ZappaFest - "Dumb all over" Geir covers Zappa

[lg]

Just keep 'em coming Geir!
You are on FIRE!!!!!

LG

[Vanncad]

I gotta admit - I'm not a big Zappa fan. 

That being said - I still enjoyed listening to this over a bowl of chili at lunch today.

Great post Geir! You're a machine man! I don't know how you do it 

[Ted]

I don't mean to offend anyone by this.

With Zappa, your goal should be to offend everyone. FZ was an equal opportunity offender by design.

Geir, your skills as a producer are really shining in the ZappaFest--as if your skills as a musician and singer weren't already offenstastic.

I'm a sucker for a good groove repeated way more times than an insecure composer would ever attempt. This really shows your confidence is justified.

[Geir]

A shameless self-bump, under the excuse of answering a few questions

You`ve had them on a shelf for a while haven`t you?

actually no ... this was done rather quickly ... I did cheat a bit tho ....(se below)

I`m trying to look for the original. What Album is this on again?

that would be "you are what you is"

Love how bassy this is.

I kinda like how the bass turned out too. I doubletracked the bass, but only played a minute or two on each track (that riff is a pain to play for 6 minutes) and looped the tracks. (different lenght of the loops to "hide" where the splices are). A trick I've used on guitar a couple of times too, when I haven't had time to record the whole song twice.

As I said before, I'll end up liking zappa. However, IMHO the panning effect is a sonic-nuclear-bomb.

In the chorus would be perfect, through all the song is a bit disturbing! Neverthless, good job!

That was intentional. I actually used 7 tracks to get that effect (I think). I recorded the vocals without any effect, then did one bounce with autopanning and chorus to a stereo track, then I did another bounce applying autopanning with a different speed than the first on + a dash of flanger. The four tracks was then bounced to a new stereo-track to get mixed with the music.

BTW will you leave any of Zappa's songs for us to cover?

there's more than enough for all of us .... I still have a couple I'd like to do at some point tho

[cuthbert]

Somehow I missed this (not familiar with Zappa), but I like your take on it!

I doubletracked the bass, but only played a minute or two on each track (that riff is a pain to play for 6 minutes) and looped the tracks. (different lenght of the loops to "hide" where the splices are). A trick I've used on guitar a couple of times too, when I haven't had time to record the whole song twice.

Ah, now this is a trick I will try to remember in the future. 

[Blooby]

Apologies for missing this the first time around.  In a word: killer.  Are you chording a bass for the main riff, or is it only double-tracked as stated? Hurts my fingers and wrist just listening to it. Drums sound damn fine as well.

The panning is freaking me out.  Fits the song perfectly.

Nice.

Blooby

[Geir]

Are you chording a bass for the main riff, or is it only double-tracked as stated? Hurts my fingers and wrist just listening to it. .

There was some chording in the main riff indeed and some hammer-ons as far as I can remember. I used at least an hour trying to figure out how to play it, but I think I'm pretty close. And I feel sorry for Scott Thunes having to do this live night after night ....  

[Bluesberry]

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[Geir]

wise words Dave !! wise words !!!

Long live Songcrafters. Long live B.B. ......