Strong 70's vibe - Reminds me of if KISS did a song with Jay Ferguson (Thunder Island).  Very well balanced song - seriously sounds like something we could have heard in the summer of 77!  Great job man!

John, it turned out so awesome. Excellent production and I really love the vocal by ZagWax

Ye. Really well put together song. Lead at the end is sick ;)

You have a very wide range of songs you can handle. You are a wonderful talent. Many people who play metal music also like to play rock music, but I can't play this kind of rock music. With all due respect!

beautifully done, love the seventies vibe

Killer old school vibe with amazing vox mix

My SC collaborations with these wonderful musicians:
@fire-jam-band
@nobsmeyer
@ldchool
@stefan-van-walsum
@user-342548892

Collaborations

Some time ago John Baker (@ldchool) sent me this great backing track he created and asked me to play a lead break on it. After I did we recognized that this track strongly deserves vocals. So I sat down and searched for some words to get some lyrics together and thought of a melody to sing. Then asked my friend Marcus to come over and sing. We all are very satisfied with the result. Thanks to John's mixing skills and Marcus' voice it turned out quite nice.

Lineup:
John Baker (@ldchool):
The complete backing track, mix and mastering
Marcus Heck:
Vocals, background vocals
Andy:
Lyrics, leads and fills

Let The Good Times Roll

For all my fellow veterans and military out there, we stand united

We Stand United

This is my first collab with Rob Johnson from @fire-jam-band. And it was mind blowing. Rob contacted me and mentioned that his voice with that "Southern Twang" would perfectly fit to the style of music I create. And I had the idea of a southern rock ballad. Now here's the result!
I'm so happy with what came out of this idea after Robs phenomenal input.

Southern Lullaby

Southern Lullaby (with Rob Johnson on vocals)

This is my first collab with Norbert Meyer, @https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer.
We met here on SC and he told me that he grew up in the city where I live. No more reasons needed for working together on a song.
I had the idea for this ballad and he played a marvelous bass part on this track.
Again, Moni singing. The ballad I promised her some time ago :-).
And, also for the very first time, Melli, another friend of mine, contributed the background vocals. 
Hope you like this ballad although it's not the usual Rock and Blues stuff.

Another Broken Heart Song

All music written and recorded by John Baker (The Old School)
All lead guitar written and recorded by Andy Pfitzer
Mixed & Mastered by John Baker

I wrote and recorded this song back in 2015 when I didn't really have any equipment other than a DAW and a cell phone. The recording and mix wasn't great but a friend of mine and the first person I began talking to on Soundcloud (Rob from Fire Jam Band) loved the tune and did some vocals for it. I had the original version of this on my page for quite some time and removed it a good while back. I never had any intentions of re-mixing it, let alone, remaking the entire thing from scratch, but Rob had asked me that if I ever remade one of my songs let it be this one, so it took over a year of dragging my feet, because I wanted to be in the right frame of mind when I did it, but I finally have it completed. Everything is played almost as close to  the original as I could get and Andy Pfitzer helped me out by performing all the lead guitars in this because my original lead lines were awful. So a big thank you to Andy for all his help. 

This is also one of the last songs I used real guitar amplification for.

Old School Rock N Roll (2019) feat Andy Pfitzer on Lead Guitar

Without You
Text and Music: Rachel 

This is a song written by Rachel @https://soundcloud.com/rachel_debattista. 
I am so happy, Rachel agreed, to transform her beautiful song into a rock ballad. You can listen to the original version here: https://soundcloud.com/rachel_debattista/without-you-rough-poemsong.
And on top of that, we have Al Z (@al-z-z-z) playing another great lead guitar and Pete (https://soundcloud.com/midipunk) bringing the song to live with his drums and cool fills!
Here it is! We hope, you have as much fun listening to it, than we had, recording it!

In a world full of stories,
In a world full of fear
Why can’t I use my mind
To say I love you, dear?
Every morning there’s a piece of the story missing - without you
Every day there’s a part of me - urging to find you
Without you there’ll be something, missing from this world of mine
Without you there’ll be nothing - every time.
Hard enough to remember,
Close enough not to cry
Will we ever experience, 
what it feels like to smile?
Every morning there’s a piece of the story missing - without you
Every day there’s a part of me - urging to find you
Without you there’ll be something, missing from this world of mine
Without you there’ll be nothing. Every time…
Everytime that I miss you, I mean it,
I see you looking in my eyes,
I want to, relive us, every time
Take back the hatred,
Why is it that we’re so blind
To see that all is crumbling down
Right in front of our eyes?
Every time.

Soundcloud

Without You, feat. Rachel on Vocals and Songwriting, AL Z on Lead and Midipunk on Drums

Third collab with Ed van den Brekel, amazing trumpet player.
Check him out.
@ed-trum-ped

TRUMP@D & Hiber-Nation - Esti

What's Driving You?

All music written & performed by John Baker
All lyrics written & performed by ZagWax
All lead guitar performed by Andy Pfitzer
Mixed & Mastered by John Baker

Just a good  old fashioned rock n roll love song!!!!!

Under The Moon (with- ZagWax & Andy Pfitzer)

Written and recorded 1st December 2020

This week I only just learned of the passing of one of my favourite musicians on Soundcloud, Jim Horbett. Jim originally went under the monicker 'Local Man' and posted many wonderful songs, some of which are available on Bandcamp, but some are (as far as I know) only available here on SC.

Jim joined the Seattle Colonels of Truth a few years ago, but it was with his pals Daniel Ullom and Forrest Marowitz that he formed the Rain City Ramblers, a stunning 3-piece playing a mixture of their own material and traditional American roots music, including some of Jim's own pieces that he debuted here, such as Holiday and Suburban Hellfire. 

Jim's music was a great source of inspiration and one of his last posts on SC was an experimental piece called 'There's No Constant', a haunting and brilliantly imaginative piece that I took as inspiration for one of my most recent songs, 'On The Waterfront'... indeed, the original working title of my tune was 'Jim's song'. Sadly, by the time I messaged Jim to let him know about the song, he had already tragically passed away from cancer, aged just 31.

RIP James, 1987-2019

Please check out his wonderful music here:

https://soundcloud.com/jameshorbett
https://raincityramblers.bandcamp.com/releases

Lyrics:
Jim was "Local Man"
A Rain City Rambler
Once a Colonel of Truth
Not long ago

Bluegrass fingerpicker
Buffalo troubadour
"Scuz King" magic maker
Not long ago

I'm torn by feelings of loss
I'm torn by feelings of love
Goodbye Ramblin' Man
We'll miss you oh so very much

That square neck resonator
On "Queen of Revelry"
Rang like strains of heaven
Not so long ago

Bad News (Blues) came calling
like Suburban Hellfire
Too long for the season
Not long ago...

I'm torn by feelings of loss
I'm torn by feelings of love
Goodbye Local Man
We'll miss you oh so very much

Local Man (Song For Jim Horbett)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJjSKMUn7Pp/ Instagram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVSiNgqpYtU&feature=youtu.be youtube

Forest Café (Youtube video link in description)

Adam & Mike improvising a song as it comes out - 

Aadm Coppock - Live Drums
Michael Walker - Guitar, Bass & Vocals 
Paul Janszen - Backing Vocals 

Mixed & Mastered by the one & only Paul Janszen in Amsterdam. Thanks Big P, we both appreciate!

Mamma Don't

Precious

Shadow of the devil

Joshua M Norton's Album

Preludes & Nocturnes III

After playing in coverbands for decades I'm now trying to record my own songs. Some of my friends (members of various bands I played with) singing. I'm doing the guitar parts and production with reaper DAW. Drums: EZDrummer, Superior Drummer (toontrack). Guitar: (mostly) S-Gear (scuffham amps)

Please check out and follow my side project Krakenmoor (TTM, myself and other guest musicians) at soundcloud.com/krakenmoor/tracks

First off, I would like to thank you for taking the time to stop by and listen to my music. I’m very open to comments and any suggestions you may have. Just knowing you took time to listen to my music makes it all worth it to me. Feel free to like and repost if you find anything you like.

I am just a small-town guitarist with a great love for music of the 70’s 80’s and 00’s.

John

Under The Moon (with- ZagWax & Andy Pfitzer)

The Old School

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