lurksalot

Fair play , I was not expecting such a great turnout this month , most excellent 👍 I will set up the voting thread when I get in tonight

If you use a DAW you can monitor through that , I use Reaper which is free to download on ‘trial’ which never expires. if you haven’t used DAW before, it is a steep learning curve , but there are loads of tutorials on you tube to get you going

that was a manic weekend , interspersed with health issues and transport complications due to rail and tube strikes ! The guts of this was laid down before the weekend but the lyrics, such as they are ..... were added with the weekends experiences in mind! The drums were punched in using EZ drummer and used a couple of presets , bass and guitars using Waves gtr3 FX and a splatter of Waves Manny M Reverb to tie it up . All rolled in the glitter offered from Ozone 8 . Ed to add ........ Hark, I hear someone at the door already, I do hope he has a cheque book and pen !

if it did that I could save a few pennies on singing lessons , but it might lose my subtle tonal divergences

A bit gutted at the minute , having a quiet pint or two in that London , HOW MUCH , while mrs lurks and lurksalittle see a show, and thought it an ideal time to have a listen through …..forgot my pods FFS 🤦‍♂️

We read from the same hymn sheet I reckon 😁

I think I might squeeze one in after all! Its not ready yet and probably won't be ready at the deadline , but I think we have sussed out, that by then, I will have fallen in love with it and convinced myself that it is an absolute masterpiece, that will have the worlds music illuminati knocking at my door desperate to sign me up with a multi million pound contract*. *I shall of course decline and keep to my roots at the lower end of the Basschat forums

Pretty much exactly the same, but I may have different starting points if something jumps out. if I am really stuck , I have a digital piano that plays itself with different styles etc and I can start knocking tunes up on it quite quickly just using one finger to tell it what chord to play ! then a week of singing lessons to get the vocal just right 😁

I might struggle this month , I’ve made a rough start but I’m only going to be able to access the studio for about 4 evenings before deadline.

A distant echo...

August is upon us and that means one thing, it's time for another challenge! A joint win by @Doctor J and @upside downer in July with 2 excellent tracks and a subsequent choice of image from the latter, with the comment .... "This image from Alan Schaller's Metropolis collection, which examines 'how we are dwarfed in the modern world around us and often lost in it'. That's deep! Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded this month. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✔️ Bagpipes. the Edinburgh festival/fringe truce * . panpipes only if you have too. ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you. A line or two offering an insight to your inspiration/track choice will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. The Deadline for entries is Midnight on Wednesday 24th August good luck everyone * well, you don't have to, honestly

Well done gents, excellent entries 👍 If you can sort a picture between you and send it over, I’ll start the new one this evening 😁

I don’t mind the show itself , however if you catch any BBC content , the show is continually promoted to death , and it just drags on soooooooo much

voting is go ....

June was a hotly contested challenge, and with congratulation to @Dad3353 @Leonard Smalls @Nail Soupand @skankdelvar for their most excellent compositions. As it was his first win, the honour of picture choosing has fallen to Nail Soup , who offered the following ..... "Its a small ornament I saw on holiday in the hotel lobby" This has provided obvious inspiration to some fantastic work , raising the bar yet again! Have yourself a listen through and choose you your favourite 3 , The choices on offer this month are as follows 1 @Dad3353 Passing on the Message, from generation to generation, as has been done for generations past, and will continue for generations to come. Simplisism, with the Mother Tuba encouraging the Baby French Horn to have confidence, to follow, then lead, staying synchronised, all the while having great fun..! There's a lesson there for us all to learn, maybe..? 2 @NickD The image spoke to me of circus tricks, which in turn tickled my sinister bone. There's always been something about circuses that makes me uneasy, and I've always had a sense that behind the thin veneer of spectacular glitz and glamour there's probably rampant animal cruelty, violent, alcoholic clowns, and all sorts of dodginess. ... this idea of the sideshows distracting us from hideous goings on, naturally led me to draw comparisons with dodginess going on behind the curtain while we watch amazed at the current shitshow. 3 @Leonard Smalls This month I done a song about Infinite Regress, which is where in an infinite series of entities, each entity depends entirely on the existence of the previous entity. This is often illustrated by the idea that the world is supported on a turtle, which is in turn supported by another turtle. So how far do these turtles go? All the way down. But every fool knows it's hippos, not turtles! Hence, we have this achingly beautiful melody: (good luck ☠️) 4 Lurksalot OK then, I have enlisted the help and vocal skills of Fat Harry White , the Hippo of Luuurve , and he is on form let me tell you 5 @xgsjx I give you Hippo toe to toe at the hippodrome - Toe Toe 6 @Nail Soup The picture evoked care-free playtime between parent and child (with my parents and also myself with my kids when they were younger), so the lyrics are from there. The music came from a quick mess-around with some jangly C86 ideas. 7 @Doctor J I took a literal approach. The Hippo, nature's most untrustworthy beast. 8 @upside downer A lolloping, lazy saunter with a vaguely hip(po) hop groove. Mucking about at night is all well and good but, c'mon, the blazing sun is on its way; let's get ourselves in the refreshing water. It could be a bit tricky limiting your choice to 3 , but the voting will close on the 31st July. Good luck to all

I thought the same till I saw Elvis Costello at the Liverpool philharmonic , and they right royally messed the sound , and then tonight.. car fest , in a field off the A41 , Simon Fowler (Ocean colour Scene) fantastic , just beautiful, seasick steve, brilliant and taking me by surprise , Mcfly , jeez these guys were having fun and sounding incredible. a good evening all round 👍

If you don’t massively need all five strings , I could detune a 4 😁

Has anybody checked that young Jeff me Lad is happy to be in this month’s challenge , I mean , he’s alright but ...... 😁

If Paul’s offer doesn’t work give me a PM , I don’t have any 5’s though

excellent , but that would take some rehearsing to play at a gig , well , if it was to be accurate Ed to add .... I thought it was too long and way past 5mins .... then I realised I had repeated it a couple of times

OK then, I have enlisted the help and vocal skills of Fat Harry White , the Hippo of Luuurve , and he is on form let me tell you Technical , well not much , but Ibby six string and Gordon Richards bass through some waves GTR3 patches, EZdrummer and a bit of piano for fun. Vocals all by Fat Harry himself

As it happens , on the journey down , lurksalittle insisted on doing her vocal warm up exercises, so I insisted on joining in. I should therefore, be able to warble a beautiful tune on my return , whether my recording technique can capture its full beauty, I’m not sure , but I’ll put it front of mix for you all 🤘

I’m sitting in the corner of a little pub/hotel on my own with no-one in sight , fields all around the pub , and no other buildings for miles , but I’m still scared to play it in case someone hears it 😉

Well I like the sound of that ! it sounds dark but I’ll listen in when I’ve got mine down....which isn’t exactly imminent 😂

my glass is full , never mind half full 😁