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I was very skeptical about this one but really enjoyed playing bass on it. I'll vote to keep working on it, and get our horns involved as soon as possible on it. 

Bold fade out by Mahlon. I think it's because he got all pissy at Pete for going into the hits unannounced and didn't want it on the recording.

Sounds great though. I didn't have the simple guitar/sax melody quite right. Fixing that will make a big difference.

Makes sense. Glad you were able to salvage something from Song For My Father.

Some of the audio for the recordings have problems. Because I was stoned and enjoying Matt’s Xmas gift (whiskey) my engineering skills were not as sharp as normal. Navigating the gauntlet of cables, inputs and outputs on the fly proved to be a challenge. On one tune the sax line wasn’t working. I was able to still bring the sax out through the drum overhead and percussion mics, but that makes for a washy recording and drum heavy...but in the end we still got Paddy’s magic. In aint that funky, to ensure we got the sax, I swapped out what should have been my floor Tom line, but it turned out to be my snare line🤔, so I didn’t have as much control over the finer aspects of the track. Still sounds good though. Next time..

Lot's of really cool stuff here. Pat has some genuine solos going on throughout. The crescendo starting right at 14:00 of Ain't It Funky Now stands out since we all seemed to read each other well there. A+.

Wasn't in the mix I guess. I heard Mahlon has a plan though.

Timmy, great work on the Marvin melody in the solo.  

What happened? Why no keys? 

Crazy Moog drone at 7:40 → 8:35 sounded way cooler in the room, but still cool.

No Yamaha 🥺

Land of nahd is actually a New Mastersounds song, right? Which one?

Longest note ever: 7:30-10:30

Some sweet licks from Tim in here...

Savor the flavor, cause this will not happen again. 

The last 4-5 minutes of this song is jammin’! We come off the hits (which we pull off well throughout the tune) and Adam slides into a sweet Moog solo and Tim later starts going to town. 

Best jam ever.

Some super cool stuff going on here. The bass on Ain't no use is outta this world on the fourth "chorus". That's one of my favorite recordings of that song yet. The drums and bass kicking in perfectly at the beginning of Just the Way I Pictured It are 👌. Ain't it Funky Now is cool even though there are at least four different ways that the hits are being played. Nice stuff.

Nice work on the vocals here, James.

Yes! This one's so much fun. We can get Jim singing some of the tunes we've worked on already too... like Ain't No Use and the Ben Vereen number, I'll Keep a Light in My Window.

Good idea here too with posting the music. Very helpful. I'll try to get the horn line down to accompany the trumpet. 

 

Missing recording of O Caminho Do Bem?

Totally agree. Happy to learn anything that anybody wants to sing.

I wasn't really happy with the moog in this take. Oh well. The mix is really good. Guitar and bass sound great. Love the little slide up/down flourish at the end of each phrase. And Mahlon channeling Donald Johnson from Khruangbin. 

Jim crushing vocals and trumpet...a whole new dynamic. We should do more vocal tunes. 

Other favorite part is the ghosty moog interlude jat 3:50...smooth.

Thanks a ton for hosting. The tones and sound engineering setup you have is amazing — jealous I can’t do this every week. Btw, spelling is “Bryn” and “Jon”. The song titles are great... way better than Music Jam #1.

Didn't we play Move on Up? No recording?

Huge ➕1 to Ummh.

This is my favorite recording of this yet. Matt doing some super cool stuff on the guitar. Cousin John holding it down on bass. Sick Moog sounds. Nice work.

Lol. Which guitarist starts the descending run two beats early literally every time? This is cool though. Was this the last song that Cousin John came up that we all stuck around for?

😊🤤

Great to have TJ back. However, he brought treats from CA. Note to self, when someone who has you by probably 50lbs says...'Yeah, I took a whole gummy and I was fine', think back to the 6/9/18 jam session and say 'oh yeah, that was stupid. I'll go for half.' 

This was the beginning of the onset of gummy-dumb. We started at like 127 bpm and end up at 117. I do like the little jam we devolve into come 11:30ish.

This is a great number. I need to learn it on bass too. 

Yes. This groove is huge. Adam, you sound great on this one already. We need to keep playing it.

Yeah. The changes themselves are pretty straightforward I think: https://rs62.live/songs/minx 

Would probably help for me to listen to the original a few times to get a better feel.

I do like the groove, though. 

Yeah, I really really dig this song. There's another change that we never did that just goes up a half-step to the Eb too. And it would behoove us to play the riffs more often (and cleaner). Looking forward to doing this again.

Meh. Don't bother. I dig this song but it's boring unless I learn the proper riffs and chord extensions. Will do before we play it again.

I didn't realize this was Move On Up when we were playing it. Cool. Should learn that horn line. Also found a cool recording by The Dynamics.

The two vocal tracks were tough to mix. Putting the mic to PA speaker doesn't cut it. The mic seemed to pick up a lot of room as well as what's coming out of the PA. With this one and 'John's Son' I really had to mix to the vocal mic, so it's a little tinny and there is a lot of 'room' on that particular track.  Once the vocals were over I cut it out that track and the instruments start to balance better. 

I do like the groove, though. 

Dig this groove. Love the chunking action on both guitars. If we can solidify the changes this will be a great tune to have in the arsenal. 

Not entirely happy with this mix. It seems loud and thin. I may have another go at it, but then again...there are a lot of tracks from this evening. 

A couple mixing challenges. Unfortunately, the Moog was a little hot all night so it sizzles a little on most tracks. Definitely a solid evening though. 

Pete and I don't need much encouragement to play Sabbath.

So far, the tunes we've worked on, if you want to start listening to them...  

WASP/Behind the Wall of Sleep 

N.I.B. 

Sweet Leaf

Supernaut

Paranoid 

Fairies Wear Boots 

The Wizard 

This is great that you can add links here! The original is groovy. I think I can figure out that bass line. 

Check out the song details for the original that I had in mind.

This. This is what the people want to hear. 💉🐉

• Really like the evolution in the beginning of this song.
• I dig the melody and entrance of the Moog at 6:10
• Like the shuffle switch at 9ish - although I slog it a couple of times 
• Pete, channeling a little Tony Iommi toward end of the solo around 11:00?

A little too close to I-IV-V with the I-III-V, but because we're making America great again, I let it slide. 

Any thoughts on the use of tremolo in the mix? Too much? Not too much? Much too much?

Lol. I just listened to this again. I must have been drunk last time I listened to it. I'm sure it was fun to play, by that's about it :)

I like this a lot - catchy, and effect on keyboard is great.

Nice work, fellas. 

Just a gentle reminder of whose house it is 😎