I hope Reid Jamieson is in the studio somewhere in Canada, making another great album.
It's hard for me to believe that I've not posted in over a month. Time passes so quickly and I have heard that it only gets worse. Do what you want to do now, or it may never happen. Lately, I have been listening to some really good music for reviews.
Roger O'Donnell, ex-keyboardist for The Cure and Psychedelic Furs recently put out a cd called The Truth In Me. It's mainly instrumental and sounds a lot like the incidental music used in shows like ER, flashbacks of photographic memories in movies, and other dramatic type of footage. It was really an enjoyable album, entirely composed on a Moog Voyager keyboard; even the loops and percussion sounds. This album doesn't sound like The Cure, even though O'Donnell did some great work with them in the past. It's great background music to keep you awake while you read and do things around the house.
Reid Jamieson, a singer/songwriter/guitarist put out The Unavoidable Truth in 2004 and I requested a copy for review a few weeks ago. Wow, this is a great release. "Last Day of The Year" is one of the best songs I have ever heard. I really can't find anything wrong with it. The length of it, the slightly country/pop/folk sound, warm inviting vocals, and heartfelt lyrics regarding letting go of the past and starting anew are perfect. "Common problems" is another great song. Jamieson's soaring, heartfelt voice carries this song along, as well as the other songs on the album. This album is definitely worth a listen and will not disappoint as long as you can handle hearing a pedal steel guitar on almost all of the tracks.
I have other cds stacked for review, a bunch of different releases in many styles. Hopefully, I will have them done soon and then I'll have a chance to figure out how to use Cakewalk Guitar Pro 3, something I ordered with the rest of my bonus. The analog four-track got a little boring to use around the house.
I pulled out some tapes the other day and listened to them while driving around. I actually held the mini-tape player to my ear and listened to my life set to music. Most of it was just guitar, but it started off well ideas from seven years ago and spanned to the middle of last year. It's amazing how music can bring up all kinds of memories without effort. I think that's what keeps people coming back to music; they associate a moment in time with a song that was either popular or special to them at the time and never let go of it. Think about it, people connecting "Every Breath You Take" (a song Sting wrote about a stalker-type character obsessed with his ex) with loving someone else and playing at their wedding for a dance. I guess people enjoy music outside of this and just want something to help keep their minds off of things or to break the monotony of things. I guess I use music in all those ways. I can't hear "Vaseline" from Stone Temple Pilots without thinking back to eating lunch with roomate at the cafeteria during my first semester of college. He was and still is a really nice, soft spoken guy that got stomped on at a Metallica concert. I clean around the house with a Foo Fighters dvd cranked and hardly ever get behind the wheel without a cd playing. Sometimes I think people are afraid of sitting quietly and actually listening to themselves and life. I wonder what life was like before people actually had music or tv to occupy their minds all the time. They probably had a lot more time to think about how to handle things; that doesn't mean that they did though...
Ryan
Roger O'Donnell, ex-keyboardist for The Cure and Psychedelic Furs recently put out a cd called The Truth In Me. It's mainly instrumental and sounds a lot like the incidental music used in shows like ER, flashbacks of photographic memories in movies, and other dramatic type of footage. It was really an enjoyable album, entirely composed on a Moog Voyager keyboard; even the loops and percussion sounds. This album doesn't sound like The Cure, even though O'Donnell did some great work with them in the past. It's great background music to keep you awake while you read and do things around the house.
Reid Jamieson, a singer/songwriter/guitarist put out The Unavoidable Truth in 2004 and I requested a copy for review a few weeks ago. Wow, this is a great release. "Last Day of The Year" is one of the best songs I have ever heard. I really can't find anything wrong with it. The length of it, the slightly country/pop/folk sound, warm inviting vocals, and heartfelt lyrics regarding letting go of the past and starting anew are perfect. "Common problems" is another great song. Jamieson's soaring, heartfelt voice carries this song along, as well as the other songs on the album. This album is definitely worth a listen and will not disappoint as long as you can handle hearing a pedal steel guitar on almost all of the tracks.
I have other cds stacked for review, a bunch of different releases in many styles. Hopefully, I will have them done soon and then I'll have a chance to figure out how to use Cakewalk Guitar Pro 3, something I ordered with the rest of my bonus. The analog four-track got a little boring to use around the house.
I pulled out some tapes the other day and listened to them while driving around. I actually held the mini-tape player to my ear and listened to my life set to music. Most of it was just guitar, but it started off well ideas from seven years ago and spanned to the middle of last year. It's amazing how music can bring up all kinds of memories without effort. I think that's what keeps people coming back to music; they associate a moment in time with a song that was either popular or special to them at the time and never let go of it. Think about it, people connecting "Every Breath You Take" (a song Sting wrote about a stalker-type character obsessed with his ex) with loving someone else and playing at their wedding for a dance. I guess people enjoy music outside of this and just want something to help keep their minds off of things or to break the monotony of things. I guess I use music in all those ways. I can't hear "Vaseline" from Stone Temple Pilots without thinking back to eating lunch with roomate at the cafeteria during my first semester of college. He was and still is a really nice, soft spoken guy that got stomped on at a Metallica concert. I clean around the house with a Foo Fighters dvd cranked and hardly ever get behind the wheel without a cd playing. Sometimes I think people are afraid of sitting quietly and actually listening to themselves and life. I wonder what life was like before people actually had music or tv to occupy their minds all the time. They probably had a lot more time to think about how to handle things; that doesn't mean that they did though...
Ryan
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