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!
Hand_of_Node ago
Nice! You sound like a great musician!
I'm actually listening to it a second time. That's really good.
Dang, computer choking on too many tabs, and voat not being available. Well, I'm back.
TheBuddha ago
I'm not bragging when I say I'm one of the best guitarists on the planet. I feel comfortable rating myself in the top 500.
If you like that, scroll down until you find the other TSO song, Christmas Eve in Sarajevo.
Hand_of_Node ago
A National Treasure!
TheBuddha ago
I'm a classical guitarist by training and have been at it for more than five decades.
If I wasn't world-class by now, I'd fucking quit playing.
I've put well over 55,000 hours in (we did the math). I'm nearing 60,000 hours by now.
Yeah... I didn't just magically pick up a guitar and play. I put my hours in.