This is a video of a sort of "demo" I did in Fort Worth Texas.

The back story is that a friend and I wrote the lyrics over the internet. I got on a plane in Miami early and flew to Dallas, rented a car and got to the studio at around six.

The guys showed up around seven. We joked that everyone could only do one take and that is how it got cut.

I talked to the drummer for about two min and told Curtis the engineer to hit record. The drummer and I played the song through, me on guitar.

Big John the bass player showed up about that time and we did the vocal in one take. I showed the lyrics to Robert and he sang it right off the sheet having never seen it before.

We single tracked the guitar lead, harmonica, piano, and steel guitar.

By 10:00 we were finished. Dr Wu was walking around with his video camera and he made the video except for the color intro which I cut in.

Curtis and I stayed up till 3:00 mixing. To tired to go back to the hotel I went to sleep at the studio. Never go to a studio that does not have a bed...lol

What you see is a short version of what went on. It would have been ever so cool if I had BB then to rough out the song. I was a bit stressed out putting everything together with the guys, showing Robert a bit of how to sing the song, playing guitar, running out to get some beer...lol

This was max fun and I wish I had the money to do it once a week...lol

https://youtu.be/lE8PABawHEs

While everyone experiences PTSD differently, there are three main types of symptoms:
Re-experiencing the traumatic event.
Avoiding reminders of the trauma.
Increased anxiety and emotional arousal

The song is a bit serious but making it was fun

Cheers,

Billy

PS...I will look for the lyrics

EDIT: I had to dig to find this...lol

PTSD SONG
Sound effect intro
We did for our country they did it for me
Like the vets from Vietnam back in nineteen seventy three
All the guys from World War Two dug in for the fight
Bullets flying every where in the middle of the night

You found yourself in a hole over there
You met the beast better beware
Trying to kill you but you don’t care
Keep on marching my brother
One foot in front of the other
Solo
You were there in country, you were the elite
Now you’re here back in the world walking down the street
Startled by the smallest sound of a car passing by
You try your best to hide it, the tear from your eye

You found yourself in a hole over there
You met the beast better beware
Trying to kill you but you don’t care
Keep on marching my brother
One foot in front of the other
Solo
You keep you gun by side you you know it’s not right
When you wake up screaming in the middle of the night
The doctor takes the history and then he writes it down
You just keep on thinking they gona put me in the ground

You found yourself in a hole over there
You met the beast better beware
Trying to kill you but you don’t care
Keep on marching my brother
One foot in front of the other
Solo
You know the beast is a monster that lives inside your brain
Every day you wake up he’s driving you insane
Government says there ain’t no cure you put a gun up to your head
Your finger is on the trigger nothing more to be said

You found yourself in a hole over there
You met the beast better beware
Trying to kill you but you don’t care
Keep on marching my brother
One foot in front of the other
Sound effect out


Perhaps I should move this to it's own thread.


Last edited by Planobilly; 08/02/15 01:53 PM.
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