As you can hear in the style of my new music, I’m going for that old school 60’s and 70’s psychedellic rock sound. I loved all that stuff, the jam rock kind of music. You can hear that there is a bit of Jimmy Page influence and there’s a bit of metal in some of that stuff too. The guitar solo I played on, “A Secret Hidden” was all me. I just winged the solo, I didn’t sit down and write the guitar solo piece by piece. I just let it go. I recorded the solo several times until I found the take that I was happy with. If I didn’t like the solo, I would delete it again and record it over and over again until, I found the solo I liked. So the latest recording of the song, I was proud of that solo.

As you can hear, my playing is a bit bluesy. I don’t listen to a lot of blues. Some of it anyway. I got the blues influence by listening to Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Clapton, or SRV. Sometimes BB King as well. When I do these full band songs on garageband, I want to play more solos. Do these long improvised jams, so I can show off a little.

I want to prove people, that I do have what it takes to play in a band and record more professionally.

If I can get an actual band going, that would be great, but I need enough songs for us to practice on. These songs from garageband would give them an idea of what I would like my songs to sound like with a real live band. Of course, when I get a real band someday, the other musicians don’t have to play everything exactly what’s on the recordings. They can feel free to put in their own creativity in those songs. Like I said before, I’m sure other musicians can come up with drum parts and bass lines way better than I can.

These full band songs from garageband are just “demos”, that it. You don’t have to like it. You don’t have to hate it. They’re just examples of what I would sound like playing in a band, and that’s the whole point of me releasing them publicly.

To get feedback on them. Constructive criticism, and so far, the criticism has been surprisingly positive.

Kev