no place

[phantasm777]

this is a song written, composed, arranged, mixed, sang, guitars, etc. by chris vaisvil. i do the bass and the drums. i dont really know much about it except it's a good song!

no place - words and music by chris vaisvil

bass and drums by frank miller

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No Place by chris vaisvil

I'm lost, you're lost
Ships at sea
There is no place
We can be

I'm lost, you're lost
In this world
There is no place
For boy or for girl

They got me in shackles
They got me in irons
They got me tied to the bed
They got the very best of me!
And they'll bleed me to the end

I'm lost, you're lost
Ships at sea
There is no place
We can be

I'm lost, you're lost
In this world
There is no place
For boy or for girl

There is no place
For boy or for girl

There is no place
For boy or for girl

There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!
There is no place!

[lg]

This sounds like a good rocker....
I really can't judge too well on these crappy 'puter speaks...
But it sounds like one that I'm gonna like alot.

LG

[henwrench]

Very interesting and ever so slightly mad. Which is good. Always. Because it makes the music come alive and breathe like an organ made of skin.

                                                           henwrench

[Ferryman_1957]

Wow, this is heavy in all senses of the word. Heavy sound, heavy lyrics and a heavy arrangement. As Henwrench says, really interesting and definitely very different. Really innovative songwriting to team those lyrics with that complex verse. And a very strong vocal performance (pretty good drumming as well!). I love the ending section "there is no place" followed by the riff again.

Cheers,

Nigel
 

[phantasm777]

thanks everyone, on behalf of chris and myself. chris wrote this like in 97 or so on 4 tracks. he wanted to revive it and gave it to me, and thankfully, he was pleased at what i added. but still, all in all, it's chris's songs and any compliments about the song lie squarely upon his shoulders! i'm sure he won't mind!

[Rata-tat-tat]

Hey Phantasm... just curious... I thought you were using an MBR on your drum kit. I noticed you were able to pan the toms... sounds great bro. Just kinda curious how you were able to achieve this panning.

[phantasm777]

i use a behringer mixer to record my drums, it has 8 mic inputs. one mic is between the 8 and 10 inch, another between the 13 - 14, and another between the 14 - 15. cant pan them cause its all on one track instead of 8 tracks. so at this point with what i have, i cannot pan nor adjust vol. sperately per each drum, only overall. wish i could so any drum or cymbal that didnt turn out loud enough i could boost without boosting everything else.

[phantasm777]

i should further add ... the mic with the 8 and 10 in toms is panned to the left on my behringer mixing board, my mid toms 12 and 13 are center panned, and toms 14 and 15 are panned to the right.

so when you hear me do a tom fill across all those drums you hear it as i do from the left to the right. same set up for my left, center and right cymbals. snare and hi-hat have one mic, and bass drum.
my newer mixing board is a yamaha and it can take 10 mics, so i might use that some time soon to have a total of 10 mics for my drumset, rather than the 8 i use now.

[Rata-tat-tat]

I'm going through the same problem at the momment... However... I haven't been able to get the panning thing down as good as you have yet. It all seems to bleed out in my Overhead stereo mic's. I'm thinking of getting an audio interface and record drums directly to Computer DAW so I don't have to mess with transferring files. Just takes way tooo much time and I think I'm loosing some of the panning effect when I do file transfer (Haven't figured that one out yet). Thanks for the explanation. Hope your Yamaha works out for you. I'm currently using the Yamaha mw12cx mixer with the same kind of set up. 

[Vaisvil]

Hi Thanks for the positive comments - Frank really makes this piece what is is here. The lyrics are about childhood wishes are so fleeting and impossible to obtain for either me or the woman I was with at the time. The middle section is a reference to having to work for a living and how work drains every last bit out of you. I guess there is a bit of a debt to be Paid to Ian Andersen with the sentiment of his song "Just Trying to Be" from Living in the Past.