Here is a promo I did for @ReggieReggie ‘s radio show Something Smells. It plays on Mixlr on Wednesday nights on the Radio network of shows for the Weird Science DC podcast WSGF (I hope I’ve got the call letters right, I should probably check).
If I’m unpacking the call letters correctly I think it stands for Weird Science Get Fresh. The hosts of the main Weird Science DC podcast call themselves the Get Fresh Crew (woot woot) and put on a good and um, comprehensive look at the week in comics. Even if you aren’t interested in all of the books released each week by DC they put thorough time notes for what part of the podcast covers what. A guide is needed to get to what it is you are interested in in the weekly 10 hour (yes 10 hour) podcast. Strong and informed opinions. Try it and see if it clicks with you.
Anyway, nobody asked me to do this other than in joking so they aren’t obligated to use it. It is a pretty ridiculous take on the song Razzmatazz by Quincy Jones that the radio hosts play on their shows as a sort of tag-you’re-it thing. Not a problem hearing it a lot, it is a great song. The Quincy Jones version is. This version is more of gag.
The two pieces in this recording, the verse and the chorus, seem jammed together. The reason that is is because they were jammed together. Funk songs are so strongly driven by the drum and bass that I haven’t always figured out how to have only a guitar carry all the lines of the songs. And I have a short attention span.
The bass/guitar riff is a good one but would be much more loose and fun with a real rhythm section. The guitar has to keep the clock in this song and it feels stiff when I get it right, confusing the few times I got the rhythm a little off. Playing this way doesn’t play to my strengths as a guitarist so it is good exercise for me.
A similar thing has happened to me on a few funk-like song projects recently. Imagine that, playing funk right requires a rhythm section. Whooda thunk?
Anyway, if anyone wants to record and send me drums or bass to this song I’d love to put them in. I’d even re-record my guitars and vocals. Maybe if Jim at Weird Science wants to send over his own vocals they could go in! Contact me on twitter at @professorfrenzy.
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