{"id":1715,"date":"2016-07-13T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=f3abe024874f540abbbad196a6c4d9cf"},"modified":"2016-07-13T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:40:13","slug":"wasted-days-by-richard-walker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/13\/wasted-days-by-richard-walker-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasted Days by Richard Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/175\/175477\/tmb_150x150_175477_267401.jpg\" title=\"Richard Walker\" alt=\"Richard Walker\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/RichardWalker\">Richard Walker<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=113128&#038;mediaID=689921\">Wasted Days<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>It just hit me&#8211;this sounds like a lost Traffic tune!! The vocals remind me of Nick Drake too.  That groove is a classic Traffic beat, and of course you&#8217;ve got both killer piano work and organ in there. Love the vocal timbre, vocal phrasing &#038; melody, Wurlitzer electric, acoustic piano, organ and slinky drum beat, all of which are really well engineered too.  Excellent lyrics. I really dig this &#8211;nice work!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;d drop the acoustic alone part of the intro&#8211;the acoustic guitar sound is a bit &#8220;piezo&#8221;, and I don&#8217;t like the lead guitar lines that you pickup with because it&#8217;s got a happy, jam band sound that doesn&#8217;t fit with the mood that dominates most of the tune.  I&#8217;d really like to hear you rework it starting right out with the keys.  And get away from bang-dang-a-lang quitar strum rhythm that&#8217;s more Greatful Dead.  I think the bass could drive the beat a bit more working close with the drums instead of following along after the beat.  This would a tremendous amount of energy I bet.  Nice work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/175\/175477\/tmb_150x150_175477_267401.jpg\" title=\"Richard Walker\" alt=\"Richard Walker\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/RichardWalker\">Richard Walker<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=113128&amp;mediaID=689921\">Wasted Days<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>It just hit me&#8211;this sounds like a lost Traffic tune!! The vocals remind me of Nick Drake too.  That groove is a classic Traffic beat, and of course you&#8217;ve got both killer piano work and organ in there. Love the vocal timbre, vocal phrasing &amp; melody, Wurlitzer electric, acoustic piano, organ and slinky drum beat, all of which are really well engineered too.  Excellent lyrics. I really dig this &#8211;nice work!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;d drop the acoustic alone part of the intro&#8211;the acoustic guitar sound is a bit &#8220;piezo&#8221;, and I don&#8217;t like the lead guitar lines that you pickup with because it&#8217;s got a happy, jam band sound that doesn&#8217;t fit with the mood that dominates most of the tune.  I&#8217;d really like to hear you rework it starting right out with the keys.  And get away from bang-dang-a-lang quitar strum rhythm that&#8217;s more Greatful Dead.  I think the bass could drive the beat a bit more working close with the drums instead of following along after the beat.  This would a tremendous amount of energy I bet.  Nice work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}