Music
Groovy Taco Bell Bacon Club Chalupa Town
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Jake Kaufman – SOURCE: Shantae 2: Risky’s Revenge (Burning Town) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, UNTZ UNTZ Techno Drums, Strings, Percussion, Sitar, Ethnic Flute, Zourna, Oud | |
| GENRE: Techno/Funk/Disco | |
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NOTES: Alright, this DoD song is weird, I know. This was actually for DoD’s virt Month, for November 2010. We decided to do this month in celebration of his recent success and as a “thank you” for him hosting DoD for several years, since I host DoD now. I had been working really hard on PuD’s DuDs and released the album on November 23rd, leaving ONE day for me to make this song. Thanksgiving was the next day and I was leaving to go visit family for the weekend a few hours away. The style is a bit unusual for one of my songs, but I loved virt’s writing on that soundtrack, and wanted to do it justice. Plus, virt had just released the OST, so I chose it because I thought it was an appropriate tribute. And at least I still have plenty of live bass and guitar!
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Bond’s Batteries (PuD’s DuDs Mix)
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Monty Norman, Graeme Norgate, Grant Kirkhope, Robin Beanland/Howard Drossin – SOURCE: Goldeneye (Various Themes)/Sonic & Knuckles (Flying Battery Zone) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson – Rhythm Guitars, Lead Guitars, Bass, Programming; Chris Feener – Lead Guitars | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Rhythm Guitars, Lead Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Organ, Synths | |
| GENRE: Metal | |
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NOTES: FREE SONG! Well, pretty all of my songs are free…but since PuD’s DuDs is a purchasable product, I decided to give everyone a free track from the album in preparation for my album release. I chose this song to release because I think it’s one of the best, if not the best, representation of what this album is about. If you listen to the original DoD version, best you not be drinking anything, because you’ll be spitting it right back out. Release date for PuD’s DuDs is November 23rd. |
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T-Squaredron
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Manami Matsumae – SOURCE: U.N. Squadron (Arcade) (Stage 1) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson – Guitars & Bass; Dan Behrens (aka Danimal Cannon) – Guitars; Dillon Pritchard (aka Ranger-X) – Guitars; Travis Moberg – Drums & Awkward Synth Solo | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 13 “Capcom Arcade Games”: September 30th, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
So Danimal Cannon did this thing he entitled “Danimal Across America,” where he purchased an “All You Can Fly Pass” from Jetblue, which allows you to fly wherever and whenever you want (except in his case, no flying on Fridays or Sundays) for a whole month. He stopped off in Colorado for a few days and we put together a Punchfest just for the occasion. Colorado native remixers Ranger-X and Travis Moberg also came up for the awesomeness. If you’re wondering who does what guitar parts, here’s a breakdown.
Rhythm Guitars: Split between Danimal and Ranger-X
0:13-0:34 – Ranger-X
0:35-01:18 – Danimal 01:18-01:51 – Tony 02:36-02:46 – Tony 02:57-End – Danimal |
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I Need Scissors! 61!
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Norihiko Hibino, Tappy Iwase – SOURCE: Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (VR Variety Mission) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Organ, Strings, Brass, Concert Percussion, Loops | |
| GENRE: Jazz/Metal Fusion | |
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NOTES: God, so many wasted hours on those VR missions! And I never 100%’d any of the characters. Anyway, the VR Variety Mission theme song always stuck out to me for some reason, it was funky, jazzy, quirky, and just plain cool. I always wanted to do something with it, but I was never quite sure what to do. The song has no prominent melody, but really, very little MGS music does, but it makes perfect sense with how the music is used in-game. I almost like to think of the game play being the melody with backing music. None of the melodies you hear are in the original, I wrote them all. When I made this, I was listening to a lot of Marco Sfogli and Alex Argento, and those two guys are batshit crazy musicians and composers, and they both make a sweet jazz/metal fusion style on their solo albums, so I took some heavy influence and used that to create this track.
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RADDa**
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Simon Viklund – SOURCE: Made for BCR2 “Make Something RADD Remix Contest” (Papagayan Anthem) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Strings, Brass, Percussion, Loops, Cliché Movie-Score Taiko Drums | |
| GENRE: Video Game Score Metal | |
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NOTES: Oh God YES! I am finally in a video game! The developing team for Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 hosted a contest and posted a short track for people to remix. The winner was chosen by the team and would be put inside the game. That was me! But…*GASP* I was not the only winner! A_Rival also was picked to win, so we both get in. No matter! Couldn’t have turned out any better!
Knowing that the majority of submitted remixes were going to be of the electronica variety, I knew I had to make a track that was different and stood out from the rest. I always have live instruments in my remixes, but I knew I couldn’t just do straight up metal, because that’s probably just as cliché, if not more than, as straight up techno! I do a lot of orchestral metal music in a “more apocalyptic Symphony X” variety, but I haven’t done one like this. BCR2 Producer Rey Jimenez hit it on the head when he said that my track was “deserving to be a score for Metal Gear,” because that was definitely a big influence for this track.
BCR2 will be coming out early 2011, so make sure you pick up a copy to hear me while you play an awesome video game!
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So Funky It’s Illegal…Alien
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: John Baker – SOURCE: Toejam & Earl 2: Panic in Funkotron (Funky Alien) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 12 “Co-Op Games”: August 14th, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
Yes, more Toejam & Earl! Those games really DO have the best soundtracks ever. The bass in this song is almost as amazing as Lewenda’s Love, but also harder to play. Whatever!
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Phantom Snake
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Nobuo Uematsu – SOURCE: Final Fantasy 6 (The Phantom Forest) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Strings | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 11 “Snails _@_v (It’s an ASCII Snail)” (Any game that has a snail anywhere in it): July 31st, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
So I think with this song FF6 is officially my most remixed game. The title is “Phantom Snake” because I arranged the song in the style of a James Bond or Metal Gear Solid secret agent man sneaking espionage type dealie. Solid Snake is the main character from many of the MGS games.
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Cream Rocket’s Blasting Off Again!
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Junichi Masuda – SOURCE: Pokemon R/B/Y (Team Rocket Secret Hideout) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Strings | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest X Super American X-Treme Punchfest: “Japanese RPGs”: July 3rd, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
I’m a closet Pokemon fan. I own a Game Boy Color, and all I have for it is Pokemon games. Seriously. I got all 151 Pokemon on my Red cartridge…and then the save file mysteriously got erased. FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU…
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Powerglove – Power, Wisdom, Courage
A new tab! Finally! It’s been quite a while, but I’m working on doing more of them, and believe me, I’m paying attention to the requests!
Full Score:
Guitar Pro 4
Guitar Pro 5
MIDI
PDF:
Lead Guitars
Rhythm Guitars
Bass
Drums
Extra Instruments (Synth, Ocarina, Strings, Brass)
RAR Archive Containing Everything
Prancing Dad
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Nobuo Uematsu – SOURCE: Final Fantasy 6/Final Fantasy 7 (Dancing Mad/One Winged Angel) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Organ, Strings, Brass, Concert Percussion, Obligatory Cheesy Sub-Bass Drops | |
| GENRE: Epic Orchestral Metal | |
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NOTES: So SnappleMan challenged me in DoD for June 2010, right? Well, I needed an epic, extraordinarily ambitious arrangement to ensure a victory. I’ve been wanting to arrange Dancing Mad for quite a long time, because pretty much all of the arrangements I’ve heard don’t deviate away from the source enough. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I always felt that there was so much that could be done with the church organ solo sections.
The other thing is that I’ve always wanted to do a One-Winged Angel arrangement. I did one a while back and I posted it here, but time has passed and I realized it blows and really had nothing special about it (straight Advent Children version cover? C’MAAAWWWNNN!!!!). The other problem was that by itself, I had NO original ideas on how to arrange the song. Between the Advent Children and OCR’s Voices of the Lifestream “Black-Winged Metamorphosis” versions, I couldn’t do anything with it. But as I was arranging this I had the idea to slip some One-Winged Angel sections in here, and it worked great! If I remember right, One-Winged Angel was actually a leftover from FF6 anyway. The styles meshed very well, so that’s great. I’m a little disappointed that I couldn’t slip in more of One-Winged Angel into the remix, but that’s alright. Anything that’s missing is in the first parts of the song, and Dancing Mad has a ridiculously epic opening statement as it is. Plus, the cheesy anvil’d, bass drop’d half time breakdown is just too sweet as the first OWA statement. Also in the song are several references to certain prog bands that you may or may know. If you know who they are, then that’s an easter egg you can laugh at and enjoy. If you don’t recognize them all, then stop being a damn noob and get edumacated on your prog rock! By the way, this song does have lyrics, and I know they’re hardly decipherable. The way Symphonic Choirs was made makes it very difficult to cut through the thick horrible mass of noise in this song. SnappleMan, Going Down (x2) Don’t let your pubic fat You’re fucked (x4) SnappleMan is fat and greek He’s crazy SnappleMan, Going Down (x2) He does not know what he got into You’re fucked, you are fucked (x3) SnappleMan is fat and greek, masturbates with feta cheese (x8) |
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