Tempted

Robert James

The second song started is the sixth song finished. Not terrible, though there are a lot of bad guitar sounds. The rhythm tone is kinda sloppy. The playing is sloppy too, but the tone itself is more noticeable this time. The lead sounds flubby and overly compressed. I think all I needed to do was turn the gain down on the second stage pedal and that would have fixed both of them. I think I did better later on in the project.

This continues a Feb 2021 trend of overly long outros that don’t necessarily have anything to do with the rest of the song. Let’s call it a compositional choice that carries through most of this year’s project. Cool.

All of the guitar parts are my Gibson ES-335 Pro and the amps are a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 in dual mono. For the rhythm part I used a crybaby wah into a Ryra The Klone into a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter. For the leads I swapped in a Wren and Cuff Super Russian in place of the Black Lives Matter. For the cleanish thing at the end I only used the Ryra. The delays and the reverb were added in the mix.

Verse 1
This changes everything
what might the future bring
I’m up for anything
anything

Verse 2
feels like we’ve got it made
after a short delay
onward with the crusade
the crusade

Chorus
On some other day
I’m tempted to stay
Has to be a way
Some way to make this work

Bridge
Can we pull it off