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I'm Just Fine (fuzz mix)
by michael2

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Submitted on: Feb 21, 2008 - 03:37:48 PM
Last Updated: Feb 21 2008 - 05:26:13 PM

Keywords indie rock (28)

Description i originally posted this song as a synth-pop number, but here is the fuzz mix. basically an experiment: i just got a set of drums on demand and the line 6 gearbox. it's really hard for me to get a rock song out of garageband, but i'm always trying. picture this:it's the early 90's, you went to Lollapalooza with the guys from work and there is some indie band playing that you've never heard before, but you've had a few beers and your into it; but by time you get home you forgot who they were. too bad; they played some small club the next night.

heres the link to the synth pop version:
http://www.macjams.com/song/38817

Lyrics with the light comes a weight
every day has it's place
i'm old enough to know

it's alright it's okay
i'm just fine
go away, get away from me

(chorus)
and you
with nothing else to do
but just get high
and talk
and toss away the hours as they go by

ah ha ha
ah ha ha

in my mind there's a place
it's my heart i can't face sometimes
it's really no big deal
every day every night
every time i'm not right
at least there's always you

(chorus)
and me
we lie between the sheets
and we believe
in life
we toss and turn away
the whole damn night

ah ha ha
ah ha ha
ah ha ha
ah ha ha

with the light comes a weight
every day has it's place
i'm old enough to know

it's alright it's okay
i'm just fine
go away, get away from me

(chorus)
and you
with nothing else to do
but just get high
and talk
and toss away the hours as they go by
with me
we lie between the sheets
and we believe
in life
we toss and turn away
the whole damn night

with you
with you...

Hardware intel mini mac, ibanez artcore hollowbody,crappy ibanez bass,line6 toneport, metal slide

Software: GB4, line 6 gearbox

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	Feter said 321 days ago
	I'm Just Fine Y e this is a hot rockin ones ..I m enjoyin this so much ...your singin harmony fit right infront of the guitars there ! thnx for sharin !

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	feter always on top of the new releases. glad you liked this one. i just took the vocals from the synth version and dropped them on top of this mess. thanks for coming by.

	magnatone said 321 days ago
	this is great I didn't hear the first version, but I sure like this one. I'm liking your music - thanks!

	bud said 321 days ago
	Hey - I was at that show! It was awesome - the band was from New Zealand and they were named after some marsupial I think. Or were they the Jimcrackers? Really hot - totally into their sound - solid drums and soaring guitars - lotsa high freq stuff to spin your brain. So you got that line 6 happening - cool.

	blaky smith said 321 days ago
	Great sounds Michael, glad to hear a new tune from you, nice done, very good singing and guitar playing, I love it ! Thanks Marc

	said 321 days ago
	Good Song, very pro with a POP under current, really like this , it's cool listen...Bravo

	drakonis said 321 days ago
	great melodic tuneage as always love the sliding guitar squirrelishness, great sung harmonies... repost the lyrics... your voice gets a little more lost in this mix with the pounding guitars and bass. ttfn, Drakonis

	Ibstrat said 321 days ago
	This sounds great!What setting are you using on the toneport?I can't seem to get a distortion sound out of it that doesn't sound kind of fake.You are a true craftsman-this is really good.

	rsorensen said 321 days ago
	like it nice song. i really like what the guitar's doing in the left channel. at first the sound of this reminded me of earlier U2, but you definitely have your own thing going on with this one. well done!

	said 321 days ago
	Hot Damn! This sounds great. I love all the sound noisy effecty guitars/synths(?) with the panning - sounds kick ass in headphones. Great song. And happy birthday Michael. I've some stuff I want you to hear, I'll email it.

	Vic Holman said 321 days ago
	avatar electralysis? When you mentioned on the first posting about more fuzzed guitars and drums i had already imagined how it would sound. Excellent I score an A there. I got a real kick though, from the slide effect of sawing and swaying with the delay. Gives a cool feedback effect. So you get an A there. Good job on turning it around Michael!

	biba_nova said 321 days ago
	good stuff michael i think this is one of your best yet great sound b

	cjdaley said 321 days ago
	I was a fan of the first version. As a mbv, jamc, michael2 fan, I totally relate to this.

	echoroom said 321 days ago
	Thats a scary avatar, young man. I love this - very 90's indie, JaMC type song, but this has a real sense of motion and lovely guitar - I love the whining distorted guitar panned to the left. Dreamy fuzzy wuzzy

	davisamerica said 321 days ago
	right then michael 3 listens thru now and better each run through. vox level works for me and the guitar work is stellar ..... too bad u were in line for the can ... you missed a great set! very cool indeed michael ... will now download!

	dirigent said 320 days ago
	wow brilliant guitar work, fantastic rockin' performance. i dig it :-)

	Reinholt56 said 320 days ago
	Excellent stuff Michael....... Your producing some excellent songs Michael. I really enjoy listening to each of your pieces. Another favourite. Take care. Paul

	lengold said 320 days ago
	I think that you have really managed to hit a live band sound and a band that are relaxed with and enjoying their music. Impressive. Cheers Len

	spitlogic said 320 days ago
	Ok I think I like this one better.

	said 320 days ago
	Dug it I like the crappy Ibanez

ledebutant said 320 days ago

Quai-possum Soul Eaters
I don't think I'm allowed to just type f*ck me! as a comment, though that's really what I want to do.

What a mix and great conception of this song. You're a scary boy, Michael, you're just made of all this music and it all keeps coming out and it's in all these different genres and you're so great with them all.

I'm very excited to hear you got some DOD and you did a great job getting a rock song out of GarageBand. What do you see as the special challenges?

michael2 said 320 days ago

thanks Lisa
glad you liked. i should have had you sing some on this one too.

i find it hard to record a convincing rock song with GB just because of the drum thing (hard to get sloppy overplayed drums with loops), i also have a hard time getting good guitar and bass sounds and sometimes it's more difficult to dredge up the vibe for really convincing vox if i don;t have to work to be heard over the band(at least for me it's easier on the quieter stuff). i try to record as if i'm playing live (only allow myself 1 take per track usually) and i don't worry about tuning and stuff like that too much; i hope that the mistakes will make it sound more real. thanks so much for listening. when;s our next collab (we've done 2 now)?

	ledebutant said 320 days ago
	Pie's Demo For sloppy drums, I'd really like to hear what you could do with BFD. http://www.macjams.com/song/28351

	ledebutant said 320 days ago
	Next Collab I'd like to do another one sometime, for sure. Maybe this time we should actually work together on it, instead of scurrying off into corners with each other's music and jumping out with a big surprise. That could be fun. Although, you're totally in charge of making the music. ;-) P.S. A major is the best key in the whole world.

	KCsGROOVE said 320 days ago
	very nice Heard the first version before i heard this one .... This one definitely rocks more! Great guitars and vocals! Love it! KC

	lavalamp said 319 days ago
	Really, really liked this one This has a special something to it. I can't put my finger quite on. It brings me back to that time you mentioned, but I don't know why. You're from Cali, too. Right? See ya LL

	jiguma said 318 days ago
	Classy rock What a great groove this gets into (fairly early on too) - love the chorus especially. At first, the fuzz was a little beyond what I enjoy, but once you started to sing all became clear. Nit-wise, I'd probably like a little more clarity at the upper end of the EQ curve, but I always say that :) Excellent post Michael. Neil

	stratjmp said 318 days ago
	good tune soundin good, good vocals, and production!

	timothy devine said 316 days ago
	I'm just fine/Michael2 Just fine. timothy devine couldn't resist love the guitar stuff in here u keep pumping em out man great work you always creat a cool sound

	Heightened said 300 days ago
	This one kept my tail a wagging. Ruff! Really Loved the guitar playing too. Outstanding!

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michael2

Artist Bio I'm a guy who never wanted to do anything but play music. I grew up with classic rock and prog rock before discovering punk and the new york dolls once I got to high school. As i got a little older (and less angry), I developed a love of all thi...[more]

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	michael2 said 321 days ago
	thanks Magnatone glad you stopped by. now to check out your latest.

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	we must have missed each other at that show. they were Kiwis and named after a marsupial yes; but oddly enough it was an american marsupial: the Possum. were they the electric possum death squad? can't remember. i was in line for the outhouse most of their set. yeah, got it working. thanks so much for the walk through last night. went off without a hitch.

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	thanks Marc had to mix it up after ripping off your vocal style on my last tune. thanks for coming by.

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	thanks a bunch davevan. this was how i originally meant it to be, but was too lazy to do it, thus the synth pop version. i'm still trying to perfect the art of getting a decent fuzz-pop sound from GB (it's hard without having real drums, guitar amps and singing hard enough to be heard over the band). thanks so much for listening.

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	thanks Drak i'll put the lyrics up. i tried to mix the vox into the song so that I would have more of the shoegazer vibe. i was actually thinking that they were too loud, but they seem to fit in okay while i listen at work. thanks so much for listening (and just for being you).

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	hey thanks a lot. glad you like. i just realized that I completely forgot to put another guitar track in the mix. it was doing really echoey stabs. oh well. really glad you liked the guitars, i just basically made a bunch of noise on the fly and then mixed it all down. i guess i pretty much rely on happy accidents. thanks again for giving this a listen.

	michael2 said 321 days ago
	hey Mark good to hear from you. i thought of you when i posted this one. glad you approve. it's all guitars on this one, no synths and no panning effects. sometimes the parts of the different guitars cross over and they sound like a panned delay effect (wish i could figure out how to do that). can't wait to hear your new stuff. you got my number.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks Vic this was fun, got to try out some new toys and used a couple different tunings (drop D, regular and the slide was done with 3 strings tuned to B). sometimes i miss playing loud noise in a band, this was good therapy for me. thanks for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks bryn wish i could've sorted out the bottom end a little better, but i think my ears were going numb. could be i just need to intonate my bass. thanks for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks man i did think of MBV, but even more I was thinking of Ride and Swervedriver (everyone should have their first record). thanks for listening.

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	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks steve this was pretty easy for me (it's my first instinct to write noise pop songs like this), but i had lots of fun. loves me some noisey guitar. thanks for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks for listening. so glad that you appreciated this one. i was always into this style of music as i could be completely self indulgent and yet still kind of catchy. thanks for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks very much glad you liked. i'm on a quest to master fuzz pop without an actual band on GB. thanks for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks Paul glad you appreciate it. i'm just having fun and killing time. actually if i couldn't record i'd probably go nuts. thanks for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks lengold the live band sound is exactly what i was hoping for (warts and all). thanks so much for listening.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks spitlogic i remember you weren't blown away by the first one (neither was i actually - it was an experiment more than anything). i'll tell you, i love when people are honest, thanks for stopping by.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanksman i'm glad i have that thing, i traded an old reverb unit for it and i'm stuck with it. thanks for stopping by.

	michael2 said 320 days ago
	thanks friend they are 2 different beasts i guess, i prefer this one myself. thanks so much for stopping by and checking this out.

	michael2 said 319 days ago
	thanks lavalamp definitely from cali (i love it here). i think it's the sloppiness of everything that gives it that eras vibe (that crappy bass sound could be on any sonic youth record). i wish i could get a realistic SVT bass sound. thanks for stopping by man.

	michael2 said 318 days ago
	thanks i'd like a little more clarity in the bottom end myself. isn't taste a wild thing? i'm glad you came around on this one. myself, i love massive amounts of fuzz. thanks so much for checking it out.

	michael2 said 318 days ago
	hey thanks for giving this one a listen. so glad you liked it.