ZOLTAN DID A REMIX OF THIS. I LOVE IT...
THIS IS A SECOND MIX ZOLTAN DID, SHORTENED IT A BIT AND DIFFERENT VOICE EFFECTS... CRAZY
you might say I got "inspired" this morning listening to this stuff while on the elliptical... so I decided to mic up my "new" acoustic drum kit that I bought for a hundred dollars. It is a crappy set, but the snare (s) actually sound pretty good... This was 3 mics... one on the kick, one on snare and one for the 3 toms. I am getting a set of Behringer drum mics that will be here this week. I have no high hat or cymbals yet so none here.
Otherwise just total crazy insane cover. With a crazy wah lead buzzing through too much of the song. This is likely regression in recording. I had to mix it on the Zoom old school way. When I moved the tracks to the DAW they were all out of synch. that hasn't happened to me since I updated to this computer. Weird... probably would have only made things worse so I will take this and I did laugh a whole bunch doing this...
Harley Benton PRS copy on the 3 guitar tracks using the ME-25 boss effects. Shecter bass DI into board.LANDR-Better Be Good To Me-Balanced-Medium.mp3Be Good To Me (Stephen, LQ).mp3Be Good To Me (Stephen, VIETNAM RADIO, LQ).mp3
You had a lot of fun doing this. I like the crazy woo hoo vocals and the drumming is good. It sounds decent on this recording. Yes it will benefit from a high hat and a cymbal or two but hey, it did the job here. Some very cool ad libbing 8) yeah man that was a whole lotta fun. My good lady made some mushroom soup about a month ago... no not those mushrooms... and it was damn tasty, highly recommended. :)
Mike
I'm not sure if I heard the original before I looked it up just now. It's a pretty straight-forward rock song, but Tina stopped short. You went full Velvet Underground with this.
And regarding the absence of symbols: There's an unpopular school of thought that says rock music is better without cymbals; they are in a frequency range that clashes with guitars and vocals – Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, and yes, Velvet Underground. Good company. Keep that in mind, before you start washing away your guitars with psssss-psssss-psssss-psssss... tick-tick-tick-tick... crash!
Yes it's the Velvet UG among other things i'm hearing here. So i sent Stephen some fanmail.
Fantastic piece of delirium!
Zoltan offered to do a remix of this.... I was happy to let him. I really like the idea of having some other folks produce my songs. I kind of like to see what someone else would do... I think he enhanced the best parts of the tracks. The drums sound way bigger. I like the way he redid the vocals. The guitars are better too...
I would say if I had this over I would make it around 3:30. Truthfully I kind of kept it the same length of the original track that I covered.... but Tina is less boring say after about 3:30...
Thanks Zoltan!
There's some seriously soulful singing and groovy playing in this one. I was kinda tempted to shorten it, but there were so many highlights that it would have been shame to do so.
The pleasure was all mine!
I can no longer compare the original mix to the Zoltan mix, but I think it sounds much crisper. Not sure what alchemy he did, but, well done!
Digression: In the early '80s, when I lived in Phoenix, I had a musician friend, Dan, who worked in a record store, and was really into the Velvet Underground. But he had this kind of cherubic nerdy appearance and personality. It was hard to take him seriously as cool New York type.
Dan somehow learned that Mo Tucker, drummer for the Velvets, was semi-retired and living in the Phoenix area. He looked her up in the freakin' phone book, and called her. And she answered the phone. He was so delighted, he couldn't contain himself. He proposed getting together and playing music. And she agreed!
So they got together, and jammed a bit. He immediately started dreaming of putting together a band. Everything was coming together like a dream coming true.
He couldn't keep his mouth shut. He told me. He went to the record store and told his co-workers, including Jesse. Jesse was cool – asshole cool, not likeable cool. Jesse looked like he could have been in the Ramones, and definitely had that detached New Yorker thing going – or the west-Phoenix imitation of the detached New York thing.
Jesse also had access to a phone book. He did an end run around nerdy Dan, and ended up forming a band with Mo Tucker without Dan. The band was called Paris 1942 (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1216879-Paris-1942).
Dan was pretty bummed. Had a big case of "That should've been me."
Quote from: StephenM on November 14, 2022, 02:10:43 PMZOLTAN DID A REMIX OF THIS. I LOVE IT...
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Hi Stephen,
This is truly having fun!!!
And I can feel your inspiration and spirit of pure musical freedom!!!
I am digging the guitar solo in the background, to include the vocal harmonies.
Love the "fun Stephen" version.
Thanks for sharing this inspired version!!!
With love and respect,
Rene
Quote from: Ted on November 15, 2022, 11:51:30 AMDigression: In the early '80s, when I lived in Phoenix, I had a musician friend, Dan, who worked in a record store, and was really into the Velvet Underground. But he had this kind of cherubic nerdy appearance and personality. It was hard to take him seriously as cool New York type.
Dan somehow learned that Mo Tucker, drummer for the Velvets, was semi-retired and living in the Phoenix area. He looked her up in the freakin't phone book, and called her. And she answered the phone. He was so delighted, he couldn't contain himself. He proposed getting together and playing music. And she agreed!
So they got together, and jammed a bit. He immediately started dreaming of putting together a band. Everything was coming together like a dream coming true.
He couldn't keep his mouth shut. He told me. He went to the record store and told his co-workers, including Jesse. Jesse was cool – asshole cool, not likeable cool. Jesse looked like he could have been in the Ramones, and definitely had that detached New Yorker thing going – or the west-Phoenix imitation of the detached New York thing.
Jesse also had access to a phone book. He did an end run around nerdy Dan, and ended up forming a band with Mo Tucker without Dan. The band was called Paris 1942 (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1216879-Paris-1942).
Dan was pretty bummed. Had a big case of "That should've been me."
crazy cool story and yes,,, some are cut throat. I love the idea of having a band... but it would have to be people I can work with... I am pretty easy to work with...but I don't like aholes much...
You really know how to put your own twist on a song. Great cover of this Tina Turner hit.
:) John B
Great mix job and great vocals on this one I did not miss the high-end class sound and I think this song is fine without the high-end dinging distraction
Rock goodness
Tim
This is the first mix Zoltan did. I like it.
but, to me it's too long so I like the one better Zoltan did above and I placed at the top...
I like that he called it the Vietnam pirate version... Be Good To Me (Stephen, LQ) (1).mp3
Listening to this I really like this rough, grungy, garage rock type music. I want to do some more covers. I want to cover "1959" by Patti Smith.
This would be the type band I want to be in.... bangin drums, bass and a guitar...and crazy singing... just rocking out.
hey... fantasy can become reality....
Seriously........damn this is lovely bonkers in a huge and fun way......I don't know what to say.....my face is all distorted into a huge smile......fan....tas.....tic....... I'll give this a Ted-esque bump for the sheer joy that is oozing out of this damn track........great unhinged yet awesome vocals.....you da man!!!!!!!!!!!! And a bump for the mushroom soup
Not familiar with this song, but this sounds awesome. Great singing! Great playing all around and great mix. The cheap drums (that is not your newest set?) sound fine! I posted a Beatles song on here many years ago and people commented that I sounded like Lou Reed. At the time I hadn't actually been very familiar with Lou Reed except for maybe one or two hits. So since then I have listened to some Lou Reed and velvet underground. I still have on my to do list to mix your drums on my song. Just been insanely busy at work.
Quote from: des0free on January 29, 2023, 10:50:29 AMNot familiar with this song, but this sounds awesome. Great singing! Great playing all around and great mix. The cheap drums (that is not your newest set?) sound fine! I posted a Beatles song on here many years ago and people commented that I sounded like Lou Reed. At the time I hadn't actually been very familiar with Lou Reed except for maybe one or two hits. So since then I have listened to some Lou Reed and velvet underground. I still have on my to do list to mix your drums on my song. Just been insanely busy at work.
Dave,
thanks very much for the good words on this... I need to do this one live with the other guys.
Doug,
I was experimenting with acoustic drums to see if in fact it was a place I wanted to go. So I found this kind of a toy set on craigslist some guy was trying to unload so i got these... I had so much fun but soon realized I was holding myself back with this garbage too much... I ended up donating these hoping some young person would get these for Christmas cheap and then I bought the Tama set (which is great but actually considered "entry level" drums at about $900.)
I haven't regretted this decision and I have to credit Zoltan for kind of nudging me along in his ever so persuasive way he has....
this site has made a huge difference in so many peoples lives and especially mine... I am no longer ashamed of my music in any way... I owe that to this site and all the great folks on here.
Quote from: StephenM on January 29, 2023, 10:56:56 AMthis site has made a huge difference in so many peoples lives and especially mine... I am no longer ashamed of my music in any way... I owe that to this site and all the great folks on here.
That's heartwarming to hear.........I know what you mean........I had a horrible time with my singing voice......but kept at it because of this great site and the encouragement.........your music is authentic, creative and original as all heck........and joyous........what's not to like .......not too many folks can get to where you are getting .....it's pure soul music
Joy. You don't get it every day and sometimes a while goes by before that elusive feeling shows up. But I certainly got it here!
Whooo hooo yeah!
Definitely goes in a different direction from the original. Yeah, I hear VUG, or maybe Talking Heads.
Really good take on the song.
I love it..its a great song. you reach some really high notes on this haha...great playing and some really good mixing from zoltan.
A cool remix by Zoltan. Absolutely, you have channeled the ghosts of Velvet Underground, nice! As far as the missing cymbals go, that's fine with me. I can take them or better yet leave them. Mainly because I stood next to a huge crash cymbal for 35 years on stage with my gigging band and my left ear suffers to this day. A good song here Stephen.
Quote from: Farrell Jackson on February 05, 2023, 06:48:50 PMA cool remix by Zoltan. Absolutely, you have channeled the ghosts of Velvet Underground, nice! As far as the missing cymbals go, that's fine with me. I can take them or better yet leave them. Mainly because I stood next to a huge crash cymbal for 35 years on stage with my gigging band and my left ear suffers to this day. A good song here Stephen.
drummers are a necessary evil! lol... I am not laughing at your hearing loss but i can sympathize a bit.. drums are loud, even when a drummer is trying not to be!
Invent a time machine. Take Stephen back in time = Instant celebrity status, groupies and lots of money.
I can easily see the banners for the Isle of Might:
Moving Sidewalks
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
All supporting the headliner: Stephen & The Electric Eels.
Special guest star: Des0Free & his Marvellous Sunshine Band