "While We Cry" a while back, mainly just to get some audio up, it was already recorded (2001) and ready to go but for some reason I cut it to 1:45. Can't remember the reasoning, probably didn't make sense anyway.

Finally decided to rip the entire thing off the CD and repost it, it's one I did in 2001 by the "ping pong" method, using a reel to reel and a CD burner. The then band leader decided, against my specific instructions, to add a blurb at the beginning saying it was called "Cry Baby" and that I wrote it. I edited that out, no way I want to claim I wrote someone else's song. Otherwise it's untouched.

I played everything myself except drums, which were done with a keyboard drum machine. The rest was played on real instruments by yours truly. I intended to use my strat, but broke a string while setting the record levels (and discovered I had no spares) and had to use the Peavey Patriot, which is a brighter guitar. It's running through my Peavey MX and Kustom 2x12 cabinet, my only amp at the time. I used both pickups, the best sounding setting for that guitar. Volume and tone controls both dimed, no effects no volume pedal, just guitar and amp with a touch of reverb. Somewhere around 2/3 through I switched to the lead channel, set for light gain, you can barely tell it. I wanted a bit more gain, like an overdrive, but it was after 3AM and I had been recording for around 7 hours so I left it alone since it was the best take all night. No, it wasn't the only song recorded that night...I didn't spend 7 hours on this one, I think it took around 3 hours to do all the instruments.

I've mentioned several times here and there what a nice clean sound the MX gets, this recording is a very good example, I had the volume low, around 2 1/2 or 3 for recording, but it sounds exactly like this at stage volume too.

See what you think, this is one of my best recordings to date, especially for the way it was done. When you ping pong you lose highs and gain noise with each successive take, and I don't know how but we got a really nice sounding one on this tune.

Hey Pete, listened to your tunes and really enjoyed them. Nice pickin' bro. Keep it up.....I'd really like to hear some of your slide work...

Nice Billy. Thank you!

Sweet, Pete! Never messed with Peavey guitars - HATE their basses. This one sounds good, though.

Thanks guys

Thanks Bobby, the only thing I have on slide right now is a bit of doodling I did a while back, just part of a song to see what my lap steel would sound like recorded. It's a 1945-47 Electromuse given to me by a good friend, I recorded a short clip of it through a practice amp just to see how it would do. Need to pull it out again and plug it into the Champ...after it gets some new strings...wonder if I have another set of .012's sitting around...I'll see if I can dig up the slide doodles for ya though.

Philby I LOVE this guitar. It's a mid 80's Patriot, two single coil pickups. Plays and looks a lot like a strat, sounds more like a tele. Set on both pickups, like this song, it chimes like no other guitar I've ever played, I can almost get it to sound like bells. For rhythm parts it's great, chords sound gorgeous. Especially through this amp, the MX. It's the only guitar I ever decided I wanted in less than an hour of playing it, this one took me about 30 seconds. It's great for country stuff, and a lot of rock songs, and really nice for a good clean sound. Does good through a distortion pedal too but usually I run either the strat, the Washburn or the Cort when I want raunch...for this song it has a cleaner and brighter sound than I wanted, but like I said above, I broke a string on the strat and didn't have any spares and after several hours of recording I wasn't about to do it all over again...

I've seen some Peavey basses I liked pretty well, and quite a few Peavey guitars. A couple of the Wolfgang models I've played were nice, and a friend a few years ago had a strat copy I tried to talk him out of, it played and sounded so good. He wouldn't part with it...can't say I blame him either.