The Medusa Fora

It could be worse - the guitar did improve (however, you surely can hear it´s still off in rhytm).
To the matter of "singing" - do you plan to cure your angina?

Pyro wrote:It could be worse - the guitar did improve (however, you surely can hear it´s still off in rhytm).
To the matter of "singing" - do you plan to cure your angina?

Now Pyro.... I hear there's a range of creams available for that....

Pyro wrote:It could be worse - the guitar did improve (however, you surely can hear it´s still off in rhytm).
To the matter of "singing" - do you plan to cure your angina?

Tough review. Fair, but tough.

Glad to see you decided to stick around, Pyro.

IrishRover wrote:very glad to see ye here agaoin

Thanks so much for your kind words OIrish me friend. I see what you mean about young thorns blooming. Unkind words can certainly pierce one's heart with a pain much worse than I imagine angina to be.

LittleCupcakes wrote:

Pyro wrote:It could be worse - the guitar did improve (however, you surely can hear it´s still off in rhytm).
To the matter of "singing" - do you plan to cure your angina?

Tough review. Fair, but tough.

Glad to see you decided to stick around, Pyro.

Yeah, sometimes, I do visit Medusa...maybe not that often, but still yes

I mean - I once belonged into group of people, who kept saying how great they are to each other. In some things they were good, in some things they were rather bad - but since anything was rewarded with "that´s great, the best I´ve seen" etc. etc. Where are they now? The same - after...five years or so. Nearly no evolution at all.

I don´t discourage people (hopefully) - and in this case, the guitar playing and tuning did improve, but still a way to go.

jennylois wrote:Thanks so much for your kind words OIrish me friend. I see what you mean about young thorns blooming. Unkind words can certainly pierce one's heart with a pain much worse than I imagine angina to be.

yer welcoime Jenny me froiend.
yeah, they're blooimoin' all roight, but at the end of the day, thoirns are oinly meant to hoit the surface,
pooir thoingoies never reach any essence, praoise the loird foir tois' the nature's way !
loivoin' oin the pagan soil, well, they groiw well here and the woind must have throiwn soime beyoind the gates of hell;

vs. thoirns & managers
OIroish rebellious cactus

Keep it up Oirish. Damn the torpedos! Yarrr!

slaointe Fointan me' oild mate oin poiratehooid

IrishRover, I'm listening to the Repo Man soundtrack and "Bad Man" by "Juicy Bananas" comes on. I was struck by one of the lyrics in this song (lyric by Alex Cox, delivered by Sy Richardson):

You like music?
Listen to this.
I was into these dudes before anybody.
Asked me to be their manager.
Called bullshit on that.
Managing pop groups ain't no job for a man.

Made me smile and think of you.

Anyway - great song. It has that 70s Funk sound down perfectly. I recommend it highly.

see, see.. toild ye so !
talkoin' of lyroics, that remoinded me, thoink oi've foinoished 1 song fully dedoicated to manageroial foigures;
planned to throiw oit ointo me 2nd lyroics coillection - pure foire 'n' flames of up to 10 songs oi hoipe;
oi've been hoiwever poistpoinoin' foinoishoin' and goin' to regoister that stuff, oif theres a law agaoinst exploicoit
lyroics, oi coiuld easoily be crusoifoied foir soime loines ..

Irish, your enthusiasm and motivation to master music is admirable. When I first started playing guitar/singing/composing at fourteen I'm grateful noone said much about what they thought - maybe I'd have lost confidence and given up. As long as some kind of progress towards a goal is being made during practice - that's what I think counts. Your strumming is getting better, but I was unable to hear the words properly. Keep up the practice and make sure you listen to constructive pieces of advice from other guitarists/vocalists while you're developing your own unique style.

How's life anyway?

oi & ahoiy me froiend bookoish ! thanks, tois' all aboiut furoius devoition, essence & attoitude; that aaand payoin' least attention to em' sharks swoimmoin' aroiund - poiseurs, pagans, managers .. they woin't eat any of thois shoip !

been busy duroin' last few days, foir whats essentoially the foirst real deal qualoity recoirdoin', woirkoin' toigether woith a banjo rockoin' froiend froim USA.. soooo, stay tuned, foir em' many oinstruments & fully hearable voicals of truly yers OIroishRover

IrishRover wrote:...banjo rockoin' froiend froim USA.. soooo, stay tuned, foir em' many oinstruments & fully hearable voicals of truly yers OIroishRover

Ahem...'hearable?' Absolutely classic. I'm guessing 'Audible' is the word you're chasing, or should I say, 'Audoible', yeah? Some of the issue is quality of sound, but some of it is purely your vocal quality which you do need to spend some time working on. I know you like the raw, edible sound, but you might need to balance it with some more natural sound during different parts of a song otherwise there's no contrasting element.

My son who's in Uni doing a Music degree in Devon's bought himself a nice banjo (and was able to play it properly from day one - I don't know how he does this, but he does it with every instrument), and when we went down to visit him recently he (we) bought himself a Didgeridoo...yeah and he was able to play it by the time he left the shop so much so that people in the street were looking for a hat because they thought he was busking.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have to keep practicing.

I'm off to see Christy Moore tonight, so tara you lot.

Btw, Oirish, in means of backing guitar - you can check PJ's profile on youtube - he plays many tunes with his brother backing him on guitar - very good in my opinion.

http://ie.youtube.com/user/TinWhistler?ob=1

Irishbookish wrote:Ahem...'hearable?' Absolutely classic.

classoic oit ois, soiunds noicer than audoible, maybe

Irishbookish wrote:Some of the issue is quality of sound, but some of it is purely your vocal quality which you do need to spend some time working on. I know you like the raw, edible sound, but you might need to balance it with some more natural sound during different parts of a song otherwise there's no contrasting element.

well, oi guess ye'll be pleased woith latest recoirdoing then; what oi was puttoin' here oin the past were raw recoirdoings, meanoin' - no separation of voicals & oinstrument, so the audio qualoity was raw oitself even addoin' to rawness of me style, unadjusted soiund balance etc. whoich made the guoitar soiundoin' rather loiud and voicals much less hearable... moire raw than woiuld oitherwoise soiund; me style remaoins raw, praoise the loird twoill' be so foirever and moire, but ye shoiuld be able to hear all the stuff ye mentioned.

Irishbookish wrote:I'm off to see Christy Moore tonight, so tara you lot.

ye lucky, lucky bookoish !