DU Musician's Group Shameless Plug Thread!

[Beware the Beast Man]

OK, a good number of us signed in, so if anybody would like to plug their wares, this is the place to do it. So if you have a website or an account on an mp3 host, music store, etc., plug away!

Here's my stuff. It's mostly electronic/ambient music, and it's not very professional:

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?AID=15077
http://www.audiostreet.net/artists/007/839/beware_the_beast_man.html

Mind you, I won't be able to listen to anything until after I get off of work, but I'm interested in hearing what you have to offer!

edit- I'm aware some of you have already posted links to your music already, but hell, do it again.

:toast:

[XNASA]

1. Until recently, I was in this band........

http://vendooza.net/

There are 3 mp3's on the site that I play on.

It's a fun band, and I enjoyed it but when weighed against some other issues I have, I had to put it aside for now.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Very nice!

I'm listening to "Stone Queen" right now. Very garage-punk. I like it!

[XNASA]

8. Thanks.

There were very few overdubs done in any of those. A little background vocal, perhaps the lead guitar. What you hear is pretty much what the band sounded like live, or rather sounds like live. I guess they're playing their first gig with my replacement in about a week.

My tastes ran a little counter to how these songs turned out. At least in a Studio environment. I didn't mind bashing out some garage punk live, it's fun.........

But I'd have rather sweetened (as in Matthew Sweet) these songs up a bit.

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. Boxes Of Squares

http://www.boxesofsquares.com/music

kinda weird stuff...hopefully material will be online in a few months

i play bass

[realisticphish]

3. Not MY music

but that of my friends. They're pretty decent, alternative weezer-like stuff www.sidstoked.com


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Beaverhausen]

4. My CD is for sale at CDBaby.com

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johnsonl

you can hear some samples there.

there is a link to my website on that page but be warned...it is LAME!!!
I have to get our web guy to update it.

[HEyHEY]

5. "I play in a band called creeper"

that's me on the left

[HEAVYHEART]

6. Sorry, I didn't see this before.

Mods, please delete my MP3 thread. Thanks!

[Ladyhawk]

19. HEyHEy, I've seen pics of you that didn't look at all like that.

At least, I remember a pic in a thread that didn't look like that. Am I going nuts? Is that really you? :D

[johnnie]

9. I posted this on my "hello people" post but..

www.echogrove.com Is where my band's site is at. We have been playing together off and on since 1977. We were just little shits then, now we are older shits.

[regularguy]

10. Some attic music:

Due to work, kids, etc, I've been home recording a lot in the last few years. I've been a four-tracker since the 80s, but this is what I do almost exclusively now. Please have a listen; I'll try to check out some of the sites listed here.

Recorded recently on a yahama aw16g digital 16 track:
http:\\www.soundclick.com/barryhollander

Recorded on a Fostex 4-track cassette recorder, 1990s:
http:\\www.soundclick.com/stuffonstuff

[6000eliot]

15. Interesting fusion stuff

Are you a one man band?

[DeepGreen]

11. 51 and still trying

Just released my first CD on cdbaby.
Sound clips there for each track.
The music I write is a mix of progressive rock, blues, a little
jazz,,,

www.cdbaby.com/bobspencer

If you listen, I hope you enjoy.
:)

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Plug.

http://www.whoisalhedges.com

[RetroLounge]

31. Whoah, I just spent some time on your website

I feel dirty now, but I have a craving for distorted guitars, cheap booze, and black leather.

Is that wrong?

RL

[dogonarug]

13. Heres mine

A project I was recently involved with...recorded in my studio
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/howlindog.htm

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Boy Do I Like This Stuff!

Really solid, and superbly recorded. Good gear change to the chorus and i really like the singer, both voice and style. Guitar tones are superb, as well, both rhythm and lead. The separation, stereo and eq, are very well done. Who ever did it knows what they're doing.

The second song sounds very much early Pretenders. (Tatooed Love Boys came to mind.) I didn't have time to listen past the 2nd song, but i liked what i heard a lot.
The Professor

[dogonarug]

27. thanks

"Who ever did it knows what they're doing"
That would be me...the project started out with 2 girls with some good songs. I brought a drummer friend in and he and I worked out the grooves for the songs (I played bass) we recorded the songs in my 24 tr. studio after 3 rehearsals... the singer was a handfull to record, she was very raw and immune to coaching! big compression on her vox tracks. Took about a week to mix the 6 songs.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Congrats On Your Work

The audio quality is excellent. Good for you! I liked the songs, too, btw. Not sure i mentioned that the first time.
The Professor

[RetroLounge]

32. Man, that's good.

Like the second song a lot.

RL

[dogonarug]

33. Thanks for the kind words, but I'm a fucking idiot!

For putting up mp3's without listening to them...DOH! the songs had encoding errors and sounded like shit...I am new to this new fangled mp3 thingy, thought the process would be as reliable as using my regular studio stuff. So, newly posted...all 6 songs done right this time, straight from the master.

Would appreciate any feedback on how these songs translate on computer monitoring setups.

Thx, HD

http://www.soundclick.com/howlindog

[ProfessorGAC]

34. I Heard No Encoding Errors

Maybe it depended upon what one uses to play it back. I just used Windows Media Player and the sound was as superb as an MP3 can be. I didn't hear any encoding errors, so maybe your second try is an improvement, but i didn't hear anything wrong with the originals.
The Professor

[dogonarug]

35. I'm stumped

Thanks for your reply,

I noticed the errors using WMP. I then looked at the files in wavelab and could see the errors and they repeated exactly every time.
I had ripped the original files from a mix CD and then encoded them in wavelab...The 2nd attempt was a direct transfer from the master hard drive and when encoded showed none of the errors that the originals had.
Of the two songs I originally posted, the 2nd song had the errors towards the end...did you listen all the way through?

[ProfessorGAC]

36. That's Weird

Yeah, i listened to them all the through. That's was a while ago, too. You probably remember my post about it. (I really liked it.)

I didn't hear anything wrong at any point in either song. Go figure.
The Professor

[livinginphotographs]

14. My turn.

I can't belief I haven't already posted in here, as shameless as self-promoter as I am.

http://www.soundclick.com/livinginphotographs

It's also in my sig, if we ever get those back.

[Bonhomme Richard]

16. Some originals.

http://www.garageband.com/artist/SevenNorth

[Dukkha]

17. Here's mine

www.joerenzetti.com

[Ladyhawk]

18. Ladyhawk sings "On My Own" from Les Miserables.

I don't have professional recording equipment and only MIDI accompaniment, so please be gentle with me. :)

On My Own from Les Miserables, as interpreted by Ladyhawk...heh heh :evilgrin:

[ZoCrowes]

20. My stuff

This is just bullshit covers that I recorded in less than a half hour. But I like the guitar solos on Lets It Get It On and When You Were Mine

www.myspace.com/chrisscott

[KCS72000]

21. just havin fun

http://www.soundclick.com/freeassociation

[Bonhomme Richard]

22. Be gentle but I want honest feedback......

http://www.garageband.com/artist/SevenNorth

If any Dare!

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Well, OK!

I listened to both. It's very different than what i do, but i know what i hate, and i don't hate this!

The first song is nice little rockabilly thing. It percolates along nicely and is very steady. If one likes that sort of thing, there would be nothing not to like about this.

The second song (Simple Apology) i like better as a song (not a big rockabilly guy). Nice melody and pleasant lyrics!

The chorus or B part of the verses (i'm not sure how you guys think of it) is a little loose for my taste. The changes aren't locked down tight, and clash with the phrasing of the lead vocal a bit. For this type of song, (it's not punk or thrash), playing as one big unit is critical. (Listen to your Gin Blossoms albums and you'll see what i mean.)

The bridge on that song, though, is real catchy. It's a nice change in mood and feel for the song and resolves into the solo nicely. The vocal on the bridge is real emotive and well sung.

The harmonies are just a pinch too loud for me, since there are times when it's louder than the lead vocal. But, you might have done that on purpose, so that just a matter of taste, not right or wrong.

The recording quality is also quite good. There is plenty of separation between the parts and it's easy to hear everything, although i personally would have brought the drums up and made them bigger. (I'm a Big Bam Boom type of guy.)

All in all, if that was my band, i would be happy with it, especially since they are self-penned and their pretty darned good tunes.
The Professor

[Bonhomme Richard]

24. Thank for the honesty.

The rockabilly tune was done in a studio and the second song was done on an old 4-track and it was hard to get a decent mix on it. All the vocals were me on the second tune and just lead vocal on the first. It's funny, the rockabilly tune was really a throw away, one of those things that come out of your head for no good reason and we were not a rockabilly band but it was fun. I didn't know what I was going to do for a harmonica part until it came in the first take and the producer said "I guess that's a keeper". Lol I think we only played it live once.

Thanks again.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. No Problem

Hopefully, when we get done with our two projects you will be equally honest in your appraisal.

The first project is converting the audio from the television show they did about us back in 1990 to MP3. Our sound guy, who now lives in Atlanta, is working on that.

The second one is a basement 16 track project that is in progress right now. It will be a mix of covers and originals, but part of our ethos is to do major rethinks of classic tunes. (Or maybe classic in our mind.) Sort of like the jazz guys have done since forever, by bebopping or swinging tunes written for a completely different thing. (Coltrane on My Favorite Things, for instance.)

Anyway, hopefully we'll post links here soon. Keep up the good work.
The Professor

[DeepGreen]

29. Feeling better this morning

My music just made it to iTunes. Although it may not sell,
it does feel kinda good!
:)

[name not needed]

30. Not mine, but my friend's band

A Life of Riley

http://www.purevolume.com/alifeofriley