So... you think you can sing Wonderbolt, huh?
(Cyril the wolf impression.) So way back in 2013
dBPony contacted me and said "Hey, I could use your vocals for a song" and I'm
like sweet, cool, send it over. He didn't send me the song, he sent me a script
(sort of.) In fact, he just sent me one line-- "Yes ma'am!"
And he's like "Yeah, anybody you can get to record this would be great
because I'm working on a song for it." And I'm like "Cool." So I recorded several
takes of me shouting "yes ma'am" in varying voices. Five minutes, I was done.
Fast-forward, dBPony releases this song and I'm like "Oh my god, it's the song where I
shouted "yes ma'am". And it was like the most amazing song ever. There's obviously some
things about it that that could have been worked on. The mixing on it was
atrocious. I'm sorry dB, but the mixing on it was so
awful, but it was such a good song and I've always felt the urge that I should
like do something with it and and just sort of make my own version. Fast forward
a couple years from that and I decide I while I'm working on the "Something
Special" album I'm like, I need a couple more songs to fill it out and it's like
"Hey, I should do a Wondebolt cover." I sent dB a message-- I'm like, "Hey, can I do
this cover?" He's like, "Yeah, sure, go for it." I'm like, "Great! Awesome." Could not sing it.
I just absolutely could not sing it and I've tried it many ways-- I've tried
recording this song probably 20 or 30 times. I got Cyril involved, we did a
whole version with the two of us together trying to sing it-- I hated it.
I hated every single time I've recorded this song. I thought it would be cool
because I had this entire instrumental and karaoke track sitting around, just
without lead vocals. I thought it'd be cool to send it out to you guys and see
if you guys would be willing to try to record for it. I want you to record
yourselves singing Wonderbolt. Now you can record the audio separately
from the video, you can do whatever you need to the audio as long as you send me
the audio track with the video. Just make sure to get a video of yourself singing
it afterwards, because I want to put you guys into a music video! I need you to
make sure that you record just the vocals with no backing track. You can put
the backing track through your headphones, just record yourself singing. I want to
make sure that you record dry vocals so that it sounds like this...
And not this... If you're an instrumentalist don't worry, if you want
to record an instrumental part for this-- feel free. And basically, you just take
your files, upload the video to YouTube, send me the link and send me your audio
files if you have separate audio files to wonderbolt@forestrainmedia.com
That's pretty much it! Thank you guys so much for
participating in this! I cannot wait to be able to mix you guys together into a
giant music video, showcasing all of your talent together. I think it's gonna
be pretty cool! Until next time, keep rocking!