Wonderful  Pop song, you are a great singer!👌

Fast Road

Gear used:

Ibanez JEM7V-WH
Ibanez EDB605 5 String Bass
Bias FX 2
EZ Drummer 2
EZ Mix I & II
EZ Master I & II
Cakewalk DAW by Bandlab

Guitars & Bass performed by me.
Drums programmed using Cakewalk DAW Sequencer Tool.
Song arrangement by David Hannah & Paul Hannah.

Summer Daze

Summer Daze/サマートランス

Lyrics courtesy of David Graham (@mctownmusicnew)/Vaughan Daniel (@vaughanraydaniel)

If I'm honest, I mainly wanted to see how much guitar I could pile on in the choruses...

Hurtin' For A Heartache

I’ve always loved the Sparks, still do

Historical 

They gathered along the Sea of Galilee 
Not too many not too few
They have left their past thrown away the key
What the future would bring they had no clue
They didn’t know what the future would bring
Just mothers from down south
Thousands years later 
Some men gathered again 
Didn’t know what to do
They have left their past thrown away the key
What the future would bring they had no clue
They lit up a fire just to dance and sing
And to get something in their mouth

Historical

Composition and Sampling collage by Synline
Featured on the my new album 'Chrome Logue' https://on.soundcloud.com/ATDQp

Take Me Higher

If you like this track a little bit, please hit the like button for me! 😁👍

Another song that I've dragged out from my archives. Wrote this in 1999, however changed the lyrics quite a lot in 2023. Not a fan of the title, seems a little bit cliche, maybe, but then again I'm not sure any of my other titles are otherwise captivating, in an especially original way!  I suppose the title alone says something about what the song's actually about, so will give it that.  

Having listened to it a few times, tweaking levels, and so on, I'm thankfully starting to forget the original 19 year old boy lyrics! 

Lyrics

You are the One

Only once I lost the fight
Right then I couldn’t stop the light
Ran into you, and that’s when I fell
In something new, heard ringing bells
An accidental change of scene
Was like the world had gone crazy
Upon a sudden shift in me
Was steeped in something more complete

You are the one
You've pulled me into the light
My kind of scene
The one where
You are my life, I am your life

It seems I failed to just be me
But hey that’s fine cause now I see
It seems I failed to comprehend
I was just going round the bend
I painted myself into walls
Brush stroked my demons too I’m sure
You reached in pulled me from the deep
Gave me a kind of energy

You are the one
You've pulled me into the light
My kind of scene
The one where
You are my life, I am your life

You are the one

AI-generated art, care of a few prompts, of course, as I can't draw a thing!!!

You Are The One (1999)

Practice session recording from November 4 2023

Ramblin’ Man

Ramblin' Man (GoodTime Parlour Band)

Neptune

Psytrance

No Escaping The Rain

Sometimes we can be our own worst enemies. We struggle against things that are ultimately good for us. I think when we let our guards down and become more open, we discover wonderful things in our lives.

Credits: 
Troy Warren, Elizabeth Butler, producers
Elizabeth Butler: words, music, lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Hallman: mastering
Torri Baker: harmony vocals, choir arrangement and vocals
Kira Small: harmony vocals
Frank DeBretti: lead electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Andre Moran: electric guitar, additional engineering
Andrew Gordon: stand-up bass guitar (recording engineer Cody Franz)
Dale Chung: percussion
Coffee Guzman: drums (recording engineer: Paul Cox)
Mark Hallman: Hammond B3 organ (recording engineer: Andre Moran)
Brad Chapman: vocal pre-production
Gary Talley: guitar preproduction
Jody Quine: graphic artist
Khamkeo Vilaysing: cover photo

Fighting with Angels

I've been writing songs for ages and ages, because it's something I enjoy doing, and that's about it. 

I've added dates to titles, however, these aren't always dates recorded, mostly just dates written because the original offerings, back then, had little to be desired with consideration to production values and all that stuff!  For the older tracks some tracks have the old backing with a modern vocal (often with a lyric rewrite), the original vocal with a new backing (when I could work with the original vocal, but not the original backing), the original song newly recorded in all areas, and less often the original vocal and backing, but with a few additions, "No" is one such example.  Otherwise, most of it is newer stuff, post 2018, and is as is, when written and recorded.    

I've had to re-record some things on account of my abilities to record demos and all that being very limited once upon a time.  

In the early days I only had a Farfisa F1 workstation thing (it's amazing what I managed to do on that), later an Atari ST, with Cubase 2 probably, a Proteus 2000, and Fostek 8 track recorder thing, and now I've got Native Instruments 14, and Cubase 12, in what amounts to an astonishingly good set up compared to my earlier resources, for about the same money as that older rubbish was back then. 

I still use the microphone I've had since I was 18, though did just recently upgrade that as well, however still pick up and use the old one, as it's still good - a Sure SM58 with a dent in it! My upgraded mic is a Sure SM7B, which is great, and I see it all the time on TV and podcasts, so must have made a good choice! 

My musical chops are focused on the piano, my main instrument, and the ukulele, which I play a lot as well.  Not doing a lot of piano-orientated songs at the moment, but I do sometimes, and mostly try to get the best out of my Native Instruments stuff.  I'm barely scratching the surface with all of the NI stuff I've got.

You Are The One (1999)

Dirk Diamond

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