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| 2001.2 | | DECWIN::KMCDONOUGH | Set Kids/Nosick | Fri Sep 28 1990 12:09 | 22 |
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OK, group. I've got the master and I'll start making copies this
weekend.
I could use some liner notes to figure out who's playing what....Any
available?
Some smokin playing! Tom Descrochers, yeeeeoooow! That is a MEAN
version of "Because We've Ended".
And the classical pieces! Wonderful, just wonderful!
Who did the jazz-rock stuff on side 2? Incredible!
Lots of other good stuff here, too!
Kevin
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| 2001.3 | Yes, tasty stuff to be found there | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Brouhaha | Fri Sep 28 1990 21:25 | 43 |
| re: Kevin
> And the classical pieces! Wonderful, just wonderful!
That's Bob Conroy (slightly enhanced with stereo reverb from a one
track master courtesy of myself and ART, I hope Bob doesn't mind my
addition)
> Who did the jazz-rock stuff on side 2? Incredible!
In case you haven't figured it out from the postscript label, it was
probably either Larry Vignealt or Buck, depending on which one(s) you
were referring to.
As far as release notes (beyond the label), I'd envisioned having a
note in here that the contributors could put in their comments on how
the pieces were recorded, equipment used, other players contributing to
the music, and so forth. At one point Rich C. had set one up, but I
don't remember where it is/was or if it's still there. As the tape
copies start getting out, I'd like to remind the contributors to add
notes with this information to that topic (we can create a new one if
the old one's gone).
One thing I should say (if I haven't already); I hope nobody minds, but
I did have to take some liberties in the selection of equalization when
making the master from the individual submissions since the only one
that mentioned what kind of noise reduction and tape equalization he
used on his tape was Brian Rost. Basically I listened to them with
several settings and chose the one that sounded best to my ear, so if
it sounds slightly different from what you sent, that's probably why.
I apologize for any misinterpretations, but I was kind of flying blind
here.
I have three tapes with approximately 12-15 minutes worth of material
for Volume II right now, if anyone has anything they'd like to submit
please feel free to send it on out. I'll work it like the last one,
keeping the submissions open until I receive enough material to fill a
tape.
I enjoyed putting the master together! Thanks to all who contributed!
Greg
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| 2001.4 | Good stuff!!! | PUGGS::DESROCHERS | I Want More!!! | Thu Oct 18 1990 12:46 | 26 |
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Well, I got my tape and just want to say good job to all who
contributed to it. I was surprised that Greg and Mike from
PNO didn't have songs on it though. Thanks to those who made
it happen while not even having a tune on it. Noters tape II,
right?
I've only listened thru once but was very impressed with the
talent and more than surprised with the diversity of styles.
From Rich Ciccoli's creative, synth stuff (it made me think
of Godley & Creme meets Al DiMeola) to Bob Conroy's beautiful
classical technique!!! And Kevin McDonough's rippin' Beck
thru Larry Vignault's great sounding and groovin' fusion!!!
I've heard Bill Buckley many times and I'm sure no one is
surprised at his entries - guess I just expect it - Wow!!
Like I said, I've only heard it once and I'm going from memory
but there was also some crankin' rock and blues tunes from the
GSO guys, right?
Anyway, good job to all. And thanks!!
Tom
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| 2001.1 | BTW | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Shread melodic | Fri Oct 19 1990 12:32 | 1 |
| Liner notes for the tape may be found in note 1809...
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| 2001.6 | Pleasantly pleased with it as a whole! | ICS::BUCKLEY | You were an angel sent for my despair! | Fri Oct 26 1990 15:18 | 8 |
| I agree with Larry on the diversity...that's what makes this tape, and
that's what makes this conference!
Can't wait til Tape II!!!
Buck
PS - Bob Conroy Roolz! (I want his chops!) ;^)
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| 2001.7 | yeah, sounds good! | GOOROO::CLARK | psychedelic music fills the air | Fri Oct 26 1990 17:34 | 15 |
| I just finished listening to it (thanks Rick!). I also agree about the
diversity. I like this tape better than the 'Guitar Speak' album which
came out a few years back! Lots of talent here!
Rich Coccoli, do you live in the greater Worcester area? I can
recommend a good therapist!
Brian, I like Nothing But Time. Strange but true :-)
Buck and Larry; superb but then again we all expected that :-)
All in all very imressive! When are the submissions for Vol. II
due?
- Dave
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| 2001.8 | I loved Nothing but Time... | DNEAST::GREVE_STEVE | Greee Veee King | Sun Oct 28 1990 00:01 | 1 |
| Do this, do that..... heh, heh
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| 2001.11 | | DNEAST::BOTTOM_DAVID | Reelect nobody! | Mon Oct 29 1990 11:09 | 5 |
| the big surprise for me on the tape is the classical piece(s).
I was delighted and impressed with almost everything..what a tape!
dbii
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| 2001.12 | No, it's Marshall that rooolz | ICS::CONROY | | Mon Oct 29 1990 17:03 | 45 |
| I've really enjoyed listening to this tape. Like someone
said, lots of diverse interests and talents here. Congrats
to everyone that submitted stuff. Good job.
Side 1:
Tom D.: Cause we've ended as lovers. I really liked this one.
Nice tone, very musical, played with feeling! Good rip Tom!
Rich Coccoli: Weird shit, I like it! Love those cheerful tritones.
First time I listened I was thinking, where's the
guitar? Nice blending of instruments and sounds.
Steve Greve: Wins best title contest. Good feeling there.
J. White and J. Cooper: Good songs. One of them reminded me of Led
Zeppelin. Would like to hear more recent stuff.
Side 2:
Kevin McDonough: Blazing leads! Was sorry the lead guitar disappeared
into the mix. Wanted to hear more.
Great tone; and no effects, I love it!
(Also: Great, way cool piano intro by Dave B.)
Brian Rost: You were right in your liner notes. Neil Young at his best.
(That's meant as a compliment of course!) Let's hear
some of the new stuff.
Larry V. : 2 Whoa's; good stuff. Recorded well. Real nice playing, real
good tunes. Nice sense of line. Great all around.
Bill B. : Another 2 whoa's. 2 really different tunes.
Really well done. The brazilian schtik is down pat.
I like the chord progressions on "Fallen Angel". How do you
do that really fast section on the solo? I wouldn't mind
having THOSE chops.
John Williams: Good jams. Liked the modal lines that came in there.
On to tape 2!
Bob
ps. Another hand clap and a thank you to the people who took the
time to put it together.
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| 2001.13 | Hope I didn't miss any... | GOES11::G_HOUSE | But this amp goes to 11 | Mon Oct 29 1990 19:46 | 83 |
| I guess I can put my own personal review in here now huh?
Overall I was really impressed with the music put on here. I've been
with it for a bit longer then most of you so far and have really grown
to love much of this.
Tom D.:
This is a great song, well executed. I am quite impressed with the
feeling that Tom put into this.
Rich Coccoli:
This reminds me so terribly of the King Crimson period with Adrien
Belew that I *love*! Rich has a cool feel for things and an
outstanding sense of humor in his music. This is the first submission
I got and is still one of my favorites. I laughed for hours after
hearing "Gerbil In My Pocket".
Steve Greve:
I'm with Bob, I loved the titles. I enjoyed this, definately crude
(that nasty drum machine's gotta go, Steve!), but still enjoyable. The
pieces were a little long for my tastes without any tangible form, but
that's not a big thing.
Bob Conroy:
Outstanding! I was soooo pleased when I got a classical submission for
the compilation and Bob didn't let me down at all. These two pieces
are absolutely beautiful. The tone, execution, and style is simply
marvelous.
Jerry and Coop:
I've had this demo tape for at least a couple of years and have always
enjoyed it. The recording's a bit muddy, especially after all the
generations of copies it's been through (don't think mine was first
generation), but considering the equipment used it's amazingly good.
The vocals leave a little to be desired, but the leads make up for
them. Overall I like the songs and enjoyed the tones used.
Kevin McDonough:
Searing tone, Kevin! My first comment was "Wow, what a sound. What's
he playing through?" This is one of my all time favorite songs anyway,
and that doesn't hurt. Hot keyboards DB. The mix is pretty rough,
sounds like it came off the board and everyone had different stage
volumes. I can hardly hear Buck at all (but this *is* Kevins
submission after all...). Definately some hot playing!
Brian Rost:
Also some great humor in this one. I would never play with those
guitar tones myself, but it sounds kind of cool in this kind of
context.
Larry V.:
Very impressive. Solid smooth tone and excellent playing. I couldn't
pick up tangible patterns to these songs though, they just sounded like
jamming to me and maybe a little long for that. I tend to like this
type of song with more of a clearly stated theme and then improvization
around it.
Buck:
The Rio tune really surprised me. I always figured he was capable of
playing different styles of music, but I've only hear Buck play rock
and classical and this caught me off guard. Definately hot playing and
the production is excellent. Fallen Angel has a great hook and a
killer guitar tone, but there's some kind of wierd high end noise all
the way through it that I find distracting.
John Williams:
When I heard this I immediately thought "Allman Bros." The first tune
I liked, but the East Block Stomp one got a little tiring. It sounded
kind of out of tune in places and didn't seem to go anywhere. Still
fairly impressive playing.
Greg
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| 2001.14 | | PNO::HEISER | two bodies, 1 mind, 1 soul | Fri Nov 02 1990 13:49 | 48 |
| Bottomline: I loved the variety of this tape and was really impressed
with some of the talent we have in DEC. I don't know why some of you
are still working here ;-)
Tom DesRochers: I haven't listened to much Beck so I've never heard
the original. I think this song is great though. One of my favorites
on the tape!
Rich Coccoli: like I said before, you have quite a creative imagination!
I start rolling everytime I hear "Gerbil..." ;-) I'm not real big on
synth rock, but these songs have some real interesting sounds.
Steve Greve: good job ole timer! ;-) I agree with Greg though, a good
sounding drum machine would really add to your guitar work.
Bob Conroy: a man after my own heart! I've always loved great
acoustic guitar and you did an excellent job on these pieces. I'm not
familiar with either song, but they sound great. I wish I could sound
like that! ;-) Also my favorites on the tape.
Jerry and Coop: the recording is a little muddy, but all 3 are great
songs. I don't care what anyone says, Coop sings okay! ;-) I really
like the guitar work in "Little Teaser".
Kevin McDonough: I also love the tone here, is this the M*word amp? ;-)
The recording is a little rough though. When I listen to it thru the
walkman headphones, I can faintly hear Buck's shredding. I know it is
your song, but it would've really been cool to get a good balance of
all instruments ;-)
Brian Rost: the Rebel Song, it also cracks me up. ;-) I remember you
said it was some sort of experiement, but it still sounds decent.
Larry Vignealt: excellent efforts here! I really love that cheerful
sounding melody. Do you cook (Mr. DEC Cookbook himself) as well as
you play? ;-)
Bill Buckley: I always heard how great a rock guitarist you were, and
I was really impressed with the diversity in "Rio". You're just a
plain great guitarist, forget the rock classification. Hopefully,
someday my Ibanez will sound like that ;-) I also noticed the high
pitch too. Thru the walkman headphones, the high guitar notes really
hurt the ears. Not sure what caused it.
John Williams: also great efforts on this pair of songs. Nice
playing!
Mike
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| 2001.15 | High-end problem explained | ICS::BUCKLEY | Midnite Dynamite! | Fri Nov 02 1990 14:31 | 16 |
| >someday my Ibanez will sound like that ;-)
Fwiw, I only used an Ibanez on the 2nd (metal) song. The first was
played on a (aack) Strat! ;^)
>I also noticed the high pitch too. Thru the walkman headphones, the
>high guitar notes really hurt the ears. Not sure what caused it.
I can tell you what caused it...three things:
The mix-out was put thru a graphic eq to help clear it up...remember,
thios was a 4tk recording with many bounces on it! So there was a lot
of high-end on there. Also, the graphic-out was put thru a BBE aural
exciter...more high-end. Thirdly, it was mixed onto a stereo
VCR...which has more headroom than normal 1/4" tape, but kind of gives
that tinny quality. I found it acceptable for metal, but...
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| 2001.16 | Good Job All Around | AQUA::ROST | Dennis Dunaway Fan Club | Tue Nov 06 1990 10:16 | 51 |
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My eagerly awaited copy arrived in yesterday's mail. OK, one thing I
noticed was that my copy seemed to have almost all the signal in the
left channel. That's one reason I mix things down to mono 8^) 8^)
8^)
Tom DesRochers: Very good rendition of this tune. Sounds like there's
a noise gate cutting off the end of many of the notes, though.
Rich Coccoli: I really enjoyed these, although the lyrics to "Secret
Life" weren't as good as the music. Boy, you sure like those square
wave tones, eh? Was that really all done with a guitar controller...very
impressive.
Steve Greve: Nice lead work, Steve. Yeah, the backup was kind of
boring, who cares, rhythm sections only exist to make the guitarists
sound good 8^) 8^)
Bob Conroy: I'm a big Renbourn fan, but "Lady.." is one LP of his I
don't have. Your selections were the best thing on the tape.
Really good stuff.
Jerry and Coop: I was really surprised, I honestly didn't expect
anything this tight sounding. Oops, that solo overdub on the first
tune ran over a wee bit... The lyrics to "LTB" were pretty ridiculous,
haven't we heard enough songs like this? Go listen to "I Love You Miss
Ogyny" by the Groundhogs....
Kevin McDonough: The mix was pretty screwed up, but when I could hear
what was going on it sounded very good. On tape, at least, I can't fault
the tone of that P-word amp.
Larry Vignealt: All three of these were very well-done, although the
first two were a bit "breezy" for my taste, I prefer more bite in my
fusion. I assume that all those guitars went direct through the SGE to
tape? Despite your disclaimer, I think the sound was very good except
for a bit of muddiness in the second tune.
Bill Buckley: Hey, Bill, you gotta show me how to play those 90 mph
Latin bass licks. I wasn't disappointed in either song. It was a real
surprise to hear you on *acoustic* guitar. I saw "Rio" on an old
DECjam video with you, Rick B., Ron Ross and Todd Rhodes. This
recording makes me appreciate the composition more.
John Williams: Like Steve's, nice leads but boring backdrops (I should
talk...). Believe it or not, I prefer the synth pieces you did on
Commusic V to these, they sounded more developed.
Brian
P.S. Thanks for everyone's kind comments about my submissions.
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| 2001.18 | secret revealed! | ICS::BUCKLEY | maybe we can learn to love | Tue Nov 06 1990 14:07 | 5 |
| The secret to Kevin's screamin tone is the custom DAL on-board preamp
he has in his guitar!! I heard him turn a farty-old Fender into a
metal shredding monster at one of the (informal) DEC jams!! I also
remember the day the battery died, and he had to go stright into the
P-word amp! ;^)
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| 2001.20 | | PNO::HEISER | stand in the gap | Wed Nov 07 1990 16:45 | 3 |
| Okay I'll bite. What should go in the "review" topic?
Mike
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| 2001.21 | nuff said, note cleaned! | ICS::BUCKLEY | maybe we can learn to love | Wed Nov 07 1990 16:47 | 1 |
| Reviews!
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| 2001.22 | got it. | GLOWS::COCCOLI | a sack of throbbing gristle | Tue Nov 13 1990 16:43 | 59 |
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Just got my tape Friday. First in ,last out eh boys?. 8^)
Some really happening stuff on this tape. I was pleased and
surprised.
Tom DesRochers
Great rendition of one of my fave Beck ditties. Lots o' emotion
as well as technique in your cover of it.
Steve Greve
Keep playin' them blues. The guitar was so up front you couldn't
hear the rhythm section though. Good ideas.
Bob Conroy
Great stuff. I'm impressed. Tone and execution flawless (to me
anyway). Good work. The only classical I ever learned was "Mood
for a Day" by Howe and it took me a year. Know any ragtime?.
White+Coop
Good technique on them guitars. Yup. Divebombed right into the vocal.
Just testing the whammy, right?. 8^)
Kevin McDonough
You definately got chops. I like DB's(?) intro, especially the
two short pseudo-jazz chords he threw in right before the band came
in. Sounds like someone hit a clunker right before the vocal came in.
Blistering solo!. All in all, one of my faves for this tape.
Brian Rost
Nothing But Time. It's warped. So am I. I liked it. What is the
vocal going through?. I recognize the Popeil flange-o-matic. 8^).
Parallel. Neat ideas.
Larry Vignealt
Yeah. This stuff is great. This guy cooks. These *songs* happen.
The fusion tune is *great*. Why aren't you doing this for a living?.
Yeah, I know..mouths to feed. *^)
Bill Buckley
A master shredder. Rio's my fav o' rite tune on this tape.
Fallen Angel..I was driving over the Brooklyn Bridge to work today
with this sucker blasting. Thump. Thump. Lot's o" power.
But let's face it. If you can do a song like Rio, why bother with
stuff like "Fallen Angel". Eh?. 8^)
John Williams
Love the beginning of Traveler. I like quirky little chord changes.
Nice clean sound. Neal Young/Allman type soloing.
It's a blast being on the tape with such fine musician/composers.
Where's G. House?. Hopefully Vol II.
RichC
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| 2001.23 | MERCY !!! | RAVEN1::JERRYWHITE | Joke 'em if they can't take a ... | Tue Dec 04 1990 04:20 | 29 |
| Just got my copy tonight ..... in a word ...
S H * T !!!!! 8^)
Mercy, there's a wealth of talent in this file ! I'm gonna have to
listen to it a LOT more .... it's a got a little of something for
everyone. I'll give a detailed review later, but my 1st_listen favs
are:
Tom DesRochers - "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" Good tribute to a
great tune !
Larry Vignealt - "Just A Blues Jam"
Bob Conroy - Both of 'em ... this stuff is GREAT !
Bill Buckley - Reminicence Of Rio
... and my most fave is ....
Kevin McDonough - "Goin' Down" ... YEEEOOOOWWWW ! This is one of my
all time favorite songs anyway, and this version peels paint. Sounds
like it's a board tape, but even at that it's a monster !
I'll post some other stuff later ... for right now, I put it on side B,
play my tune, rewind, play the tune, rewind ....
Scary (who wishes his submissions had been left off now ....)
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