IS THIS SERIOUSLY A THING THAT I JUST WOKE UP TO
OKAY SO I COULDN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS THING
AND THEN I HAD THIS DAMNED MUSIC STUCK IN MY HEAD ALONG WITH IT
SO THEN THIS HAPPENED
I’M SORRY.
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Posts tagged "Mr. Reed"
This is the original version of “I am Not Alone”.
Some of you might own the “old” version of Steam Powered Giraffe’s Album One, and you might know how Erin “Upgrade” sang this song on the album…
I wrote the song for Upgrade.
She gave me one line of lyric that she wanted me to incorporate when I was creating the song, and I used it.
Believe it or not, Michael Reed and I recorded the entire song without Rabbit or The Jon. I played rhythm guitar, piano and sang the lead vocals. Mike did bass and drums. Mike then added harmonies and he had me add more harmonies on top of those. We then had Upgrade sing along to my vocal track and recorded her. My lead vocals were removed and that was that. When we kicked her out of the group, we re-did Album One, taking out all of her harmonies and putting in whatever “follow-along tracks” we had recorded for her to sing along to if any existed. We were actually going to keep I Am Not Alone in and just use the “original” recording that didn’t yet have Upgrade’s voice on it…
That didn’t happen obviously…and we went with “Ice Cream Parade” instead.
So here it is.
The original “I am Not Alone” before we replaced my lead vocals with Erin’s “Upgrades”. No one outside of the band has ever heard this before.
Enjoy.
Also, you’ll have to excuse the weird cutoffs on some parts…as it was a placeholder track.
P.S. - Just imagine The Spine and Michael Reed doing a duet together :3
Ahaha!But then. I felt. The spines hand.
Gone. Completely. I’ve just. Lost it.
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nanaaa na na na nan na naa na naa na.
I cAn"T TSotp LAUGhsiFNAgnng HASFOHGOd
Wat. Woah
HOLY COW someone actually made a plushie and now he has the plushie and OH MY GOD IS THIS REALLY A THING THAT IS HAPPENING
I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT I WAS STARTING WHEN I DREW THAT THING BUT
I’M SO PROUD OF YOU FANDOM.
(I actually sent him another message prior to the one he answered to here so that’s why it doesn’t make a huge amount of sense but-)
YOU GUYS I’M GOING TO FAINT OVER HERE WHAT
MICHAEL I CAN’T EVEN DEAL WITH THIS AMOUNT OF FLATTERY. GOSH.
-also regarding Jon animating, I think he could do it just fine! He’s a brilliant artist, and honestly, juju magic is his baby. I would feel a bit presumptive in offering to help- all I can say is that animation takes a lot of work and a lot of time, so he’s going to have to drop-kick it in the teeth if he goes for it.
That said MR. REED I AM GOING TO HUG THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF YOU, ONE DAY, PROBABLY THE NIGHTLIGHTS TOO.
WHAT THE……THIS IS NUTS. mod mad you are so so talented.
heres the link to the Vimeo for higher quality. someday SPG will be lucky enough to have as good of an artist as you do something like this for us.how much do you charge an hour…..
I…
I…
I…
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I DON’T KNOW. LET ME GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT.
But in all sincerity if you ever did want me to animate something for you I’d be delighted, only I do work full time as a storyboard artist at a studio right now so I would either have to wait until my time at that job has run out or it would have to be done at the weekends INCREDIBLY SLOWLY. Also when I made this I had access to the school’s resources so… ahaha, aha, ha, oh god. This doesn’t sound good at all does it let’s start over.
Okay. In a nutshell. I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE SOMETHING FOR YOU GUYS. IT WOULD BE AN HONOR. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I WOULD DO IT BUT THAT’S A MINOR DETAIL THAT I CAN WORK AROUND.
Also please feel free to just call me Mod I’m dying someone send help…
Mr. Reed what are you doing
Mr. Reed pls
I am trying to work
stop trying to tar and feather the Spine in my imagination it’s very distracting.
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