Well. I never win anything. Here is mine with my 9 year old Blackie Strat.

Dallas! That was awesome man! Blackie really has nice tone and your phrasing was great man. Very dark!! Good luck to ya!
:yourock:

Thanks bro! I thought it was a cool tune to play with.

Very cool DWG! Love the tone!

Excellent work on yours D , i must say its a real treat to listen to ones Bt with other musicians working there own styles onto it, DWG also loved yours aswell m8, real spooky mood to it especially the ALIVE!!! part haha, also enjoyed the moody part where the chimes are dying out and ofcourse lovely guitarwork , excellent job fellas i look forward to hearing more of these:rock: :rock:

LOL! It´s trick or treat time.....:cool: Let´s see if I can add some brainfart to this one, haha! Backer sounds really cool and spooky there guys! :woot:

Very cool Bulletman! Almost sounds like an extention to Dog the bounty hunter tune which is a good thing!

sounds excellent Todd, Edward Scissorhands style, great hauntin:thumb: g tone

DWG - Awesome matey

Bulletman _ Awesome also

It's gonna be very hard to decide on this competition

Now I gotta try this!!

Hi Bulletman! Well done! :yourock:

Lets use this thread for the halloween contest (http://www.guitarblast.com/showthread.php/halloween-themed-compitition-6964.html) feedback, please to not make comments in that thread so we can keep it clean.

That was awesome Murph!!! Sweet.

That was most excellent Murph, loved the dark rhythm guitars and the lead playing was what ive come to expect quality wise from you m8, theres gonna be some hard decisions to make from what ive heard so far lol, keep em coming fellas :rock: :rock: :yourock:

Excellent work Murph, the Rhythm kicks off beautifully, dark, heavy and full of attitude, perfect :D , and as for the lead, really excellent work there too, the dual tapping especially grabbed my attention, loved that, cracking work on the entire track mate :thumb:

Thanks guys! Yeah thats whats cool about a bt like this. You get a flood of Ideas. I could have approached it a dozen different ways. I had to stop and think how to make it sound "Halloween" to make it sound eerie and scary. Kinda hard to do. I just thought how Dime and Tony Iommi would have done it, and did a mixture of both. I played most of the main lead in a different key than the rhythm and stayed away from alot of the pentatonic I normally do (curse you Ace Frehley). The strings being so loose from tuning down just let me do extra bending and created a cool effect. The solo at the end is just me ticking lol.(fretboard tourettes). Just move your fingers fast and make a mean face:rock: True there are some killer entries for this. Hope to hear more!

Murph! That was great man! Very dark and great vibe!
Good luck to ya!

Johnny

Murph- Awesome work, very Ozzy style, good luck mate:thumb: :bowdown:
Love the Crescendo you pulled off at end of track, true class mate.

Halloween is probably my favorite holiday :D ...I have to tell you guys,these are freakin awesome.Loved everyone so far,so many different styles.I wish you fellows luck in the contest.Rock ON!

Hey Mark, just listened to your version and i love it mate, the whammy really adds an insane element to the song and the samples on the left take care of the creepiness, great use of the wah of the mid solo too, and as always excellent tones, top job mate :thumb:

Excellent work on your take on this Mark, lol the whammy indeed adds a out there effect to it, i like the ramblings of the crazy man talking as the song progressed , all in all spooky and well done m8 :yourock:
Lol im itching to do a take aswell but ive decided to exclude myself from the compitition as i think its unfair seeing i made half the bt:)
Keep em coming ladies and gents :rock: :rock:

Excellent work on your take on this Mark, lol the whammy indeed adds a out there effect to it, i like the ramblings of the crazy man talking as the song progressed , all in all spooky and well done m8 :yourock:
Lol im itching to do a take aswell but ive decided to exclude myself from the compitition as i think its unfair seeing i made half the bt:)
Keep em coming ladies and gents :rock: :rock:

Please mate.,.... I think you should take part Mart. Would love to hear your take and I do not see it as upsetting anyone we are all mates here

Remember, "this is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here":lol:

Mark. Very cool! was that Vincent Price?? Awesome idea and cool guitar stuff.


Wig. Very cool Like how the guitar flowed with the lyric.

Well mine's in... Haha I was hoping no one else had used my sample and there it is on the first song I listen to by DWG!! But Young Frankenstein is much loved Halloween fair so I hope no one holds it against me.

Every entry I've heard is top-notch-bingo-style. I am especially impressed by the guys that put words to it and sang over their BTs as well. Great Job, Peeps!

loved it Wigrocks, vox worked well on it..cool matey

nice one HansHolz...very nice stuff:yourock:

I will grab a listen to these tonight fellas :)

Guys,

I have to say, I've been enjoying every single entry so far. Such talented creativity by all of you, so many ideas and stuff. I love tunes with samples and this one works so well with them too. Mark, loved that whammy stuff, top stuff by all and brilliant BT Jamie & Mart, very well written.:thumb:

Bugger, I need to get my entry submitted, if only so I can then listen to everyone else's entry so far and retract it !!!

:bitchslap:

Hey all, Thanks for the listen! I had a lot of fun with my new Line6 spider III... the thing has so much diversity i was dialing away for hours. Really got to know it now.

Everyone's tracks sound amazing. Our coordinators need to take a bow for setting us up with such a quality BT!

Hey, Han's... you got me nervous, I thought you pulled yours completely. Killer stuff man!

Dances w/G-Good stuff. Liked the Bground and layers; also some parts has like a Michael Shencker melody.

Bulletman-Liked how you made this into a song, it totally rocks; Good chops bro.
Gonna check the rest tomorrow

HansHolz...that was awesome, loved that Phase Flange type effect...just listened again and you even had a reverse type guitar in there it sounds like that I missed 1st time....Killa stuff man:rock:

JeffreyBLange - that was an excellent recording my friend, the intro whammy bar licks sounds like a coffin opening almost, nice tapping motifs in there:rock:

Good luck guys...

These were excellent fellas,
Wigs i loved the vocal vibe combined with the spookyness bro, it was bloody dark and right down there with a really sinister vibe to it, was a joy to listen to :rock: :rock:
Hans also enjoyed yours alot aswell m8, had some very spooky touchs and the guitaring set the mood for all the disturbing feeling this was giving , excellent work m8:rock: :rock:
Jbl also excellent work bro , dark and very disturbing in places , gave a very halloweeny feel and was definetly pushing the dark vibes out to the listener, was also a joy to listen to , as it has been listening to everyone elses :rock: :rock:
Fantastic work all of you, i agree its gonna be a very hard to choose just one in this compitition cos i think everyone has gone that extra mile on this :yourock:

Fantastic work all of you, i agree its gonna be a very hard to choose just one in this compitition cos i think everyone has gone that extra mile on this :yourock:

We had no choice! The quality of the backer demanded it!! :bowdown:

Thanks for the kind words, mate! :thumb:

We had no choice! The quality of the backer demanded it!! :bowdown:

Thanks for the kind words, mate! :thumb:

agreed, PURE QUALITY BACKER,,,:bowdown:

Get recording Bahamut, we wanna hear ya on this, there are no rules here, this is a local forum for local people:boobies:

Very cool stuff JBL. Has a real manic-haywire thing to it... some of those runs are priceless and really cool stuff happening when you took it back and let it breathe. Loved it!

We had no choice! The quality of the backer demanded it!! :bowdown:

Thanks for the kind words, mate! :thumb:

Yw m8, its a excellent bt but its made better from every fantastic entry which all of you guys have come out with, so you know nearly all the credit has to go to you lads for weaving your magic over this :yourock:
I might do Mark, but i think i will miss this months and take part in the next one , i still feel i would have a unfair advantage , still i might do a cover of it seperate from the compitition :)
Keep them coming ladies and gents :yourock:

Murph-Gr8 riffage reminded me of BLS, and the solo at 3:11 awesome runs.

Macman-loved to death the whammy stuff, I thought of doing somthing with a whammy good choice of notes. very inister, loved it.

Wig-dude- I loved the layers and how you turned it into a a complete song!! gr8 work. I liked the tones on their alot.


Hans-Very cool Gilmore on roids type vibe, liked the extra samples, for affect.
Ultra cool, very controlled playing.

All in all with this killer backer everyone here made this there own, and that's the coolest of all.

Hey, Dallas. Where has your entry gone man ?

:headscratch:

Dances With Guitars, that was some psychadellic playing on there. I really loved it. Really touched on the mood of the song. I loved the strange stuff that you were doing throughout the track.

Spot on !

:thumb:

Bloody Hell, Bulletman ! Lyrics as well ?

:bowdown:

I could never have put lyrics to this one. Very heavy and brought a huge disturbing feel to the song with the vocals and the tone of the guitar.

As it's Hallowe'en themed, all I can say is this was a monster, monster effort !!!

:thumb:

I guess I screwed up and erased it. If anyone has a copy, please repost it otherwise I'll make a new one.

God damn, MuRpH !

That was so heavy and Moody. I think someone else here said that it was very reminiscent of Black Label Society. But I liked it a lot better. Some great playing there. I love the playing around 2:24 - 2:39. I'd love to be able to play like that. Well, I can, just not as cleanly or as musically, or as fast !

:lol:

A great entry. Dark, moody, and bloody scary ! The outtro section is stellar. I just didn't bother playing because I didn't know what the hell to do over that part !

:lol:

:yourock:

Will listen to the others tomorrow. It's quarter to 4 in the morning and I need to go to bed now that I have wound back down...

Night night...

:thumb:

Nice entry Dave! At the very start it sounds a bit like mine but then you go off on a freestyle solo...but thats always gonna happen when we are all given the same key to play along to!

I especially like your tone here. You have some very nice little phrasing in the middle before and after the "TITS" sample LOL. Also enjoyed the octave apart piece.

Sleep tight. :D

Jim

Excellent work on this Mondy , lol spooky combined with some comedy aswell , can't beat it :rock:
Lovely tone aswell m8, some sweet touchs and i loved the voice overs to :lol:
Suprisingly is that every entry ive heard so far is diffrent, so thats excellent, well done Mondy and keep them coming ladies/gents :rock: :rock:

Cheers for the feedback, HansHolz. I haven't got around to yours yet, but I can assure you that any resemblence to yours is completely coincidental. I didn't listen to anyone's beforehand, not because I feared that they would influence me, but because usually it puts me off entering because I then believe I will never produce anything as good as the rest.

Whether or not I can or not is neither here nor there. The point is, I shouldn't be put off by it. So I chose not to listen to anything until I had posted mine up.

That said, I'm extremely proud of this feedback. That means I must have done something right if I picked the right notes as you. I couldn't tell you what key the song was in, or what I was playing myself. I just knew that if I started on the 9th fret on the G string and gave it a yank and a pinch, it sounded OK.

Knowing me, I'm probably still stuck in some safe form of pentatonic. :slap:

I half expected it to get ridiculed and thown out of the competition, but that's down to me holding the rest of you guys in such high regards.

That said, onto the rest of the feedback.

Macman, yours was a very strong entry. The samples and playing really build up the mood of your tune. Very intelligent use, great tone and good mixing. Excellent playing throughout, and like I say, the tone had that really spooky, creepy feel to it.

Another amazing entry. Thank God I didn't listen to any beforehand or I would never have entered.

:bitchslap:

Oh, p.s. Thanks for the kind works from Bahamut, also. It was a great backer from you, so half the job had already been done. Glad you haven't thought I butchered it !

:lol:

Wig, that was dark as hell itself lol, excellent work, loved the lyrical approach to it, plus all the touches through out, really enjoyed it mate, top job :yourock:

Hans, an excellent take on this, reminds me of Vai in your playing, loved the use of the trem tricks for some spooky effects, and some great playing too, the screams you added were brill, although if she can scream that loud, she should be fine over halloween :lol: , great work mate :thumb:

JB, awesome work, the harmonised guitars really sounded great, and some excellent trickery too, it really added to the feel of it, and i must admit, one of my fav takes so far :thumb:

And finally, Greetings Mondy :D , brilliant take on the track mate, the guitaring was great, we don't get to hear you play half enough, and i loved the little effects you added in too, really added to the feel of the track, great work :rock:

Big thumbs up to everyone who has taken part so far, you all rock :yourock:

I guess I screwed up and erased it. If anyone has a copy, please repost it otherwise I'll make a new one.

I had all of these in rotation for the "Spirit of the Season", but unforutnately yours wasn't in by the time I permanently saved them.

Mondy, You're way too hard on yourself man... I thought yours was way cool!!! The samples came off like they were done just for the piece. And your playing sets such a great mood all the way through. I'm basing my own vote, more on the creativity vs. the virtuaosity... And this has both!!!

Mondy, You're way too hard on yourself man... I thought yours was way cool!!! The samples came off like they were done just for the piece. And your playing sets such a great mood all the way through. I'm basing my own vote, more on the creativity vs. the virtuaosity... And this has both!!!

It's true Mondy! I could'nt have said it better!:thumb: And Wig I love what you did with yours. And like everything you do, you made it YOURS! :yourock:

Thanks Avalon for the kind feedback bro! Much appreciated, you and Bahamut gave us an awesome canvas to work with.

Thanks a lot Murph!! Right back at ya bro! Always love what you spin up!

Thank you all who have posted your feedback!

Probably the best thing about this competition, is that it hardly seems like one at all, and it's just cool as hell to be in such great company with so many talents from the board represented. You guy's all did some phenomenal work here.

Thanks Avalon for the kind feedback bro! Much appreciated, you and Bahamut gave us an awesome canvas to work with.

Thanks a lot Murph!! Right back at ya bro! Always love what you spin up!

Thank you all who have posted your feedback!

Probably the best thing about this competition, is that it hardly seems like one at all, and it's just cool as hell to be in such great company with so many talents from the board represented. You guy's all did some phenomenal work here.

I second that m8, its more like were all enjoying a jam to the same track with our own touchs , its fantastic to see everyone apreciating each others works and taking the time to give positive feedback to everyone :yourock:
Im getting a new pup next week for my Ibanez so i might just try it out on this , i will probably exclude mine but still will be cool to try out to it :rock: :rock:

Cheers for the feedback, HansHolz. I haven't got around to yours yet, but I can assure you that any resemblence to yours is completely coincidental. I didn't listen to anyone's beforehand, not because I feared that they would influence me, but because usually it puts me off entering because I then believe I will never produce anything as good as the rest.

No problems, mondy...wasn't suggesting any influence. I also avoided listening to the others before recording, still it didn't stop me using the same sample as Dances with Guitars! It happens every single time I write my own little tune, I end up having some self doubt thinking, "its prolly a subconscious rip off of someone elses...." So deliberately stayed clear of everyone's tunes til mine was recorded and posted.

Hans, an excellent take on this, reminds me of Vai in your playing, loved the use of the trem tricks for some spooky effects, and some great playing too, the screams you added were brill, although if she can scream that loud, she should be fine over halloween , great work mate

Blimey, Avalon. I don't think my name and Vai's have EVER been used in the same sentence before!! Except maybe my wife saying "I dont like your guitar playing, Jim, Got any earplugs aVAIlable??" LOL :slap: Thanks very much for listening and commenting. I'm in awe of all the entries here. And like someone said before, it's not like a competition. It's great to see how many things have been done with the same backer. But it IS an excellent backer.:rock:

Nice post mondola, Iliked the voice overs. your playing was good, and I liked your phrasing, you let it breathe. A wolfie? sounds like the the cubase is working well for you. I enjoyed it alot. Liked where you put those voice clips.

Hi there,

First things first, I would like to post a remix of my song, if this is OK with you guys ? Only because I fecked up the mix with the backing track and lost the 3d ness of it, I feel. Whilst panning my guitars for the dual octave part, I set everything else dead center, which was a dickead thing to do, considering I had separated out the backing track into left and right channels.

Anyway, I believe I have fixed this in the new version.

I have not changed anything in my playing, I don't think that would be fair to do so. I checked with Bahamut, and he says it is OK to repost. However, I want to check with all you other entrants too. If any of you object to it, I am happy to leave it as it is, as the remix was only done for my own satisfaction really.

Let me know if you object guys, as like everyone has said here, it doesn't feel like a competition, just a jam with friends, and I'd hate to do something to mess up that spirit.

Now, onto the feedback...

Avalon, I know. Something I plan to put right. I am always complaining that I am not good enough, but bottom line is I don't practise enough, and that is something I am addressing. This will lead to more posts by me in the future. Keep it coming with the good backers and you never know what might happen !

Wigrocks, I know man. It's just the standard on this site man. It's awesome. Most of what I hear is jawdropping. And so when I come to pluck the strings myself, it's very easy, for me at least, to get into the mindset that I will never be good enough. However, I have learned that several beers kinda kills that train of though ! :D

Murph, from a player like you, it means a lot. I take it that I must be doing something wrong and can only strive to do it better, like you guys all do. :D

Hans, I know what you mean about the subconcious rip offs. I am always mindful of a quote be Eddie Van Halen who says, "There are only 12 notes. How you mix them up is your own business !" I always think, 12 ? Shit, there's bound to be something I play that sounds like someone elses !!! :lol:

Jeffery, cheers for the kind words. It really means a lot. I like Cubase, it is harder to learn, but everything seems to sound that much better to me. Yep, that was my EVH Peavey Wolfgang Special. Not sure if you were asking what I meant by the phrase Woflie, or whether you couldn't believe that I got that tone out of a Wolfgang ? :headscratch:

Anyway, cheers guys. I have missed this kind of thing, and musn't leave it so long before posting again, I forgot how addictive this thing is and how bloody great and supportive you guys are !

mondy = tit !

Very nice work from Mody! I can hear your Wolfie scream. Great tone.
You keep getting better, man!

Jeffery, cheers for the kind words. It really means a lot. I like Cubase, it is harder to learn, but everything seems to sound that much better to me. Yep, that was my EVH Peavey Wolfgang Special. Not sure if you were asking what I meant by the phrase Woflie, or whether you couldn't believe that I got that tone out of a Wolfgang ? :headscratch:

Ya, sorry, I meant the wolfgang. Gr8 guitar.

Hey, cheers for the props, CC.

Wigrocks, I have just listened to yur track, and found it... haunting. Really. The mood you created with the lyrics with them coming into you in waves, just feels like your being spooked out by a spectre of some sort.

One with a sad tale to say that isn't going to vanish until you understand.

Great work. I would have never been able to put lyrics to the backer, just way too difficult.

Well done man. Great vibe, great entry !

:thumb:

Crikey, HansHolz ! What a cracker ! Excellent playing throughout, and I absolutely loved the sound samples. Just brilliantly done throughout. The effects on the guitar and ping pong panning were disorienting.

Just built up a really good mood, and I really enjoyed it.

I can hear what you mean about us starting of. Kind of like we both started off at the starting blocks with the track open in front of us. Everyone expects us to run round the track. Then I bugger off down the tunnel and out of the stadium and you jump head first into the crowd !

:toothless:

Thanks Dave. The patch I used was basically the VH Baluchiterium patch with a touch more flanger on it. Tried to get a VH Intruder vibe going towards the end of the piece.

I know what ya mean, about the running track analogy. I think I ran half way round and then started making sand castles in the long jump pit though! LOL

With what Mark said i decided to get into the spirit aswell and will put my entry upto shortly, afterall its a community event :D
Just waiting for my new pup to get here before i finish it of lol :D

With what Mark said i decided to get into the spirit aswell and will put my entry upto shortly, afterall its a community event :D
Just waiting for my new pup to get here before i finish it of lol :D

nice one Mart, glad you joined in

:woot:

More entries,,,,and they were awesome!:rock:

I could have never touched any of the creative talents of all your entries posted! Awesome listening to them. Great on Halloween night!!

:rock: :rock:

Bahamut-cool diary of a madman style shrills. Very disturbing, but very cool.
This raises the bar.:yourock:

Hey jeffrey. Sorry I only just got round to yours.

A crazy tune. Very well crafted with creating the mood with the guitars. Some really intelligent stuff played in there and a great tone and mix throughout.

It'll be a tough one to beat.

:thumb:

Bloody hell, Bahamut. Certainly did raise the bar. Really nice and heavy throughout and disturbing mix of tones on the vocal samples.

The start reminded me of the Simpsons Halloween Music because of the tone, but after that, Simpsons it was not.

Like the break down into the acoustic at the end, but damn, this was heavy.

Incidentally, did Dallas re-upload his in the end ? I haven't seen it yet.

Mart (Bahamut) that was killa my friend, what a phenominal guitarist you are....wicked stuff & awesome entry:thumb: :bowdown: :bowdown:

Mondola - Loved the tone mate, just checked out your remix, wicked stuff and a very cool entry :yourock: :rock:

Mondola - Loved the tone mate, just checked out your remix, wicked stuff and a very cool entry :yourock: :rock:

Much appreciated, my man. The remix was just to fix the backing track and leave it the hell alone. Not sure whether I got it 100% right or not, but I can only get better with every song I remix.

:toothless:

Thanks for listening fellas , glad you enjoyed it :rock: :rock:
Excellent stuff on the remix of yours aswell Mondy, the middle bit still cracks me up bigtime lmao:boobies: :lol: , some lovely spooky stuff going on all the way through, the guitar tone and playing sets the mood perfectly and ofcourse the heartbeat at the end, no halloween is complete without it :rock: :rock:

Excellent stuff on the remix of yours aswell Mondy, the middle bit still cracks me up bigtime lmao:boobies: :lol: , some lovely spooky stuff going on all the way through, the guitar tone and playing sets the mood perfectly and ofcourse the heartbeat at the end, no halloween is complete without it :rock: :rock:

Cheers dude. Just glad to:

Have got a tune out there once again after so long
Got a tune done using Cubase
Got a tune out with decent sounding levels
Got a tune out without any clipping
Received feedback without anyone saying - tune your fucking guitar !!!

All the nice comments are just a bonus, and like everyone else has said, you kind of forget that there's a competition at the end of it !

:lol:

its great how we have so many individual songs in their own right from the same backer. Bahamut's sent shivers down my spine, and I really like Mondy's remix.

... there's a competition at the end of it ! :lol:

...speaking of which. I didn't notice any dates on closure for entries or when the voting starts? I'm going away for few days, dont wanna miss it.

Im not sure m8, i will have a word with the team and see when they think its a good idea to hold the polls for this :)

Im not sure m8, i will have a word with the team and see when they think its a good idea to hold the polls for this :)

You are the big fish in this forum as the moderator of it. So you can close the contest and announce me as the winner, I mean open the poll, whenever you like !

Did you get that package of bank notes that I set you for no apparent reason for you to do with as you please ???

:notme:

You are the big fish in this forum as the moderator of it. So you can close the contest and announce me as the winner, I mean open the poll, whenever you like !

Did you get that package of bank notes that I set you for no apparent reason for you to do with as you please ???

:notme:


:lol: :lol: :lol:
Roger that Mondy :D

Do you accept euros?

Do you accept euros?

Yes and all plastics to m8 :lol: :lol:
Don't worry fellas im on the job :D

Bahamut, Very sorry to only be getting the chance now to check yours out. IT WAS AWESOME!!! Can't say enough for what you put together. Truly great stuff!

Thanks alot for checking it out m8 :), it was a blast to do and another big hand goes to all of you guys to , for stepping up and taking part in this :yourock:
I wish you all the best of luck :D