Danny Dees wrote: ... can i ask for one more favor while your uploading songs? my band is going to work up a few and we would like to do the kind of arrangements ya'll did in Ty's band and i'd like to try on some of your licks.
if you have em, can you upload these songs too?
single thing in mind
cadillac style
honky tonk blues
start all over again
nobodys talkin
never alone
oh girl
would sure appreciate it bud! and thanks in advance.
Wow, Danny, you've got a little list there, don't you, bud? Shall I give you the fillings from my teeth as well?
Just kidding, my friend.
Seriously, I'm sure I've got recordings of all of those songs, but I'm
not sure if they're really what you'd want.
First of all, they're "first-run" songs, meaning that it was the first time we'd played them on stage. They include the "good and the bad" that comes from playing unrehearsed songs for the first time and aren't polished (Ty always had us learn our parts from tapes and then just play the songs live instead of having a band rehearsal to go over them).
Second, they're
not board mixes, but were all recorded on a little portable recorder that I'd put under my pack seat to bring the steel out front so I could critique my playing on the way home from the club (I'd listen to them on my car tape player and my reaction was usually, "Yikes! Boy, do I need to work on that part!").
Third, the steel sounds a bit "over saturated" on a lot of the songs when it comes to my effects. I was running three amps (left stereo, right stereo and a center amp completely dry with no reverb to balance out the sound). In order to please the sound man, I'd often run the center dry amp at a lower volume than the two effects amps which gave him the ability to boost it out front; the end result was that it sounded great out front, but on stage my effects amps were a little strong and that's how the tape picked them up. Again, they weren't recorded for quality sound, but merely to use as a critique tool.
You can hear the band on them, but the steel is way out front and often covers the vocals and, in some cases, the lead player and if there's a harmony going on between the lead and steel, you only hear the steel (like on "Never Alone" ... Darin and I used to twin that part with me on the harmony line and if I recall, the steel just swallows his part on the tape). Like I said, these weren't recorded for "listening pleasure", but merely as a tool for me to immediately hear and identify all the parts I needed to work on, improve on or polish up.
Having heard all of that, are you
sure you still want them? If so, I'll dig them out and upload them to that SoundCloud thing for you; but, they're not what you'd call quality recordings.
BTW, I found that Night Life thing you were wanting, so I sampled just the lead ride like you wanted and I'll upload that in a little bit.
