... and I found an old demo cassette from a band I was in years ago.
I was cleaning out the garage...
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Oct 5, 2008 7:18 a.m. Gigatron:
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Oct 5, 2008 7:46 a.m. aussiepete:
I like alot!! That bass sure propels those tunes along. The singer has a great rock voice. Vocals arent recorded as clear and upfront as that these days. I enjoyed very much.
Which site do you use for the mp3 hosting? I've tried a few but not happy yet. pete
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Oct 5, 2008 9:18 a.m. Gigatron:
That's me on bass (and going "Night moves woo hoo hoo"). The lead singer's name is Pete Johnstone. He's still singing and playing in Oshawa, Ontario.
I just put the mp3s up on our school website. There's an area on the server reserved for extracurricular activities.
Here's another of mine.
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Oct 5, 2008 10:05 a.m. wpgjazzman:
Gigatron - Hello and thank you for these. This tape is a treasure. Never let it fall by the wayside and disappear.
The Animals cover is much punchier than the way the Animals did it - this is a good thing. Some of the old folks like me on this sight may agree that your cover sounds very much like a great old band from the late 60s - Steppenwolf.
The Bob Seeger cover is great too - y'all sound like a wide awake version of the Eagles who always sounded half asleep to me.
Congratulations and thank you for sharing these tunes with us.
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Oct 5, 2008 10:07 a.m. MedinaMade:
Greetings, That Animals cover is TITS! I like it better than the original and I'm not kidding. It really gels and is era correct too if you know what I mean? I love the way each instrument respects the other bow to the vocals which are raspy right and ad lib cool. The reverb is just right also (no overkill). A fine example of doin your own thing yet not destroying a classic. Peace, Julius
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Oct 5, 2008 10:12 a.m. CharlieL:
Gigatron, you guys were really good! I especially like the Animals cover. Punchy bass, good vocals and very solid, confident drumming. Sounds like a great little band -- I bet you guys could really burn down the bar on a Saturday night!
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Oct 5, 2008 10:55 a.m. Gigatron:
We had a lot of fun, but a lot of drama too. We were a four-piece band, but our lead guitarist had a real drinking problem, and he never managed to show up for recording sessions. Pete and I would try to fill in for him, but it was never the same. The thing that killed it in the end, though, was a girlfriend who appointed herself manager.
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Oct 5, 2008 12:15 p.m. gretschiam:
Great recordings. Enjoyed them a lot. Was this in a studio? You got a great mix. And the ooos on Night Moves sounded like a bunch of Detroit girls. Very good. Showing my age and limited vision, however, I wished the singer had kept in the melody in the refrain of the Animals' tune- that always made the song to me.
I hope you're coverting all your old recordings over to digital so they're not lost. We're starting to find some of our stuff that never made it to vinyl has degraded on the original tapes.
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Oct 5, 2008 12:29 p.m. Gigatron:
It was a studio somewhere in Oshawa, but I can't remember the name, or even where in town it was. I had two more tapes from that band and another from a previous band but they all got lost when I moved to Europe from Canada over 10 years ago. I got in touch with my old bandmates, but they had lost or given away all their copies too. We used to take the cassettes around to play for bar owners to try to get gigs. Those two songs are all I had left.
We never listened closely to the originals to learn them. I remembered the Animals song from hearing another band play it while I was in high school, wrote down the words, figured out the basic chord pattern and bass riff, then we just started to play it.
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Oct 5, 2008 1:15 p.m. Ric12string:
Gigatron, I LOVED the Animals cover. Like wpgjazzman mentioned, it was just a slightly edgier version of the song, which was great! And the lead vocalist really rocks. Great, great cover.
