Mad Dog
By Tweaklab on January 12, 2020 11:52 pm
Another little one minute ditty, I'm using these first few weeks to get comfortable at hearing my own voice in editing etc so I can get better at recording vocals. Having said that, 2 for 2 WeeklyBeats with vocals for 2020 so far!
This song was inspired by the LaserDisc Light Gun game Mad Dog McCree, to avoid copyright issues, I recorded the samples myself 
. I had written more lyrics than what made the cut (this is what I get for starting with less than 2 hours to go) but the in-joke about this game, and how it came to inspire my vocals this week, is that I remember getting the game on the Wii back in 2009 or so, and it annoyed the heck out of my now wife! "You're in my daddy's town now!" "You've only got, one, life, left." and I thought, what better way to honour that, than to write a song using those very lines so that I can show it to her later. 
I went with a bit of a jazzy, funk/slap/bass (all instruments live except for the drums too) type of thing, there's a little bit of Primus, Chilli Peppers I guess you could say, and some sweet Beatles inspired drum fills. Admittedly, I cut up and looped a bunch of stuff (I was originally trying to make something more electronic sounding) so I might revisit this one some time in the future.
Lyrics:
You're in my daddy's town now.
One life left.
That includes this one, don't share it with no one.
One life left.
Don't take it for granted, you're already half dead.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
