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Completed by the awesome lyric/vocal performance of Helen Robertson!!

ZeCoop:
So... I'm recording very calm tracks for a soft, relaxing ambient song with @caterwauler (fawm.org/songs/108528/) and I have one more track to do. That song has soothing wind chimes, calming synth wash, a gentle beat and I'm thinking maybe an effects drenched guitar track. So I go and grab a guitar (a Les Paul in this case) and go over to the guest bedroom, which (for FAWM only, I am told) is my guitar amp room. I walk in and see my 1950's Silvertone amp that I haven't used yet. I found it on Craigslist for $25 and it just sounds killer. Ahem, not for ambient music, because I typically always have the volume pegged at 10. It's a tiny amp and it's not that loud but gets supremely crunchy and wonderful.

So........................... change of plans. I plug the guitar into that one and start making some noise. No one else was home last weekend, so I was louder than normal. I start messing around and was not really coming up with anything. Then, I think about how my brother Rob and I play guitar so differently. We are very similar, but how we play guitar and compose... VERY different. He plays some very fast chord changes that I often can't even keep up with, but I wanted to try something with fast chord changes. Like Rob might!!

Well the first riff sounds like me trying to sound like Rob. It sounds like me and the rest of the song was pretty much straight up me, but it was the thought that counts!!! I did like it a ton and wanted Rob to play drums and bass. He nailed it (of course) on drums but what I was most impressed with was his AMAZING bass part. He's become a bass force to be reckoned with, ever since he got the Tiesco bass a while back. He's played a long time, but that bass really brought out a new side. His part is fast and fluid and mobile - perfectly compliments the angular staccato guitar part I wrote. I added a super quick guitar solo and here you go. I love it... One of my favorites that we've done! It definitely moves between styles - a mix of Rob and my style on guitar (as much as I could play), and switching from fast indie-rock to new-wave and elsewhere.

GuateCoop:
(is currently taking care of his two kids, and it's almost dinner time)

All the gear:
ZeCoop used:
Gibson Les Paul Special (P90 pickups) into a $25 1950's Silvertone 1331 amp
Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro (humbuckers) into a 1973 Traynor YGL-3 amp

GuateCoop used:
$50 drum set
Tiesco bass guitar

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