story:
it's a little ditty about 2 brothers and a lycanthrope.......
it's loosely based on the original wolfman movie, the one where larry talbot gets bitten by the werewolf, and he see's the pentagram in his hand; he knows he's phucked, so he goes to the old gypsy woman who knows about these things, to find a cure, and she basically tells him the only thing for him to do, is to kill himself......
what a bum deal.
anyway, these 2 brothers have been partying all night, drunk as skunks, and one of them staggers out into the moor, and proceeds to meets his maker.
the remaining brother wants revenge, but has sobered up now, and has figured out that he'd better get some kind of ammunition...
....so he goes to see the gypsy-witch, to get some aconite (wolfsbane) and a spell here and a prayer there, and believes that he's well prepared, and he goes out to the moor to get his revenge.
but that's not what he gets......
“The Payment�
Written by RF Gilliland
Nightime, on the moor
drank up all the mead
mist is in the air
full moon, did the deed.
never saw the evil...
that poor ole son of a b!!tch
felt the claws that gripped his throat
yeah, he was dead without a twitch.
"it's your brother down on the moor,
with his head down at his feet!"
drink the aconite, tonight
toast the witches curse
pray to whoever you believe in
to pass over you the worst
it's your brother on the moor,
with his head down at his feet
and the debt has not been paid in full
will you, your maker, meet?
run into the moor
and see the evil eye
upon you, cast a glance,
and the payment, it is nigh.
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:01 pm
by batsbrew
this is a song i wrote almost 10 years ago...
this is a brand new version of it, new tracks, new arrangment.
geek stuff:
recorded in Sonar, using ADK mic, shure sm57 mic , A Designs preamps, DBX compression, Waves plugins, sansamp bass di, drums played on keys but triggered thru Toontracks Superior drummer, Maudio Audiophile 192 for conversion, Taylor 414, Carvin DC200K, Custom USACG strat, Mesa Boogie Mark2b head, Avatar closed back 1x12, Thai prayer bell, shaker, maracas, tamborine, there are 34 actual audio tracks total, 6 acoustic tracks, 8 electric tracks, 3 vocal tracks, 2 fx vocal tracks, 1 bass guitar track, percussion, shaker, bell, and tamborine percussion tracks, washing machine used as a bass drum track, kick, snare, 3 toms, hihat, room mic, 2 solo guitar tracks.
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:01 pm
by batsbrew
heheh, "Aconite".
not easy to sneak into a lyric.....
around here, they call it "Monk's hood".
and it's quite pretty...
but it is also called "Wolf's Bane", which was too obvious for the lyric!
in old times, they used to use this to kill wolves.
it means 'without struggle'
which seems appropriate and somewhat ironic, eh?
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:30 pm
by batsbrew
just added video version:
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:50 pm
by batsbrew
[youtube][/youtube]
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:14 pm
by Dave
I really like that Bass riffage and the sound of it. Really good grunty groove there. The song is great fun and suitably epic.
We've got a shortscale Halloween podcast compilation on the go - you should totally submit this track to it! There are plans to put these up on youtube and other outlets for folks to discover:
i'll take that under advisement... the podcast....
it was really fun to track this tune...
i've got like 40 tracks...
and just went everywhere with it..
i've got 6 and 7 tracks of nothing but feedback going in certain places....
amp was just vibrating, and singing, and doing it's own thing.
all i had to do, was be there, and capture it.
the screams with the guitars, the slashing of the werewolf, all visuals i tried to realize directly thru the guitar.
when you have a story that is so strong, the visuals are in the brain so accutely, it's really easy to tap into that as a source of inspiration, and if you know your rig as well as i know my rig, it's dirt easy to get it to talk..
to annunciate..
to animate the ideas flowing thru the synapses, directly into the strings from the fingers....
even the acoustic treatments, were meant to feel a bit menacing....
a decision to drag a pick across the strings from the top to the bottom, versus the other way...
every stroke of it was conceived in advance, trying to evoke a feeling that would transcribe into a wonderfully wicked feeling vibe.
