When we were growing up

Jim Bouchard

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This is a very long (35 minute) musical composition, uploaded here as a 64 kbps mp3 to keep the file size down. You might want to download it to listen to at your leisure. It is the main track of my CD for the RPM Challenge rpmchallenge.com featuring my brother Bill and sister Mary speaking about our parents. It's somewhat at times inspired by The Books and Jack DeJohnnette's most recent album.
You can click on the following link to go directly to my page on the RPM site: http//www.rpmchallenge.com/...

BTW, I've got the aiffs and the CD art files uploaded to my .mac Public folder for anyone that wants to download the CD in a higher quality and burn a CD to play ar your leisure. Download the contents of the jimbo rambles folders at this address: http//homepage.mac.com/...

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Song Stats

Hits: 1087
Comments: 11
Fans: 7
Plays: 43
Downloads: 35
Votes: 5
Uploaded: Mar 02, 2008 - 07:05:22 PM
Last Updated: Mar 04, 2008 - 01:46:26 PM Last Played: Oct 19, 2009 - 06:10:54 PM

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electric guitar, electric bass, keyboard, charango, banjo

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Feter

Feter said 629 days ago (March 2nd, 2008)

When we were growing up
this is a soundtrack ..the guitar work behind is
very impressive .listenin to real poeple talkin
about realy family memories indeed a real cool thing.
I can see how much work you spent on this project .
controled and directed so well.sure I m impressed by
your unique way in playin the banjo for a certain
minute you feel this must come as a change and it
did succeed .the last banjo pickin with the sounds
of the past you applied in he back was terrific ..
thnx alot for sharin it !!

Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

Macaudion	Macaudion said 629 days ago (March 2nd, 2008)
	Hmm... Holy psychedelic sweetness - Gotta listen w/ all of me when I get more time then maybe I'll be able to snuggle up to a string of words that look more like signs of intelligence. Thanks Jim. Check out my latest song called 123 iGetU

aclarke

aclarke said 629 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)

Great concept!
I have a few friends around here that do RPM every year- I keep saying I'll do it one of these days. Although, I have to admit it would be cool to do it as a collab band with some folks here on MJ. Something to think and dream about, I guess.

Jim, I did listen to bits and pieces of this.. and found it very interesting and entertaining... just the sort of thing I always seem to find myself listening to on the radio (the result of scan search). I hope to find the time to listen to the entire track.

Check out my latest song called Ballad of The Little Tiki

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 629 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)

thanks!
There's a whole contingent of MacIdol artists that have done this 2 years in a row now, and there's much discussion over there about it. There was some idea to do it as a collaboration, but it is hard to organize that and the collaborative process didn't seem to work out. AS it was, I was traveling for 12 days of the month of February, so that's why I did one long song, because then I didn't have to worry about a bunch of ends and beginnings and it would make mastering much simpler. It wasn't as simple as I thought it would be, but I'm glad I did it anyway! Thanks for taking the time to download and listen, I realize it's a big time commitment, but perhaps you can just put it on in the background at some point, maybe at a dinner party or some such thing, hehehe

Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

aclarke	aclarke said 629 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)
	how to do it? Guess you'd need to have one person in charge of mixing etc... have four or five collaborators that each write one or two songs... it would be on organizational nightmare for me but not for the right person. It could work with some effort... Check out my latest song called Ballad of The Little Tiki

guitapick	guitapick said 629 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)
	Well.... ....downloaded...and there will be more than one listen...lots happening here... Check out my latest song called Outside the Corral

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 629 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)

Thanks for downloading!
I am ever so grateful; I realize that most people don't have that much time to spend on such a long musical composition and that it's sort of a major commitment. Even when I was working on it, I didn't often have the opportunity to listen to the whole thing in one sitting. I got inspired to do this anyway as one musical composition by the new Jack DeJohnette album "Peace Time" which is one 60 minute song. Not that my thing has that much to do with Jack DeJohnette other than being really long. And I think it starts out with gongs or chimes too.

Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

cchaplin	cchaplin said 628 days ago (March 3rd, 2008)
	This one's for late night driving I'm looking forward to it ! Check out my latest song called Rappatack suite

ledebutant

ledebutant said 628 days ago (March 4th, 2008)

Downloading
I've listened to the first 15 minutes and I'm hypnotized by your sister's voice. I think I could listen to her talk all day long. I don't know what it is. I'm impressed, in what I've heard so far, by the range of flavors of music you've composed for this, yet how you've managed to keep it all "under one roof," so to speak.

This is a really, really cool idea and what a great way to get a bigger project finished.

Check out my latest song called Black Star (MJ Live Aid w/jgurner)

Jim Bouchard

Jim Bouchard said 628 days ago (March 4th, 2008)

good to see you chiming in!
I posted "More of a Mystery" http://www.macjams.com/song/38980 previously here, which is the other song on the album, and someone commented on the quality of the voices. I hadn't thought of that at all, because, of course, these are my siblings and it's just their voices to me, but thanks for noting that, because it's the kind of thing I can hardly be objective about. I tend to notice that there's an EXS24 synth tone that causes my woofers to flap uncontrollably (at least in the aiff version of this), so it's good to get this type of input. Much appreciated!

Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze

bud	bud said 306 days ago (January 19th, 2009)
	Amazing work Jim Really enjoyed every minute of it. Great variety of music back there. Quite an accomplishment. Check out my latest song called eye for you (w/particledots and michael2)

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Name: Jim Bouchard

I have been playing music a long time. When I was growing up my brothers had a band called the Regal Tones which was quite popular in our little town in upstate New York State. They got bitten by the music bug and later went on to found the p... [see more]

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