Women And Child (9Rihter Collab) - AllenV

Wow E...I'm only a month late in replying,please forgive me my friend.I do appreciate your comments,I hope you know that but some reviews slip by me sometime..December and the first of this year has been very time consuming,many changes.
9R has a special quality to his music and we did click very well I think.By the way,He and I are working on something new..it's been a long time coming,it will be a couple of weeks and of course it will be like this...a rock blend.
Thanks again Estefano.

Allen

Thanks John.9Rhiter was the first real collab that I did here and we didn't know what we were doing but you tend to figure it out,seems there's no right or wrong way,whatever works.
Just like guitar tone,I saw an interview with Eric Clapton one time and they were asking for the holy secret to his sound and he just smiled and said.."I turn the knobs until I like what I hear"..I have always loved that :)
Thanks again John!

Allen

Thank you very much!9Rihter had a great tune to work with!
I'll visit you and check out what your doin'

Allen

Hey Bil.I got lucky here,9Rihter had this eq sound that matched up pretty well to my guitar.He had everything but guitar mixed and finished, just wanted to try guitars so that was the challenge.He sent me the mp3 and I had to layer around what he had done and couldn't mess with his individual levels so in a way it forced me to play it safe so I learned from this song and try to take that with me.one review wanted louder guitar but when I tried it just covered the piano and would ruin it,so big lesson learned...Don't sacrifice the song for guitars because in the end it's all about the song,
and I know you know this as you choose to complement your own songs as well...if we didn't we could just do a 4min solo...hmm..
maybe a loop of Eruption:)
thanks bil
Allen

Thank you Stephen,your welcome back antytime.
Hey,has anyone ever told you...you look good in purple.
Allen

Hello Alen,It really is something to be proud of,it did come together very well and you made it very easy for me!

Allen

Thank you Gordon,Maybe we can find someone for vocals.I really like 9Rhiters piano also and I don't play keys so it's nice that we can work together,Like I tell my grandaughter...play nice and always share.

Allen

Thanks Blume,He and I seem to have the same eq thing goin'on at the time...helped a lot.I tried playing around town a bit but it doesn't work...good musicians in PC just nowhere to play and I aint drivin to Tampa so i'm happy on this site and nobody's asked me to play Freebird here...yet...maybe a remix:)
Still lookin for work...
Allen

Thanks,It was a lot of fun and it is such a cool thing to get to play with people not even in your country,music is truely universal.I love this site.

Allen

Thank you my friend,your complement means a lot and I'm very humbled by your remarks.If I must reply it would be that I have never said no to any style of music over the 36yrs i've played, regardless of my preferences and if you consider music as a gift then I feel blessed.Vocals would be great and I do like Jim's classic style.Oh yea,Cochise is a great song isn't it!

Allen

Thanks Tacatta!9Rihter gets all credit for piano and everything but guitars.I did try raising the guitar after we posted and it just didn't work,it became a different song.The leads have a ton of delay that I can't take off now,my bad...lesson learned...and when you turn them up it sounds way too busy for this song.I almost didn't play any lead at all,just thickened it up,the piano melody from 9Rihter was so nice.when I got his track it was like Wow,how can I play with this and not change a thing!The short reply is your right,I didn't wanna put too much out front and I am not gonna sacrifice the song for my guitar.
Thanks again for listening and you should be doin'some more rockin'tracks...I wanna play guitar on Kashmir and i'm callin' it first!

Allen

Thank you Zappo,I had a lot of fun doing it.

Allen

Hey Randy,thanks!I'm glad you mentioned the guitar level,I really wasn't sure myself so I appreciate your ear.It really is a delicate thing to do and I fought with it.9Rihter has some great songs and an appreciation for guitar so I was happy do do this with him.

Allen

Thanks Jamie!Now that you mentioned it,vocals wouldn't be bad.9Rhiter had this produced well from the getgo I think,and it took a while for me to even hear past his moving intro!I did want to say that even before this I noticed his sound seemed to mirror what I've been getting from my guitar equipment lately and that helped a lot since he mixed his parts and I did mine,there wasn't a big contrast.It was kinda like we had a third member of the team.

Allen

Hey BM thanks for the review.Sometimes it's hard for me to measure part lengths when i'm smack dab in the middle of it and that's one thing these reviews are good for cause there's always gonna be a next time and you made the Lynch comment first anyway so i'm good.That awesome intro came from 9Rihter when I got his track and I must say"He had me from intro"...I couldn't resist:)

Allen