river_man

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have you ever tried to get a bunch of musicians and singers together to work on your songs and noticed how difficult it is to do?

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Not at all.

It’s actually very satisfying when other real musicians bring their talents and emotions to your tunes via their instruments/voices and you watch it morph into something glorious.

That’s what you’ll never get from a robot. Real people pouring their souls into something they believe in and have lived. Real ART.

The first one is at least honest & pure auggie, before you ripped the soul out of it…

Little Kozmic Blues from Janis…

Just busting ya balls some, do what you think you gotta do. I don’t like the fact that now any average Joe can “make music” by just speaking ideas into a machine. I actually think it’s pretty disgusting to us creative types who’ve been putting in years of work honing our songwriting skills. There was a sense of pride in that that I think now is slowly diminishing. I personally think we’re witnessing the death of all art.

I’m that last carpenter though, firmly clutching my hammer… :dude:

Nasty riffs as usual, love all the New Orleans references in the lyrics. I wish Phillip’s vocals would be more up in the mix though. I actually think that about a lot of Down songs…

Bring on the album!

Auggie, how far have you gotten in this process? I liked your tune a hell of a lot better than the others I heard, (especially the bro country/rap atrocities) which kind of makes me question the validity of the whole thing.

I’ve been on sites before like Taxi, where they’d always give the same general response: “Strong song, really love it, but it’s just not right for THIS listing”. Load of crap and a money grab I thought.

Also, if she does pick your song and doesn’t pass, what are the next steps? Thanks for the solid info, I find this stuff very interesting…

In order for me…

John Frusciante
David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
JJ Cale

No JJ Cale love here? Such a cool style & hell of a player…

Huge fan here, since the very beginning…

Was able to hear some of it before it got taken down as I was listening. While definitely a work still in progress, it has that classic Deftones sound, especially with Chi. Probably the only finished song here was “Smile”, but the others I heard were not far off. You could tell Chino was still working out some of the lyrics, but the music was just about there. I would definitely buy it as is. I think under obvious different circumstances, this would have been another killer album from them.

And I have not been able to find it since…

Sounds fantastic auggie, I love the emotional power of the sparce arrangement here! Great theme and lyrics also. Very nice tune and very well done so far.

I’d love to pick your brain about how the pitching process works. I have one I finished and put out a few weeks ago that’s getting some nice feedback. It’s just acoustic guitar, bass, and pedal steel, along with my vocals.

Has there ever been a thread here where some of us musicians can share our work with each other? Might be a cool idea…