ddw's 100 Most Recent Comments

Hotel Room in Hinsdale by ddw 1 year ago
Thanks for the hints Jeff, I'll try some things out. Gay and the Straights (lead singer named Gay)! Loved that. It reminded me of my older brother's band The Low Self-Esteem Rollers. He has a PhD in Pyche too.

Thanks 13xh2k. The ending smile is just what I meant to do. Glad you got it.
Let Us Improvise Motifs by becwil 1 year ago
5

"The Real Music exists between the Notes". Outstanding line among many...and Bec, you know how I feel 'bout your music. Thank you both.
you and me by blues69 2 years ago
No one mentioned your voice yet. Excellent! Could I inspire you to re-think the chorused electric? This and the harp together though make a good grainy texture like a synth pad.
VIII - 2. You Are Just Another Bag Of Candy On A Supermarketshelf by o0o 2 years ago
A big compliment by way of comparison here...Bowie would love this...and then steal your ideas. Love the amazing amount of INTRIGUE you created.
Gymnopédie 3 (E. Satie) by ChristopherAllen 2 years ago
I finally took the time to download and listen to all your work by Satie. You brough a new realm of music to me. Each lay of the finger like a word of a poem. Extraordinary. With deep gratitude.
The Healing by joolsoakland 2 years ago
Inspiring. Thank you.
From A Borrowed Tongue by ddw 2 years ago
Coming from you SD...huge thx. Wish I had your studio gear though.
Wine Into Water by enicholsIC 2 years ago
Gets better and better with each listen. Your phrasing is what puts me over. Btw, where did you get the photo of the girl at the bar? Sssssst.
Crappy Products by sonicdeviant 2 years ago
Cinematic. Urban setting. Purposeful idiocy (not your song). I do hear just a bit of "Joe's Garage" Zappa but not derivative bad.
kansas city by Leesa 2 years ago
Hi Leesa! From a pre-production perspective, if I were your producer I'd say get your recurring guitar riff in the open chords solidly grooving so your vocals express on top of it (play it over and over and over until it's not choppy at all).
Our America by ddw 2 years ago
I wrote and recorded it just after the US invaded Iraq.
First (VOCALS NEEDED) by gongcity 2 years ago
5

Outstanding. I'm downloading, burning, and driving through the city in autumn with it. Thank you. I hear your classical sensibilities in the rythym and the patience.
Long Way From Home by ddw 2 years ago
Hey Becky! I recorded this quite some time ago. I've just been thinking of my journey and how people usually have some kind of piercing experience to begin their path; recovery, tradgedy, trauma, something...and then we surrender.
Collaboration-Eldritch Bacchanal by DavidBowles 2 years ago
Whoa. I think my sixth Chakra just opened up. Love the solo bass cellos in the middle. Excellently produced.
Our America by ddw 2 years ago
It's an acoustic piano.
Open by ddw 2 years ago
Funny to me is that this is the first time here that anyone criticized a mix of a song posted (and contrustructively of course)...and this was "professionally" mixed not by me. Goes to show we can do this without so called experts. Thanks for the words. Word. And yes, I'm IN Oahu just waking up.
a badly final? by Luttor_Grosvernoff 2 years ago
Dig it. Hot.
From A Borrowed Tongue by ddw 2 years ago
Bing. David wins. Renaissance Morrison. Didn't even know it myself but you nailed it.
Cover-Jumpin' Jack Flash by DavidBowles 2 years ago
I like your choice to have the out-music be mellow with the melodic refrain be a light touch. All around excellent AND fun.
>Andromache's Prayer by DavidBowles 2 years ago
5

"Me? I'm War among men". This is such an apt, yet colloquial-like, desription of her role historically. It suggests too her power of seduction and the relationship btw sex and violence.

Your use of another century's aesthetics as inspriration may have you appreciate my post "From A Borrowed Tongue".
The Significant Sorrows of Sasquatchia by Mystified 2 years ago
5

My favorite line is when you sing "Oh, the Indiginity"!

To me this is like Hugo Wolf with a sense of humor.
Something About the Way by 4arms 2 years ago
Great voice. Unpretentious. I loved hearing the music underneath the first time you sing "Something about...". Unexpected...and then the minor chord you use to end the progression on. And then up to the major chord. You are a crafty bast*ard. Good work.
Love is by AtommikBoy 2 years ago
5

This gives me some of the painflul and intense feelings that some of the tracks off of Moby's Play does. It's Sade that's much more personal and less slick - therefore more believable - and all you Linda.

Great choice to use the Glockenspiel. Like a percussive synth. Cool snare sound too. A flat splash rather than a crack. Thanks for keeping the bass low.
The Bottom Line by ddw 2 years ago
Nice pick-up there catching the prophet/profit play; the spritual path and the material. Hey, what if we embraced the material with a spiritual center? That's what I'm committed to.

Cash, Seeger, Dylan, and then of course Woody Guthrie.
Our America by ddw 2 years ago
I've had enough people to suggest that Bob for me to finally do it. I won't forget Amy. Thx for the push. What did you think of my "Bottom Line" tune or another political song I've posted, "Killer Bees
Little Girl by Geechi3 2 years ago
5

Sexy AND vulnerable. A powerful expression. The spaciousness gives the time and place of the song as being a one-on-one conversation yet through the haze of late night eyes.

I produced a female artist alot like you yet she didn't have the lyric depth that you do...and I don't think you need a producer. great work.
Married by lilichi 2 years ago
5

Totally impressed. The lyrics and vocals work with the music creating a more compassionate "19th Nervous Breakdown".
Light Up the Fire by 4arms 2 years ago
5

Wow. Your voice is great. You have this wonderful deep poetic quality in the lower register and then when you open it up in the higher range...well, no comparison...it just is a great Sound. Really cool to have this two together.

The piano stabbs, the trumpet, the whole image of burning coming from this ominous and cabaret- like perspective...ever hear Cohen's "To The End of Love" live?
Prescription Love by Leesa 2 years ago
5

We need stars for artistic courage. Right on.
Everyone Knows by Leesa 2 years ago
5

Hey Leesa! Obviously a strong song and performance, but what I noticed is your use of syllables: in the first part you use the eee sound, like in "leave". In the second you use the ore sound, like in "door". It's these little things that make this song have a musicality that classic songs have within. Your abilities of craft are not hidden behind the simplicity of your chords, nope.
And now we don't care by jolofsson 2 years ago
5

With the sun in my face
I painted a world
where I could belong

Love this lyric. I've always wished to hear Peter Gabriel this sparse and your piece gives me something like this experience. Thank you. But aside from Gabriel, it's an original and beautifully authentic expression. We need 5 stars for artistic honesty. Solid 5 stars. Great work.
Fly Away Circus by pete 2 years ago
5

I felt like I was in an as yet unmade independent film from a country I can't even name. I love being inside of this song. A definite download. I need to be here again.
shrooms by Mikee 2 years ago
Drum samples? Yes, no? I can't tell man. I'd say from Battery?

Moving on. Again, musical and narrative combo. You oughta be in pictures (insert Ethel Merman). And yep, one thing that makes your stuff different is the human playing of your guitar work. It's just a depth of field thing too. I'm downloading again.
nypd blues by Mikee 2 years ago
5

This is exceptional. No sh*t. You have a very, very musical and narrative sensibility. Dig it. I agree with the other guy...soundtrack, but actually, you are right on with the tv drama theme idea. Have you sent it out? There is no gift that keeps on giving like the gift of royalites. Can't wait to hear your other work.
Natives & The Colonists by ddw 2 years ago
Not too involved at all. Thank you both for the close listen. And Lbarringer, I'm glad you got the comic element - and becwil, thanks for saying I'm gifted...my headeth swelleth...but just for a moment.
Not Like You by ddw 2 years ago
Indeed. It was fun to be a part of something that full-on. If you're a gear head, check it out: I had a Gallien Kruger 800RB head with an Ampeg 8 x 10 speaker cabinet, the guitarist played through two amp rigs: a Marshall 4x10 with a 100 watt Mesa Boogie head AND an Orange 4x10 cabinet and 100 watt head...and the drummer played a vintage 72' Ludwig oversized set just the same as John Bonham. Yes, we could pin people to the back wall of any small club across the midwest. It got old though.
The Bottom Line by ddw 2 years ago
Thanks nemo. You've been super generous to me since I came here to this site. You know that saying, if one person digs it then it was worth it. diedrich
Empty by pete 2 years ago
What is empty here was once full. That's what I feel from this song. Very sad but not in a dark way, like Life Is Change, and this once warm place is now cold.

I especially like what is likely 4 bars of darker tones midway through the song. It suggests to me that the past wasn't all warm and cozy but that you the writer are aware of some of the old tough parts too.

Do you want to take a crack at the lyrics or truly have someone else?
Finale (Spinal Tap cover, well kind of..) by pete 2 years ago
What can I say but FU*KIN' A and where's my concert T-Shirt that I ordered!!
Lake Powell by pete 2 years ago
What bait you got? Pass me another. Is it that late already?

I'm there.
Southern Drawl by ddw 2 years ago
Absolutely Pete but there's no substitution for what your 414mkII can do. It's just like an outboard effect at this point huh?

Thanks for the generous comment. I'll stop by your page and drop a line. ddw
Mercy Sleep by ddw 2 years ago
Thank you so much for listening so closely. Although Ruby is a made up character, it is me going back for somewhat of a strange rescue mission into my own past. She is safe and thriving by the way.
No One's To Blame by ddw 2 years ago
Thank you!
Gymnopédie 1 (E. Satie) by ChristopherAllen 2 years ago
I play this on classical guitar. I like how you widen the breath the second time through the opening section.
(City of) Angels and Demons by ryanfunk 2 years ago
Very cinematic. I felt like the vocals/lyrics were from the perspective of a lens.
Surrounded by Death by SeanBeeson 2 years ago
I really love the transition btw the opening and the fight scene...the ascending swoop. I especially like the mix; how you keep the synth sounds down unless brought up for effect but otherwise the percusive elements are front and center. This piece is truly about movement for me - you are taking me by the collar ever forward. Now I'm exhausted. Thanks.
Pachyderm Sunset by becwil 2 years ago
So cinematic. I get India, I get the beauty and the fear of the elephants. You state a narrative right off. Strangely, this reminds me of the drama of Astor Piazzola's Neuvo Tango. Gripping.
Mind The Gap (UF) by becwil 2 years ago
5

I love the mix of acoustic jazz piano and synth. You have brought me thoughtfully into a gap that I hadn't been inside before. Thanks for using the power of music this way!
Kill Lolly by RAMZAR 2 years ago
Sorry. I think the sax and guitar/keys can do better within this concept. They are not comfortable in the rythym.
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