A DRINK FOR TIMOTHY LEARY - ( M BRITT tones)

Hi guys, here is a fun song about the day I "BOUGHT A DRINK FOR TIMOTHY LEARY" at the US FESTIVAL in 1983. IT'S TRUE!
He came up to me out of nowhere and asked if I would buy him a margarita.. lol so awesome!
This is an attempt to capture the humorous side of life mixed in with some 80's Metal ethos.

On the tech side, there are roughly 10 unique guitar tracks and each 'performance' has 3 tracks (Main Out, DI, S/PDIF).
So, probably about 40 individual mono tracks as well as the bass tracks.
I decided to spin through a dozen or so of the preloaded M BRITT profiles for each take as well as the reamping side of things.

I LOVE MY KEMPER! Hope you enjoy this number.

Quote from deadman42

Great song, well done man. Great playing and very creative. I like the story telling in it. Reminds me a bit of "Smoke On The Water" (...true story in a song)

BTW: Nice line-up on that festival, lots of my heroes there... VH, John Mellencamp back in the days when they called him Cougar, U2... cool stuff

That was an amazing 3 day show, 300,000 strong on HEAVY METAL Sunday which is when this happened. haha
John 'Cougar" opened up for BLACKMORE'S RAINBOW out here in LA in early 80's, I wasn't sure why he was on the bill as he was not really hard rock as the crowd hoped for but he did a great show nonetheless... yeah music was special a long time ago. Thankfully there is live footage from the US FESTIVAL, BONO was pretty young at the time and climbed to the top of the stage scaffolding which put him 100' up, super cool, and THE SCORPIONS stole the entire day, they were so freaking powerful, VH was drunk of their dumb asses... lol

Quote from Monkey_Man

That certainly is trippy Dan.

Timothy would be honoured.

hehehe had to a bit psychedelic otherwise it wouldn't have been right.

Quote from Monkey_Man

Oh it's "right", mate.

In fact, it sounded like a legit old-school-tripper release to me. Very-professional and great, authentic vibe.

lol yEAh some Mothers of Invention Flo & Eddie kind of fun.

Quote from whippinpost91850

who did you play with

ahhhh heck unfortunately not a band that got to play the US FESTIVAL. My band in the 80's was STONE SOLDIER, used to share the stage with Wendy O Williams, KING DIAMOND, RACER X, Armored Saint, Flotsam & Jetsam etc... Metal was king back in the 80's.
**Rats, there went my secret online identity... hahha

Quote from whippinpost91850

Still very cool...

What profile did you use for the main riff on that tune

Thanks brother, oh man I would have to dive back into pro tools to get all the rigs... used a lot of them -clean to dirty
lets see..
MB 3RD PLEX TIM
MB - 5133 CH1
MB 3RD BF RED
MB 62 BAND MISTER RO

MB 65 FAN BM TIM
MB 74 CHAMPION 3

MB BLEATCH FIRE 45

MB DUMB ODS FBS

MB SOLD AMMO 1 7
MB 3RD PLEX TIM

MB MARS MP*

and a few more lol I'm psycho

Quote from waraba

Excellent story , as I really like crazy scientists like him. Great fun on that song , liked the personal feel a lot

Hi waraba, lol thanks - yes a mad scientist indeed - blew my mind when I turned around and it was him in real life..

Quote from prsgary

How cool was that?! Great fun to start my Monday, thanks Jim or Dan... or not!

Hi prsgary, appreciate it - this was not an easy project to get off my desk lol but worth all the effort imho, had me laughing 100x over.

Quote from CJGOMEZ

Fun. Thanks for the song and the story.

hey CJGOMEZ, thanks brother. A unique slice of time in one's life.