Three Days of the Condor

[launched]

I like the bass line, too - great songwriting skills. The arrangement was pretty sweet overall.

Thanks for sharing,

Mark

[Ted]

I listened to this again tonight and I get the story of the lyrics now.  So sorry for going off on the wrong track first time round and thanks for this, I still like it third time round.

Not a problem.  I don't actually expect people to pay attention to lyrics, so it's a treat when somebody does--even if I did bait you to do it.

I shared this song recently with a songwriting circle that I attend.  When I was done, the first question was, "What does 'conumbo' mean?"  At least he was trying to listen.

"S'cuse me while I kiss this guy." 

I'll probably rent Three Days of the Condor soon.  I have another song called The Missiles of October that I finished about five years ago, and I just got around to seeing that movie last month.

[Wiley]

I agree with everyone else the bass line is awesome Great job overall.

[64Guitars]

"S'cuse me while I kiss this guy." 

Misheard lyrics can be very funny. My favourite lyric that I personally misheard for a long while is in the second verse of Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World". I always heard it as...

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dogs say "goodnight"
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I knew it made no sense but I couldn't imagine what else he could be singing. Then one day it finally clicked - "The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night"!  Doh! 

[Ferryman_1957]

Great song, nice to hear a very different style of music. I think the piano solos work well - playing a sparse but effective part on a different instrument can work, and you showed it here. Great bass playing btw, really good style and nicely recorded. How did you record the bass? Did you use one of the MBR patches, external effect or amp?

BTW, material from 15 years ago sounds new to me. I am still recording stuff I wrote 30 years ago!

Cheers,

Nigel

[SE]

Great tune well put together love the vocal,bass and piano

[Bluesberry]

I can't believe I missed this one.  This is incredible.  I really like it.  All I can say is BRAVO for writing , performing, recording such a great song.

[Ted]

How did you record the bass? Did you use one of the MBR patches, external effect or amp?

I have two basses, and the one I used for this song sounds great plugged directly into the guitar input using the "Bass Cln" patch. (It's a Michael Kelly Club Custom 5 String Fretless, BTW.)  

My other bass (an Ibanez p-bass) doesn't sound good in the MBR unless I do a lot of pre-processing before the signal reaches the input.

Thanks for the compliments.

[Satchwood]

Cool tune and original sound - I really like the slow vocal spot near the end - and of course I really dig the bass line and awesome piano! 

Oh come-on boy you can do it, look on his face!

To act like a father, to put on a charade...

The challenge of my life is to undo all these knots.......cool lyrics!

[Greeny]

This is very different, but VERY good. I like the song structure a lot, and the piano sounds great - a very nice addition. You've produced and performed this really well. Nice one!