Of the three you posted today, this is probably my least favourite, mainly because it sounds a bit more derivative (especially the starting bars) than the other two - nevertheless, this drives really well and the production is tight and clean. Playing as good as it gets in this style - not sure about the vox here, but just a personal thing, Andrew sings really well.
Neil

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yeah, thats what I'm talkin bout. hard driving energetic ROCK. Has all the elements of a live jam. I see the guitarist slammin so hard the whammy bar falls off. nice track

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Essentially it was live. We like to turn on the drums and then just wham away. I had to redo the drum using midi later, cuz the beat we chose was too wierd. We hadn't recorded it to a bpm grid, so getting the drums synched later was a MAJOR pain in the butt, but worth it, I think, in the end. Glad you like, and thanks for the kind words.

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Never been to Iowa-y. This put imagery in my mind of riding my bike over gently rolling hills in farm country though. (Sigh) I wish summer would get here. I need to ride!

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Thanks bug. Yeah, now that I live in SF, I can ride year 'round, certainly doesn't suck. The rainy season is here though, so I have to deal with bein' wet, but a small price to pay. I like how the "Iowa-y" turns into "I away"--as in "I'm leaving".

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would be proud - John Doe too. Great hard rocker - love the everything about it. Lyrics are spot on as are the vocals. You got a thing for thr Port Authority I've noticed. X -tra cool tune.

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Andrew, my bro, who lives in Brooklyn, by the way, is an X fan from way back. John Doe has the most amazing set of pipes and Exene was the perfect compliment (tho she can't sing worth a damn on her own). I appreciate the high praise and comparison. Andrew and I are actually looking for a way we can jam when I'm there next week, he's a lefty with no righty axes to share....hint hint....

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on that starship troopers tune. liked this cool rocker. to me (could be my headphones, one never knows) i think you could of brought the vocals down a tad. there placed well enough they shouldn't get buried. probably nitpicky, some people just want to hear vocals, i like to hear it all. great stuff philip, right up my alley. Vic

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I have had a tendency to bury the vocals behind the guitars (most guitarists do...) historically and I have been trying to right that wrong in my recent mixes, maybe I overdid it.

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Love the type of distortion you have used on this one. Also the way the drums change at one point in the song, you have a slower release on the hi-hat, its the middle of the first verse I think, and repeated later in the song. I like it all over.

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I do all my guitars with amp models direct. I use a Boss DR-880 the best drum machine for guitarsits ever made., and an old Digitech Genesis 3, which lets you "morph" 2 different amp simulators into each other. I might have used Logic Pro's Guitar Amp Pro plug-in as a re-amp. That is: record a fairly clean distortion on the direct amp modeling external box and then add more with a amp simulation plugin in Logic, works cool. Really thick. You'd like it, it would work for your type of stuff.

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Great American Rock, from my side, guitars and wind blowin'. Bright. Same old strory, We Gotta To Get Out Of This Place. Always new when played and written with such vitality. Well done.

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Now your talkin this is fruckin great. Listen growin up n Ny I met alot of people who come to the city and then sit and wait and I always wondered what they were waiting for but everymorning they were there in the port authority waitin for that break... shit this is a good song!!!

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Back at cha. Was back in NYC for the holidays. Man I miss the grit. Makes me write jams like this here....glad you dug.

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Good groove man! I would turn the vox down a smidge besides that everything sounds rockin!

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