Randall822

Hello there Hogscald,
I appreciate your taking the time to liten to this tune and giving a review back. I value and appreciate your comments very much and am glad you enjoyed it.

I usually make my tunes longer than this, but once I got going faster, there was no turning back. I'll have to agree with you on the sections where there is are two fast drum rolls to try and squeeze in. It just about makes it.

I would be happy to listen to any music you put up, so contact me when you do.

Thanks again for your review.
Randy

Hello again Dave,

Glad you liked this tune as well. As I mentioned many times, I try and do my best and to make quality recordings....as they'll be floating around on the Internet forever...even after I am gone.

My influences are many. I play what I want to hear and what I hear in my head or dream about some nights.
I'll be 65 next month and so I am really old enough to like all the 60's-80's music mostly. Didn't care for Disco that much though! :-)

Young folks should really go back in time and hear some of the older tunes. They'll be surprised probably at some of the intricate music played back in the day.

This particular tune was just something I put together with nothing special in mind at the moment. One thing led to another. Sometimes just switching channels on TV will give me an idea from a partial tune I hear.

Thanks again for your review.
Randy

Hi there Dave,
Such a pleasure to have to stop by and listen to one of my latest. I figured most people that were older like me would enjoy this tune. Took quite a while to make as you can imagine.
As far as the guitar work, that was hard as I had to do it in short sections....slower....until I could get the chops down....then put in in the track as normal speed keeping the same pitch.

Thanks for putting me into the likes of Bilbozo. He is truely a great player that's for sure.
I don't believe he has heard this one yet.

Thanks again for your glowing review and I'll be checking out to see what new stuff you may have up too.

Randy

Hello BigJowezy,

Hey, I appreciate you stopping by as well and listening and reviewing my latest. I will do the same for you.
A lot of great music was written in the middle 50's right up till the middle 80's I feel. Just before disco came in.

The sound of the guitars changed from the 50's surfing music by The Beach Boys to the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the 60's, and many other great artist (Jimi Hendriks, Jefferson Airplane, Eric Clapton and others to name a few) from the early era.
Then REO Speedwagon, Boston, Rush, and other great bands as well came along.

One of my daughters is now 16 and she is growing up with Rap and such. I am introducing her to good 'ole rock-n-roll and an country, and she likes it.

So anyways, glad you enjoyed the tune and thanks again for your comments.
Randy

Hello there Goosemeyer,

Now yours isn't a name I have seen before listening to my tunes, as I remember most everyone. So welcome!
I usually play/record country, rock, and blues.

I am glad to have to listen and review any of my tunes that you might be interested in.

As far as the particulars in this one, I used my Framus electric (Les Paul lookalike) and plug in direct usually. And yes I have amp modelers with in my Pro Tools software.
In fact, I think I have too much software.

I have real sounding natural pianos to electric pianos and many other various instruments including synths, such as the old ARP 2600 for weird sounds and the 'MOOG' instruments.

I use effects and EQing to acheive the sounds I want to hear. In other words, a lot of experimenting. I usually use www.betamonkeymusic.com drum sets as they are recorded live, usually 24 bit I choose.

Altho a drum machine will probably do the same....except cost lots more.
I usually record the rhythm track twice to give a song a fuller sound. This can be just the same guitar or combo of different guitars including acoustic guitars.
If you'll look at my profile and gallery, you'll see some of the different instruments I use and play myself. I also have learned the 'Mastering' side of music as well so I don't have to take my tunes to a studio anymore for mastering.

So again, thanks for stopping by and I'll give a listen to your tracks as well.
Randy

Hi again TJ,

Perfect eh? ha ha,
Well, I think there's always room for improvement on most anything. I suspect most everyone will listen to Loopermans, and other web sites, tunes thru normally lame computer speakers and cheaper headphones.

It's only when you download it and play it via another way will you hear it as it was made......in my case, using a KRK 6" monitor speakers with a 10" KRK subwoofer.
Then your in heaven when you have a good 'near field' system to mix by!

I would suggest getting a pair of Sennheizer HD 280 closed headphones. Around $100 here and there. Rated very good by many analysts. They are very loud, but no volume control on them. Just adjust the volume going into them.

If you by chance have listened to any of my other tunes...like 'Heavy Metal Highway' via the old way, prepare to be blown away with a good speaker system. I think that is my all time highest played tune on here or TT. The drums on that kick ass!

Okay, bye for now...and thanks for taking the time to write back.
Randy

Hi there Fil,

So sorry that I didn't get back to your reply sooner. Kinda had a lot of messages come in and piled on top of yours that day.

Anyways, I appreciate your comments on the Spanish type tune. I am glad you enjoyed this tune. I had fun making it. Much of it was from a loop CD I have of nylon guitar. Like putting a big puzzle together.

But I finally finished it and it seem to come out ok. So reviews like yours and others make it worth while for me.

I'll check out and see what you have new.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hi there Mik,
I appreciate you coming by and checking out the western tune. I probably could do something with horns and such. Just didn't think about it at the time.

Thanks for the nice comments, much appreciated.
Randy

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for checking this Punk tune out. I have a bunch of loops for these type of songs. I like adding in my own material though so as to make it 'mine'.

Vocals would be a welcome addition.
50 downloads...? Wow, guess I should check back more often within my own tracks.

Thanks again for the nice comments.
Randy

Hi Daniel,

Your right on the ball...Just received a message from you while I am writing this one. ha!

I usually state in a songs description if I use loops or whatever to help me out. Example: I don't play fiddle so I use loops for that in my country songs, or wherever.

I have lost track of the many thousands of loops I have boughten. Last year I bought 10 CD's full of loops from an English company. I haven't gone thru even half of them yet. Lot of orchestra stuff I don't need.
I also bought a guys entire library of CD's he made himself, another 10 CD set.
These have some Jazz loops and many other styles.

But, I still enjoy doing most of my own playing. I am not getting any younger. :-)))

I am glad you liked this country tune. I used my 'Framus' Les-Paul-lookalike guitar for this one as it does indeed have Humbuckers. It is a 1971 model made originally in Germany and worth a bit now.

That Apache song you mentioned, that was one of the first tunes I learned to play while I was stationed in France, after learning chords. The other was 'Needles and Pins' by The Searchers.

Didn't have an amp over there, so I rigged up a transistor radio to play the guitar thru the radio's speaker. It worked enough so I could hear it well. I copied the original artist Jorgman Ingman? style, then The Ventures version too. Don't belive I heard The Shadows version.

Anyways, I love old westerns as much as anyone else, and so I decided to try something and this is what came out. I added in the gunshots at the end as I thought it would be a good way to end it.

Thanks for your comment and have a nice day. Sorry for the long reply, I get carried away!!!
Randy

Hi Jeff,
Hey, I appreciate you checking out some more of my tunes. Voodoo Swamp Blues has been out for quite awhile. I entered it into the John Lennon song contest, but didn't win.

Slide guitar is fun and takes time to learn it.
Anyways, glad you liked it....I'll do another sometime soon.

Bye now,
Randy

Hi there big Pete!

Thanks a lot for checking out one of my blues tunes. I do somewhat of a variety of music as you may have seen in my profile.

I appreciate your comments very much and will certainly check out your tunes as well. I am at work now, so can't easily. I will later today.

I use a combo of my various guitars including a Dobro I bought last year. Since I also play pedal steel, Dobro slide is easy and natural for me.
Sometimes I use harmonia loops too.

So later then and thanks again for dropping by.
Randy

Hi ya Dave,

Happy to see you check out my western tune. I don't do many of these types, but I enjoyed making this one. Not really complicated, but effective I think. I had to close it out with 'gunshots' as I felt there had to be an ending. Who dies? I don't know, but could be both guys. Whichever way you want it to come out in your own mind. haha

Thanks for the nice review, I'll check out some more of your tunes as well.
Randy

Hi Dvibe,
Thanks alot for reviewing my western tune.
It was a fun one to put together. I figured the gunshots at the end would put a nice finishing touch to it.
I used my Keyboard to make them.
I will check out another one of your tunes here.
Thanks again.
Randy

Hello Howard,

Thanks for your kind comments about this rock song.
I didn't use my Tele on this tune. I have other guitars here as you may have seen in my profile gallery.
I play 6 different instruments including 5-string Banjo and Pedal Steel.

I do a mix of loops and my own playing in my tunes as I don't have any drums as I mentioned when I reviewed one of your tunes.

Long ago, back in 1980, I did analog mixing as well for a several bands and I owned my own PA system. This was after I stopped playing in a band myself.
Getting into digtal just happened about in Nov. 2007.

So it's an ongoing learning process and fun to do. My Pro Tools manual was 960 pages for ver. 7.4. But version 8.0 has come out and I am sure the new manual would top 1,000 pages.
They didn't offer hard copy manual this year. It is all in a .PDF file these days.

I know about where Fredonia as that's where the Buffalo Bills practice..near there. I live in Lockport...about 15 miles from Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

So good luck with your software, and it's not just the software that will make it for you...it is you yourself that will make the sound come to 'life'. The engineer is the man!

Thanks again for the review, I appreciate it.
Randy

Hi ya Slap,

Hey....thanks for stopping by and taking a listen to the western shootout. :-)

It was a fairly easy song to make overall.
I am glad you enjoyed it. I'll 'shoot' over to your profile now and see what's new there as it's been a while that I've heard one of your great tunes!

Thanks again,
Randy

Hello there MM,

Thanks for the nice comment on my western tune. It wasn't a hard one to make as it had rather slow leads, etc.
I am glad you enjoyed it. I will take a listen to your songs and give you a review back.
Randy

Hi Fila,

I believe this is the last tune you reviewed today. Probably wore you out with all that rock!

I am working on more of a Techno one now. We'll see how that turns out. It'll be somewhat half keyboard based. I just bought new Korg M3 so that is fun to play with.

Take care friend and thanks again for your comments. I'll try and do better.
Randy

Hi Fila,

Thanks again for reviewing this tune. As you probably read in the header, I couldn't think of a proper title...so thus...made in Japan. ha ha ha.

I appreciate your comments and glad you enjoy my music. I hope I can keep up the quality in all my tunes.
Randy

Hello there Fila,

Nice to hear from you. Thanks a lot for reviewing my 3 tunes. I will reply in each of them.

I am glad you enjoyed this western type tune I did. It was a fun one to do. Not too complicated as far as the guitar parts.

Yeah, them darn church bells really set the mood don't they. You hear one western movie with them in it....and they are in everyone after that. What an 'icon' eh.

Thanks again for your nice words. I will get to review 3 of your tunes over the the next couple days.

Randy

Hi there,

Looks like your making the rounds of my tunes. Great...I am sure most of them will be quite different than you have heard before as I try not to copy anyone.

I am glad you enjoyed the Blues 101 tune. That was the 1st blues tune I made. The second and third ones are a lot different yet.

Not sure what your hearing in the second part of 101. It is in a 'C' tuning as whereas the first part was in "E" tuning.
I used my Strat on that one with a combo of slide, picking and overdubbing to fill it out more.
I'd love to give you more reviews of your songs, but you only have 1 up and I reviewed that one already. When are you gonna make more?? I like your music really.

Anyways, thanks for the nice review,
Randy

Hi ya Wookie,

Your welcome to download this tune if you want to. Most of my rock tunes will probably 'get your attention' if I may say so myself.

A lot of TLC went into making each one to get the best quality sound out. Many layers of guitars and stuff give it the bigger sound.

Recording the rhythm guitar in one channel panned hard left, and then played again in the other channel panned hard right is a start.

Some poeple use Line 6 equip. or Guitar rig to get a nice guitar fuzz or saturated sound.
I use 'Amplitude' and 'Eleven' (an amp simulator) I got with 'Pro Tools' to get the sounds I desire.

Thanks for your comments.
Randy

Hi there Wookie,

Thanks for reviewing this tune and the Rock-Jap one. I appreciate your comments. I understand that the fuzz sound in the song I reviewed of yours was your just getting use to things.

Certainly no harm in experimenting at all and then uploading a song to get another perspective from members here.
That's how we all get others opinions and learn from them to improve our music.

Glad you liked this tune as well. It was fun to make. Not a complicated song at all if you listen to it. Rhythmn guitar, some simple lead, drums, a synth bell sound, and synth generated gunshots. :-)

Randy