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Grog turned me into a Kool Kid!

Actually that goes very well with the tux.

That how you're supposed to sport a fez !!

I guess...if I was a Baccarat player at a casino on the french riviera in 1962!

Lucas, it all sounds terrific! But you should really seriously consider putting out a Dark Continent CD. Great composition and musical inspiration trumps any concerns about production quality or polish every day, and these are great compositions! And to my ears, this all sounds extremely professional, and whatever "raw" elements (which you probably hear more than other people will) are what make it even better. Really, modern digital recording is what sucks the life and rawness (a good thing) out of music. Some of the best elements about music made in the 60's and earlier is hearing "mistakes" that constitute someone doing something they didn't intend to do that gives the recording an extra verve.

Caltiki Brent

a Dark Continent album!
YEAH!
dibs on painting the cover!

On 2011-04-13 13:01, congawa wrote:
Lucas, it all sounds terrific! But you should really seriously consider putting out a Dark Continent CD. Great composition and musical inspiration trumps any concerns about production quality or polish every day, and these are great compositions! And to my ears, this all sounds extremely professional, and whatever "raw" elements (which you probably hear more than other people will) are what make it even better. Really, modern digital recording is what sucks the life and rawness (a good thing) out of music. Some of the best elements about music made in the 60's and earlier is hearing "mistakes" that constitute someone doing something they didn't intend to do that gives the recording an extra verve.

Caltiki Brent

Thanks for your kind words, Cal.

It's funny, but Spike Lucky Designs was just today telling me something similar.

I may yet do this one day. Right now, I am playing with two orchestras (I got accepted into a regular orchestra very recently) and hopefully my goals are twofold: Really get the theory and composition elements down pat, so that I can write orchestral scores to my own music, and then make contacts inside the orchestral scene, and have players willing to put together stuff, mainly with strings and whatever else. As it is, I already have my eye on several players of instruments such as flute and trombone, and I meet new people every day.

I also may yet invest in a set of vibes or even marimba, because I played Vibes in JC, and Marimba in high school...they are expensive, but I feel a need for them in my music, and don't want to rely on keyboards because they just don't sound or feel the same.

There are things in the works, and if I ever did produce a CD it would be the type with extensive liner notes, pictures, artwork. People like Ken Ruzik would actually be at the top of my list for this type of thing...but there would be room for others! (albums have both front AND back)!

I may have to win the lottery first! All of this stuff costs money, and unfortunately I am watching helpless as most of my peers are outpacing and outproducing me, due to lack of funds!

I have to also do some soul searching. Unfortunately I have been kind of getting burned out on the tiki scene. It was something I loved before I ever discovered this forum, and something I will always love long after I am go from here...it's nothing I can really put to words, this feeling of general malaise and dissapointment...time will tell if I get that loving feeling again.

Right now I am more or less making the short/medium term goal of being the absolute best bass player I can be. It's hard work, but I am taking it very seriously and who would have thought that just one year after starting to take classical lessons I would already have passed auditions for a major orchestra? Not me! The task ahead of me is putting enough on my plate to keep me full for a while! 2-3 hours of daily practice of exercises and etudes and orchestral pieces ain't no walk in the park!

Meanwhile, look forward to new tracks (no, not footprints like grog says!) in the next few months. I have many ideas still in my head...and I guarantee they will be dark, scary and something no one else is doing...I will be going deep into the interior! Thank god for the invention of the almighty Gin and Tonic, my favorite cocktail! Malaria is always something to be concerned about when you travel to lonely places, and I heard the quinine in the tonic water might actually help!

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-04-13 15:06 ]

Stay tuned, new tracks coming very soon!

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/sets/set-3/

"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-05-04 17:41 ]

On 2011-05-04 17:33, lucas vigor wrote:
Stay tuned, new tracks coming very soon!

we're keeping it locked over here brah!

F.A.B.

Bear

Who ARE those people and why are they hanging out in my basement?

You have a pretty cool basement. Creepy guests though.

On 2011-05-04 23:07, lucas vigor wrote:
Who ARE those people and why are they hanging out in my basement?

That's myself and the gang lucas. you invited us to your place remember? we were watching muzak on your tv set but it's like the channel is stuck on this vintage station. HALP!

aaahhhh! NOW I remember! geez, I was drunk for like 3 days after that party....and after watching this clip of Fran Jeffrie's nice, round......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjeW3zBRvBM&feature=related

Cute kid, but she is really mangling the Italian language!

i can dig it homie. now where is that muzak? i have a feelin' eartha is about to get nasty on me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS02GeKuWQ4

Yeah, and I can dig it too, chicky-baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD8jHVansCo

Oh yeah, charlie baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agp2on83hrA

And don't forget JULIE BABY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfANFQOLGKA&feature=related

Folks, there actually IS a tie-in with this thread, as these are all my influences.....

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/sets/set-3/

"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-05-06 16:15 ]

that was incredibly smooth... thanks julie. see if she's interested in some futuristic fashion wear lucas. i'm about to premier this line on the moon in a month or so.

http://youtu.be/uo-pGsCw0a4

Great stuff Lucas! Screw mp3s; put out a CD!

See if you can find me in this picture! (Hint...the only bald guy!)

Finally had a day off...and was able to upload some new/old tracks...

Some of these have been played before on Koop Kooper's excellent pod cast (which I thank him immensely for, as he has been the only podcaster to help me out and get my music out there, that I am aware of!)

The First Track is called "The Straight Dope"...this song was obviously inspired by both the Brady Bunch and Henry Mancini..

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/the-straight-dope

Next we have "Grey Rain"....which features me playing the Bansuri (Bamboo flute from India)

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/grey-rain

Another obviously Mancini-Inspired song..."Wap Wap!"

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/wap-wap

"Dreamer", one of my favorite songs written by Antonio Carlos Jobim..

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/dreamer

"The look Of love"....man, I am a HUGE Bacharach fan! The "drums" are actually me tapping on my upright bass....

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/the-look-of-love

"A felicidade"....more of a samba, really...this one features electric bass instead of my usual upright bass....

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/a-felicidade

Further proof that you should never record drunk! This song was the theme from the second Bad News Bears movie...and obviously was based on the 1812 overture....just total 70's cheese! I was so drunk when I recorded this that you can hear me belch right at the beginning....which should let you know that I recorded this as a joke...god, the vocals are simply terrible! :)

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/lookin-good-theme-from-the-bad

That's it for now...I have some really new stuff that I am presently recording...more up the alley of Tiki Central people...(hopefully)

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/sets/set-3/

"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-06-02 11:05 ]

I think it just needs a bit more Cowbell

On 2011-05-31 15:38, lovelyrita wrote:
I really like "Wap Wap!".

"Dreamer" makes me want to be sitting in some lush lounge sipping on a cocktail and listening to it with my eyes closed, or on the deck of a cruise liner :wink:

:)

Cruise liner! You totally get where I am coming from, then!

On 2011-05-31 16:03, Chuck Tatum is Tiki wrote:
I think it just needs a bit more Cowbell

I got yer cowbell! Two great big cowbells!

"My cowbells are always bouncing, to the left and to the right
It's my belief that MY cowbells should be held every night!"

Some maniac posted the original version of "Lookin' Good" ........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9I1NkqAqlA

All I was missing in my version was the cool soprano sax at the end!

As I recorded my version, I had the ghosts of Kelly leak, Carmine Ronzonni, Englebert, Tanner Boyle, Timmy "the big Looper" Lupus, Ahmad, Miguel, Jose....all dancing in my room!

My version:

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/lookin-good-theme-from-the-bad

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-05-31 21:34 ]

Awesome, brilliant stuff...the kind of thing I was attempting to achieve during my digital-studio daze but not coming ANYWHERE near this level of quality and sheer beauty!

It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

[ Edited by: emspace 2011-06-01 12:39 ]

The belch at the beginning of "Looking Good" is used in the same manner as the one at the beginning of Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges (but from there, take off into very different directions). If you were to expand on it, you may get something similar to this instrumental piece which features King Curtis on Sax and Alfred E. Newman on vocals called It's a Gas.

Other than that, the compositions do have a way of subtly capturing the essence of the era of which they pay tribute.

[->>King Bushwich 33rd

Now I think you need more FUZZ!

Ok, 4 more new tracks:

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/serenade-for-flute

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/10-baybreeze-avenue

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/tangerine

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/tea-for-two