Pipeline

[Farmjazz]

Woke up to a hellacious lightning storm Saturday morning. It set several places ablaze, including the ridge just south of me here. Captured some of the thunder on the MICRO BR and added it to this song - sort of a Riders on the Storm vibe.

It still needs bass and a there's a nice spot for a solo towards the end. Any takers? The drum arrangement is dorky, but I didn't take much time on it.

Hey hooper, still got the top down?

 

[Oldrottenhead]

really nice tune, kinda thing that david lynch or quentin tarantino could use for a soundtrack, thunderstorm is perfecto, was it added on later or did recording happening in such perfect time withthe music.

[Farmjazz]

I captured the thunder first. It inspired me to go ahead and work this piece up that morning. I've been needing to record this one for a couple of my young students for some time and the storm gave me some unexpected inspiration. My wife was away in the morning, so I just broke out my stuff and went for it. It came together pretty fast as I already had the basic arrangement penciled out. Some of the guitar sounds/chords were added only after a need was realized.

A lot of fun, this one. I tried to stay with a clean twangy guitar sound in general, thanks to hooper's comment about 'hiding' behind a wall of distortion. He's right. This is much more convincing than the last surf tune. 

[galestermusic]

Farmjazz great stuff! While Stairway to Heaven was the first song some people learned, I learned pipeline, wipeout, dick dale stuff. Oh can't forget duane eddy, what a great tremelo player!

I'll ask the dumb question because I honestly don't know, would like to work on this but how can it be done? If I read the book right, load this mp3 file, it goes to trck 1 and 2 by default, then lay down my stuff on 3 and 4? Would love to learn bouncing and working with the V tracks but that all confuses me.

Again very nice!

Greg

[Oldrottenhead]

go here to find out how to load an mp3 to a song.
http://microrecorders.org/community/general-discussion/how-to-download-an-mp3-backtrack-and-use-it-in-your-recording/0/

[galestermusic]

Thank you so much OHR! 

[Oldrottenhead]

I learned pipeline, wipeout, dick dale stuff

is pipeline an old song, i thought it was an original composition by farmjazz.

[galestermusic]

Pipeline is old surfer song by the chantays, then Dick Dale amongst others did it. Farmjazz's use of the thunder is awesome thuogh.

[Farmjazz]

Very old song. Originally done by the Chantays. Almost every American garage band has covered this one. I did want to tweak it just a little with the alt. chords and all, but its basically in its original form. My young guys need to learn this stuff, even if its old-hat to most of us.

[hooper]

Hey hooper, still got the top down?

Oh yeah.....

Nice going fj!  Yep, Pipeline was on the playlist of the 8th grade combo  back in '66.  And sometimes it was possible to morph it into Walk Don't Run.  You made me look about the Chantays though... I would have bet it was by the Ventures. But you're right.  I just pulled down the Chantays mp3 and amazing how subdued it is by comparrison.

Liked the recorded thunder too but I'm sure you would know that the authentic surf music way of doing that would be to whack the spring reverb on the Fender amp.  Makes THUNDERRRRRrrrr!

Your clean guitar playing sounds good and I like the vintage vibe. Should be fun to see if I can add something to it. 

Edit:  Okay I Googled some more... Pipeline originaly recorded by the Chantays and then covered by the Ventures. BTW... There is a YouTube video of the Chantays playing Pipeline on The Lawrance Welk Show.  (no accordian...)