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Title: Are You Done? - AndyR Original
Post by: AndyR on March 23, 2015, 04:09:43 PM
Well, I'm almost on a roll now - this little love song was written, arranged, and recorded in just a week. I've been meaning to attempt something like this for years, just never got round to it.
I'd actually settled down to finally record a piano song I wrote last year... but that'll have to wait because the new Les Paul had different ideas...
I used her exclusively on the last one, Dancing Girl, but I hadn't really let her play like she wanted to. I was just warming up the machines and wondering how to do a click for this piano ballad, and then Lucy the Les Paul decided to let rip...
It was obviously a Gibbons/Hill/Beard sort of thing, so I laid out some shuffling type rhythms, dug out the innuendo dictionary and went where she led...
Guitar parts are all going through my Yamaha THR10C, using the headphone out straight into the stereo line-ins and then recorded mono. Jazz bass is going through the POD XT Live impersonating some huge Ampeg beast - actually, I haven't touched the knobs for quite some time, I just turn it on and this bass sound comes out of it...
Are You Done?
Words & Music AndyR Recorded on a BR1600 --------------------------------
Well I'm all dressed up and polished We got the moon that shines so bright When I asked if you should care to come You said, honey, I just might So I'm waiting here In my fighting gear
Are you done? Honey don't be long No, not too long Until you're really done
So I wandered down to your harbour To get a feel of the fishing-net Put your money where my mouth is I ain't known it to fail us yet So I'm waiting here Is you ready dear?
Are you done? Honey don't be long No, not too long Until you're really done
Well girl you got some moves on you Honey, you got skills But you take so long to get it on Your make-up and all the frills So I'm waiting here Got my wheels in gear
Are you done? Honey don't be long No, not too long Until you're really done
Copyright (C) 2015 A A J Russe. All Rights Reserved.
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Post by: Flash Harry on March 23, 2015, 04:19:30 PM
:)
Awesome blusey rock n roll. Those licks sound fantastic. Lucy clearly doing what she does and taking her time about it.
Fabulous fab-u-lus!
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Post by: Farrell Jackson on March 23, 2015, 04:41:23 PM
WOW Andy you have really channel the ZZ Top sound...especially Gibbons and Hill! The Lucy LP combined with the THR10C amp and of course your playing sounds fantastic. I like this kind of rockin' blues stuff...nice work!
Farrell
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Post by: seriousfun on March 23, 2015, 04:51:13 PM
That is one hell of an impressive song. Quality guitar playing and vox here buddy - I listen in awe. Thanks so much for posting this.
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Post by: Groundy on March 24, 2015, 12:23:08 AM
Cant get this to play Andy, probably my laptop, will try later....Alex
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Post by: Geir on March 24, 2015, 03:01:20 AM
Downloaded even before I started listening. Not a waste of bandwidth.
This has been on repeat for 15 minutes now !!
STELLAR work Andy !!
Lucy rules !!!
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Post by: Oldrottenhead on March 24, 2015, 04:23:58 AM
i thought i commented on this last night, too much shiraz perhaps. balls to the walls belter. braw tell yer maw.
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Post by: fenderbender on March 24, 2015, 07:02:41 AM
Great recording Andy really struttingin' your stuff here - great vocals and guitar work
Tommy
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Post by: chapperz66 on March 24, 2015, 10:52:19 AM
You certainly are on a roll! This is really very good. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Paul
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Post by: bruno on March 24, 2015, 12:13:02 PM
This rocks like a muther - great sounds, great tune Andy. Love it. B
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Post by: Blooby on March 24, 2015, 12:32:51 PM
This is bloody fantastic. Has your voice recovered? Should I send flowers?
Blooby
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Post by: Blooby on March 24, 2015, 12:34:14 PM
Listening again and just blown away. great production and the last part of that slide solo is killer.
Blooby
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Post by: Redler on March 26, 2015, 02:17:16 AM
Wow! Top class guitar playing and your voice is just perfect on this kind of Rockn' roll! Brilliant!
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Post by: Jarle on March 26, 2015, 11:27:10 AM
This is really good. I love the solo.
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Post by: Tangled Wires on March 27, 2015, 07:59:54 AM
Yet another belter and whilst I love everything here, I have to single out the vocal which is just beyond good and loving that rasp and attitude in the delivery...did you smoke a load of fags before recording this??? ???
Picked up one them wonderful harmonies on the second listen, and I do like the occasional placing of the "ooo's" and "ahh's", they give a the song a wonderful lift whether backing the lead vocal or lead guitar.
Bounces along beautifully, and the new guitar sounds very happy in your capable hands!
Nice one!
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Post by: Flash Harry on March 27, 2015, 03:26:52 PM
This makes me want to buy a LP. I have never wanted an LP. Ever. Not even Slash made me want to have a Les Paul.
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Post by: AndyR on March 28, 2015, 10:04:58 AM
Cheers folks :)
Panic not about the throat - this sort of stuff comes real easy to me, especially as I've got older, and it's not sung that loud really. I did guides for the Billy part (low, slightly left) then sang the Dusty part (high, slightly right). The Dusty part took just enough out of the throat to add "more authenticity" to the Billy part when I redid it.
I've been impersonating these guys in private for years - I just don't tend to record it very often!
I love how the Gibbons and Hill vocals interact, especially on their earlier stuff. I can do both voices, but I always thought it would be really difficult to recreate the interaction, being just one guy on his own - but it was surprisingly easy, in fact it probably helped in the writing of the lyrics. I just thought "duet" - Billy starts with a few choice statements then Dusty kicks in belting out something that adds to the picture, then they meet up towards the end of a verse.
I was going all out for ZZ Top, I could probably have made it sound even closer, most of their earlier recordings have strats and teles all over them, as well as Pearly Gates the Les Paul, to create different textures (eg. the famous La Grange riff is actually a strat - I have a strat that makes that very sound). If I'd used different guitars for different parts it probably would have sounded less "thick" and possibly even better... but I was digging Lucy the Les Paul too much :D
Flash Harry - yeah, Slash would never have got me wanting a Les Paul!
I originally wanted one because of Jimmy Page - but the studio sounds I was associating with that fantastic look were made with a telecaster! Then it was Paul Kossoff and Billy Gibbons... and Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson of Thin Lizzy. I've owned various copies over the years, but this is the first real one I've owned. It actually feels more strat-like in sound when you're playing it, but it has that Les Paul "chunk" that lovers of Les Pauls seem to like so much.
Mine's loaded with quite low-power pickups now, and the amp model I was using hasn't got a load of gain. These are quite "sweet" sounding pickups, but I found setting the amp for quite "hairy" and then using pick attack to vary the vibes gets from mellow to snarly in the same performance (it's actually exactly the same settings as I used on Dancing Girl, I just hit the guitar differently).
It does kinda have that "hey THAT'S what a Les Paul sounds like" vibe, doesn't it? And playing it, I don't really feel like I can go wrong once I'm on the right fret! :D
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Post by: Gnasty on April 07, 2015, 06:39:30 PM
Almost missed this! Love this song! Very full recording. The Les Paul sure has fatness and well the vocals are just top notch professional! You are sure multi-talented Andy. I always love and enjoy your tunes.
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Post by: Groundy on April 08, 2015, 12:29:21 AM
Ok this time, must need a new Laptop.... Well worth the wait Andy, This is Tremendous....... Take a Bow..........
Alex
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Post by: Bluesberry on March 23, 2021, 08:14:36 PM
OnThisDay Bump....This is what I like right here...fantastic bit of Texas roadhouse blues swagger ..... Fantastic
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Post by: hardlock on March 24, 2021, 12:42:35 AM
ZZ's in the house - wishin' this was their song! - man that's tight! Too cool! 8)