This is a novel based on facts, falacies, lies, truth, movies etc.... and to serious people everywhere apologies!!! I suppose that spending more than 12 years of my life in a sewer tube (submarines) it is bound to do something to you (or perhaps that something is what made you go on one in the first place), to your brain....and this is proof....my gosh I was laughing my head off trying to sing this....so ridiculous....
but I love the way my new Schecter bass sounds through the ME-25 guitar processor! I did the base track on the Boss and the vocals on the Zoom then I moved them to the Boss and mixed....mastered on LANDR
DISCLAIMER!!! no animals were hurt in the making of this song.... the story is fiction...pure fiction...
cool storytelling and great rock and roll vibe.....sorta Bob Dylan style lyrics.....on some kind of mind altering substance.....rock on man...and yes that bass sounds relly great
Lotta fun here, Steve. I agree though - King Richard probably was a dick LOL - also applies to most of the so-called royal family that descended from him.
Cool sounding bass BTW!
This one gave me a good laugh. Nothing like some good potty mouth humour once and a while. Got a nice catchiness to it too, sorta like what Ween would do. That Schecter sounds very good as you said. Gotta love some good overdriven bass once and while as well (or maybe all the time :))
Great fun Steve, I don't know where you get your ideas from. I love the rocky guitars, they sound fantastic and that bass really growls. Great rocky drum playing as well. And hysterical lyrics as well, I'm glad you added the historical disclaimer ;) :D
It reminded me of the peasant and King Arthur scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail - you don't vote for kings!
Well it made me smile :-)
And I'm pretty sure Richard the First (Lionheart / Couer de Lion) was a massive dick. Like every other born-to-rule dick.
I have no idea where your inspiration came from (History Channel?!), but it came out very quirky, edgy and entertaining. It has a good live garage band (when bands actually performed in garages, not the Apple version) feel, and rocks along very nicely under the theatrical vocal.
Nice one!!!
A toe tapper right from the start! Catchy stuff, indeed! Where's the drums from? Well played and they sound real ones!
Quote from: Redler on February 16, 2021, 03:58:21 AMA toe tapper right from the start! Catchy stuff, indeed! Where's the drums from? Well played and they sound real ones!
They are the Alesis Nitro electronic kit... i literally practiced the pattern I played to a metronome before playing it with the metronome...and recorded it... then I used that as a guide for tempo and recorded the guitars ( I already had roughed out the guitars but the tempo was so all over I had to do it another way).... after adding bass and finishing the Rhythm guitars I came back and played the drums... recording those and then removed the guide drums... I've always loved banging on things and this was the next step for me...and maybe down the road I will get an acoustic set....although I doubt it...too many mics needed etc... I might expand this one though...For now I am still getting smoked so....
Hey, careful!! My middle name is Richard! ;)
Fun listen. BTW I heard you sneak the PR... version in there too, towards the end.
:) John B
A rocker , im afraid as Greeny most of that line have been complete Dicks as are the occupants of the house of Lords.
The weird thing is we all know it but still let them run the place.
Instruments sound great.
Bravo.
AhAHah ;D
The lyrics and the translation helped me a lot to appreciate this surprising apology :D from Richard I
Brillantissime
in a first listening, without understanding the lyrics, the music and the recording are excellent.
Yeah, so brought a big smile to my face. It's just great to hear something whacky and "out there"... kind of like the spirit of Frank Zappa, just off the wall. It takes a bit of courage to just go for it on something completely different like this. I like the voices coming in from all angles especially near the end. Great stuff Stephen.
Mike
This is really fun. The divine right of Dicks was due for a song.
Believe it or not, with my daughter right yesterday were talking who is who in the robin hood film (our only historic knowledge is from disney lol) if the dick was richard or his brother john ... now I learn they were both ... never too late for the truth? Welcome to history channel lol
Just what I needed today a good laugh and as humous as it was the music is great
Tim
Hilarious fist pumper!
Loving that dirty start and yes Richard was more than likely a Dick
great track made me laugh out loud . and what a great chorus ........brill ......cheers tony cee
The opening guitars are cool! Nice bass work. Ace drums. Then come your lyrics, which didn't stay serious for long.
Funny and delivered in true theatrical form, it brings a smile even to this peasant from the Colonies, who is short on knowledge of the British royalty lineage. Another good example of how versatile music can be...nothing is off limits!
Brilliant stuff and yes they are all "Knobs" as we call them in Liverpool , they come from a long line of Knobs !!!! great to hear you thinking outside the box on this composition , here is the thing , how many copies would you sell if you could put it out there !! millions !! number one hit across the world !! as always you put 100% into your work which is just cool , love the sound and the mix , super guitar and vocals , great stuff
Dunny
Brilliant rocker, great fun lyrics. Love those guitars and great vocals too. Haha! What a dick that Richard was :) darren
Quote from: DarrenG on April 27, 2021, 05:12:05 AMBrilliant rocker, great fun lyrics. Love those guitars and great vocals too. Haha! What a dick that Richard was :) darren
kind of an opposite of "I am the Lion"...
Hell yeah, this is something I would do if I had the "balls" lol. Impressive recording and witty performance, love getting to hear the actual bass tone at the end as well.
It's a shame I didn't even have to pay to hear something like this, the world has gone all wrong!!
I think Richard might still be a dick!
Quote from: Zoltan on July 26, 2023, 05:53:35 AMI think Richard might still be a dick!
I played this a few times at open mic and I actually got a request for it the next night...lol... but I think I am going to play this some more... I sometimes have to "alter" these for live to make it easy for me to do it with just a guitar etc... but it can work...