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Greeting Gents… It’s been a while since I’ve spoken to, or even heard from most of you.  Absence makes the heart grow fonder, eh?

Where in the heck is everyone?  I’ve been in Montana for coming about 8.5 years now, Phoenix for 3 before that, Charlotte, North Carolina for 1 year before that, and Austin Texas for 5 years prior to that.  I suppose there was the 9 years in Rochester NY too, but that was college so I’m not sure that counts.  Anyway, it’s nice to see you guys are still in touch and passing music around. 

I bought my daughter (who plays piano) an EMU 1616 midi station a couple years ago and she’s never really taken to it, so I grabbed it a couple months ago and have been trying to learn how to use Sonar LE.  With Todd’s help I’ve managed to learn the basics, although I still suffer from terrible musicianship.  Anyway, I decided to build a bass (picture enclosed) and start recording some ideas to learn how this whole thing goes together.   I’m using the percussion from my daughters Suzuki SP-27 practice keyboard until I figure out the drum kits in Sonar.  Anyway, here’s a few bars I put together just for grins…  Maybe someone will venture forth and record something good over it and send it back.

Regards to all and let me know what and how you’re doing this decade…         Kevin

My father’s lederhosen
Fat men in gum-soled shoes are creeping around in the basement
driving beets

When Im With You 2

Can’t explain how this song ends up sounding like 70’s southern rock.  Neither of us was greatly influenced by this genre in this decade. 

“Circus in my mind… I’m a clown I’m a fool… Tight rope walker kicks me from behind”   Great line!

Hey Manoog, I took the liberty of adding some energetic female vocals to back you up in the chorus parts.
She sounds a little smarter than you (snicker) which is interesting because these tracks were created from
your vocal tracks, all voice inflection is you raised an octave.  This is the same trick I used in John’s
“Down On Weighted Knees” using the Roland V-Vocal plug-in. 
The drums get a bit exuberant in the last chorus.  For example, you hear a snare, two toms, and a hi-hat
all at the same time.  Your average two handed drummer might consider this bad taste.

We had a great night of recording and it was a lot of fun getting these tracks down.  Let’s do it again soon!  All comments welcome…      Todd

My friend Adam wrote the song in the late 1980’s.  We played and recorded various versions of it during the early 1990’s.  My arrangement is somewhat true to the original, but certainly more modernized and richer in acoustic instrumentation in this version.  We had a lot of fun recording it at your house!  Thanks for all the work on this!  I will listen to it now.      Manoog


When Im With You
When Im with You 2 [Squeaky Clean remix]