Hey guys...I play guitar and I wirte my own songs and record them all the time...I finally found a spot to put them up at...
I would love to get some feedback from yall...
I play every instrument and sound you hear...So the recording process takes a while and is very tideous...Lots of work went into these...oh and I do everything but sing...i cant sing...
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/tonynashmusic.htm
Damnit! I kept meaning to post here and say that I would try and check out your music, and then I forgot, and then I worried about it in the shower.
So now my hair's dripping all over the keyboard, and I'll probably get electrocuted, but I wanted to say that I will check out your music, and to thank you for posting the link.
*drip*
Hey,
Me too. I can't really take the time to register on that site today at work. I'll register at home tonight, then try to give it a listen tomorrow on my lunch break.
Okay. Hey! Dude, you can play! You music is interesting and dynamic!
Yeah!
Rock'n roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would even say more:
This is great stuff! So you said, you're a band on your own, doing the drums, bass, rythm and lead?
Didn't you find a singer? Those songs scream for some beautifull haunting words.
Did you find a record company?
With every listen, the songs are growing! respect man!
Oh may I ask which gear you're using? Right now I'm looking for a new floorprocessor (my old zoom 3030 sucks big time) and I like the effects you're using there.
QuoteHey! Dude, you can play! You music is interesting and dynamic!
What the hell is that? I feel like a librarian writing that. (Not that all librarians are like that, I know a couple of wild ones!)
Anyhow, what I meant to say was:
RAWK!
Are you interested in songwriting? Maybe you could find a songwriter and be like a Jagger/Richards team. (Am I right, there? Is that how they wrote the songs most of the time?)
Anyhow, yeah!
I have to agree with all of the above posts...you really know how to play. I dig it most.
Same to you Lfish and EC. Nice job on the tribute!
I can't say thank you enough guys for the kind words!
I have been in bands but none made it out of the basement...I just can't find good open minded people...I actually am just coming out of a band that I am not sure if it is going on or not...haven't heard from them at all...
And I have yet to find a good singer...i can't find any actually...they all want to scream and do punk or something...which is cool, but it is not for me...I have a crap load of lyrics and poems and all that stockpiled, but I just don't sing...Ive tried I just dont dig it...and I dont have enough balls to do it even if I could...hahaha
Those are just a few I have a lot more songs that show a lot more things and bring many different feeling to light...
So any faviortes or thing you like?
Oh and about the gear...I am a very meat and potatos kinda guy, very basic...I keep about the music and the tunes...What effects stood out to you?
I am really interested to finally have people digging my stuff! And we can talk about it...
Thanks again!
Or you using separate effectpedals (which brand?) or are you going for the digital floor processors (like digitech, Roland,...)
I only have one pedal...A cry baby wah wah...
The other effects I use are on my crate digital 120 watt amp...
What song are talking about?
Hey there...I totally updated the site with pictures for the songs and lyrics and stories about them all as well...
I added some new tunes as well and will DEFINETLY be adding more within the next few days...
Again, please check it out! ;)
QuoteHey there...I totally updated the site with pictures for the songs and lyrics and stories about them all as well...
I added some new tunes as well and will DEFINETLY be adding more within the next few days...
Again, please check it out! ;)
Hey Tony - it look's really good. Yay! You keep going!
Hey, I'm listening to your stuff right now, ain't it cool!
Can't believe you can't find singer for this stuff, I love it. Old World Goodbye, Never Know Your down... Real nice.
Remember, a lot of singers weren't confident about their voice when they started out (I know Neil Young wasn't but I like his singing)
Nice fluent guitar work too and a fine slide guitar in one of these songs!
Keep it up man.
Gee, thanks so much guys and gals for checking this out for me!
I have been singing for a while now just trying it out and I have gotten a LOT better then when I first started but I still wish I could improve a lot more, and most of all get confidence...I have been trying to sing to MMJ tunes forever now almost everyday...and I practice my own songs as well, but I don't know what to think about any of it...
I have no ego and almost NO self esteem so things hit me hard in life...even the littles things...
It is even hard for me to share this stuff with anyone--ecspecially on the internet...But the vibe is top notch here so I figure why not try it...
I am so grateful for the feedback and you people taking your time to listen...again thanks...
I am putting up more tunes now...
P.S...Keep listening and posting feedback, this is one of the only places I get feedback! hahahaha...
Peace!
QuoteI have no ego and almost NO self esteem so things hit me hard in life...even the littles things...
Okay. If you work on that, everything else will fall into place. Honestly. That is the root of everything.
Sometimes if you pick a thing in your life that you're having difficulty with, if you make a conscious effort to constantly be aware of it, you work and you work, and one day you realize that it's kind of become part of your centre. I remember one of my acting profs used to tell me that I needed a mantra, and it should be "I have confidence." Now, that didn't actually work because I kept feeling like Julie Andrews in that damn musical about nazis, which did NOT give me confidence, and instead made me feel like I needed to cut my hair and get a blue dress. (Which actually might work for a boy, because it might make you feel silly, which is better than feeling petrified.) So I opted for "Everything is cool." Occasionally, adding "man" for extra relaxation emphasis.
You're already halfway there. Allowing people to share what you do is massive. Hugely courageous. Keep going!
The singing thing, just keep doing it. Just keep singing to your MMJ and whatever music you like. Then go to some open mics around your town, and practise there. Those things are brilliant for musicians trying to get their performing legs strong.
You can start recording your voice, too. Just to get used to the sound of it. It'll be weird, but eventually you'll get used to the way it sounds, and then you'll feel better about sharing it with other people.
That is the end of my feel good self-esteem lesson for today. Tune in next week when I'll discuss body image and how to deal with Scottish guys who yell at you in the middle of your open mic set.
:)
Amazing advice, thank you VERY much! :)
Also...I have been recording my voice for a while now and i'm gonna try again today as a matter of fact...Like I said people tell me i'm okay, I just need more practice or something...I think I just need lessons on it or something but I don't have the money...
One of them members here (Chunt983) has heard me sing before...rough versions of it...
But my biggest problems now are this:
1. I can hit some chords fine, but when I try to sing to them in a prgression I can't hit them...
2. The most annoying thing is this: One day I will sing really good and nail it and the next day I sound like shit and I can't hit it...very inconsistant...
Yuck, don't take lessons if you can avoid it. I know that's terrible advice, and maybe some preliminary ones so that you learn how NOT to rip your vocal chords out of your skull. Just, sometimes voice lessons take away from the honesty of a person's voice. That's a personal opinion. Not a professional one. :)
Also, just keep singing, and you'll find consistency. It's really good to sing in the shower. All steamy and nice and sounding good. Very good. :)
you can take preventive measures to protect and strengthen your vocal chords to help maintain consistency
By taking lessons, do you mean? Or by doing excercises? Or by coating them with resin? (;))
exercises (vocal) to strengthen, salt water gargles, stuff like dat
Love the music,I am a singer without a band currently so i am on the other end of your problem.I can never find the right chemistry with other bands musically.I would love to try to put som vocals on these tracks man,your really working with something good here.Where are you from?Anyways ,keep it up bro.
Thanks alot! I am in the Buffalo N,Y area actually...
and I Completely updating my stie from even a few days ago...
Got tons of stuff on here now...
Check it out!
I put up the 8:21 min long orchestral peiece I worte...
Enjoy...
Listened to your orchestral piece, that is pretty far out.
Reminds me of Pink Floyd (would be cool as a soundtrack for a movie too). However I did prefer the second part to the first, don't know why though.
Third Degree is cool too, sounds like a cross between Black Sabbath and RATM. You know that Sabbath song Sweet Leaf? The riff reminded me of that one.
The acoustic solo in Song For A Lost Mind reminds me of Peter Buck of REM, in songs like Country Feedback, good stuff.
Is Pink Floyd an influence? There's just a feeling about them that makes me think of Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, that kinda stuff...
But you do have your own sound!
Thanks a lot! This will be tricky typing this cause I am very hungover and have been puking all night....but...
I don't own anything pink floyd but always thought they were cooll...I am surprised when people always tell me that they hear floyd in my work...hey i'll take it! hahahah
i always get new comparisions every time I show people my music...so I just let them go with it and say what they want...musics meant to be felt and taken in anyway people want to....cool...
the black sabbath thing and the RATM thing is also new to me but hey it's all cool if you dig it! hehehe..
I think cause I go for the spaced out epic feel sometimes I get the floyd remark...its all good...some riffs sound like zeppelin ivve been told....hey its an honer!
but hey....did I answer the question..
aw damn.i gots to puke again..
peace-.
BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, I'm sorry about all those stupid comparisons there.
I now imagine it's probably a bummer getting some lame comparisons about your music all the time...
You play what you feel and I really like it, it's that simple. Let's keep it at that ;)
Whats the odds...im typing this while drunk again!!
But no no man I think the comparisons are great! I m sorry if you get the wrong vibe from what I was saying...
But thank you very much!
Sounds like yer having a chill Saturday... ;)
I had a chill Friday night with this great new (to me anyway) Canadian beer called "Trois Pistoles" 9% alcohol, all nice an fuzzy when I went nighty night :)
That must be a Quebec beer. They hide their good beer from the rest of us because they hate us. I have never heard of that beer, but Quebec makes some EXCELLENT beers. I believe that La Maudite is Quebecois, and man, it is potent, and it tastes like figs (in a good way).
the brewery is Unibroue in case you've heard of it, and yes it is from Quebec
Yeeeees. Seriously. You could buy any kind of beer made by them, and it would be good. In fact, I believe they make Maudite as well... They also import the good beers from other lands.
QuoteI had a chill Friday night with this great new (to me anyway) Canadian beer called "Trois Pistoles" 9% alcohol, all nice an fuzzy when I went nighty night :)
Since it's a Canadian beer, I wonder if "Trois Pistoles" is a reference to the song "Three Pistols" by The Tragically Hip. Say it with me, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder..."
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Since it's a Canadian beer, I wonder if "Trois Pistoles" is a reference to the song "Three Pistols" by The Tragically Hip. Say it with me, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder..."
Hmmm. Well, it might be the other way around, in a way... Perhaps Trois Pistoles is actually a reference to something else, and the beer is referencing that, as well as the song.
Okay. Just googled. Trois-Pistoles is a place in Quebec. From first glance, it looks like a place that seems to want to preserve its heritage. That translates to "they will kill you if you try to speak English there". (Just kidding, for those of you who are french preservationists.)
So the Tragically Hip song is about Tom Thompson, who is one of our best artists. Here's an example of his work: http://www.tomthomson.org/collections/collections.cfm?ImageID=2
(Actually, when I was a kid I was sent away to month-long sleepaway camp in Algonquin Park, and had a cabin about 100 feet from the place where Tom Thompson's body washed up onto shore. It's still a fairly interesting mystery as to how he died. He wasn't a part of something called The Group of Seven, but he was closely linked with them.)
Here's a quote: "The town's name comes from pistoles, old silver coins. Legend has it that back in 1621, a sailor dropped a silver goblet worth three pistoles into the water here."
So... I wonder if Gord Downie was erroneously translating pistoles into pistols. Was he making some kind of statement about the french vs. the english, and all of their problems? Trois-Pistoles isn't really anywhere too close to Algonquin Park, so not sure about the Tom Thompson reference (especially if that song is about his death), UNLESS he was hinting at the potentiality that Tom Thompson was assisinated for some money, and it just all ties in like that.
Today was my dads surprise 50th birthday and i got BLASTED all day and hide in my basement during the party while onyl a few came to see me....
It is midnight and I am wasted and I everyone kept asking me to play guitar all night and told m e how good i was...I felt so awkyard when people prasie me...its wierd...to explain....strange...but...
I come here and see yall talking about beer or something..>SWEET!!
MUSIC BINDS IT TOGHETHER!!!!!!!!!
whoa way to drunkk....hahah....you gusy are all so cool though!!!
Rock, Tony. R.O.C.K.
(I got wasted at my Dad's surprise 50th, too - we all ended up standing in a circle, those of us who were left, at 4 in the morning singing, [oh yes we did] "Back in the Saddle, Again" with my Dad going "I just love everyone so much. I do. No listen to me, I LOVE you. I LOVE you.)
So fun. :)
NICE!!!
I am sober now...I seem to be able to take in MASSIVE amounts of beer and never get a hangover or nothing...I only get messed up while drinking harder liquor...hmmm...
But anyways...I really hate most of my family if not all so I am not very close to them and don't wanna be...hahaha....sad but true I suppose...i'm kindive a loner I guess...
but anyways...cool story....rockin' roll!
What else can I put o my music site...hmmmmmm....
I might take my orcehstral song down....
QuoteI am sober now...I seem to be able to take in MASSIVE amounts of beer and never get a hangover or nothing...I only get messed up while drinking harder liquor...hmmm...
That will change. Enjoy it while you can! ;)
The 4 pack holder has this story on the side:
THE LEGEND OF THE BLACK HORSE
Summoned in a moment of holy despair
The devil, in the form of a big black steed,
Appeared on day out of the blue
To help raise a church that was lon overdue
In the troubled village of Trois Pistoles.
When all three towers were completed
The horse simply vanished into thin air
Leaving behinda monument that
Stands today as a symbol of
Peace on earth to men of goodwill
And a prayer for safety at sea.
On the side of the package is this great painting of a winged black horse in the sky behind a 3 towered church.
Wait, that doesn't make sense. The devil was HELPING the troubled town? The big winged horse was the devil, and he came to the town to raise a church?
What the hell? Honestly, we drink too much beer up here.
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So... I wonder if Gord Downie was erroneously translating pistoles into pistols. Was he making some kind of statement about the french vs. the english, and all of their problems? Trois-Pistoles isn't really anywhere too close to Algonquin Park, so not sure about the Tom Thompson reference (especially if that song is about his death), UNLESS he was hinting at the potentiality that Tom Thompson was assisinated for some money, and it just all ties in like that.
I think I'll take your word for it, EC. Whenever I try to figure out Gord Downie's lyrics I end up confused one second and awestruck the next. I honestly think some of his words/phrases/lyrics/whatevers are in the "Dylan-great" category. And his knowledge of Canadian lore makes me feel like I've been watching too much American TV.
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Honestly, we drink too much beer up here.
Hey this isn't confession ;) we'll keep your secret.
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Hey this isn't confession ;) we'll keep your secret.
Man, I've always felt a little left out in the human experience because I've never had a confession with a priest. I'm not catholic, and I don't know if anyone in my family history ever was. But there's something about it that I've always wanted to do - just to do. I've taken communion before (at weddings and funerals, and twice just to go with people who were Catholic).
I think it's the ceremony of the thing that's appealing - wanting to understand it.
I don't think you missed anything necessarily. I'm Lutheran and they have this neat part of the service where everyone silently confesses all the naughty stuff they want to be forgiven for--kinda the PC church service :D
I updated the site now!
Check it out if you want...
Revolution Never Hurts is extremely wicked. Nice work, dude.
Thank you!
Then you might dig my new tune I just recorded today and just put up there....GOT SOUL??????????
Very rockin'. ;D Oooh, I like the speedy bit at the end.
Man, I want to learn how to play electric solos.