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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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[–] 4 pts

Well, we're lazy again. You had a nice new song last weekend. Four years? Yeah... We're past the four year mark. As such, I think we get to be a little lazy. We've earned the right to rest on our laurels. By the way, that 'rest on our laurels' has nothing to do with bushes or resting on our haunches or anything like that. Laurels are awards for accomplishments, so the saying is basically, 'going to rely on our previous accomplishments'. And now you know...

Tonight's song is an all-time favorite. I was actually a little angry when performing this. I'd just bitched at some audience member who didn't seem to think the 'no flash photography' applied to them. They were singled out, sworn at, and put in their place. It's bad enough that I have the stage lights in my face, I don't need other distractions and I don't need my pupils adjusting constantly. Yes, I often need to actually fucking see what I'm fucking doing. When we say no flash photography, that applies to you - and no, it doesn't mean 'just a little flash photography is okay'. It's even worse when it's 'lights down' and my eyes have adjusted to the darkness.

Anyhow, without further ado...

Yes, nearing the end, that's effects on my voice and not a talkbox. It's a touch of reverb with the gain turned up. Yes, I pretty much nailed it, even though I was kinda grumpy. It's my damned job.

Rock on, Poalr Bears! Rock on!

[–] 4 pts

Beautiful stuff. I'm sure a lot of old band mates can say this, but this is the one song, when me and my brother see each other after years of being apart, this is the one that for certain comes out when the alcohol is right and the amps are on.

[–] 2 pts

Thanks and glad you liked it. It's truly an 'all-time favorite' and not just for the musicians. Even the younger crowds know this song and sing along with you. This was from the 3rd of July, so we were pretty sober and still well-rested. We did three shows that weekend.

[–] 2 pts

Their photos will turn out a whole lot cooler looking without using a flash! Sheesh!

This sounds great. Your voice sounds a lot different on this one than others that you've shared the last month or so. I don't know what it is exactly, but its different.

[–] 1 pt

Probably the effects, this is with fewer effects until the end where I use a touch of reverb and gain. It was also the day before so my voice wasn't as trashed. Look at the date. This one is from the 3rd, instead of the 4th.

And, yeah, VR driving is pretty solid these days. The good news is that you'll get a reset button in VR driving and you can have a ton of fun that you just can't do in real life, 'cause it'd be too expensive.

[–] 1 pt

It must have been cause your voice was not trashed yet. Cause it sounded different before the effects

And yeah, I take chances in the VR I never would in real life in a real car. I am a very careful driver, and I don't really drive super fast, though yesterday I was going down the highway and happened to look down at the speedometer and it said I was doing a hundred. I thought I was doing 75 LoL

[–] 2 pts

Wish I was there too. Very nice job and you did a great job on the vocals. I noticed Biff throwing in some effects (other than the vox) it's little details like that that make it great.

[–] 2 pts

We're going to go perform tomorrow night. They're at our favorite venue this weekend and we figure we might as well go make some noise.

[–] 1 pt

Hell yeah!

It's the perfect set up you have now got going with the band where you can go have some fun and make a lot of noise and melt some faces if you feel like it, with a great backing band that's got their parts down, or, you can just say nah, don't feel it and the band does the show without you! That's got to be close to the ideal!

[–] 3 pts

Here is another song that Chris and I played the other night. I thought he sounded really damned good on this considering that the original singer is one of the best rock singers ever. Here is our version of Audioslave's

[–] 3 pts

Hi all. I hope everyone has had a wonderful week. I woke up this morning with this Pine Box Boys song attached to my brain. So I took some pain pills, and dropped the tuning a step, and this happened. (I haven't really heard it yet, cuz my right ears are stopped up. Listener beware!)

[–] 3 pts

Oh hell yeah! That's great! Fucking Loved it man!

[–] 3 pts

Hello everybody. As some of you might know, I do not like the doors. I don't get the popularity of them at all. But that's just me I guess. Anyways, the other day my friend Chris came over and we didn't know what to play so I thought just for this once we could do the one doors song that actually does not annoy the hell out of me and make me shut it off as quickly as I can. So here is my one and only time ever of playing a doors song. Enjoy.

[–] 3 pts

Great job!

I've never been a big Doors fan, but I think more than anything else, it's the cult following around the singer that turns me off. Or rather the music industry trying to build a cult around him. Certainly not a bad band, I guess I was more into CCR when the Doors were peaking.

[–] 2 pts

CCR was so great those three or four years they were producing those iconic records. One of the best bands ever with so damned many great songs.

The cult nonsense probably turns me off of the doors as well. At least this song is just pretty much a straight up blues song

[–] 2 pts

I know music is subjective but you have to admit the musicians were all really talented. Manzarek pulling double duty on keys and bass and Krieger could play a lot of genres well. Densmore was a great jazz drummer which gave him the flexibility to cover different styles. Anyway, glad you did this you all did a good job of it.

BTW, it's called Roadhouse Blues.

[–] 2 pts

I was wondering what was going on there on Light My Fire. I see the Ed Sullivan clip and I hear a bass and I figure it's Manzarek moving his foot pedals. Is that what he's doing?

I read some book about these guys (no... not, No One Gets Out of Here Alive) and Manzerik had to read the music backwards on some track. From back to front. WTF! I don't know if it was Crystal Ships or what.

You're right, those cats were fantastic musicians. The pretty boy filled out the band and they took off. Fuck it, let the singer get the accolades while the band makes it big. Whatever works.

60's had the best music because they could do whatever they wanted. Didn't have to fit in some slot. Horns, mariachi (Cash- Ring of Fire), violins, instrumentals, experimental sounds like Good Vibrations. It was all on AM Radio too. Didn't need to stereo to pan left/right. Great stuff.

[–] 0 pt

Not sure about the Sullivan show in particular, but the majority of the time he played a Rhodes Piano Bass keyboard with his left hand while playing the melody line on a Vox Continental keyboard with his right. They did usually use a studio bassist on most recordings but never live. Many of them had difficulties learning the bass parts as they were so complicated. I'm not a keyboard player and its always amazed me how they can play separate complicated parts with each hand.

Yeah, that's why I try to keep the amazing decade of the 60's alive due to the intense innovation being demonstrated. It was long before digital recording happened and almost all of the techniques were organic. Not only were the musicians so inventive but people like Spector, Brian Wilson, Sir George Martin started exploring the use of the studio as an intricate part of the music. Take the chorus sound of 10cc's I'm Not In Love as an example:

It is notable for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals. Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end though the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the blips in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put gaffer's tape across the bottom of each channel, which meant it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note; this resulted in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song. Composer and music theory professor Thomas MacFarlane considered the resulting "ethereal voices" with distorted synthesized effects that are an example of early synclavier music to be a major influence on Billy Joel's hit ballad "Just the Way You Are", released two years later.

[–] 1 pt

I never meant to disparage them as fine musicians. I am sure they can play most nearly anything they wanted to and worked towards. It's just their songs irritate me for some reason. Maybe its the way he sings or his voice. maybe it's the dun dun dun da dun dun da dun dun whatever that song is. That's just a terrible riff and people seem to love it and it makes no sense to me

[–] 1 pt

the dun dun dun da dun dun da dun dun

'Touch Me', with the dorky horns and violins, gay as fuck

[–] 2 pts

Here is an old 70's song by barry louis polisar that my friend Chris and I jammed out the other day.

[–] 1 pt

I'm too goddamn tired to

[–] 1 pt

Go get yourself your favorite stimulant of choice and go for it!

[–] 1 pt

I gotta get up early and do grown-up shit :(

[–] 1 pt

Don't be a slave

[–] 1 pt

Here we are jamming out to a Weezer song, the song is Beverly Hills, but we're not in that class. Here is