Another Work In Progress

[Newc]

Here's another one I'm working on, called Alice.

http://newcenstein.com/mp3/Album/Alice-mix2012-3.mp3

It's slightly influenced by classic Nightmare/Killers/Babies-era Alice Cooper.

Not sure if I want to do any solos or just leave it as it is.

I do want to see if I can conjure up a classic raspy fuzz tone in the 1101 for the second section (with the phaser). The tone it has now is a bit smoother than I'd like.

The end is a bit loose as well. Originally it had the same drum pattern from beginning to end, so that set the tempo. I took out the drums from the second part, and then used a better pattern for the end, but that's as close as I could get it without redoing the bass and guitar. I'll redo those, though, so they match the drums and everything's tighter.

I started working on this sometime last year, and can't remember what chords I used. I had them in a GP5 file on another hard drive (along with some snippets I was working on) but it fell off the shelf and the drive is now toast

[Cliff]

I'm not familiar with any of the influences you mention, so my opinion should be taken with a huge grain of salt...

I really liked the first part. Although totally different, it reminded me of Zep's Dazed And Confused. I didn't like the harsh guitar chords that came in around the 1 minute mark. For me, I'd rather the earlier eerie stuff had a longer time to develop. I'm not sure where i stand on the phaser part, maybe it's a bit disjointed? But I thought it came together again at the end.

[Newc]

Thanks for the comment.

It really does sound disjointed if you're not familiar with classic Alice - most people go for the Hey Stoopid and other recent material, which I really didn't like. The old stuff was more psychedelic with a lot of ensemble parts (i.e. roughly structured - not as loose as freestyle Jazz but not as tight as prog, and each section was more of a collection of riffs for the trippers to trip on).
This is closer (to me) to a mashup of Dead Babies, Halo Of Flies, and The Awakening, just without the vocals. Or piano. Or compositional quality
Basically it's like listening to a marathon session of Killer, Nightmare, and Billion Dollar Babies, then 6 months later trying to recall any of it from memory

Still, I like it. Still debating on adding Nightmare-ish horns to the last section to double the guitar.

[RacerX]

I like all the screaming

[Newc]

Yeah, that section needed "something". I was trying to find a good crowd "yeah!" or "hey!" cheer, but settled on the cheesy B-Movie screams

[MOSHWITZ]

Sup?

I can dig it,,,the second half would be great for a build up scene in a Zombie killing movie

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