FortyEight
Tele-Afflicted
I posted this in the recording forum but I wanted to tell the full story on here. If anyone is interested. But it's a huge praise to God.
So.... as some of you know last year we changed churches. We had been going to a church for 13 years but the new, young pastor at that church and I had some pretty significant theological disagreements and I felt it was time to move on. And my wife was in agreement so we searched a bit and found one we thought would be good.
So the 2nd Sunday we attended, a big limb from one of our trees had fallen and was actually still sitting on our roof propped up. It fell AS we were getting ready for church. Up here in Wisconsin there is some bug called an Emerald Ash borer wreaking havoc and killing ash trees by the droves. I've seen many houses in our area with lots of trees getting cut down and big wood piles. Etc. Well we had about a dozen ash trees on our yard. About 4 or 5 of them already had been cut down periodically.
So we made it to church that morning, just barely in time and one of the Pastors asked us how I morning went and we were honest with him and told him what happened. And he was all like, Oh, we have a ministry that helps people with stuff around their houses. So he scheduled that all up and not too long after a guy I hadn't met before was at my house. Checking out the trees. Then a week or so after that they started in on our trees. I think he came like 3 times and did, 4 or 5 trees. I don't remember the exact number. Hang on.... Yeah I think it was 5. I helped as much as I could cutting smaller stuff up after they were felled with my electric chainsaw. LOL. And stacking and such but He was the man.
I have lyme disease and a bit decrepit from it. I've gotten better but I'm not as strong as I was when I was like in my 20s and I never would've been able to do this by myself.
So man, God is good. Sometimes he sends people with skills and talents that just do huge works in other peoples lives and it blows my mind how good the church can be sometimes. Obviously it's not perfect and I could go on and on about the things I don't agree with in any church. But when we focus on the good things I'm sure they are there in a lot of churches. And in the case of this ministry and this problem, this was one of the biggest blessings I think that has ever happened to me. Thank you God.
So when I was working with this dude we talked about music a little and I asked him what kind of music he liked. And strangely enough he said when he was a young man he was into Frank Zappa. Now I've personally never been a big fan. I don't know a lot of his songs but he's a bit too racy in his lyrics and a bit too weird for me. But obviously he's a very good guitarist. And bold, and interesting and lots of other good adjectives. So I'm not trying to dog his work. I'm just saying it's not really for me. But I listened to 3-4 songs on youtube and tried to incorporate some influence of that into this song.
I don't think I was very much successful at sounding like Zappa. I had already had the guitar parts for this song and was looking for the right place to use them. So in effect I probably wasn't THAT influenced by him. But the parts seemed appropriate. So that's how this song came together.
I had a lot of fun with this one just structuring it and stuff but I'm sure it's not for everyone. Or anyone. IDK. Dale seemed to like it though.
As in the other thread in the recording section, if you guys got critiques on the mix I'm all ears. And if you can tell me how you listened to it. I'm still learning how to mix and I'm just starting to use compression on some songs I'm mixing now. LOL. So.... I get it, there's more work to be done. And honestly I spend more time playing and writing then I do listening to reaper videos. I can't remember the last one I listened to. It's not really my passion but I should learn to do more with that part...
https://41twin.bandcamp.com/track/sawdust
So.... as some of you know last year we changed churches. We had been going to a church for 13 years but the new, young pastor at that church and I had some pretty significant theological disagreements and I felt it was time to move on. And my wife was in agreement so we searched a bit and found one we thought would be good.
So the 2nd Sunday we attended, a big limb from one of our trees had fallen and was actually still sitting on our roof propped up. It fell AS we were getting ready for church. Up here in Wisconsin there is some bug called an Emerald Ash borer wreaking havoc and killing ash trees by the droves. I've seen many houses in our area with lots of trees getting cut down and big wood piles. Etc. Well we had about a dozen ash trees on our yard. About 4 or 5 of them already had been cut down periodically.
So we made it to church that morning, just barely in time and one of the Pastors asked us how I morning went and we were honest with him and told him what happened. And he was all like, Oh, we have a ministry that helps people with stuff around their houses. So he scheduled that all up and not too long after a guy I hadn't met before was at my house. Checking out the trees. Then a week or so after that they started in on our trees. I think he came like 3 times and did, 4 or 5 trees. I don't remember the exact number. Hang on.... Yeah I think it was 5. I helped as much as I could cutting smaller stuff up after they were felled with my electric chainsaw. LOL. And stacking and such but He was the man.
I have lyme disease and a bit decrepit from it. I've gotten better but I'm not as strong as I was when I was like in my 20s and I never would've been able to do this by myself.
So man, God is good. Sometimes he sends people with skills and talents that just do huge works in other peoples lives and it blows my mind how good the church can be sometimes. Obviously it's not perfect and I could go on and on about the things I don't agree with in any church. But when we focus on the good things I'm sure they are there in a lot of churches. And in the case of this ministry and this problem, this was one of the biggest blessings I think that has ever happened to me. Thank you God.
So when I was working with this dude we talked about music a little and I asked him what kind of music he liked. And strangely enough he said when he was a young man he was into Frank Zappa. Now I've personally never been a big fan. I don't know a lot of his songs but he's a bit too racy in his lyrics and a bit too weird for me. But obviously he's a very good guitarist. And bold, and interesting and lots of other good adjectives. So I'm not trying to dog his work. I'm just saying it's not really for me. But I listened to 3-4 songs on youtube and tried to incorporate some influence of that into this song.
I don't think I was very much successful at sounding like Zappa. I had already had the guitar parts for this song and was looking for the right place to use them. So in effect I probably wasn't THAT influenced by him. But the parts seemed appropriate. So that's how this song came together.
I had a lot of fun with this one just structuring it and stuff but I'm sure it's not for everyone. Or anyone. IDK. Dale seemed to like it though.
As in the other thread in the recording section, if you guys got critiques on the mix I'm all ears. And if you can tell me how you listened to it. I'm still learning how to mix and I'm just starting to use compression on some songs I'm mixing now. LOL. So.... I get it, there's more work to be done. And honestly I spend more time playing and writing then I do listening to reaper videos. I can't remember the last one I listened to. It's not really my passion but I should learn to do more with that part...
https://41twin.bandcamp.com/track/sawdust
