Re: OT: Double Bass Looping of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir (Mainstage+Mobius+Softstep)

[mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com>]

That's great Rick, I'm going to start singing today... You are
right... My fave singers have terrible voices traditionally....
Beefheart, john Lydon, Malcolm mooney, the residents, nico, yoko,
Astrid Gilberto... None can really belt out in perfect pitch , but all
are KNOWN for their voices!!!

Btw.. I'm gonna get this voice app for iPhone and do a kinda autotune
industrial distortion vocal....


Mark

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On 24 Jan 2011, at 22:54, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Todd Matthews wrote:
>> Damn, Those are both great covers! Awesome vocals. Man I wish I could 
>sing. That's the ultimate instrument. Oh well, a bow is better than 
>nothing:)
>>
>> -Todd Mathews
> I think I read somewhere that John Coltrane said,  "All instruments 
>aspire to the human voice"
>
> And you know,   I always wanted to sing and was always afraid (and 
>didn't like the sound of my voice).
> Then as a producer,  I kept hearing singer after singer say that they 
>didn't like the sound of their voice,
> so I started.  It finally occurred to me that most of those critical 
>voices where inside my head, not outside
> of it as I had feared.  I've been singing for 10 years now and am NOT an 
>accomplished singer, but I can carry
> a tune and I think, occasionally, that the voice really does add 
>something to the mix, even when only
> singing acapella or even used for effects simulation (sound effects, 
>beatboxing, et.al.)
>
> What I tell my young music students is:   Sing ever day........sing 
>unison with what you play so that you kill two
> birds with one stone and remember all the people who started out with 
>really limited chops and became successful
> singers.    Some of my favorite singers don't have great voices,  but 
>they have tons of humanity in there own.
>
> Your inherent musicality is very evident, Todd.   I say go for it.    I 
>started at the age of 47.   I'm teaching a woman
> who started at 62.
>
> If you sing every single day,  you will become a singer.  That's how it 
>works.
>