An excellent hard rocker!

Gary Carciello - all guitars, songwriter, and drums programming.

Rob Grant - Bass guitar.

DrC - all keyboards, mixing, and production.

Farrell Jackson - melody, lyric, and vocal.

Gary's guitar work and writing on this song is stupendous....he's the man! Rob's bass adds a bit of funkiness to this rocker that makes one tap their feet in time. DrC's keyboards are always on fire and his very capable mixing and productions skills shine throughout!

When ever I get a song sent to me for vocal additions, as was the case with LUAM,  they are so full of energy and finesse that it inspires another level of vocal performance from me or at least I like to think so, lol!

We hope you enjoy the song!

Farrell Jackson for CGDC&F

Gentle Giant......hmmmmmm??? Remember them?? Always one of my favorite. The bass player, Ray Schulman, always played really neat riffs and I always wanted to write a song like them. NOT THAT I COULD?!?!?!?!?! BUT!! I sure wanted to try . I put together a bunch of bass and drum riffs, with some off time stuff and through together a basic arrangement and went to Doc and Farrell and asked for help, to come up with a GG type song. They both liked what they heard, but Farrell grabbed the song and ran with it. He put together all of the backing guitars and vocals and did some minor re-arranging. He sent me a sample of what he had done.....and I was...WHOAED OVER!!!! I LOVED IT!! The Mood, The Feel, The Storyline.....ALL fit perfectly to me. We then gave it to DOC and the PROG gods shown over him gloriously, IMHO. He NEVER seizes to amaze me, the way he adapts to all styles of music. We then went to Gary C, to put his final Lead Guitar touch on it......and THAT, he did.....and just as DOC does, Gary too, can change with the wind and fit to whatever is put in front of him. I LOVE working with these guys. THANKS...FARRELL, DOC and GARY for making another one of my dreams come true.....a GG type song

Rob

This is actually an old song I wrote call "Always Miss Communication". My original intention was to redo the song with DAZED, but as I went along, I asked DOC C to redo the keyboards. This is where it all got changed . DOC has this thing about him, that I have always admired........I call it.....TALENT!!!......hehehehehehehe. He took the tracks that Dazed and I did.....removed my drums and added his.....got rid of my guitar and changed the whole feel of the song. I REALLY LOVED what he did. We then approached Gary Carciello and asked him to add  his guitar magic....which he did and I am MOST Appreciative of . Dazed wrote the lyrics and did a SUPER job with the vocals and I am PROUD as heck to have them on this song and deeply involved. A special Thanks to Farrell for his understanding of the way this all came about and his strong support of this project.

Rob

DrC - Songwriting, all those fabulous keys, drums programing, and arrangement.
Gary Carciello - Terrific electric guitar harmonics and solo.
Rob Grant - Excellent Bass guitar and not "A" typical for a ballad.
Farrell Jackson - Song lyric and melody, acoustic guitar, and all vocals.

This is something different from us. It may be a mellow ballad but still very much rock and it harbors some fine musical performances.

When DrC first presented this song idea and chord structure to me, it was beautiful and I fell in love with the sound, so I jumped at the opportunity to be involved!
I always find collaborations with GCDC&J interesting by the way they build and how the final version always surprises. DrC is the man! He makes it transition from the idea stage into a full blown song. 

The lyric is about how.....as life progresses and becomes more complicated, the innocence of things like first loves, new experiences, and the little pleasures of life tend to be lost, diminished, or over shadowed by all the bad in the world today. And, it becomes more and more difficult to identify the small things that keep us sane as human beings with the media constantly exploiting the ugly. Thus the feeling of.......Gone Is Innocence.

As always, it's a pleasure working with these fine,  creative musicians, who are at the top of their game and  I'm honored to be included in their collabs!

BTW, if anyone is wondering what that beautiful and haunting flute sound in the beginning is.....it's a Japanese flute type instrument called a Shakuhachi. I only know because DrC informed me. When he first suggested it, I thought he was talking about a sushi dish, lol! 

I hope you enjoy the song! 

Farrell Jackson

DrC - All sound effects, outstanding keyboards, arrangement, mixing/mastering.

Gary Carciello - Fabulous Guitar solos and rhythm fills.

Rob Grant - Excellent Bass guitar.

Farrell Jackson - songwriter, all vocals, and rhythm guitar.

This is CDCG&J's Halloween song submission

The song lyric is loosely based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I believe most are familar with this short story written by Irving Washington and first published in 1820. There have been many cartoons, stage musicals, and film adaptation of this story over the years so I thought it would make a good Mixposure Halloween song topic and submission. Although, it was a bit challenging to tell the tale in 4 short verses. DrC, Gary, and Rob have all performed up to the excellence that The Mixposure Family has come to expect from these great musicians. I may have written the song but they all very much a part of this song's creation and together we have given it some rockin' and spooky life!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm honored that these guy's let me hang with them musically...............

Get ready for Halloween and all the spooky cool songs that are starting to pop up.......Enjoy!

Farrell Jackson

I KNOW TROUBLE.........Whew!! Don't we all?!?!??!?! I wanted to "Blog" about this one, because it's special to me. This is the first Carciello, Grant, Doctor C, Farrell song I have done since I had my brain surgery. I'll just say.....a lot has happened over the last 5 - 6 months and I'm glad we are working together as 4 again.......and hope to be putting out music on a regular basis....... Thanks Guys, for all of your time and hard work on this CGDCF project....

Rob

Hello everybody! We just finished our new song "Break, Break, Break". The lyrics are by the famous English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892). I think classical poetry and classic rock go very well together.

Special thanks to Farrell and Gary for their outstanding musicianship and reliability.

Enjoy!

Doctor C

This is a song I wrote about the feelings I get when I cruise in my 55 Chevrolet (song picture ). It's an old style  rock n' roll shuffle but updated with  some different chord changes and instrumentation. With Gary's excellent guitar work and DrC's great keyboard playing and production skills, it cruises down some roads less traveled for an old rock n' roll song.

As always it was a pleasure working with these guys and I had a blast belting out the vocals to this song.

We sincerely hoped our good friend and collab mate, Rob Grant, would add his precise, melodic bass playing and  his ever insightful production ideas but given the current circumstances, Rob chose to sit this one out.  We missed him on this song but when he gets back, watch out!

This is a bit different style compared to our other collab songs but we hope you enjoy it just the the same.

Thanks from all of us!

Farrell