Are you ready to rock? Are you ready for a good time? Let's make some noise!!!
Today marks not an end to the FNGT, but marks a new chapter. There may be laughter and joy, or there may be tears and sorrow. For some, it could be both - and that's okay.
Let us huddle around the final embers that was the fire of Voat - but let us not go out silently. Let us leave this place with ruckus and merriment. Let us not just make enough noise to be heard 'round the fire, but let us make enough noise to be heard for miles around - so that others may appreciate our gifts.
Today it is the last guitar thread on Voat. If Voat goes down during the thread, look for us on Preview Voat
Like a Phoenix, we shall rise from the ashes and be enjoined anew on Poal.
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TheBuddha ago
Like normal, we'll go ahead and get you started! Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!
You've waited a year for this. More than 300 hours. 189 stubs. As many as 6 guitar layers and 3 drum layers at a time. This is perhaps the most complex piece we've put together. We hope it was worth the wait!
We started planning last January and started putting this together in August. The 300 hours only includes recording and mixing time. It doesn't include the hundreds of hours we spent learning and rehearsing the work. To try to enumerate who played what with our usual notation would make a URL that exceeded the max 255 characters. So, it's from the usual suspects and some guests.
And, it's a fitting tribute to be the last Christmas guitar track we made for Voat. Without further ado…
2020 Christmas TSO Medley (The Usual Suspects and Guests)
Backup if we swamp HulkShare with traffic
As you listen, think back to the lovely times we've had and look forward to the lovely times we'll still have. Do not lament the passing of Voat, but rejoice in the moving to a new home. I have long since prepared a place for us there and this thread shall continue.
For the record, I am well pleased by this track. Well pleased indeed. Also, I want to add that it is with deliberate purpose that this song is as it is - it rewards those that wait. So, wait for it... The silence exists for a reason.
Rock on, goats! Rock on!
cynicaloldfart ago
Now I am listening again to your track. It's still gonna take a lot of listens to hear all the nuances. What another herculean effort by all of you. Please tell J how amazing she is and how utterly astonished I am at her skills.
Biff, you really outdid yourself in everything. Just wow, the mix is fantastic and your playing on this is so awesome. Thank you for putting so much work into everything you do. You are so pro level already you indeed a Legend!
Buddha, what can I say about you I haven't said a million times. Wait, have I used stupendous yet? You know how awestruck I am with your skills, born of decades of dedication. I don't know what more I can say, but Thanks.
TheBuddha ago
throws horns
So much to be said about this year's track. It's a lovely, complex piece that can be digested into many chunks. When we made the decision to finish with A Mad Russian's Christmas we knew we were in for some serious work. That's why the recording started in August, before I left to come down here.