lurksalot

Certainly a cleaner remix and decent toon as well 👍

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Ladies and gents its time to have a listen to these lovely tunes to decide on your favourite 3 Dont be shy , ask questions if you want to, but have a listen and place your 'x' in the appropriate boxes the picture was chosen by me and is in fact the toilet door of a pub/restaurant in the border town of Knighton The entries are as follows 1 Lurksalot I had a great idea about the door and what it could represent which is the initial point of the opening lyric , but as I based the rest of the tune around that I got a bit stuck , the main lyric will give you the gist of that! 2 @Leonard Smalls My "piece" (I hesitate to call it a song!!!) is an impression of who is in the mirror, and what happens when he's summoned. 3 @Nail Soup At first I thought the door was in a mirrored wall... so I based the lyrics around seeing a mirror Vs door as a metaphor similar to glass half empty or full. Also went for a more reflective feel in the music. 4 @Dad3353 There is a school of Science claiming the existence of an infinite number of Universes, in which, not only are all things possible, but all things must exist, somewhere or other. This is an illustration of this, whereby, in this Universe, The Monolith is, in fact, The Doordis, an invention of the wise Doctor Hugh, travelling through multi-dimensions in this strange craft. One might be fooled by its apparently slim profile, but, once ajar, one may see the inside, which resembles very much Windsor Great Park (yes, along with deer...). The apparition of this 'vehicle' in this humble bar is likely to provoke a reaction from the autochtones; they will throw bones in the air and emit whooping noises (just like every football night, really...). 5 @Doctor J I saw this as a doorway to the darker side of restaurant eating, where items not fit for any printed menu wait within for the more adventurous gastronaut. You takes your unlabelled grey meat and go where it takes you, with more than just the taste of regret in your mouth. 6 @Nicko This song is about those people that you meet that show you a false front - and you never know what is behind the facade. I wanted to get a grungy feel - not sure if I quite got there. 7 @upside downer All this talk of mirrors and toilet doors is a mile away from where my befuddled brain has led me. My take on the picture is that the door is a portal to a fantasy dining experience with a famous face from the afterlife. I join @Nicko in eschewing all that autotune malarkey so you'll just have to deal with my somewhat odd attempt at an Ian Dury style vocal which veers into Danny Dyer territory at some points. There we have it , great fun in these, quality inspiration from a toilet door! the voting will close midnight on 31st August good luck all

Last shout guys and gals , I am travelling back from holiday today, so I’ll do the vote thread this evening , Mrs Lurks wanted a few more days but I had to remind her that 14000 Basschat members were desperate to cast their votes!

That’s the thing isn’t it , a lovely, rounded, beautiful in tune voice will carry a tune on its own , I never judge a challenge entry on the singing , well , I couldn’t really could I 😂

I tell you , its bloody scary if this is what inspires you when you see a picture of your local's toilet door but when I put it like that , whatever possessed me to offer a picture of a toilet door for inspiration edited to avoid @Dad3353 's flying car

yep its the toilet door in @Leonard Smalls local, it totally confused me when I turned the corner and it genuinely looked like a random door in the middle of the room . I had to photograph it 😂

I’m with Douglas on this , I had a zoom multi which I mainly bypassed and used as a tuner , when I got the Rh750 it had everything I needed to dial the sound to suit a room , travelled light with that. I think it looks very tempting to go chasing sounds and tones but it’s a road to pecking my own head, so I don’t 😁

Or to the guy who took the photo 😂

I guess I'm the first in then , I am off away hopefully for a week in a few days time so I had to get busy with this. I had a great idea about the door and what it could represent which is the initial point of the opening lyric , but as I based the rest of the tune around that I got a bit stuck , the main lyric will give you the gist of that !

No pressure Douglas , get yourself sorted first, there are 11 days left so plenty of time for someone of your calibre.

I don’t usually do auto tune as the setting up is a pain and it’s obvious , however , this time I am using it as a technique to get closer to melody I was hoping for and the visual aspect of that seems to help !

I’m trying a new way of using it this month ! ive run a keyboard of the ‘melody’ and through the auto tune , this has visually identified the notes I should be using in the vocal . I can then accurately set it up so that I have a visual stimulus to see the variation of pitch to the target. I think it is helping to get it closer , but I guess I won’t be the best judge of that 😂

To be fair , the sign just stated the periods of the door being unlocked. but Prince saw it first , it was a Sign of The Times I’m going to need a taxi out of my own thread at this rate 🤦‍♂️

Sorry .....pizaz’z 😜

I edited the sign out as I thought that just a toilet door probably needed more pizazz 😂

Doh hooz the’re Fix’d 😇

If you want it to be, whose there?

There is an obscure glass design not dissimilar to that called ‘everglade’ ,some customers still choose it but it really is not for me !

OK Folks , no time to stand on ceremony Dive in !!

Having been humbled by the BC collective who most kindly showed a voting preference in my direction for the July Challenge I am honoured to offer the following image for you for the August Challenge. I hope this one offers a bit of intrigue for you, but I do have to come clean a bit on this, this particular image is a scene that is very familiar to one amongst us. It totally did my head in when I stumbled on to it , but maybe that was due to a little refreshment that I participated in beforehand. It has been slightly edited , but is reasonably accurate in its portrayal of the scene Usual rules apply. You know the drill: ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and written/recorded this month. ❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ❌ Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, its August, all the pipes should be in Edinburgh now . 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 will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. Deadline wise , we will split our just desserts and call midnight on 'National Banana Split Day' , and yes, you probably have till about 19.00 on the 26th, ( the clue given here is that 'National Banana Split Day' is the 25th). I'm definitely getting this day off a U.S. site, but, as today is U.S Universal birthday for shelter dogs , don't paws, give yourselves a treat

I’ve got a photo , just need to edit it a little then send it to myself , I will have it up by this evening 👍

😂😂 many thanks , and yes , I have the auto tune as a set default on my vocal track template , then it takes so long to actually work out what notes I am supposed to being singing that I turn it off anyway 😂

Woo Hoo cheers Douglas, thanks for that , thanks for the votes folks I’ll have a dig through my photos in an hour or so and see what I can offer you for August

Just whack the camera with the headstock , that should do it 😎