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Originally Posted by Glice
It's alright. Not my sort of thing. Can I suggest you get hideously pissed and record the same songs? I mean, I don't think you're going for the Country Teasers thing, but the way you're playing doesn't have much swing. There's a need for some malice in there somewhere along the lines.
Or record them on a tape player (sans drums, obviously)? There's something quite sterile about the mics you've used. They're not noticably bottoming out or anything, but they're not crystal clear either.
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Ah yeah, you got me, recording on digital with cheap mics. I do need better equipment and tape does sound warmer. My tape recorder only has 4 tracks though, and I need more.
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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
The bad things: You sing with faux-American accents, which is a put off since you were born and live in Liverpool. I'm not really into the songs, but one of them ('Pose The Pose') kind of reminded of Hefner. I have a feeling that if you got rid of the 'Americanisms', you could do greater things. What I'm basically trying to say is that you need to sound more like yourselves.
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Point taken. Let me sort of explain myself here- well not explain, but maybe excuse. The Beatles, The Teardrop Explodes, Echo And The Bunnymen- do any of them really sound like scousers? The Beatles could have easily been American and the other two sound like they're from down south. The 'Americanisms' you speak of are sort of ingrained in the style of the music I'm working with, who inspires me, et cetera. John Fogerty was born and raised in California but he sounds like he's from the deep south because thats who he wants to be. I wasn't aiming for a Liverpudlian take on country pop- in all truth I have no home pride. I can really understand why it would be a put-off, but I just think that is performance art and not exactly a mirror of who I actually am, just an alter ego.