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| Hold My Hand like its the First Time by gcooke | 3 months ago |
| B, Thanks for the kind words. -G |
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| Hold My Hand like its the First Time by gcooke | 4 months ago |
| mfwmiles, thanks. the instrument really requires full concentration and the demands of precision in terms of intonation, for example, are relentless! The steel tracks require a lot of practice and many takes....so thanks for your comments. -g |
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| Hold My Hand like its the First Time by gcooke | 4 months ago |
| CalVol, Thanks for the comments! | |
| Hold My Hand like its the First Time by gcooke | 4 months ago |
| PH, Thanks as always. I really like your new cut, BTW. So the Pedal Steel I bought is a 10-string Carter Starter model. Pretty bare bones model, but does the trick for a newbie like myself. The Carter Starter comes with a stock "standard" E9 tuning and copedant set-up. The tuning is, from low to high: B, D, E, F#, G#, B, E, G#, D#(below the 4th string E), F#(below the 3rd string G#). The pedals and levers raise and lower various combinations of the strings. |
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| Hold My Hand like its the First Time by gcooke | 4 months ago |
| ant, Thanks! Yes, the pedal steel has been a lot of fun to pick-up and learn. Very humbling task! -G |
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| Jordan River by pharmakeus | 4 months ago |
| Very nice. Great lyrics.....solid vox and piano....interesting instrumentation. | |
| Laid Back In An Uptight Way by gcooke | 4 months ago |
| LB, Thanks very much! -G |
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| Heartripper by brewchugger | 5 months ago |
| cool track. nice mash up of styles.....like Beck you seamlessly combine lots of stuff. | |
| Anniversary Waltz(v.2) by gcooke | 6 months ago |
| B, Haha....you are funny and too kind. No need to look into the rear view mirror....your material is very well crafted! | |
| Water Through Our Fingers by gcooke | 6 months ago |
| wow. both great comments. thanks very much. i appreciate the discussion on the amount of vocals. i didn't have much more to say than what is there, so i just decided to go with less is more. | |
| Anniversary Waltz(v.2) by gcooke | 6 months ago |
Dyl, No vocals on this one...this is purely end of the night at the rodeo material  |
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| Voodoo Sax & Mystique Tabla by imadesentana | 6 months ago |
| Nice groove.....good to hear flute! | |
| All My Life I Waited (Poem to Music) by carlajpatterson | 6 months ago |
| Very interesting music! Refreshing to hear such a unique approach. | |
| Anniversary Waltz by gcooke | 6 months ago |
| Thanks, CP. I appreciate it! -GC |
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| Anniversary Waltz by gcooke | 6 months ago |
| LB, Thanks for the comments. I am humbled as taking up the pedal steel has been a great challenge. Most of the time I feel like I am remedial at best...... -GC |
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| I Trust in You by gcooke | 6 months ago |
| Pharmakeus, Thanks for the comments. Re: proximity effect....this is very perceptive. I am an audio engineer by trade, so I really struggled with this. Part of it is technology(SM58...no wind screen). I probably tweaked the balance of the vocals about 50 times, trying to manage to volume, intimate sound, and hearing the quiet passages...... Anyway, glad that you could appreciate the song.... -G |
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| Born in the Cosmos(Circle @ Rusty Nail-Spring 1985) by gcooke | 7 months ago |
| Hi R, No, this was the old Rusty Nail in North Amherst, MA. Maybe burned down in 1986?? -GC |
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| Life is a Color(Dertonz: 1991 Wendell Demo) by gcooke | 1 year ago |
| Hi All, Thanks for the comments! For me, kind of like looking back at an old photo album. Mikee, the other three people in the band (and the engineer) all went on and have done great things with their careers. Jen, for example, has a bunch of albums on iTunes that people can buy. I have and they are great pieces of work! Thanks, GC |
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| TTB-Scenes 4&5 by gcooke | 1 year ago |
| Hi LH, This is for a live production of "Trip to Bountiful". Thanks! -G |
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| Working In My Veal Pen by gcooke | 2 years ago |
| B, Interesting comment about the high end. When I "master" a song like this, I usually boost some of the high end to compensate for loss when put through compression algorithms. A lot tracks on this tune are out through a "megaphone" setting, so the combination of that plus the high end boost may have been a bit much. Thanks, G |
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| Wind & Rain (Feste's Song) by gcooke | 2 years ago |
| Thanks for taking the time to listen! -G |
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| Laid Back In An Uptight Way by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| Dylan, Thanks, as always, for listening and for your kind comments. -g |
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| Born To Rock by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| B6s, That's funny. The couselors did seem to be having fun. I was pretty impressed with what they got out of the kids. -g |
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| There Is A Place Where There Is No Time by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| Hey B, Thanks for your comments, as always. There are certain songs of mine that I like that don't seem to translate as well to others. Perhaps the lyrics are too obtuse. So, I appreciate that you like the humor as well as the serious aspects of the song. -g |
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| 22 Years(remaster) by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| Paul, I agree about the vocal at the beginning. For some reason, I tend to abhor going back and fixing little things like that. I just went and checked and the current tempo is 87. I raised it 3 bpm from the original version. One thing that is weird is that the more times I listen to it in a row, the slower it seems to get. As always, thanks for the great comments....and appropriate stars (when comparing me to Al Green). -G |
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| 22 Years(remaster) by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| Dylan, You are very astute. While this is not directly a GP reference, I was listening to a lot of 70's Al Green when I wrote this song. aDfB, I bought a Hammond XB-3 and a Leslie 145 (my pride and joy) about 10 years ago, so those are not GB sounds. -g |
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| Don't Want To Get Used To You by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| Hey guys, Thanks for the comments. I am glad you liked the banjo. I think the instrument sits well in a "rock" setting........ -G |
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| Everything is Flat by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| MF, I think I recall wanting to be loose with the time, but it also could have been lack of facility! Thanks for listening -g |
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| Everything is Flat by gcooke | 5 years ago |
| ph, I do need to go through a post the lyrics. I will do that. I am a Tom Waits fan....not as big as I was in the mid-90's, but, yes, he was a big influence for me. -g |
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| iCompositions Theme Song by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| paulhenrys, As usual, you provide insightful comments. Your comments show that you not only listen carefully, but you will take the time to post well-considered thoughts. Thanks for taking the time. I distinctly remember about 8-9 years ago that I felt that the web and compression algtorithms would allow a site like iComp to deliver on the promise of breaking down access to distribution channels. This is not to say that I am a man of any vision. I do believe that one needs actions to back-up such a claim, and I have none. While the idea of a competition brings up uneasy memories of fighting for record company attention, band battles, and grappling with the sense that the standards by which I am being judged are highly subjective, iComp is an important site for me (and I am sure for others as well) due to the sense that it delivers on the benefits of technology. This competition became, therefore, an opportunity to show support for the site. It sounds like a small part of those feelings came through in my song, and for that, I am grateful. Thanks again, gcooke |
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| and the flowers pushed slowly by floclezo | 6 years ago |
 Very pensive and restrained. Interesting music..... -gcooke |
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| mesmerised by ORANGEAUDIO | 6 years ago |
OA, I finally have had a chance to go through your music. I think your production value is excellent across the board. Very clean. Solid sounds. Good performances. I like this one as it seems a bit left of center. Very focused on an unusual atmosphere. Thanks, gcooke |
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| Shove That Butt Up Your A** by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| hey guys, thanks for listening! -gcooke |
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| I Didn't Know That You Owned This Road(remaster) by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| anDroidfrisBee, Thanks for stopping by. I am an Audio Engineer by trade, but I do have an aggressive luddite streak in me. Perhaps this is nutured by the fact that I work solely doing live sound, and the palette for mic choice is more limited than in the recording world. I pretty much have the attitude of "I will make it work with what you give me". I think this attitude is explored a bit more in my "The Good Old Days" blog post in which I briefly touch on a comparison of sound quality vs writing. In any case, to get to the point, I am fully armed here at home with a SM58 and an SM87. The vocal here was done with the 58....hand held...no mic stand. |
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| She's My Little Frances by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Thanks, guys. For most of the 90's I work as an audio engineer for the Grassroots Festival in Upstate NY. Many of the musicians are steeped in the Old Time tradition, so I came to know that music pretty well. Some of the groups were very traditional and I loved the way snippets of lyrics would appear mid-tune. I wrote this song around the time of my daughter's birth, but I only had a few fragments. I thought that the setting would be appropriate based on the tradition. |
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| Motorcycle Girl by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Baboon, Yes it was. A few months after I wrote this song, a local filmaker made a film called "She Loves to Ride". It was about women who like to ride motorcycles. I thought this song should be on the soundtrack, but it didn't happen. A short time after that, the NY Times Sunday Magazine did a pictoral essay on these huge bikers. Tattoos. Piercings. Very fierce. One guy said "If you ever ctach me riding *****....shoot me". I realized that if I ever played this song in a biker bar that I would be lynched. |
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| The Mightiest of The Toads by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| The song was basically inspired by how weird my daughter looked immediately after she was born. I started singing this song to her when I was bouncing her when she was a few months old. My friend Colin added the woodblocks, which really add to the ambience, I think. -g |
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| I Didn't Know That You Owned This Road by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Baboon, I don't normally feel that comfortable singing low in my range. Sometimes I feel it is harder to convey emotion. Thanks for listening. -G |
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| I Didn't Know That You Owned This Road by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Michael, Thanks for the comments. I actually boosted the high end a bit when I mastered the track. This version was tricky as I went down a path of not only the bass being out front, but I wanted the drums to be dark. There really isn't much high end info at all. I did compress the song a bit during mastering, and I think that might have drawn a it of the high end away. In any case, thanks for listening and providing solid feedback.... -G |
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| Working For The Man by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Bob6stringer, That is a funny story. I never made it to Manley, only saw concerts at the Carrier Dome. The Dead reference is deeper than I can do in the song. I was touring as a sound engineer with 10000 Maniacs, and we warmed for the Dead at Rich Stadium on July 4th, 1989. We put our gear in front of the Dead's, and they were extremely uptight about it. At the end of the show, I had to extract our mic snake and get it onto the truck so we could get on our way to Pittsburgh. The only way I could do it was by pushing Jerry's rack a few inches to one side. Needless to say, Jerry's roadie went f^%$ing balistic. I thought he was going to hit me. I just walked off the stage..... Thanks for sharing..... -G |
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| Water Under The Bridge by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| greeny, Thanks for the comments. The bass is an electric bass. It is my Jerry Jones Silvertone copy. The drums are sequenced. -gc |
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| The Mightiest of The Toads by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Hey dstadther, Thanks for the comments. Although it is a children's song, I thought putting it in that genre was going to bury it. I am grateful that you appreciate the song. I am actually quite proud of this little ditty. My friend Colin played the wood blocks, my wife and a friend sang on the choruses. I think the guitar is nicely dissonant at points. Again, thanks, -G |
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| Everything is Flat by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| I love the comments that folks have. I never thought of that. I have been spending more time in VT than the midwest these days. Maybe I will get to that...... Thanks, JoJo |
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| When The Sun Goes Nova by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| that's funny........ this song does reflect one of the themes that I comeback to often...that of my insignificance in the grand scheme of things. Actually, one of my new songs from this year "These are the Hours We are Given" is also commentary on this theme. The framework has changed, though, as I have had a daugther since I wrote "Sun Goes Nova" in 1995. So, my sense of unimportance is a bit bittersweet as I am not at all concerned about fame. I am trying to enjoy these fleeting years with my family. | |
| When The Sun Goes Nova by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Thanks! I very much appreciate your comments. |
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| Building Boats In The Basement by satoriday | 6 years ago |
 Very clean sounds. Nice production value. Solid vocals. Nice work. |
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| 22 Years by gcooke | 6 years ago |
| Thanks...my wife appreciated the song! | |
| If I Didn't Have a Body by gcooke | 7 years ago |
| Thanks for the comments. Very much appreciated. Great term--- "discordant harmony". | |
