Finally recorded my Stingray!

[BullHorn]

I've had this beautiful Trans Teal 2009 Stingray for a couple of months now but could not think of a song I really want to record with it, until I watched Donnie Darko last night.

I think it sounds great in a good pair of headphones. Enjoy!

All comments/feedback are welcome.

 

[Gravesend Black]

Very cool. I've always liked SR's clacking) What is your bass/mid/treble settings?

 

[Aussie Mark]

Nice work, and a great bassline

 

[bignasty]

cool

 

[BullHorn]

Very cool. I've always liked SR's clacking) What is your bass/mid/treble settings?

The treble was boosted around 75%, the mid and bass weren't touched.

 

[fevitz]

nice playing , and your bridges are all nice and even , tears for fears brings back memories .

 

[Freddels]

Nice. I just heard this tune on the radio yesterday.

 

[nurnay]

Very nice bass line (and playing!). I heard that song a gazillion times in the 80's and never realized what a cool bass part it has. Might have to give it a go myself.

 

[J Romano]

Very nice, really enjoyed it!

 

[jlepre]

Nice job...very tasty bass line too.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Great job!

 

[eligilam]

Great playing, great sound, great bass, GREAT song, GREAT movie!

Hope this isn't too much of a derail, but here's a snippet from AV Club movie review for Donnie Darko: they make mention of the "specialness" of that particular song at that opening spot in the movie. Tears For Fears friggin ROCKS.


If Donnie Darko coasting through the suburb of Middlesex, Virginia on his bicycle as "The Killing Moon" plays on the soundtrack wasn't attention-getting enough already, the "Head Over Heels" sequence had me sitting bolt upright in my seat. In this mesmerizing five minutes, Kelly introduces many of the major characters (and wordlessly suggests the tension between them). More impressive still, he evokes the life of a late-'80s adolescent with a tone that hovers somewhere between nostalgia and dread. It's very hard, especially when the soundtrack is this irresistible, to revisit a period without making it seem like facile "I Love The '80s" nostalgia. (Just ask Richard Linklater, who intended Dazed And Confused—another New Cult Canon contender—to be suffused with melancholy, but doesn't always get that response from viewers who groove on the music and stoner comedy.) But Kelly maintains that ambivalent tone from start to finish, and for as much love as he displays for the popular music and movies of the period, the film is still sobering, hypnotic, and more than a little sad.

 

[JayDawg]

Nice job! Tone sounded great too.

 

[Jules]

I've had this beautiful Trans Teal 2009 Stingray for a couple of months now but could not think of a song I really want to record with it, until I watched Donnie Darko last night.

I think it sounds great in a good pair of headphones. Enjoy!

All comments/feedback are welcome.

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

 

[drTStingray]

That sounds great, Bullhorn. Nicely played.

 

[Jules]

Where is the best place on the net to find tabs of this stuff?

 

[Gravesend Black]

use your ears and this video)

 

[Jules]

use your ears and this video)

Thanks for your original answer.

 

[Gravesend Black]

Thanks for your original answer.

No offence but this vid is really good to learn that song) Had no intent for trolling

I use 911tabs.com for surfing tabs but I did not find any Donnie Darko tabs there

 

[Jules]

I didn't take it that way. I have a few challenges, though. I deliberately don't have internet other than my iPhone at home. Also, I have been working on several songs and on one or two just can't quite get the parts right, or in a couple of cases, wasn't playing the notes on the right strings.

I am trying to clean up my execution. I have been working on these:

Sure Know Something, KISS
Rapture, Blondie
Black is Black, Los Bravos
and a few others.

Sometime I need a little help getting it right. I'll get more keen on things on my own as I go.