About a Girl (Nirvana cover by des0free)

[StephenM]

Doug, you did a real number on me here...
gol dang it man...

but I started listening down through the latest juke box at JP's David Gilmour cover and got to hear... all the music on this site just is so great... and now it is right here... man if this were a talent show or open mic and all this stuff was flying all the lovers in the booth's making out would have to take a break from groping each other to see "Who the hell is playing that?"

It is a great job on this... as great as the music is the vocals do me in... but you did both and this version requires just that... I think what this really is you bareing you music soul to the world here... you took all that talent, some probably hidden away, and just geeked the hell out of this and showed the world that people with big brains can ROCK TOO!

I shall call you Professor Rock!

[des0free]

Doug, you did a real number on me here...
gol dang it man...

but I started listening down through the latest juke box at JP's David Gilmour cover and got to hear... all the music on this site just is so great... and now it is right here... man if this were a talent show or open mic and all this stuff was flying all the lovers in the booth's making out would have to take a break from groping each other to see "Who the hell is playing that?"

It is a great job on this... as great as the music is the vocals do me in... but you did both and this version requires just that... I think what this really is you bareing you music soul to the world here... you took all that talent, some probably hidden away, and just geeked the hell out of this and showed the world that people with big brains can ROCK TOO!

I shall call you Professor Rock!

I'm glad I was able to transport you into the shoes of an angst-filled teenager circa 1990 who hears the song for the first time and Nirvana becomes his guiding light in life 

Here's another talent show scenario: it's a staid, conservative office social talent show, where one guy gets up and plays a bit of a Bach sonata on the piano and then a lady plays a bit of a Mozart flute concerto. You step up, pull out an electric guitar and begin softly strumming the opening chords, "here's a little tune kicked off the grunge movement". The boss glances at the person next to him and says "grunge?" You kick a distortion pedal and the volume quadruples. The curtain drops to reveal two wild, long haired, tattooed band mates on drums and bass. The walls and floor are thumping and the jaws of your staid colleagues drop as they had no idea about your secret "rock god" prowess.

[StephenM]

I love it Doug, that would be a jaw dropper... when I was in HS I was in a musical called "Bye, Bye Birdie."  I actually got the lead role, at least the role of the "star" named Conrad Birdie.  It was a big production.  I tried out on a whim.  Some other friends asked me to come and try.  I just laughed... I didn't know anything about stage or acting.    All I did during tryouts was be myself... lol.. they were all freaking I got that part...well.  here is the best part.  there was a lot of singing involved also.
We did all the rehearsals... the band, the show, the actors... all the stage props... this was a major local undertaking involving scores of people and attended to 2 packed houses on Friday and Saturday night.  There was a scene where I had to (the rebel rock and roll guy) interact with a wealthy lady in fur coats etc... I ad libed opening a can of (fake ) beer on her that was all shook up.  It sprayed her and all over the place.  the audience roared in laughter... apparently the director didn't think much of it and if he could of he would have whipped my ass in the back room (he couldn't because he would get fired..)...
I just never understood why he didn't like it... the audience loved it... that was enough for me..
I still don't...but that is why I don't always get along with authority...lol 

[Blooby]

I know this is heretical, but I never listened to Nirvana other than what I was exposed to in passing. I was more the Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains guy, but this was a good reminder that I need to delve into their albums.

Love the guitar tone and your vocal delivery especially.

Great post.

Blooby

[StephenM]

I know this is heretical, but I never listened to Nirvana other than what I was exposed to in passing. I was more the Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains guy, but this was a good reminder that I need to delve into their albums.

Love the guitar tone and your vocal delivery especially.

Great post.

Blooby

if this is confession Blooby then I admit I never listened to any of the names you mentioned except the songs of theirs that I happened to hear on the radio, which were few and far between.  I do admit though that the songs of Nirvana I heard such as Come as You are or whatever it was called rocked the heck out of me.  I heard it a few months ago and was blown away how good it is.  The other bands were good too... I was still wrapped in the 70's and 80's things...
I likely need to hear a bit more..grunge is cool..
i need to cover one sometime..

[des0free]

I know this is heretical, but I never listened to Nirvana other than what I was exposed to in passing. I was more the Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains guy, but this was a good reminder that I need to delve into their albums.

Love the guitar tone and your vocal delivery especially.

Great post.

Blooby

Thanks.  I never really got into Nirvana's studio albums either, and much of it is to "hard" for my taste, though I never gave it enough of a chance, but I did buy and really loved their live unplugged album. I highly recommend that.

[des0free]

I know this is heretical, but I never listened to Nirvana other than what I was exposed to in passing. I was more the Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains guy, but this was a good reminder that I need to delve into their albums.

Love the guitar tone and your vocal delivery especially.

Great post.

Blooby

if this is confession Blooby then I admit I never listened to any of the names you mentioned except the songs of theirs that I happened to hear on the radio, which were few and far between.  I do admit though that the songs of Nirvana I heard such as Come as You are or whatever it was called rocked the heck out of me.  I heard it a few months ago and was blown away how good it is.  The other bands were good too... I was still wrapped in the 70's and 80's things...
I likely need to hear a bit more..grunge is cool..
i need to cover one sometime..

I never really got into Nirvana's studio albums, and much of it is to "hard" for my taste, though I never gave it enough of a chance, but I did buy and really loved their live unplugged album. I highly recommend that.

I do think you could do "About a girl" solo at an open mic

[Jean Pierre]

I hadn't listened to it yet...I really like the mix and the sound of the guitar...for the voice you use the CLA Vocal AND the CLA Drive in series?

[des0free]

I hadn't listened to it yet...I really like the mix and the sound of the guitar...for the voice you use the CLA Vocal AND the CLA Drive in series?

Hi JP - In Reaper On the main vocal track I put CLA vocals and CLA effects plugins in series (turning on only the "drive" effect, slider at default position), but then I used the "wet/dry" knob in the upper right corner of the reaper plugin window to turn down the effect to only "15% wet", which means that only 15% of the sound gets the effect and 85% doesn't.  So that is actually equivalent to having a second track in parallel with the full effect, I think.  Then, on the doubled vocal track, which I have much quieter in volume, I used 100% of the drive effect (and turned up the effect slider in the CLA plugin), and also applied the "eq - top" effect on that.
 

[Jean Pierre]

thank you  Doug, very interetsing I never think to chain the two CLA vocal and effect, I'll try

Have a good end of year