Wanna hear my 3rd CD?

[RacerS]

Hi,

It's Grammy season so I posted a link for NARAS voters to listen to our 3rd CD and I thought I'd share it here.

We are very proud of this CD and I hope you like it. All of the tracks were produced by me. Every single track features at least one guitar part played on my Axis Sport with mm90's (I love that guitar!!)

Let me know what you think and feel free to ask for any production notes.

We try our best to make adult quality music with kid friendly lyrics. In fact AOL called us, "Family Friendly Rock and Roll". We cover a lot of different styles from latin to surf rock to synth pop and some real straight ahead rockers.

Please take a few minutes and listen to a track or 2 and share them with your kids. This is not a sales pitch, there is no link to buy these here. Just free listening from now until the end of the month.

Of course if you are or know any NARAS voting members, please consider us in the Best Children's Music Category and send it along to your friends. Help spread the word if you can.

Here's the link...

Tiny Cool for NARAS Members

Thanks for checking it out,

Steve

 

[peterd79]

Steve-

the album sounds great! best of luck with the grammy season! Great tone on the guitars!

 

[the24thfret]

Really sounds great! .. need more shredding though

 

[threeminutesboy]

hey steve how could I miss this thread

I really like it. "stick around" could be a hit

Did you use the ALHH or your faithful Axis Sport ? (maybe some over brand ?)

 

[Coffeemug]

Thanks for sharing the link Steve...you guys do such a great job! All the best for Grammy season!

 

[RacerS]

hey steve how could I miss this thread

I really like it. "stick around" could be a hit

Did you use the ALHH or your faithful Axis Sport ? (maybe some over brand ?)

Thanks for the compliment. "Stick Around" is all Axis, (The HH Al was not out yet) into an Avalon DI into Digi Eleven Plug in. For the solo, I added a fuzz from Waves gtr to the chain. Funny thing is I played that solo once as I was running out of the studio just to have it as a place holder. When I went back to that track a few weeks later, I tried to play some other stuff but that 1 take solo would not be beat.

I feel like part of what we do as a kid's band is let kids hear lots of different styles to give them a broader view of music and I try to do that in my playing too. I like to think of my favorite guitar players when mapping out parts for a track to get some inspiration. I kind of say, "What would xxx do over this?" and try to do my own thing with that flavor.

Stick Around was all Luke (in my head anyway). The staccato feel of the main rhythm riff was me trying to cop the feel of "Talk to Ya Later" and the synth/guitar interplay in the choruses was Toto. I guess that song is my homage to Luke, so it's no wonder it flies here...

Steve

 

[threeminutesboy]

well you have my respect for your work mate.

I have listen to all the album and I liked it, maybe the child in me is not completely gone

so if Toto Luke was you inspiration on "Stick around" I'm curious to hear about the "Japanese robot" and maybe you could explain each tune? I found it very interesting

 

[RacerS]

Funny... Japanese Robot was actually from a riff I wrote when I had a digitech whammy pedal for about 20 minutes. I got rid of the pedal but Katie had recorded the riff and wrote a song called Dreamy around it. Dreamy was supposed to be on our 2nd CD, "Fast & Feisty" but we pulled it at the very, very last minute. In fact we had the master made and ready to ship out when we changed our mind about that song. It just was not working for us for some reason so we pulled it and the CD ended up with one less track.

When we were working on "Tiny Cool", Katie came up with the awesome story and lyrics for Japanese Robot and it worked so well over the riff that we reworked the riff and a few others to be what it is now, Japanese Robot.

I have a great friend named Dave Baron who is a real, honest to goodness, musical genius and has an awesome collection of vintage synths. He heard the demo and wanted to play something on it for us.

Once we were finished with the song and the form, we recorded all the rhythm section, guitar and vocal parts and sent the track to Dave. I honestly gave him no direction except for telling him the story that Katie wrote of the toy robot who runs on love.

A few days later he emailed me the synth and vocoder tracks and the song just came together. His parts just fell into the track perfectly and it was a joy to mix them.

Steve

 

[threeminutesboy]

thanks Steve

I really like your work, good luck for the grammy

 

[RacerS]

Thank you! It means a lot to us to have other musicians like what we do.

Best,

Steve