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Howdy folks ! Here's a new song from my band " Lost Ragas ". It will be on our next album due in May 2015.
I wrote this song and I also did the film clip.
It was recorded live in the studio and then I did a one take double of the melody in a few spots.
I played my 82' Push Pull (which you see in the film clip flying through space with flames coming out the back !!), directly into my 63' Super Reverb. Actually, it's Tom Brumleys Super Reverb which the wonderful Rolene Brumley kindly sold to me and I'm very proud and humbled to own.
I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers, Shane.
click below to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfl700yBz0

If you want a copy of the song click here. Thanks.
https://lostragas.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it fits the song very nicely. Or rather, the song fits the steel nicely! The steel makes the song.

Thanks Curt! That's the best possible result. Cheers to ya and thanks for checking it out.
Shane.

Good sound, great steel.

Thanks for the kind words Charlie, much appreciated.

Great music, nice steel playing, Shane! Thanks.

Nice. I can relate to the tune!

The singer reminds me a little of Ron Sexsmith.

Shane Reilly wrote:Thanks Curt! That's the best possible result. Cheers to ya and thanks for checking it out.
Shane.

Shane, can you share your songwriting process for this? I want to do original steel parts as a hobby and have little experience in collaborative songwriting. In many songs, it's not hard to see the "spaces" where the steel can fit in... but it sounds like they left this song wide open for you. How did the band settle on the overall feel of the song that the steel adds?

Reminds me of early Eagles

Shane. I just thought it was very cool.RP

Thanks Joachim, glad you liked my steel.

Mike, cheers mate, I told Matt who sang it that it reminded you of Ron Sexmith and he was very happy about that. We're both fans of Ron's so it's a more than welcome comparison.

Joseph, the eagles comparison makes sense, we all sing and write in this band and there's a few harmony moments in there. Cheers.

Ron, thanks mate, cool is a good thing.

really cool, not sure about you hitting the right crowd here, reminds me of early NRPS with a better sound

Hey Curt, happy to share the process with you.
I wrote this song and so I had a pretty strong concept of what was going on it before I brought it to the band.
The steel part was fairly obvious to me straight away, the refrain that builds. The other parts during the verses and choruses we all improvised and I didn't work anything out on purpose because we all played live together and I wanted it to have a loose but simple feel to it, mostly I wanted FEEL, which you can lose sometimes when you work out parts.
I do it sometimes, but not here.
The doubled steel was one take and I wasn't looking to duplicate the first, which I could have done if I wanted but I wanted them to dance a little around each other.
As far as the songwriting process goes; the idea for the song came during a conversation with a good friend and we were talking about moments, just those fleeting moments in which everthing seems perfect. Well, there's usually some accompaniment to these moments and one option is perhaps a smoke, but I could have called it banana milkshake mornings if that was your preference but it's not very rock and roll is it? Ha!
The music came pretty much as soon as I sat down to write it because I knew axactly what I wanted to say, which isn't always the case, but this one came easier and more complete.
I do a bit of collaborative writing and in those cases it works best if you keep an open mind and be ready to comprimize a little.
As far as the overall band feel, I know how each of these guys play and so I didn't really have to explain much or anything as I had written pretty much for the ste of the band and playing styles, so if everyone played their natural game, it would work.
Once again, it doesn't always work so easily but this time it did.
I hope this answered a thing or two, thanks for asking.
Cheers, Shane.

Thanks Shane! It's a great song.

Watched it many times now. It always puts a smile on my face.

Excellent Ron, glad to put a smile on peoples faces. I must admit I smiled a lot making that clip, it took some time but it sure was fun.
Cheers.

Great song and playing. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers Jim, so glad you dig it. Thanks for the kind words.