Post Your Work => Original Songs => Topic started by: Johnny Robbo on July 21, 2016, 01:54:12 PM
Title: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Johnny Robbo on July 21, 2016, 01:54:12 PM
I've really hit a dry patch at the moment as far as melodies go. I can come up with the backer... the chord sequence, bass line & drum part no problem. But the tune which sits on top of it all just won't come at the moment. Everything I do always sounds a bit like I'm painting by numbers...
Which is why I'm so grateful for this site - there's always someone to collaborate with. Ideas that would have ended up being junked as "unfinishable" now end up as songs I'm proud to have had a hand in. This is very much the case with this one.
I sent Kenny a backer I'd been struggling with for ages. It's working title was "Prog Ballad". For the life of me I just could NOT come up with a melody that excited me. Kenny's input saved it and transformed it into a belter of a song! This is as good a vocal performance as I think I've ever heard! He writes a mean lyric too!
All the usual suspects... you know them all by now:
Tele, Harley Benton (solos), Cakewalk, eBay bass, Tonelab etc.
Thanks for listening :)
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Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: thetworegs on July 21, 2016, 02:44:24 PM
That's a beauty of a vocal Kenny ....not too shabby on that lead either John ...excellent lyrics too Kenny certainly bought the backer to life...your both a class act ...an excellent collab !!
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Kenneth on July 21, 2016, 05:07:08 PM
Wow! There is some great songs coming from this site lately, and this is a freakin' beaut!
What a shame that would have been to have shelved that amazing music John, ... you put it in the right hands. What a masterpiece of a backer.
Kenny that was a work of vocal/ lyrical brilliance. Wow!
You two are pros. Keep 'em coming.
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Redler on July 21, 2016, 10:58:05 PM
Brilliant!! I can hear a blast from the seventies! Really good composing and arranging! I admire your skills on drum programming, too (besides guitar playing).
Well played and sung. The outro is just amazing!
Fantastic job, Kenny and Johnny!
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Groundy on July 22, 2016, 12:45:27 AM
Brilliant Guys, Just brilliant, So glad this came off the shelf, Top class guitar work and a voice to die for.... Take a bow boys........
Alex
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Blooby on July 22, 2016, 05:24:36 AM
Really well pull together with great sounds. Is there a little flange on the bass as well? It sounds a little tweaked. The singing is so spot on (some wow moments), and then that amazing guitar comes in. I particularly enjoyed the Moore mega-trills and that outro arpeggio. I think my fingers would fall off.
Great post to start my day.
Blooby
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Johnny Robbo on July 22, 2016, 05:47:34 AM
Well spotted, mate! I was going for a bit of a Pino Palladino/Mo Foster type of feel (hard when you don't have a fretless bass).
Thanks for all the comments, chaps!
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Hook on July 22, 2016, 06:45:59 AM
Dudes this is feckin awesome! Rocktaliciously spectacumazing! That vocal is so perfect for the track and really impressive. Johnny, throw nothing away...spectacular track my brother and those leads just freak my brain out. I totally dig. Rock on!
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: kenny mac on July 22, 2016, 07:03:30 AM
Thanks for all the comments guys,Johnny asked me about this and I was actually in a bad way emotionally that day as an old friend had passed away. I guess my emotions poured into the song and although the subject matters not about that ,the chorus is about looking back and reflection. I needed this song that day so although you didn't know about any of this,thanks Johnny. Johnnys playing on this is stunning,the lead in the middle Is excellent.
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: fenderbender on July 22, 2016, 10:00:26 AM
Quote from: Hook on July 22, 2016, 06:45:59 AMDudes this is feckin awesome! Rocktaliciously spectacumazing! That vocal is so perfect for the track and really impressive. Johnny, throw nothing away...spectacular track my brother and those leads just freak my brain out. I totally dig. Rock on!
I agree word for word with MR Hook-- You guys are good-no blxxxdy great
Tommy
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: bruno on July 23, 2016, 05:23:50 AM
Spectacular gents. That is a BIG song, great solo's. Reminds me very much of Enuff'z'nuff - a band who are awesome songwriters. Best one so far from Robbomac and an instance SC classic. B
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Blooby on July 23, 2016, 05:07:48 PM
Back again.
I put this in my Songcrafters folder, and it popped up earlier today. Fantastic post.
Blooby
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: kenny mac on July 23, 2016, 06:18:02 PM
It's a cool dark night I can see the moonlight Stretch along the room Another lonely night now that your out of sight But not out of mind I scan the place For another trace Of the love we we had mmm There's a mirror there By an old armchair looking out to me And what do I see? Chorus That man in the mirrors a stranger yeh He sneers at me ,,yeh That cracked and worn reflection That face can write a book. It shows the years the journey the short cuts that I took I'm not holding back I'm not giving up I just want to learn what went wrong ------------------___
In the blink of an eye And the screams like a sword Cutting away With the spoken word I can still feel the air As you said what you could Yeh you aimed them at me Like a spurned lover should
Chorus That man in the mirrors a stranger yeh He sneers at me ,,yeh That cracked and worn reflection That face can write a book. It shows the years the journey the short cuts that I took I'm not holding back I'm not giving up I just want to learn what went wrong? What went wrong? -----------------------
Cold emotion Fills the space The ghosts in my mind fill this space I pour a drink and I recall The chain of events That shattered it all
Chorus That man in the mirrors a stranger to me He's laughing at me That cracked and worn reflection That face can write a book. It shows the years the journey the short cuts that I took I'm not holding back I'm not giving up I just want to learn what went wrong
Title: Re: Reflections - a Robbomac original
Post by: Black Mary on July 24, 2016, 02:40:28 PM
Hi Johnny & Kenny. This is a beauty !! As good a rock ballad as you can get. Pure quality songwriting. Awesome lead guitar Johnny. & is there nothing you can't do Kenny? Brilliant melody & lyrics. Perfect ;D Cheers BM