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Barracuda - Heart and Fergie

Posted Mon, 12/31/2007 - 18:46 by Alan

Barracuda

Heart
I like Heart's Barracuda. There are a number of good songs on Little Queen, but this one has always stood out as the best for me, if not Heart's best track. To me, it shows what they could have been doing had they not gone down the AOR route with These Dreams, Alone and similar lightweight radio-friendly tracks. The root is the the driving rhythm of guitars, bass and drums, but even within that there are subtleties in the notes as the guitar and bass regularly play rehearsed fills together. This is an effect that stands out.  read more »

Stuck for a new band name

Posted Sat, 12/29/2007 - 11:14 by Alan

The band have asked for a website. Ok, simple enough, but the domain name for our band name (alpha one) already exists. Not surprising with a name like that. We could do the trick of appending "the band" to the domain, e.g. www.alphaonetheband.com. Could be done, but I think they're tacky and sometimes awkward to remember. Did the name have spaces, hyphens, underscores. Very likely to have spaces, but when you're giving the URL out to the general public, it pays to be as clear as possible.  read more »

memory

Posted Tue, 11/06/2007 - 23:51 by Alan

Memory in full. For more background look at Memory and Spinneyhead Presents

The Trailer:
The only caveat I've really got with these is that there is music all the way through to cover up the background noise from location recording. Usually, I'd like gaps especially to draw attention to what the actors are speaking
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