Boom!

I really need to get some more pictures! This is kind of appropriate, because I put lots of guitars (for me) on this track.

Boom Tomb came about literally the same day I posted Union! I was contemplating moving my studio downstairs into a bigger room, so starting a new track was probably not the best idea.

Who says good ideas are good ideas?

I had an idea for a kind of primitive/sophisticated song, the concept being to have some sort of old school rock or blues bit on top of a lot of electronics. I had the blues lick that goes through the intro and verses in about 30 seconds. I thought it would sound great on top of a boot stamp (the primitive thing), and found a sample in Reason. I then added a funky guitar riff underneath it.

I had to search around a bit (say 30 minutes) to figure out the bridge part, which naturally led to the chorus. There are 4 guitars in the chorus. That’s the lead, a doubled riff, and a part that just plays a string bend that’s in the doubled riff, but goes through a long delay. I can hear it anyway.

At that point we were pretty much all done, and the rest was production.

The Reason delay device “Ripley” played a blinder: those really fiddly sounds on the keys, that suggest super fast playing are all Ripley doing magic. In the bridge it sounds like an organ. I really am very taken with it! I’m adding it as an aux track in my Pro Tools template along with delay, reverb and Lexicon.

I wanted a break section, and moved a few things about to develop an idea, then, when I had the break, I decided to add a solo, which is probably the first I’ve recorded in at least a decade, and the first one that is more than a bar or so in much longer.

It’s short, it’s catchy. Boom!