Here is an older one I just finished re-mixing, it's all BIAB, except for the rhythm and lead guitars. The lyrics are on the page, for this forum's convenience.

What Are You Waiting For?

There is a line in this song that some women do not find terribly amusing, although it was indeed put there to make people smile, including women, and is product of fanciful desire, and not actual practice, on my part. Once, I quoted it to a female musical artist on ReverbNation, to see if she might think me somewhat of a clever fellow, and she responded by saying, "Just so you know, I have a partner.." That was the last I heard from her..

Women, are strange creatures, they claim in their personal adds, for example, and damn near uniformly, to want honesty and a sense of humor from a man, but when you go ahead and try to give such things to them, 99.8% of em, run for the hills. Or, such has been my experience, at the least.

At any rate, my 'Grammy' contest song entry, I told folks here about, seems to have failed to attract the interest of any of the celebrity judges, or the 'curators'; as it turns out they had been ineptly named (as far as I can discern from their selections), as they seemed to mostly have favored the loudest and weirdest stuff they happened upon. Speaking of 'loudness', I am sure people here know of the 'volume wars' taking place in the music industry these days, and how it seems nearly impossible for a song recorded on a home computer to match the mastering sound involved with an analogue studio recording. Well, I simply went about ignoring this factor during the contest, despite that so many of my peer's songs, sound-wise, just blew my entry out of the water. It was almost like I defiantly neglected to attempt to raise the volume of my recording to match theirs. This, in retrospect, was a very big mistake I made, as it turns out the winners chosen, were all twice or even thrice as loud as me. Lesson learned, however, as I have since cranked the volume of my all my recordings with almost reckless abandon. Beginning, actually, with my song 'Key of A' (which seemed to have gone over well in this forum in the past) which I subsequently, entered into a different contest, run by the same 'Grammy' (or The National Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences, folks) called the 'Center Stage'. I am hoping my lack of production experience, coupled with my limited recording resources, will be offset, by blasting my humble creation into everyone's ears.

This latter-most contest page, can be viewed here:

Key of A

Instead of using the mixing techniques I have been practicing lately (such as I used on the song entitling this thread), I just decided to run every track, smack in the middle, just as it was, when I posted it here, and to crank the volume of it a hell of lot louder, in order to try to match my competitors, or to compete within the 'volume war'.

Incidentally, I am making no excuses for myself, as far as these competitions go. In the first contest, just ended, I simply did not end up singing my entry to its potential, despite a herculean effort on my part to exceed my all too familiar vocal limitations. I thought, with the pressure on me, I could somehow stay in key while singing it with the proper emotion. But, although I came close, my song, was just not sung good enough, even in my own estimation.

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