That's a beauty, Todd. You'll never regret that one. I bought a new D-16RGT last year and the honeymoon is still not over 
I hope you'll put her to work and post some new songs soon Me? Impatient? Naaaaaaa
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That's a beauty, Todd. You'll never regret that one. I bought a new D-16RGT last year and the honeymoon is still not over I hope you'll put her to work and post some new songs soon All I wanna do is rock!
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Congrats on the Martin, Todd.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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Kira, I've been pretty impressed with the Martin D16 series and from a sound standpoint, I don't find that many of them give up much to the old D18s,21s,28s and 35s. This twelve seems to sound just as good as my D12-28 did, if not better. I played a D16 rosewood-gloss-top six-string in the local GC the other day and it really played nicely. It seemed to sound quite decent, too (Mini-Rant: If you are going to go to the trouble to build a fancy, wood-paneled, sound-proof room for testing acoustic guitars and keeping the shredder **** out, why equip it with half-a-dozen of the cheapest, noisiest humidifiers that money can possibly buy and turn them all on at once?)
No new songs at the moment. I have the basic structure figured out for one and a second one that has all the instrumental tracks recorded and mixed, but no words....It currently has two tracks of possible phrases and a lot of three-part mumbling, but I'm stuck on real lyrics. One thing about writing fairly simple songs is that the lyrics better be pretty good or the whole thing is a bust. They usually come to me in a flash and it takes about 30 minutes to write all the lyrics for a song. The problem is that the flash could come tomorrow, or ten years from tomorrow.
Plenty of old songs though - fifty-two of them to be exact. I've spent most of the winter doing graphics for the website for our old band and four different CD covers. We found boxes of old studio tapes and have assembled two CDs of previously unreleased stuff. One of them is already out. Then we have one more old album from the period after I left the band which we have re-mastered and converted to a digital. It's being pressed, printed, burned, or whatever they do to them as we speak. The third will be ready to go in a couple of weeks. After those, one of the Warner Music Group companies (probably Wounded Bird Records) is going to re-release our original Elektra album from 1972 within the next three months or so.
The first CD came out about two weeks ago and is some of our very early, acoustic-folky stuff from '71 and '72. It's hard to believe that I was only 19-20 years old when the tapes were made. Time flies. If we're lucky, they might pay for a few sessions to record some new stuff. You can hear low-quality but workable clips from the first CD at CD Baby. Once all four disks are out, there will be a pretty interesting progression from the light-hearted folky stuff of the early years through the later, electrified, more rocky music. No great ambitions, but as mid-life crisis activities go, it's cheaper than buying sportscars and less hassle than a mistress.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/theship2
I'm obviously biased because I designed it, but I think it also has the coolest looking disk face I've ever seen on a CD.
No new songs at the moment. I have the basic structure figured out for one and a second one that has all the instrumental tracks recorded and mixed, but no words....It currently has two tracks of possible phrases and a lot of three-part mumbling, but I'm stuck on real lyrics. One thing about writing fairly simple songs is that the lyrics better be pretty good or the whole thing is a bust. They usually come to me in a flash and it takes about 30 minutes to write all the lyrics for a song. The problem is that the flash could come tomorrow, or ten years from tomorrow.
Plenty of old songs though - fifty-two of them to be exact. I've spent most of the winter doing graphics for the website for our old band and four different CD covers. We found boxes of old studio tapes and have assembled two CDs of previously unreleased stuff. One of them is already out. Then we have one more old album from the period after I left the band which we have re-mastered and converted to a digital. It's being pressed, printed, burned, or whatever they do to them as we speak. The third will be ready to go in a couple of weeks. After those, one of the Warner Music Group companies (probably Wounded Bird Records) is going to re-release our original Elektra album from 1972 within the next three months or so.
The first CD came out about two weeks ago and is some of our very early, acoustic-folky stuff from '71 and '72. It's hard to believe that I was only 19-20 years old when the tapes were made. Time flies. If we're lucky, they might pay for a few sessions to record some new stuff. You can hear low-quality but workable clips from the first CD at CD Baby. Once all four disks are out, there will be a pretty interesting progression from the light-hearted folky stuff of the early years through the later, electrified, more rocky music. No great ambitions, but as mid-life crisis activities go, it's cheaper than buying sportscars and less hassle than a mistress.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/theship2
I'm obviously biased because I designed it, but I think it also has the coolest looking disk face I've ever seen on a CD.
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That is a very cool package, Todd. Good luck with your sales.
My D-16 played and sounded better than any Martin within a thousand dollars of it in the showroom. I sure got lucky on this individual. I would have been a fool to pass it over, even though it was 300$ more than my budget
My D-16 played and sounded better than any Martin within a thousand dollars of it in the showroom. I sure got lucky on this individual. I would have been a fool to pass it over, even though it was 300$ more than my budget
All I wanna do is rock!
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Wow, you're right, that is one cool CD! Reminds me of the good old days back when I had everything on reel-to-reel! What a COOL idea!teb wrote: I'm obviously biased because I designed it, but I think it also has the coolest looking disk face I've ever seen on a CD.
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Well, well, well, well, well, well,.....how about that! I remember playing that LP of yours Todd at the campus radio station my first year of college! The Ship....I knew that rang a bell somewhere. At the time, I thought that was a pretty neat idea for a concept album. What a small world.
JimK
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Yes it is a small world! Elektra must have sent out a zillion of the promo copies of that album to radio stations. I see them frequently on eBay. On a good day I can find both a copy of The Ship and a copy of my book up for sale on the bay. People are trying to get rid of me or something..... Me? Paranoid? Never. Jeff Rath actually attended one of our concerts once.
I just spent two days putting a proposal together for the Warner people with graphics for the new CD of that album. I don't know yet whether they will use it or do something in-house. The original artwork is long gone and all I had was a very shelf-worn copy. I scanned parts of it, photographed parts and then went to work with Photoshop. I had to clean it up and remove all the text and credits from the back, because they were too small to show up on a CD-sized package, then fill all the holes it left, re-design and apply the back cover text and make a good copy of the front cover with a couple small repairs and some color adjustment. Then I added a page inside with the credits that wouldn't fit on the back, designed a disk face and added an optional 2-page spread with a little explanation of what the thing is, and what it's about. We will see if they go for it, but I think it looks pretty good and maintains the spirit of the original album cover. You can see a preview here. Resolution isn't as good as the real thing because it's just a mid-level jpeg preview, but it's slightly larger than full-size if you blow it up in your browser so you can see it pretty well.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... 20copy.jpg
Designing CD covers is really fun...in a rather tedious sort of way. Here are two of the other ones. These were easier because I got to start from scratch and do whatever I wanted. The first is the cover mock-up for the first CD, with the tape reel. I shot the back cover photo in my basement, next to the stairs. Now every time I go down there it looks like a CD cover and every time I look at the CD it looks like my basement.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... Mockup.jpg
This one is for the the third CD, which should be out in a month or so. I think it will be the best of the bunch from a music standpoint, as it spans the entire history of the band and the transformation from acoustic folky music to electrified, more rocky and even kind of jazzy stuff, including a couple of live cuts. This is my "jack of all trades" album. I played bass and guitar on it, wrote and sang a couple of the tunes, designed the CD package, helped re-master the tunes, built the sail on the boat that's shown on the front cover for one of my customers and built the boat shown on the back cover. When you need pictures, you use whatever you have on the old hard drive, but it makes a pretty cool cover.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... Mockup.jpg
I just spent two days putting a proposal together for the Warner people with graphics for the new CD of that album. I don't know yet whether they will use it or do something in-house. The original artwork is long gone and all I had was a very shelf-worn copy. I scanned parts of it, photographed parts and then went to work with Photoshop. I had to clean it up and remove all the text and credits from the back, because they were too small to show up on a CD-sized package, then fill all the holes it left, re-design and apply the back cover text and make a good copy of the front cover with a couple small repairs and some color adjustment. Then I added a page inside with the credits that wouldn't fit on the back, designed a disk face and added an optional 2-page spread with a little explanation of what the thing is, and what it's about. We will see if they go for it, but I think it looks pretty good and maintains the spirit of the original album cover. You can see a preview here. Resolution isn't as good as the real thing because it's just a mid-level jpeg preview, but it's slightly larger than full-size if you blow it up in your browser so you can see it pretty well.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... 20copy.jpg
Designing CD covers is really fun...in a rather tedious sort of way. Here are two of the other ones. These were easier because I got to start from scratch and do whatever I wanted. The first is the cover mock-up for the first CD, with the tape reel. I shot the back cover photo in my basement, next to the stairs. Now every time I go down there it looks like a CD cover and every time I look at the CD it looks like my basement.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... Mockup.jpg
This one is for the the third CD, which should be out in a month or so. I think it will be the best of the bunch from a music standpoint, as it spans the entire history of the band and the transformation from acoustic folky music to electrified, more rocky and even kind of jazzy stuff, including a couple of live cuts. This is my "jack of all trades" album. I played bass and guitar on it, wrote and sang a couple of the tunes, designed the CD package, helped re-master the tunes, built the sail on the boat that's shown on the front cover for one of my customers and built the boat shown on the back cover. When you need pictures, you use whatever you have on the old hard drive, but it makes a pretty cool cover.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... Mockup.jpg
