excellent Rock song Kee, very powerful and perfectly under control, Magistral my good friend

Thanks for this amazing moment Lee. Enjoy your day my good friend

So cool to open my Sunday with this aerial piece Lee. Top Class voice performance on this Rock Ballade. Excellentissime Rock Number! Congratulations to you and RF. Nice week-end my Brother.

Had to drop by and give this another listen! A powerful bit of work Lee and Stefan!

"Shoot Out The Lights" is the result of an open collaboration my good friend Stefan (Rock Flexible) put out around near enough three weeks back now. It's the first in a short series of NoNameYet songs of Playback tracks inviting singers to have a bash and write some lyrics and a title for and sing it.

Well having heard Stefan's great track and great work it instantly appealed to myself and totally rocked that much I decided to have a go at it myself. I had some free time to get to work on it this week and squeeze it in between some of the other collabs I am currently working on. 

For my interpretation for this one I decided to go dark and evil and do a bit of Satan Rock regarding the lyrics I wrote. There was a section I did not want sing on or write a couple more verses, so I decided to throw in my own little lead break on the guitar. Though that is perhaps a bit boxed standard as the lead guitar is not my forte one bit.

If you would like to have bash yourself, you can obtain a copy of Stefan's original music here: https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexible/nonameyet-playback-1-rock-flexible  along with many of his other great songs on his fine cloud.

Shoot Out All The Lights (Music By Rock Flexible/Words By Lee Lucas)

Lee Lucas - Vocals - Lead Guitar (On Long Break) - Artwork.

Rock Flexible - Toontrack EZDrummer2. NI Guitar Rig. NI FM8, Massive, Absynth  Meinl Percussion.
Peavey Bass - Joemeek VC1 - Logic Bass Amp Pro. Fender Strat (JBHum) - Joemeek VC1 - Guitar Rig
Channel Strip - RODE NT5MP - SPL GM - RME FF400 - Logic Recorded in Logic Pro X. Mastering Chain - Gain, Lin_EQ, Waves J37, Compressor, Multipr, MatchEQ, Waves L2, Level, bx_meter. Neither Bass nor guitar have been tuned before the recording.

My evil lyrics are as follows:

(Take away the hand of kindness)

Evil finds its way through the darkness
upon these blood drenched streets of shame
maybe there's a method to their madness
maybe it's all part of their game

Rats scurry round like savage wolfs
as they tear through the limbs of the dead
you can hear the sound of creaking bones
and smell the fear where those once tread

Shoot out all the lights
let the darkness have its wicked way
cast out the wretched hand of kindness
let the darkness enter into your soul
let the darkness enter into your soul

Mindless nights of endless torture
you never see the cold light of day
victims led like lambs to their slaughter
left to rot in death and decay

Maybe they could put an end to all their madness
and let the light shine through into their day
but these people are never satisfied
till the devils had his own wicked way

Shoot out all the lights
let the darkness in and be your goal
take away the hand of kindness 
let the dark lord into your soul
let the dark lord into your soul

(Break)

(Darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness)

Shoot out all the lights
let the darkness have its wicked way
cast out the wretched hand of kindness
let the darkness take your spirit away
let the darkness take your spirit away

Shoot out all the lights
let the darkness in and be your goal
take away the wretched hand of kindness 
let the dark lord into your soul
let the dark lord into your soul

Please find time to leave comments to which are always very well appreciated and many thanks for listening.

Lee Lucas & Rock Flexible - Shoot Out All The Lights

I very much started out playing instruments very late in life, and spent much of my earlier days listening to it, rather than playing it. I am very much a self taught musician and regard my instruments very much like implements, tools or devices to write with, rather than being anything remotely near a good playing musician of any great technique. 

I guess I really got into instruments more back in 1994 when I got into my first band (though I did learn to play the Harmonica when I was 8 years old) it was around this time I wrote a song on the Guitar entitled Oldtime Street. The song is very much even today one that contains some of the finest lyrics I have ever written, and very much perhaps inspired me to carry on.

Though the band back in 1994 was a very short affair, it was not long after I got into a R&B band performing Rock & Blues in various pubs around my own town Birmingham. I was very much the lead singer in this outfit which lasted some 6 years. Though during these years the band had gone through several line up and name changes and came to a stop in 2001. I suppose it was a bit of relief in a sense, because it's quite easy to put a band together, but murder to keep everyone happy, and keep it going.

Even though I only really did Vocals and played my Harmonica in the band, I still found time now and then, for my guitar, and my keyboards at home, and I also contributed in a big way to our own compositions in the band.

My tools are as follows:

Studiologic VMK-188 Plus 88 Key Midi Controller Keyboard.

Yamaha PSR E303 61 Key Keyboard (Used Via Midi)

Yamaha F310 Acoustic Guitar.

Yamaha ERG121 Electric Guitar.

Encore E4 Bass Guitar.

Various Harmonicas in many Keys.

Alesis Performance Pad Pro Drum Machine & Pads. 

Audio Technica AT2020 USB Microphone.

Vic Firth Drum Sticks.

Various VST Software for Keyboards, Guitars & Mixing.

Cubase 5.

Ableton Live 8.

Steinberg Wavelab.

Influences are from mainly 70's Prog/Rock/Blues/Traditional Folk/Electronic Music.                    

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