Funky Fried Chicken

[GMaq]

Hi,

I've always been a huge fan of Booker T. & the MG's and quite some time ago wrote this instrumental with a tip of the hat to their style, It suffered from anemic GM drums in the first version I did so I pulled up the original tracks (done with CubaseVST 3.5 on Windows 98 long ago). I redid the drums with a custom hydrogen kit I did with bits and pieces from various kits including BigMono, unfortunately some of the samples are from commercial sources so I can't share the drumkit.

For those who sweat the details this was done in AV Linux 5.0.3 with Ardour 3 built with WinVST support although for this particular track no Windows VST's were used. Plugins of note were linuxDSP's DT-1 guitarfx pedal to dirt up the organ, the linuxDSP SR-2B Reverb, PEQ-2A and the Calf Stereo Tools were used on the Master Bus.

The organ is a horrid old 'metal organ' soundfont I found years ago, I wish I had an actual Hammond B3 but hey what can you do? The guitar is a telecaster tuned down to 'C' running through a tweed Fender pro Junior tube amp with no other effects and the amazing bass is played by my good friend and bandmate Pete C. Everything else is played or programmed by me.

If you are too young to know who Booker T. and the MG's are you going to think this is pretty bizarre....

Here it is, comments and critiques welcome:
http://bandshed.net/music/Funky%20Fried%20Chicken.mp3

[jjfro]

Very cool.  I'm afraid to admit that I am old enough to remember Booker T. & the MG's.  One of these days I'm going to have to learn to use some of these neat tools you have packaged in AV Linux.  I've recently been transferring some of my 40-year-old home recordings off of tape and it would be fun to be able to spice them up with software.

Thanks for sharing.

[Prof Knaakenbroed]

Glen, REALLY great !   
Booker T.
Oh my god. I can't believe it.

It's a really good production, nice stereo image, really good loundess relationship between the instruments, and an nice, nice rock-funky sound. I like it a lot !  It shows cleary how a pro is working.

The organ, it's great.

A "real" Hammond B3 ? Shouldn't be a big prob, if you don't  own a real one, these things are "E-Mu'ed" or "AKAI'ed" in really good quality.

Yours Prof Knaakenbroed

[GMaq]

Hi,

Thanks very much guys for taking time to have a listen and the nice comments.

[trulan]

Cool.  I'm either too young (or too sheltered) to know anything about Booker T., but that's a fun listen!  Excellent production, and great 'drumming'! As always, thanks for taking the time to share some of your music.