Comments on: The Sunday Concert: Halloween!

By: Eolirin

Eolirin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:10:02 +0000

Oooh, Creepy Doll. Yay

By: len

len — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:15:08 +0000

It is a compliment, Raph. I’ve played Don’t Stop Till Ya Get Enough but used midi and it’s basically a two-chord song and I sang it an octave lower. No way I’d risk Thriller because it be bery tricky, so props on that one.

Wow. Me, I’m turning more folkie every day although weirdly, last week I stumbled onto some videos of our band from the 90s. Google Music works.

http://www.youtube.com/clenbullard#p/a/f/0/7n3b8sXb7h8

http://www.youtube.com/clenbullard#p/a/f/1/knq_8aM3qfs

… the guy with the acoustic.

Tonight, I’m going to Nashville to see Willie at the Ryman as a guest of one of the moguls. Strange how things turn. It has nothing to do with my music, just another online conversation that is crossing over.

By: Raph

Raph — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:54:36 +0000

Len:

Thanks, I think. I felt pretty good about how “Thriller” came out, but I can tell you, I was totally freaked out about it in advance. It is rhythmically a bit tricky, the singing range is weird (I moved it down a whole step, actually — and moving it more would have made the guitar part murderous!), and of course, everyone knows it.

I used to play it with straight strums, but this arrangement was based on Emily Elbert’s great version, a little simplified (search YouTube for that one, it’s great).

Prokofy, all the songs were supposed to be spooky or dark, in one way or another. I now kinda want to do a show with more varied emotional terrain.

By: len

len — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:26 +0000

It takes a lot of guts to do Thriller on acoustic solo live.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:10:45 +0000

That rendition of Mad World was very spooky!

By: Raph

Raph — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:35:03 +0000

The post now has the link to the ZIP file of the individual tracks.

By: Raph

Raph — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:25:05 +0000

Yeah, the RSS feed doesn’t show the Flash player and shows just the link…

I have chopped it up into individual tracks now, but I have not uploaded them yet.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:05:04 +0000

OK, playing fine in Foobar rather than the in-browser QuickTime plugin I was using (not your Flash thing — the RSS link pops up the mp3 itself, as LSK says above.)

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:59:56 +0000

Haha, this is good!

(But still stuttering, grrr…)

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:52:12 +0000

I get a little stuttering — not sure if it’s my local playback, or from the source.

Nice Cthulu/blues intro.

And now… onto THRILLER!