Here's a Bryan Adams track re-envisioned as a sock-hop power ballad. I put a 50s slow-rock beat behind it. And, I recorded the song, per usual, as an iPhone Voice Memo demo. It's my intent to get in and out real fast in laying a song down (one take, frequently the first take) to capture the old school rock and roll immediacy in the track. Hey, it's only rock n' roll, right? The guitar used in the recording is a 80s metal axe, Westone HSS pushed through a Vox ToneLab and a 90s Tweed Fender Bronco amp at the end of the chain. The vocals were driven through a Voice pedal to add 1-part harmony and a double of the original vocal. There you go, here it is. Any comments? Please, let me know. Thanks for listening. Sharing is caring.

I Ain't Missing You - Michael Delgorio

Everyone loves a good story. We've enjoyed telling them in words, pictures and music. 

Please follow MichaeldelAard here and on twitter @MichaeldelAard. We've long been moved by the rough cuts, bootlegs and demos by storied artists both past and present because they show pure emotion, high creativity unfettered by auto-tune and over-production. The elimination of anything that could remotely resemble anything but a perfect track is not part of this stream. This project is more about spontaneity. You'll find perfectly human imperfections and, spare (lean and mean)demo productions throughout. On occasion, though all tracks were recorded ultra-simply on an iPhone's voice memo app, we would pull a track into GarageBand to add a track or sound effects (as in several of the originals, herein)...but all in all these are low-fat productions that reflect our most basic love for music and storytelling. Nothing more than that. Should a track tickle your ear, we'd be most grateful to here about it. Thanks for the opportunity to share with you. Follows, comments and shares are welcome.