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Bruce, cool tune - neat concept. So if I understand correctly... you aren't always the bass player. You could put on any number of hats during the CAPE events? That sounds like alot of fun!

Absolutely! You sign up as a musician (or other skills like mixing) on any instruments you play, with your assessment of how good you are and what styles you prefer. Teams are assigned based upon that, and many people end up on something other than their main instrument if they list more than one. And as you said, you might even end up with multiple hats, sometimes on multiple teams. We usually end up with well over 100 musicians on all the teams. I nurtured my disdain for mandolins by mentioning one year that I had access to one. I never said I could actually play it.

I was involved with the last CAPE. I missed signups for the current round. It was a lot of fun. It would be great to set something up here like that, but we lack drummers, keyboards and the like.

qwezirider wrote:Absolutely! You sign up as a musician (or other skills like mixing) on any instruments you play, with your assessment of how good you are and what styles you prefer. Teams are assigned based upon that, and many people end up on something other than their main instrument if they list more than one. And as you said, you might even end up with multiple hats, sometimes on multiple teams. We usually end up with well over 100 musicians on all the teams. I nurtured my disdain for mandolins by mentioning one year that I had access to one. I never said I could actually play it.

Bruce's CAPE song produced:
http://womb.mixerman.net/showthread.php?t=6084

First post links to the mp3. Really nice, mellow song.

rikk wrote:I was involved with the last CAPE. I missed signups for the current round. It was a lot of fun. It would be great to set something up here like that, but we lack drummers, keyboards and the like.

Well I'll be darned! What team was yours last go around? I was on Team Vagabond last time. It would be interesting to give something like that a go here. Might be short on drummers, but I bet we would know enough collectively to pull something off.

qwezirider wrote:

rikk wrote:I was involved with the last CAPE. I missed signups for the current round. It was a lot of fun. It would be great to set something up here like that, but we lack drummers, keyboards and the like.

Well I'll be darned! What team was yours last go around? I was on Team Vagabond last time. It would be interesting to give something like that a go here. Might be short on drummers, but I bet we would know enough collectively to pull something off.

I was on team Conception. We did a song called "Making Noise." If anybody here is game I'm in. I can lend some tenor banjo to the mix as well. I've been playing what I call "punk rock banjo" a cross between Irish/Jazz/Rock played on the tenor banjo.

Mark W does some drumming and I seem to recall a few others mentioning it. I might even be able to talk my guitarist into drumming or hey, even my drummer.... That would be an interesting project.

This really is a fascinating project, and sounds like a lot of fun. I'm not sure if I'm the same Mark W that you're referring to, but I do drums in the form of programming; I'm not proficient with actual sticks. Bass is my main thing, and singing. I also play guitar & synths, a little piano, various sampling gear, and I engineer & master, too.

qwezirider wrote:My latest project, producing and bass (4004 Cii Monty). I love this internet collaboration stuff! Players from Las Vegas, Maine, London, Helsinki, Sweden, Venezuela, and Korea.

Just Being Me

That was magic Bruce.

If I may, the instrumentation overpowers the singer a little at 1:13 and again at 1:30 - should sit a little further back in the mix I think.

Great singer.

Yes, you are the W I was thinking of - sorry didn't want to sound like I was volunteering you or anything... more as an example of the versatile group we have here. Personally I don't care how the 'skin whacks' are arrived at as long as they sound good. Most all of the percussion on your CDs sounds pretty darn good! Which I think is a testament to your recording skills as well....

But I digress - even if I wasn't on a project like this I still would love to hear the results. Collaborative ventures like this can turn out some very cool stuff. I might have something like this happening in April (but more on that later).

Agree - Great Singer!

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Tore - good stuff. I was listening to some Robert Fripp just before your stuff - what a dichotomy! Will give it a better listen later, off to a Super Bowl party now. Really like Spikes...

Welcome to the forum, Tore. Kick-*** stuff. Thanks for posting.

Something a little different, if not repetitive. I was working on some bumper music ideas for a friend. Just things to go between segments of an internet radio interview type of thing. The basis of this one is the 4004Cii 4-2-5. I am really starting to fall in love with that bass. It's fun to make layers.

Bumper Idea

Great tone you’re getting there Bruce! Screw radio segments have ‘em put that on the the phone when I’m waiting for a human to talk to….! The 4004’s are definitely one Rickenbacker’s greatest secret.