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At last, I've managed to finish something! (More in the pipeline now)

I started this in Oct/Nov last year, immediately after "I Dream You". I wanted to do a quick rocker. But this one completely clogged up the works.

It's the first outing of my fretless Jazz bass. I was quite pleased with myself that I've managed to almost hide the fact that it is fretless :D (I think I need to buy a fretted one as well now!)

I know I'll never ever ... ever be disappointed pushing play on an Andytune. And not this time either.

Fab work again Andy. I really love the rough voice you've been using on some of the latest offerings, and sprinkled with the angelic backing vocals it's just heaven !

piPad bound

Well that made me giggle, not sure it was supposed to though - what can I say, I enjoyed it  ;D

Great tune Andy! The quality of your productions always impresses me, I imagine that has something to with the time,effort and care you put into your tracks. I make mine in a car...I can sure hear the difference.This is totally slick, those background vocals really add that special something & i love that harmonized guitar interlude.You are really a talented songwriter & producer!
Rock on!

brilliant, was reading the lyrics before the music started and misread the line about the jaguar, so was a tad disappointed when it got to that the line and it wasn't "she made me her pet jaguar" after all.  ;D ;D ;D

Loved it ....as you already know ...well you will when you look at alonetone....beautiful growling vocal...and fab lead .....Bravo

Fantastic fun  - Lechez ma chatte?

hahahah!

Fab! - bass sounds great.

just googled  Lechez ma chatte  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: oldrottenhead on February 03, 2013, 03:53:09 PMjust googled  Lechez ma chatte  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Slow, too slow!!! I had a feeling you hadn't twigged when you first posted about the jaguar line last night ;D

And I actually had to do some googling to get the line in the first place.

I ended up collecting a variety of phrases of an, ahem, "intimate nature".

I wasn't sure which to use until I realised how that one would build on the jaguar line that was already in place (and which I had meant literally when it first popped into my head - "the girl kept exotic animals on her estate and made me pet the dangerous ones").

But the moment that the jaguar and lechez lines sat together I was utterly ecstatic at all the variations in meaning that they offered.

And giggling is a good response for me, Haylie, especially if you weren't sure whether you're meant to. I was always kind of aiming at that. It is quite a serious subject, and kinda sad, but I wanted it bouncy and amusing.

And no-one will ever know whether she really did have an estate, or whether it's just one big metaphor for her body. And did she really have a jaguar? Or a hunting crop? Or, indeed, could she actually speak French?

Listened to this one for the first time last night.

Just spectacular in each and every way, and every part of this song is honed to finite perfection.

Those sweet backing vocals compliment that growling lead vocal perfectly. The guitar work excels too and love the bit where the higher octave part plays along with the vocal melody, and the guitars generally have a superb tone throughout too.

It all bounces along beautifully, full of incredible hooks, its a masterclass in songwriting, performance and production

A fabulous song that demands countless listens.

Great, I really like the melodic guitar.

JOA

Oh this is such a good rocker Andy! A slick production with excellent backing vocals and the cool harmony guitar melody. The fret-less bass works well and the story line is....well exotic, lol! Well done and pro on all accounts.

Farrell
 

Excellent. I love the backing vocals and the lead guitar especially. And the production's very pro-sounding. Well done.

oooh fabulous , i do love an Andy song , you talented bastard , listening on cans is a total treat

This is very cool, love the production, has a genuine 70's production feel about it and the performance feels the same.

I too googled the line, the missus (sat next to me) was wondering where I was going to click next!! ;D


Top flight blues rocker!!

Excellento.

I have just managed to type this after stopping head banging! heaven, very 70's. Or Berkley.

Keep Rockin'

Tony (DrZiggy)  :D

Quote from: Burtog on February 04, 2013, 01:26:16 PMI too googled the line, the missus (sat next to me) was wondering where I was going to click next!! ;D

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I had a less sheltered upbringing. No need for Google. No embarrassing links.

:D

Don't know about anyone else, I just love the image of the poor b@stard trying to lick a jaguar :D

I know it was all double entendres and stuff when I wrote it. But after it had settled down, that's the image I have in my head.

So glad you folks like it this one. I'm kinda fond of it but I didn't think it was going to have much general appeal. For me it's got a load of stuff behind it, and it nearly didn't get recorded after I'd started.

This is the song I wrote last Oct/Nov, and then a day or so later, as I started to get it down, I found out that the original inspiration (a "one-night-stand" who picked me up in 1984/5, who was mad as a box of frogs, who took a week to shake off, but who I'd never quite forgotten) I found out that she had hanged herself in 2005. This kind of put the mockers on things for a while. I thought about changing the song, even ditching it, but eventually managed to "disconnect" it from her. When I was able to start work on it again, it (and "I Dream You" from a week or so before) have kind of become "her" songs and it's nicely squared away. I also realised during the hiatus that she'd actually been one of my major "muses" ever since the 80s, and finding out that she'd gone and seeing pictures of her 20 years older than I'd known her sort of knocked that on the head - I can't see her like that anymore.

I've had a big need to explain all this - but I really didn't want to put it in the original post because I didn't want it colouring anyone's "first listen". This song isn't about a woman who killed herself, it doesn't have anything like that in it. In fact, the girl in the song is still there if he wants to go back (that was the bit I nearly changed, I'm really glad I didn't now). But seeing as I tend to share how things came about on here, and this one I fancied people knowing what it means to me, second page of comments seemed about right for saying it.

NEway!!! 8) I'm particularly proud of the harmony guitars on here - glad they got a mention.

They came about because I couldn't find a decent solo in the instrumental. So plan B is always "tell you what, why don't you play the vocal melody and see what happens?"

When I tried that it sounded naff as well. I couldn't get the vocal phrasing I wanted. My keyboard skills aren't up to playing on something like this either. So I picked up a slide....

That took quite a bit of practicing to be able to play a fixed melody on slide. But the minute I conquered it I slammed down a quick take as a placeholder.

And then I thought "how about a harmony? Can you play harmony parts with slide? Don't see why not..."

So I just slammed down a harmony. Then I put another one of the melody, but an octave lower.

I thought, those parts'll do, when I can play them better...

A month or so later I just mixed those original one-takers to a submix and they've stayed there ever since.

I really meant to replace the "lead slide" at the end, but when it came to it, it seemed good enough. The original fade had to finish just before he gives up and goes "clunk/buzz" - it was only a placeholding rehearsal anyway. And I thought I needed more from him... But then I decided to shorten it even further and it works a lot better like that, so the practice take stayed.

Anyway, now this one is finished and off the desk, suddenly there's a whole load more happening in the broom-cupboard. Things were quite definitely clogged up for a while there :D.

Quote from: Flash Harry on February 04, 2013, 02:13:19 PMI had a less sheltered upbringing. No need for Google. No embarrassing links.

:D

The link I used was quite tasteful - it was resource of "sensual phrases" to use/learn if you're dating someone whose language you don't know. It explained how rude the phrases were to a native speaker, and when they'd sound either too rude or somewhat amateur-ish (and therefore would have an effect opposite to the one you were hoping for!! :)

Quote from: AndyR on February 05, 2013, 01:08:13 PMDon't know about anyone else, I just love the image of the poor b@stard trying to lick a jaguar :D

I thought that was a euphamism (!) and yes had to google the other phrase too. Some of the others I came across were a tad ruder - dare I say some of the others, probably not but I'm still giggling.

It's not a sad song Andy, I'd like to think that the woman who inspired the song is up in heaven and loving every minute of it.

You're not just a great songwriter, you're a damn good storyteller as well !!!

Thanx for sharing Andy !

Great song, fabulous guitar work, well done.     

Quote from: Hilary on February 05, 2013, 01:24:28 PM

Quote from: AndyR on February 05, 2013, 01:08:13 PMDon't know about anyone else, I just love the image of the poor b@stard trying to lick a jaguar :D

I thought that was a euphamism (!) and yes had to google the other phrase too. Some of the others I came across were a tad ruder - dare I say some of the others, probably not but I'm still giggling.

It's not a sad song Andy, I'd like to think that the woman who inspired the song is up in heaven and loving every minute of it.

Oh yes, it definitely was/is meant as the euphemism, that's always what I meant. But I personally can't get the "taking it literally" out of my head, it's too deliciously amusing - the idiot's trying to lick a dangerous cat because that's what he thought she meant, while she's sat there going "Duh!!?!" :D (I watch a lot of Carry On Films!)

And you're so right about it not being a sad song. It was never meant to be (apart from "older guy regretting rejecting something that years later he'd have been very happy to have back if he could" - not nowadays for me personally, but for many years with no partner, this girl was my main fantasy - that's the main inspiration she brought to this thing)(not forgetting the open blouse, obviously!!). It was never meant to be sad, just rueful, and written as a tongue-in-cheek jolly romp to investigate that concept, with as many euphemisms and double-entendres as I could squeeze in :D.

After I found out about her death (I'd just googled her name while I was listening to the rhythm guitar parts and original guide vocal and bass), it took me a good few weeks to understand that it still could and should be a jolly romp. And while I was working on the recording later I also realised that, if she was aware of it, she'd probably approve, and I could continue to think of her as Tiffany without it feeling disrespectful in any way.

Man i liked this alot Andy...the arrangement, the instrument tones, and your great growly vocals

I thought the lyrics were excellent...full of imagery that the music brought to life.

Killer lead section with the doubled/panned guitars and the big sound.

Soundin' good on the fretless too..smooth tone...solid playing.

Ace tune!

Pine

High quality music as always by you!! Top class bluesy song with cool performing! Nice job on each way!!!!

Kari

Dig the rhythm on this ... great tune ... great vocals and delivery on this!!!

The production is perfect too!!!

kb