Basket Case/ Rhythm Guitar, Drums
Schubbi/ Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Toasted Goat/ Lead Guitar, Bass, Backup Vocals
Flyer/ Vocals, Lyrics, Music Composition

I reworked the mix the best that I could.
This took a lot of work to get this finalized. I want to thank all of the players that pulled off this collaboration. And a very special thank you to Toasted Goat.
This song is about a place where I grew up in Baltimore ...I hope that you all enjoy listening to this song.


" My Last Night At McMahon's "

Intro:

Verse 1
Well,
there is a place in Baltimore a little town
called Dundalk
we use to hang out at McMahon's
to have a drink
and try out our luck
we were all going to be Rock n Roll
stars
everyone that came in there could play
a mean Guitar
and drove a beat up old car

Verse 2
Well,
It was 1973 I was only 17
not to young to be carrying a full Jacket
M16 
the war was suppose to be over
but
Danny came home in a one horse
escort
in his dress Blues without any shoes
only half a man
up yours Uncle Sam

Chorus
so
if your in the neighborhood
come on in
to McMahon's
come on in
come on in
come on into McMahon's
sit down with me
have a drink
c'mon and
shake my hand
cause
this is my last night
down here in
McMahon's

Verse 3
Oh
many a night Helen and I
oh we
thought we had a plan
then one night she started to cry
I didn't have to ask her why
she didn't want to lose her man
to the devils plan
but you know
I had to take a stand
I had to take a stand
or run a Canadian
scam

chorus
so if your in the neighborhood
come on into McMahon's
come on in
come on in
come on into McMahon's
sit down with me
have a drink
c'mon and
shake my hand
cause
this is my last night
down here in
McMahon's

leads

to Bridge

Verse 4
Well, now, now
it's been so
long ago
But it's the place
I remember as my home
all the Friday nights
and the Saturday jams
oh how
I miss it
how I miss it
oh how
I miss it
down at McMahon's
don't ask me how I survived
I must have been sitting
in God's
right hand


Chorus (end)
so if your in the neighborhood
come on into McMahon's
C'mon in
c'mon in
c'mon into
McMahon's

sit down with me
have a drink
c'mon and
shake my hand
cause
this is my last night
down here in
McMahon's


Lyrics by
Flyer

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If this mix doesn't work or you have a idea about what can be done to improve this..Please let me know.... I really want to get this song as good as I possibly can with the mix.....Everyone put forth such a nice effort on this song that I feel like I owe it to the collaborators to get this as close to perfect as possible.....

Flyer

Wow. man this is really great. I have only been playing an recording for about 4 years...so i cant really offer any useful information...I really like this.
Nice work!

this a very good record. Your voice fits perfect to the song. But I find the solo guitar in the verse very annoying. I would reduce it to a special solo part. Technical skills absolutely pro....

TheKunadiun...
Thanks. We are glad that you're liking the song....

TritonKeyboarder....
I think I know what you are saying about the lead guitar. Do you mean just use one lead guitar.during the song and use the other for the lead solo?....
Thanks for the compliments and comments about the song.....

I have added the song to the November 2008 Battle

Flyer

well ralph, i heard quite some versions of this one, liking this one best so far!

must say the vox are outstanding! but am i missing the extra shouts from earlier versions? they gave a nice 'party' feel..( o yeah!)
love the guitars too, although indeed the solo is a bit much on the verse maybe,  liking all other parts though..

there might have been some loss in drum sound by using mp3 ?  they sound a bit sharp compared to the rest. cymbals especially.., midi drums remain difficult to mix nice anyway, i know..
think thats the only thing thats holding me from a 100 vote...

loved the song on itself in every version, but this collab made it even better, so praise to all!

btw. offer to remix still stands if u like.

Max

Thanks for the offer Max..to bad your computer crashed as we were in the middle of the collaboration.....I can't imagine what you would have brought to this song. I think I'm going to let it fly as is Max. I think something gets lost in the transfers of the files when doing collaborations. This song has been worked to the Max...lol  no pun intended....But, its time to move on to a new project(s) for me....Maybe in the future we can get something going with a collaboration...you know how much I like to collaborate with other musicians...the only thing I ask for from Ampers is to give the song a rating and a vote. No matter what it may be. and I want to thank everyone that is/was involved in this song.


Thanks


Flyer

I quite liked it!

Your vocals work really well as TK said.

The guitar work is really good. But maybe I'm stealing another point from TK when I say that I think sometimes it's too much! Like in the chorus it might have sounded better with out the lead guitar playing a solo type thing over the top?

The skill of the musicians is shown really well here.. but .. I'm so used to having a guitar solo after a few verses and choruses that when I hear a solo type thing over the top of a verse of chorus I just think it sounds wrong.. that doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong however, it's just I'm not used to it !

The drums sound a bit .... can't think of the word.. maybe a bit flat? Not as in pitch flat as drums don't really have a pitch but flat as in ... the other kind of flat? lol. I hope you understand what I mean. It's not a playing problem just a recording problem... and it's much better to have a recording problem than a performing / composing problem. The vocals don't seem to be recorded with the best microphone, I dunno what you're using or what your setup is, but it sounds to me like the vocal track is clipping slightly in places? It sounds like you're getting a lot of background noise from it and then silencing the vocal track when there are no vocals. A fine way to do things, but in practice it becomes really noticeable when you cut it off.. I'm not sure if it would be good with background noise all of the way through - that would give the impression of a poorer recording. A better microphone / setup would be the best solution I think  .


Anyway good job, hopefully some of that is at least slightly helpful!

Good work guys, great effort with this collab - wish I was involved in projects like this more often!

I agree. the drums need some work,  I did have to manually clean up the background hiss from the lead vocal tracks. Yes my soloing is way too much in the song.  There was no vocals in it when I played to it. I figured I would just solo thru it and edit out want we did not want. It should be remixed with the guitar lead that goes thru the verses being pulled out, some work done to the vox eq and hiss removal at the source,plus each drum needs to be sent to the person mixing it as seperat tracks would work a little better.

 It is what it is.. a decent collaberation from some talented musicians /non-pro pruducers .

I do like it though , shcubbi's and basketcase's guitar sounds are excellent. Ralph did one of his best vocal takes as far as pitch and control goes.

Petermoncrieff....

Thanks for the very detailed comment, Petermoncrieff. The drums are flat for some reason. I agree. You have to remember that this is a collaboration and many times files have been sent to the collaborators. Seems like something gets lost during the transfer... I must say that i like Toasted Goats top lead through out the song. Its what we were looking for actually. I wanted to get 3 Guitars and 2 leads. I had a Lynrd Skynrd type of sound for this song in mind. They used 3 lead guitar. Schubbi and Basket were on top of their game I would say on this project. As far as the layout for the song. I dont think that there is much I would change except for some tech stuff. Hissing..drums  etc...The Guys knew what was in my mind for this song as far as the sound I was looking to get. I do say that They did a great job. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

Toasted Goat....

Thanks for the comment and the compliment. I wouldn't change a thing to the way you did this song Goat. I love the Guitar lead on top. This song was made possible by you. You did so much to get this song cut. My hat is off to you. I hope that in the future we do more work together. That goes for Schubbi and Basket as well

Flyer

Dont forget to place a rating Ampers ..I have this song in the Nov battle....Thanks

This is very nice, Ralph!  So hard to bring all of the elements together in a long distance collab...  But despite the obstacles this is awesome stuff! Reminds me of the boss! i hope you take that as a compliment.  You are great songwriter!  Need to get everyone in one room and do a proper recording for you so your wonderful songs can be done justice!  What was that about you and some studio time?  though i read something about that... get in there man! you could be famous!

This is really cool. Good theme for the current situation in the world. I really like songs about real places and real stories. It helps people relate to them more. The song has a very nice flow to it. Very well put together...I really enjoyed listening to it.

Thanks!
-Mark

Love the lyrics -
Good vocal delivery from you Ralph - possibly the best yet. 
Good solid bass line - decent backing vox, guitar playing is excellent (but I see what TK is saying, there's a certain amount of "less is more" that could be applied to the lead guitar).
Construction all good.
Still a bit of a problem with final mix - not sure how it can be fixed without having the original wav files.

Decent sounding song, and clearly a lot of time and effort well spent.  Well done all.

dustyskates...Thanks for the nice comment


Jiminuk....Thanks Jim...For listening and commenting...I think that down the road this will be remixed..But for now it's been worked all to hell...Time to move on....


Minds...Thats about the compliment you could have gave to me.....Thanks so much..I had a lot of help on this song with all the other collaborators/musicians

Flyer

My post got deleted but great song!
I rated