Song: Another Fine Mess

So it's been a couple months since I've posted a song or anything to the blog. I haven't forgotten about this, I just have been focusing on a few other things, like a giant jigsaw puzzle that took over our kitchen table for a few weeks.

However, I'm still making music and here's the latest piece:
Greg Whitehead - Another Fine Mess by GWGumby

I've actually been working on several songs over the past couple months. One is a Mannheim Steamroller/Fresh Aire-style instrumental piece that I'm currently stuck on. The other is a bit more power-pop oriented that I've currently handed over to my brother (probably the only one who reads this) to see if he can incorporate some guitar with it. Then there's this one which I think I wrote and recorded in record time of about one week.

Once again, the song is written and performed entirely by me (Greg). All sounds are from my Korg R3 and Roland JV-1080. The Roland is used mainly for percussion, and the Korg for nearly all the other synth sounds. There's no great story behind the song, just a riff that came into my head and lyrics that seemed to work with it.

The bass line comes from a Clav sound on the R3 run through some effects in Sonar. I had a lot of fun building up the percussion track using the JV-1080's drums. The only other sounds are a sync-sound the acts as a filler, and a brass sound. Both of those come from the R3, while the brass sound is actually doubled with another brass sound on the Roland.

While making the song several other similar songs often came to mind. It was not my attempt to emulate them through this piece, but I'm sure they were each influential:
Yes - "Leave It", Jackdaw 4 - "Bipolar Diversions", Tommy Sparks - "She's Got Me Dancing", and The Fixx - "One Thing Leads To Another".

Once again I put the music to a YouTube video. All the images in the video are just random pictures found on the Internet of not-so-great situations. Again, there's not particular story behind the lyrics of the song. It's just words that seemed to fit as the melody came to mind.