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Remix: Cylon #6


John DeNardo of SF Signal e-mailed me this week to let me know that actress Tricia Helfer discovered that I wrote a song about her character from Battlestar Galactica. Here is a link to her blog post mentioning the song. Pretty cool, huh? If you haven't already heard the song, click here to download the MP3 of "Cylon #6" for free.

To celebrate this event, I'm posting a brand new remix of the song created by remix artist airtone. This is an ambient and spacey interpretation of the song, very different than the original. I hope you dig it.

If you'd like to hear more remixes or if you'd like to take a shot at creating a remix yourself, you can download the individual vocal, guitar, bass, drum, and keyboard tracks to some of my songs at my ccMixter page here.

Hope you enjoy it,
John Anealio

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Related Posts

1. Sci-Fi Song #18: Cylon #6 (This is my original version of the song)
2. Remixes
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Sci-Fi Songs Podcast #15


In the podcast this week I ramble on about being linked to by George R.R. Martin, mastering the album, and writing a new song about spambots. I also talk about some of my favorite podcasts that also happened to play some of my music on their shows this week.

1. George R.R. Martin's Not a Blog
2. The Sword & Laser Podcast w/ Tom Merritt & Veronica Belmont


Last.FM Top 5 Artists of the Week List:

1. Saves the Day
2. Wilco
3. Bill Frisell
4. Spacehog
5. Green Day

Ambient Music by General Fuzz

If you have any ideas for the podcast contact me at 27summers@gmail.com or via Facebook or Twitter .

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I hope you enjoy it,

John Anealio
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Sci-Fi Songs Podcast #14


In the podcast this week I blather on about "George R.R. Martin is Not Your Bitch" & what it feels like to be ReTweeted by Neil Gaiman himself. I also talk about some of my favorite podcasts that also happened to play some of my music on their shows this week.

1. Seattle Geekly
2. All Things From My Brain w/Patrick Hester
3. Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing


Last.FM Top 5 Artists of the Week List:

1. Green Day
2. Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band
3. Bill Frisell
4. Incubus
5. The Gaslight Anthem


Ambient Music by General Fuzz

If you have any ideas for the podcast contact me at 27summers@gmail.com or via Facebook or Twitter .

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I hope you enjoy it,

John Anealio
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Sci-Fi Song #20: George R.R. Martin is Not Your Bitch









I'm a big fan of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels. As most people in the SFF community know, the author is long overdue in delivering the next book in the series. Many have criticized the author for being late. Others have defended his needs and desires as an artist and a human being to take as long as he needs to finish the next novel properly.

A few months ago, author Neil Gaiman defended George R.R. Martin in a now famous blog post. To paraphrase; one of Gaiman's readers wrote him to ask if he had the right to feel let down by the fact that George R.R. Martin had yet to finish the next book in the series. Gaiman responded to this question by politely stating that: "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch." I couldn't agree with Neil Gaiman's sentiments more, so much so, that I was inspired to write and record this song, which is sung from Neil Gaiman's point of view.

Special Thanks to Ken Neth who suggested this song's topic in a comment to this interview here.

If you like this song, I have lots of other songs inspired by Science Fiction & Fantasy that you can download for free here.

I hope you enjoy it,
John Anealio



George R.R. Martin is Not Your Bitch
by John Anealio

I got an e-mail from a reader
who said he loved an author
who wrote epic fantasy

He asked me if I thought the writer
should feel like he's required
to finish up the series

and this is what I said:

George R.R. Martin is not your bitch
no matter how much you gripe
George R.R. Martin is not your bitch
so you might as well go get a life

I said: If you think the books are entertaining
it's best to stop complaining
writers just aren't machines

George Martin never signed a contract
to just work on that project
so find something else to read

Have you tried Fevre Dream?

Chorus

Here are some of the tools that I used to record this track.
  1. Yamaha Acoustic Guitar in Standard tuning, capo at the 3rd fret
  2. G&L ASAT Telecaster Electric Guitar for the power chords
  3. Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar for the guitar solo.
  4. Washburn Electric Bass Guitar
  5. Rode NT-3 microphone for the vocals and acoustic guitar.
  6. Apple Logic Pro 8 recording software
    1. Logic's included EXS24 sampler for the piano and vibraphone sounds, the EVB3 for the organ sound, & the ESP for the synthesizer solo.
    2. Logic's included compression, EQ, delay, and reverb plug-ins.
    3. The electric guitar parts were recorded through Logic's Guitar Amp Pro plug-in
    4. The drum parts were created using Logic's Ultrabeat drum sampler
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