A little song we wrote this weekend

Mazeroth · May 2006

My two older brothers, our friend John Jay, and I decided to write a song this weekend about our friend Shawn, who's getting married in a month. We wanted to write a song that we could play at his bachelor's party and I think we succeeded. Shawn is a drummer and would like nothing more than to be a professional drummer. He's by far, the most perverted person I've ever met in my life. He's a real nice guy, but he's not quite the smartest cookie in the jar. Right now he's drumming for an incredible band and he's downright sick, but we just like to pick on him and decided we'd do it in the form of a song. My oldest brother was in charge of writing the lyrics and did most of the musical composition. He played the bass and did the talking parts, my other brother the drums, John Jay did guitar, and I did the vocals and some of the mixing on the computer. Aside from the instruments we only have about $400 in recording equipment, not counting my brother's computer, which includes an 8-track digital Tascam and my brother's M-Audio sound card. I think it sounds damn good for $400 in equipment.

A quick synopsis of the song. It's about a day in the life of Shawn, waking up, having a gig to play that night, what he does to get ready and finally about him drumming at the gig.

Let me know what you guys think. We wrote and recorded it in about two hours and it took a few hours to mix it on the computer because we had no idea what we were doing.

Enjoy (I hope)

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/6776272/Playin_4_Real.mp3.html (takes a second to allow download)