Joined: November 15, 2013
Don Likes: 8 Songs
Vocals, guitars, etc
Franz Kafka: "Don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical - don’t edit your soul according to fashion - follow your own most intense obsessions mercilessly"
Woody Guthrie: "It’s a Folk Singer’s job to comfort disturbed people & to disturb comfortable people" Lou Reed: “I have never thought of music as a challenge — always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are. Do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful.”
Don Nelson gave feedback on Feel Tomorrow
I like this song a lot - great vocals and great guitar playing. As far as instrumentation - although it sounds fine in its current arrangement - if you wanted to add more ingredients it might be cool to have a B-3 type keyboard oscillating and pinned fairly hard in... Read More
Don Nelson gave feedback on Start Living
Hi Dennis I like the song – and the John-Prine-ish delivery – nice! I like the idea of stopping to learn to appreciate the life one already has instead of constantly running after an idealized phantom…. Just an idea – but what about kind of going back and forth from past to present... Read More
Don Nelson gave feedback on This Time Around
It’s nice tune! For whatever it’s worth I can hear a kind of Penny-Lane-ish steady thrum arrangement on this.
Don Nelson gave feedback on Didn't have your voice yet
Hi I enjoyed the song. I hear what you’re saying about the repetition - maybe a bridge that starts off in A-major to walk it away form the C7-B7-Em thing might be cool - but it’s pleasantly relentless as is too!
Don Nelson gave feedback on Only Girl
great guitar playing and vocals again on a good song! Good structure (IMHO) but if you wanted to arrange it for a band - I hear a walking upright bass on this too - throughout the verses but also mimicking the notes on the “I don’t know” part. the... Read More