Where:
Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky - USA
Who:
Bass, Guitars, lead and backing vocals: Jon Sheffield
Drums and backing vocals: Joe Fussinger
http://www.mp3.com/highland
Email: joefuss@fuse.net
When:
July 1999
Why:
not available
What:
classic rock-pop rock
In
Short:
Influences: not available
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The Highland Band
by Alessandro
De Murtas
Featured
Songs:
Thats my girl
End of the Line
The highland band first formed in July of 1999 when Joe's cousin
moved to the city where he was born and raised and it was called
the IMTA band. After a short time and one song recording, one of
the members left leaving Jon Sheffield and Joe Fussinger, at that
time it was renamed the Highland band. The song writing style of
Sheffield/Fussinger is diverse but simple and to the point, applying
the philosophy that there is beauty in not over-producing or complicating
songs.Both Jon Sheffield and Joe Fussinger had parents that grew
up on Highland Ave. in Fort Mitchell, Ky.hence the band name. (from
mp3.com).
Tips
and Tricks from The Highland band using n-Track Studio.
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(..) We started writing songs and recording
them with a 4 track mixer which limited us in what we could
do. One day the mixer went down, being fairly old and all
it was only a matter of time. My cousin Jon found your site
one day when surfing the web, we downloaded the trial version
and then laid down our first song we wrote by recording the
guitar track then followed with my drum track and added vocals
after that along with a bass guitar track. We found it so
easy before we knew it we had 12 tracks to our first song.
He immediatley bought n-track and I also went home and bought
N-track from your site. Now when we write we simply sit at
Jon's place, write a song, get the words down, record usually
with an acoustic guitar which we use as the first track, then
he records the lead guitar track, followed by a bass guitar
track all while listening to the previous recorded tracks
and then we record the lead vocals, he will then email me
the tracks we recorded at his place and when i get home i
add the drum track, and backup vocals or whatever else we
feel the song needs. I also found it is very easy to insert
special effects that the instruments we play can not create.
This is evident in 2 of our songs we recorded using N-Track,
those songs are Thats my girl and Innocent eyes. I inserted
background sounds at the beginning of both songs which were
so easy to do with this program. We now spend our free time
sitting back, writing original songs and then recording them,
a process that in the past would take a couple weekends at
best now can be done in an afternoon. We wrote and recorded
nine songs in a very, very short time and now have our first
CD available on mp3.com at
highland. Most
songs are in the style of 70's style Rock and the instruments
we mainly use are acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric
Bass, and Drums.
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