Phil's Fun Lunch (by A Great Many) [Remix]
Visit us! http://rotang.com This is the second music video in a series on proper social conduct. In this episode we recount a typical day's lunch for my friend Phil. This was filmed on site at Dennison middle school (not Manchester Jr. High used in the first episode). A Great Many played this song for two magpies and a crow, they said we should concentrate on commercials, TV, or film. [ed: The corvidae also required and oversaw the remix to which you are now listening] Work for hire bumper music, soundtracks, TV commercials, things like that. We explained we still wanted to be a pop band with two singers, we're just two singers short right now. The crow remarked it was fun to make the film narrator swing by chopping up his dialog one syllable at time. I replied I would prefer to write regular pop songs and have someone else write regular lyrics to be sung by regular vocalists. If you are an available lyricist/singer person, A Great Many would very much like to hear from you. Please respond with examples of your work. We can all look forward to our next world tour, for which we will recruit PB, Drum Emperor of the supergroup "PB and JAM" and star of this very song (although sadly not playing drums), to rock the drums with his unique PB flavor. This song was written using the WGFA technique and was not processed in facilities where celery is eaten. This version of the song was recorded at 162bpm, not 154bpm and sped up. A Great Many has an active cabaret card for the year 2704, at which time it will be publicly available on your The MyInternets for inspection. Musical pedants insist that I identify the sources of the sounds on these recordings. This music was performed by A Great Many during April 2011 at our recording studio using only the following devices: Drums: Yamaha Maple 5-piece with Zildjan K and Z cymbals along with a mysterious but cool sounding china-like crash picked up on tour in Belgium. Tambourine on the hi-hat, of course. Bass: Hoffner violin bass plugged directly in to an Ampeg SVT head with a big 'ol 8x10 mic'd using one Shure SM-57. Bass Synth: ARP 2600 routed through a phaser Synthesizer: Strings-n-Things on voice setting played through a speaker in the big drum live room. Organ: Hammond B-3 into a proline Leslie mic'd really close with a Beyer Dynamic. Piano: Yamaha upright mic'd using contact microphones on the soundboard. Guitars: Ibanez RX Series (red, tremelo blocked) into a fuzzbox, Bogner head, and 2x10 speakers. Close mic'd with a Royer-121 in the big live room. Fender Stratocaster (1983, Mexican, thick neck) into a Fender twin amplifier turned to 11, facing the wall, surrounded by gobos because it was too damn loud. Gibson ES-335 (both pickups on for perhaps the first time ever), in to a popular green distortion box, into a Marshall head and Marshall 4x12 slant cabinet. Rickenbacker 360/12 (2009, Mapleglo). This instrument is the sound of angles, and I don't even believe in angels. Whatever you plug it in to sounds good. It doesn't matter what other gear was used -- it was a genuine Rickenbacker 360/12. (I used an old Mesa/Boogie amp section wired to the speakers on the Lab L5, and mic'd it with a Royer ribbon. I should just put the mic in front of the instrument without plugging it in. It's a Rickenbacker 360/12. Mapleglo. No, you can't borrow it.) Note that the "guitar section" was recorded by setting up all the amps and relying on room mics to capture all the amps playing at once.
Visit us! http://rotang.com This is the second music video in a series on proper social conduct. In this episode we recount a typical day's lunch for my friend Phil. This was filmed on site at Dennison middle school (not Manchester Jr. High used in the first episode). A Great Many played this song for two magpies and a crow, they said we should concentrate on commercials, TV, or film. [ed: The corvidae also required and oversaw the remix to which you are now listening] Work for hire bumper music, soundtracks, TV commercials, things like that. We explained we still wanted to be a pop band with two singers, we're just two singers short right now. The crow remarked it was fun to make the film narrator swing by chopping up his dialog one syllable at time. I replied I would prefer to write regular pop songs and have someone else write regular lyrics to be sung by regular vocalists. If you are an available lyricist/singer person, A Great Many would very much like to hear from you. Please respond with examples of your work. We can all look forward to our next world tour, for which we will recruit PB, Drum Emperor of the supergroup "PB and JAM" and star of this very song (although sadly not playing drums), to rock the drums with his unique PB flavor. This song was written using the WGFA technique and was not processed in facilities where celery is eaten. This version of the song was recorded at 162bpm, not 154bpm and sped up. A Great Many has an active cabaret card for the year 2704, at which time it will be publicly available on your The MyInternets for inspection. Musical pedants insist that I identify the sources of the sounds on these recordings. This music was performed by A Great Many during April 2011 at our recording studio using only the following devices: Drums: Yamaha Maple 5-piece with Zildjan K and Z cymbals along with a mysterious but cool sounding china-like crash picked up on tour in Belgium. Tambourine on the hi-hat, of course. Bass: Hoffner violin bass plugged directly in to an Ampeg SVT head with a big 'ol 8x10 mic'd using one Shure SM-57. Bass Synth: ARP 2600 routed through a phaser Synthesizer: Strings-n-Things on voice setting played through a speaker in the big drum live room. Organ: Hammond B-3 into a proline Leslie mic'd really close with a Beyer Dynamic. Piano: Yamaha upright mic'd using contact microphones on the soundboard. Guitars: Ibanez RX Series (red, tremelo blocked) into a fuzzbox, Bogner head, and 2x10 speakers. Close mic'd with a Royer-121 in the big live room. Fender Stratocaster (1983, Mexican, thick neck) into a Fender twin amplifier turned to 11, facing the wall, surrounded by gobos because it was too damn loud. Gibson ES-335 (both pickups on for perhaps the first time ever), in to a popular green distortion box, into a Marshall head and Marshall 4x12 slant cabinet. Rickenbacker 360/12 (2009, Mapleglo). This instrument is the sound of angles, and I don't even believe in angels. Whatever you plug it in to sounds good. It doesn't matter what other gear was used -- it was a genuine Rickenbacker 360/12. (I used an old Mesa/Boogie amp section wired to the speakers on the Lab L5, and mic'd it with a Royer ribbon. I should just put the mic in front of the instrument without plugging it in. It's a Rickenbacker 360/12. Mapleglo. No, you can't borrow it.) Note that the "guitar section" was recorded by setting up all the amps and relying on room mics to capture all the amps playing at once.