TPB the Producer, Mike S on lead guitar

[StephenM]

a number of months ago I asked for someone to act as producer for this song....here it is...TPB did a grand job thanks a ton....and the Mike S. lead that was added really made me smile so much...because I love Mike's guitar playing .....thanks Tim and Mike.  over the next while... I am going to be using this approach more... I want to see what others might make of my tracks....

I recorded these tracks quite raw...my usual crazy stuff... just like one guitar, a bass, drums and obviously several vocals

Drop your cocks and grab your socks boyz, it's time to go to war
ladies at your side, foxes in the foxholes, we're thinking it might be suicide,
boys turn to men, girls turn to men, get your guns let's go.  Raindown fire, rain down thunder, big brother in the sky
It's a good day to die.... it's a good day to die, don't you dare ask why.
Rain down fire, rain down thunder, big brother in the sky,
if this boom boom shit don't work we'll release nuclear winter
I got a tranny just beside me, hope it's got my back,  last night we went out and we got a little bit slack!
It's a good day to die,.... it's a good day to die, don't ya dare, dare ask why
now we're, we're at war, fire across the sky, we saw smoke clouds blowing soutward, this ain't no time, no time to sleep now.
we're at war, we're at war, it's a good day to die.....  ooooh oooooh....big boom boom boom boom across the sky
ooooh oooooh....big boom boom boom boom across the sky
we're all gone, we're all gone.... if this boom boom shit don't work we'll release nuclear winter
where have all the flowers gone?

[Kenneth]

Interesting effect in headphones with the 2 vocals, one on each side. You sound great singing in the higher register, you should do that more Steve!
Mike's lead sounds awesome. It switched to the middle at the end, intentionally I'm sure.
Good tune!

[Ferryman_1957]

Great rocker of a track, love the vocals and Mike's lead guitar work. Really punchy rhythm guitar with great sounds and nice drum work. The production worked well on this, it reminded me of a lot of late 60s/early 70s stuff where the vocals were often spread quite wide with instruments more down the middle.

[TPB]

Thanks Steve had fun doing this it is different working on others work. Some of the stuff done was to spread the vocals 30 apart a little room reverb.  Sharpened the drums by adding a little 12k  in the Eq and had Mikes guitar slightly panned except at end where I split it the not a stereo track to both channels
Had gum appreciate you letting me play with stems
Tin

[DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee]

Woah! Yes this is really cool. The additions from mike and TPB are excellent Steve. I loved the original you posted. This is really great now. And an excellent lead from mike. Love the lyrics and vocals.

[guitarron]

Like this punk vibe. Very iggy and stooges like

[Zoltan]

There's some good additions to this one, but i much prefer the earlier version. The earlier version was a bit all over, but it also had a hectic "this is war" -type of feel to it that worked with the lyrics.

[Ray Brookes]

Jeez, what a great rocker this one is! Excellent production skills and a stellar collab; well done guys.

[StephenM]

What Tim did with the drums thing...really brought out the ride cymbals and man I love that...ok I learned another trick for my tool box... I have started playing with eq more...I used to be afraid of it...but after reading through alot of posts on the site I started using it more...

[Mike_S]

This turned out very cool Steve/Tim. What I love about the track is the raucous energy. The guitars/bass and drums are just wild. Its like some dogs just been let off the leash and going crazy. Some great lyrics and vocals. This would accompany a surreal war movie very well, something like Apocalypse Now! Thanks for letting me try to add to the sonic assault Steve!