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Aiming at hard rock, something you'd crank up in the car. Combo of metal verse riffage, 00's angst rock chorus and a side order of V8 oddness (the last 45s).

Still not happy with the arrangement (I *&%ing hate midi drums!) so I didn't get around to roping in a few peeps for doing vox and solo's. At the moment, it's mostly a rhythm guitar extravaganza. Hope y'all all enjoy the gratuitous riffage and can imagine a fat solo and some great vocals in the places where I meant to plug 'em in ?

Made it with under an hour to spare haha

So pretty much my mother bought a purple cow toy for my daughter while visiting family in Belgium. It has a pull string and plays a song that gradually winds down. Daughter loves the song (calms her down right away when she's bummed out) so thought it'd be cool to use it in a song. Turns out, a fair bit of quantizing is needed - no built in metronome!

In terms of being an 'anthem' (at least for me as a personal anthem) there are several things that went into the whole thing. Firstly, one of my favourite bands is Thrice - on their album Vheissu (probably my favourite album ever) they have a song called 'Music Box' where they sampled an old music box from Teppei's (lead guitarists) grandmother. Hence my thought to use the purple cow ?

Next, it's sort of a return to my roots - both in songwriting (this is the first song I've written and recorded in it's entirety - musically at least, maybe vocals will come later lol - in around 8 years) and instrumentation. Rather than buggering around with trying to play a particular style, I just played what felt right to me. Also, it's the first time I've tracked with my new bass guitar (I need to go out and learn bass a bit more so I can do some fun stuff).

Finally, who doesn't love harmony leads, quad tracked guitars (in the right places) and tons of gain lol (and a hopefully passable tappy solo ?) - these all seem pretty rock and roll to me.

Also - who would've thought a drop B song could sound like this!

Hope you all enjoy it ?

Here it is... with the warts and all... Not very well mixed etc...

I always say "next time I'll pull finger...".

This song is my anthem about how rock seems to follow me around:

Verse
Rock is my destiny
It cant seem to let go of me
It's here with me everyday
I cant seem to get away

Prechorus
I'm tryna run f rom it
Tryna hide from it
been trying my whole damn life
[Repeat]

Chorus
I'm gonna rock
And roll
And let the music
Take Control

I'm gonna burn
the air guitar
And use
a real one

guidothepimmp the blurb on mine.. i started playing at 13 when i could see myself doing epic riffage to metallica and judas priest.
Back then was when the grunge era was taking off.. but i was always drawn to chili peppers, ugly kid joe, priest, extreme, skid row etc.
The common denominator.. rock of all shapes and sizes... hot rodded high gain amps.. soopa strats.. and spandex pants ?

So for this recording.. i opted for hopefully a catchy riff. High gain.. and some lead fills. Also in the mix was a spandex pants look and feel, and a nod to some folk rock with the acoustic intro stuff

    Hoooollyyy poop!

    Take a bow @Stoffeltoo, @wern101, @Mijaelle, @RodneyVikens, @guidothepimmp, @studmissile ,@klaasvakie, @ScottyDogg, @warrenpridgeon - Well done all for the great entries!!!

    I reckon 11 entries (Stoffeltoo has two) must be a record (pun unintended ?) for the Challenges...really stoked to see all the entries and chat around them.

    I'll have a voting thread up today (probably just after lunchtime), Sadly - we'll only have one vote each, so feel free to vote and comment on your honorable mentions, there's sure to be a few!

    V8 Can we submit two entries? Or it makes sense to chose one of the two then for the voting?

    Errrmmm, I guess so - I reckon we're letting Stoffeltoo do two because one's a collaboration?

    I wouldn't say it doubles your chances though...

      Thanks to all the participants and a soecial mention to the collaborators on muscle cars and sleazy bars. You guys rock!

      RodneyVikens

      RodneyVikens V8 Can we submit two entries? Or it makes sense to chose one of the two then for the voting?

      Errrmmm, I guess so - I reckon we're letting Stoffeltoo do two because one's a collaboration?

      I wouldn't say it doubles your chances though...

      It lowers your chances effectively.

          Fantastic turn out! Only heard snippets here and there. Been anxiously waiting for the VOTE thread to give each
          a discerning listen. Excited to hear some new talent as well! Good luck ladies and gentlemen.

          RodneyVikens Dunno, I've been trying to do three thing at once this am - failing at all three it seems!

          Ahh, Mondaze.

          If you wanna enter something else (I assume it's the track you did under "I am BoB"?), I'm cool with it as it was clearly finished before the deadline.

          Just pop it in this thread please w/blurb (if you want) and I'll add it to the list for tunes for the Voting thread.

            V8 Nah! I'll keep the single track for now. Next comp I'll definitely will want to do something acoustic.

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